It was apparent, Burnett says, that he was using the woman he was dating at the time for her money. “She wanted to marry him, and I said, ‘Honey, it’s not been long enough.’ ”įilmmaker Allison Burnett recalls first meeting Monjack at a dinner party in 1999 where he lied about owning 17 Ferraris, dating Madonna and surviving terminal brain cancer thanks to an experimental treatment involving shark fins. Like, who was this guy and what was happening?” Murphy’s King of the Hill co-star Kathy Najimy recalls in the documentary. Friends and acquaintances believe the actor - vulnerable, too trusting and eager to settle down - had been bamboozled by a con artist. The two reportedly started dating in 2006 and things quickly became serious. “’Could he have killed his wife?’”īrittany Murphy was a child actor who broke into the mainstream with her role in Clueless. “It was in the back of my mind, ‘Am I sitting with a murderer?’” she says. In the documentary, reporter Amber Ryland recalls getting an exclusive interview with Monjack shortly after Murphy’s death. What Happened, Brittany Murphy? - which premieres on Binge on November 7 - looks at how Murphy went from one of her generation’s most promising young stars, with memorable turns in films such as Clueless and Girl, Interrupted, to one of Hollywood’s darkest tragedies. Later that morning, the petite, doe-eyed actor was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was soon pronounced dead.Īuthorities initially said the 32-year-old died from a lethal combination of pneumonia and prescription drugs, but a new two-part documentary delves deeper into the mysterious, nefarious circumstances around her tragic death and her troubled relationship with Monjack. On a Sunday morning in December 2009, Brittany Murphy suddenly collapsed in the bathroom of the West Hollywood home she shared with her husband, Simon Monjack.
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