Actress Adunni Ade has debunked the allegation that she is owing the late actor Murphy Afolabi N250,000.
A member of Murphy’s burial committee had called out the actress at the eighth-day fidau prayer held at LTV 8 in Lagos, saying she should return the money to Murphy’s children.
Reacting to the allegation, Adunni’s management team in a statement on Tuesday signed by Aderemi Adeleye said it was false.
The statement said, “Sometimes in July 2021, the late Mr. Murphy Afolabi reached out to me, requiring my services for a movie production. He appealed to me stating that it was a self-funded production that he couldn’t afford my professional fee, but that he would need my moral support. I asked how many scenes and duration were expected of me on set. He said 10 scenes and that I would spend one day. He offered to fuel my car as an honorarium, which payment of N150,000 was made on 2nd of July 2021.
“Unfortunately, shortly before the commencement of the production, on 11 July 2021, I lost my younger brother and I contacted the actor a few days afterwards for his bank details for refund as I would be travelling to the United States for my brother’s funeral. But he insisted I hold on to the money while he figured out whether to move the shoot forward or contact me for another one.
“Mr. Murphy Afolabi contacted me on the 8 of October 2021 and said he wanted to start a new job soon and needed me to play the lead role for four days with the same amount of N150,000 which he had paid in July. And I respectfully declined and requested for his account details and refunded him the N150,000 on the same day.”
Adunni attached proof of payments to her post and added that she never cheated Murphy and would not do it in the afterlife.
