He was an independent film producer with scant credits to his name and a history of legal and financial problems, forced to pay more than $500,000 in a pair of lawsuits in 20 and with four evictions on his record. She had previously dated wealthy performers like Eminem and Ashton Kutcher.
And through it all fans and tabloids alike questioned the nature of Murphy's relationship with Monjack. Forensic experts explained that traces of heavy metals found in Murphy's hair, which her father Angelo Bertolotti claimed as evidence of poisoning, were consistent with someone who regularly dyed their hair. Both were found dead at the Hollywood Hills home they shared.Īn investigation by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health ruled out toxic mold in their house. Murphy's cause of death, according to an autopsy, was pneumonia, anemia and multiple drug intoxication his was acute pneumonia and severe anemia. Monjack, who himself died in 2010 at age 40, just six months after Murphy, has long been at the center of that mystery. For the next 14 years, she kept the story private - until this year, when filmmakers approached her about participating in “What Happened, Brittany Murphy?” The two-part docuseries, premiering Thursday on HBO Max, investigates Murphy’s unexpected death in 2009, at age 32 - an event that has been shrouded in mystery and spawned endless conspiracy theories. He needs to pay child support and you’ve got a lot of money, so you pay it for him.’” “I thought the letter probably would have seemed like me saying: ‘He’s got a kid. And he’d never met Elijah, the boy she claimed was his son. She wanted to tell the star how he’d lied to, cheated on and ghosted her when she was four months pregnant with their child.īut by then, Ragsdale had not been romantically involved with Monjack for nearly a decade. She wanted to tell the 29-year-old newlywed that she felt Us Weekly was right: Monjack was a con man. “It was: ‘That poor woman.’”Īlmost immediately, Ragsdale said she began writing a letter to Murphy. It wasn’t: ‘How could he do this?’” she recalled. “The first feeling I had wasn’t jealousy.
The guy who proposed to her with a diamond ring from Tiffany’s just two weeks after they met. There, next to the "Clueless" and "8 Mile" actor, was Simon Monjack, the man Ragsdale had once loved. But just as she was about to sink into the magazine's tales of Lindsay Lohan and Brangelina, Ragsdale noticed a cover line that alarmed her: Riding the Paris Métro home from her office in 2007, Elizabeth Ragsdale began flipping through an issue of Us Weekly given to her by the receptionist at the law firm where she worked as a paralegal. Their mysterious deaths are explored in a new HBO Max series. "The better we do in theaters," the film's Facebook page says, "the more cities will be added." The long-delayed film faced several challenges after Murphy's death, which forced reshoots that were only possible at key outdoor locations under specific weather conditions.Brittany Murphy, left, with husband Simon Monjack in 2007.
Producers hope to show the thriller nationwide. One week after the film opens in Eugene, it will expand to Portland and Seattle. "I was completely shocked when I found out that she passed away." "She had the most infectious personality and it was really great to work with her," the 28-year-old actress said.
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In a January 2010 interview with TV Guide, VanSanten had nothing but good things to say about her co-star. Something Wicked also stars One Tree Hill's Shantel VanSanten and Pretty Little Liars' Julian Morris. Personally, I think it's one of the best scenes of her career." "There's an important scene where her character is unraveling and she spent a long time getting ready and focused and went for it. "Brittany pulled off one of the spookiest scenes in the movie," Colleran told USA Today in 2011. Audiences can see the 32-year-old actress in what is described as a "hauntingly seductive thriller about obsession and young love gone wrong." Murphy plays a psychiatrist whose goal is to figure out what's driving all the cray.
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