Early Years
Eddie Money was born Edward Mahoney into a large Irish Catholic family in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island. His father, grandfather, and brother were all New York City Police Department (NYPD) policemen, and Eddie was an NYPD trainee and a police officer for two years.
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