In 1982, Murphy received a Grammy nomination for a live album of fresh stand-up material called Eddie Murphy: Comedian. The album eventually went gold. That same year, at the age of 21, he also landed his first major motion picture role alongside Nick Nolte in 48 Hours (1982).
At the time of her death, Berenson was returning home to Los Angeles after holidaying on Cape Cod. She is survived by her two sons by Anthony Perkins: Osgood, aged 27, and Elvis Perkins, aged 25. Ronald Bergan writes: During therapy, for what he believed would cure his homosexuality, Anthony Perkins was asked what sort of woman attracted him. He flipped through a copy of Vogue until he pointed to a spread on Berry Berenson.
In 1973, she married the actor Tony Perkins. She was three months pregnant, a condition that prompted her mother, the impressively titled Marquesa Gogo Berenson di Cacciapooti, to call her a degenerate. Despite Perkins's homosexuality, Berry remained his wife, and cared for him in the last two years of his life.