From his hospitalization with "a medical condition" in April, this story has gotten strange. It will be interesting to find out what's really gone on with him.
I don't know if he's legally changed his name, but Jamie Foxx was born Eric Marlon Bishop in Terrell, Texas. He was a quarterback and basketball player for the Terrell Tigers in the late 1980s. He adopted "Jamie" as his first name because it was unisex enough that he could get booked as a possible female comedian, because male comics were a dime a dozen. "Foxx," of course, is an homage to Redd Foxx.
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