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May 24, 2010 · Five months after the death of actress Brittany Murphy, her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, was found dead Sunday night in the couple’s Hollywood home, according to the Los...
- Murphy Worried She Was 'Dying'
- Murphy's Friend: 'Simon Took Her Away'
- Monjack Allegedly Lied About Having Cancer
- Monjack Also 'Cut Off' Ex 'From Everybody'
In an appearance in January 2010 on the "Today" show, Monjack, alongside Murphy's mother, Sharon, told former morning show anchor Matt Lauer that Murphy was fine leading up to her death. "She had a little bit of laryngitis," Monjack said. "That was the only thing. Other than that she was perfectly healthy and well." But the next month, to Larry Kin...
Friends and colleagues remember an impenetrable fortress Monjack erected about Murphy. Monjack would drive Murphy to work, Najimy says, and stay, monopolizing any of her free time. "Every time there was a break, she would leave and go be in the car with him, and it got more and more restrictive," Najimy says. "And it got more and more apparent to a...
"Autumn in New York" screenwriter Allison Burnett says in the documentary that he met Monjack in 1999. In addition to bragging about former flames that supposedly included singer Madonna and model Elle Macpherson, Monjack proclaimed "he had been dying from terminal brain cancer and that he had bought an experimental treatment derived from the fins ...
Ragsdale says in 1998, Monjack hurried them to conceive because the cancer treatment would make him infertile. She says early in her pregnancy she experienced "severe nausea where I couldn't raise my head" and wanted to have her sister and others around for comfort, but Monjack wouldn't allow that. A friend of Ragsdale's made an unannounced trip ou...
Mar 21, 2022 · Simon Monjack was a controversial and allegedly disturbed Hollywood producer who married actress Brittany Murphy in 2007. He was accused of pressuring her to lose weight and conning her out of money, and he died five months after her in 2010.
Oct 14, 2021 · Murphy and Monjack got married in April 2007 in a private Jewish ceremony in Los Angeles. It's unclear when Murphy and Monjack first met but in a 2008 interview with The Post, Monjack...
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Oct 14, 2021 · The mystery grew when Simon Monjack died less than six months after Brittany, on May 23, 2010, from pneumonia and anemia as well. He was 39 years old. HBO Max’s doc largely debunks these...
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In the 2021 documentary What Happened, Brittany Murphy?, several of Monjack's colleagues and friends accused him of being responsible for Murphy's physical changes and also of not letting her connect with her family.
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Oct 14, 2021 · Twelve years ago this December, the actor Brittany Murphy died under circumstances mysterious enough that lingering questions about her death still overshadow her career. Was she poisoned? Was her...
