After a blissfully romantic New Year’s Day wedding — Eddie Murphy and his bride, producer Tracey Edmonds, have split. According to a pal close to the couple, they got into a big blowout two days ago. “It was ugly,” says the friend. “They never officially moved in together and apparently never had a civil ceremony.” The insider adds that Eddie seemed very controlling and insisted Tracey take his name. But Tracey refused: She wanted to keep the name Edmonds because her sons have that surname. The couple exchanged vows on January 1, during an intimate ceremony on a private French Polynesian island just off the coast of Bora Bora. The insider adds that Eddie personally paid for everyone to be flown to Tahiti for their special day.

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UPDATE: People confirms they have indeed split!

Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds have called it quits just two weeks after their intimate wedding, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

“After much consideration and discussion, we have jointly decided that we will forego having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further,” Murphy and Edmonds tell PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. “While the recent symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for one another on a spiritual level, we have decided to remain friends.”

The couple exchanged vows in a sunset ceremony on New Year’s Day on a private island off Bora Bora in French Polynesia. But, according to a source, the honeymoon got off to a rocky start.

“Eddie started yelling at Tracey in front of people,” says one of Edmonds’s wedding guests. “He did it on a few occasions and it was very embarrassing.”

Since the couple’s nuptials took place in a foreign country, the wedding was purely ceremonial – not legal. Murphy, 46, and Edmonds, 40, originally said they planned to have a legal ceremony in the United States, but that is now off.

Murphy and Edmonds started dating in the fall of 2006 and got engaged last July.

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