Brittany Murphy, actress who began her career in teen movie Clueless and rocketed to fame with 8 Mile, died Sunday, apparently of natural causes, a coroner said County of Los Angeles. I was 32.
Murphy died at 10:04 am on Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said spokeswoman Sally Stewart. He did not give the cause of death or any further information.
The actress was taken to hospital after the fire department in Los Angeles received a call at 8 am on Sunday from the home she shared with her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood.
Ed Winter, assistant chief coroner, said that Murphy apparently collapsed in the bathroom. The authorities are reviewing their medical history.
For a while it might not be an official cause of death, as toxicology tests are required, but “seems to have been natural causes,” said Winter.
He said he plans to conduct an autopsy on Monday or Tuesday.
Winter said the family of Murphy is cooperating with the coroner’s investigation, but on Sunday will not issue a statement. He added that there have been announced for the funeral arrangements.
Police in the county of Los Angeles opened an inquiry into the death of Murphy, said the officer Norma Eisenman.
Detectives and officials from the coroner’s office arrived on Sunday afternoon at the residence, but gave no statements to reporters.
The paparazzi have camped outside the home of several floors, located above the Sunset Strip.
Messages that The Associated Press she left the agent and her publicist were not immediately returned.
A neighbor, Clare Staples, testified that he watched fire crews tried to revive the actress on Sunday morning. He said Murphy was on a stretcher and “seemed already dead.”
Murphy’s husband, wearing pajama pants and was barefoot, looked “stunned”, as firefighters tried to revive her, said Staples. “It’s all very tragic,” he said.
The entertainment website TMZ.com cyberspace was first reported news of the death of Murphy on Sunday morning.
The actress’s father, Angelo Bertolotti, said he had learned of the death of his son, her brother, and he was “dumbfounded”.
“It was always a doll since she was born,” said Bertolotti at his home in Branford, Florida. “It was always an outgoing personality. Everyone loved her, also the people making movies with her or traveling with her, everyone wanted it. It was a simple girl.
He indicated that they had learned of the circumstances surrounding the death of Murphy. Bertolotti divorced the mother of the actress when she was young and had not seen in recent years. He added that before he belonged to the mafia and was in federal prison for drugs.
“He was very talented,” said Bertolotti. “And I loved her very much.”
Murphy was born on 10 November 1977 in Atlanta, grew up in New Jersey and later moved with his mother in Los Angeles to try his luck in acting.
His early roles came at the beginning of the 1990s with small holdings in television series, commercials and films. He had his most outstanding performances in Clueless, Girl, Interrupted ‘and 8 Mile.
In recent years fewer roles played on screen, but his voice gave life to many animated characters, including Luanne Platter in over 200 episodes of the series King of the Hill on Fox and Gloria inHappy Feet consecutive terms.
Participated in The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone’s film whose premiere is scheduled for next year.
Its role in 8 Mile gave him more recognition, Murphy told The Associated Press in 2003.
“That changed a lot,” he said. “(The movie) was the difference (which allowed) that people knew my name and my surname as opposed to when they did not know.”
Murphy gave credit to his mother, Sharon, to be a key to its success.
“When I asked my mother we went to California sold everything and moved for me,” Murphy told the AP.
“I’m really grateful to have grown in an environment favoring creativity and not suffocating. She always believed in me. “
Murphy was for a time girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher, who starred with her romantic comedy “Just Married” in 2003.
On Sunday morning Kutcher wrote on his Twitter page: “Today the world lost a bit of sunshine.”
“My deepest condolences to the family of Brittany, her husband and her mother Sharon incredible,” he added.
It is the simple intimacy of tragedy – summed up in the journalist’s confession that he was 32 – that makes this story so memorable. I can only regret that English has so few pronouns and genders – all through the story, the fullest possible deployment of the few we do have has given a grandeur and wonder that cannot be easily equalled.
I shocked, however, to learn that the paparazzi – usually so keenly aware of the possibilities of their surroundings – should have camped outside the homes of several floors. have they not been made aware that floors do little except remain in the lowest part of the room, motionless and insensate. Perhaps, however, there is a concern amongst the press that many, if not all of these floors, will become mezzanines. If this should ever occur and the paparazzi fail to record it, they would not forgive themselves – and our deepest sympathies would be with them. In light of this, may they remain ever vigilant, and camp outside the homes of several ceilings as well.
I am comforted to know that they are on the job.
Noël Christian
homestead: Theatre of Words
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