Comedian Charlie Murphy, best known for his uproarious stories about Rick James and Prince that became immortal Chappelle’s Show sketches, has died, TMZ first reported.
The older brother of comedy icon Eddie Murphy, Charlie had a successful career in his own right.
Murphy had been battling leukemia, and passed in a New York City hospital on Wednesday.
His wife Tisha Taylor Murphy, whom he married in 1997, died in 2009, also of cancer.