Brittany Murphy
New documentary illuminated: What role did your husband play in the case?
Brittany Murphy († 32)
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Brittany Murphy’s death continues to be a mystery 12 years after the tragedy. In the documentary “What Happened, Brittany Murphy?” Friends and family tell about the last few weeks of the actress and what role her husband played in it.
Brittany Murphy passed away in December 2009 at the age of only 32. Two months after her tragic death, LA County’s Forensic Medicine, Ed Winter, explained the cause of death: Murphy was the result of untreated pneumonia combined with anemia [Blutarmut, Anm. d. Red.] and died of drug poisoning from prescription and over-the-counter drugs, including pain relievers and cold medicines.
How could this happen? In the new documentary “What Happened, Brittany Murphy?”, Which will air for the first time in the USA on October 14, 2021, insiders, friends and family members of Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack, † 40, report on the last encounters with Brittany Murphy .
Brittany Murphy’s makeup artist worried about the actress
Among other things, Murphy’s make-up artist Trista Jordan explains about the last joint work on the set of the film “Something Wicked”. The then 32-year-old was barely recognizable and only a shadow of herself. Jordan remembers: “Her eyes were so sunken and she just looked so sad.”
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Not only that; The stylist also took care of the overall look: “She wasn’t herself. She was in so much pain. She had Bambi legs and couldn’t get up.”
The question that everyone has been asking themselves since 2009: could the death of the young actress – if her dramatic state were so obvious – could have been prevented? The behavior of her husband Simon Monjack, who did not order an autopsy after Murphy’s death, even led camera teams through the house and showed the place where the 32-year-old died, was particularly noticeable at the time. The role he played in the life and death of his wife is also examined in detail in the documentary – the image of a tyrant is said to have emerged.
What role does husband Simon Monjack play in the Murphy case?
As director Cynthia Hill reports in the documentary, the team came across increasingly darker abysses of the 40-year-old while researching. “He was a dysfunctional person who was used to cheating on people, and Brittany was one of his final victims,” said Hill.
Brittany Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack (†) and her mother Sharon Murphy
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Both Monjack’s mother Linda and his brother James and his former fiancée Elizabeth Ragsdale have their say in the documentary. Ragsdale explains in an interview how Simon Monjack betrayed her in the fourth month of pregnancy after he paid her a plane ticket to New York: “When I got to my little studio in New York, I called him and he answered. I said, ‘Simon ‘I did it after …’ and before I could finish the sentence he hung up. It left me pregnant and abandoned, “said the former fiancée.
Simon Monjack died 5 months later under the same circumstances
What still makes the Brittany Murphy case so mysterious today is the death of her partner Monjack. The 40-year-old also died 5 months after the death of the actress from the effects of pneumonia combined with anemia. Forensic medicine saw it as no coincidence in 2010 and is said to have ordered several tests, including the exhumation of Murphy. However, this was prevented by her mother.
Today, 12 years later, further research into the bodies is no longer possible, and Brittany Murphy’s death will continue to pose a mystery. What remains are friends and colleagues who are reminiscent of the “Clueless” star.
Sources used: people.com