The Death of Brittany Murphy

On December 19th 2009 Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack were watching movies in bed and eating thai take out in the hollywood hill's home they shared with Brittany's mother, Sharon. Brittany was tired as she had been sick for the last week.

At 8AM Dec 20th the LA Fire Department responded to a 911 call at the Murphy home. Brittany had collapsed in the bathroom and was found by her mother. The firefighters arrived, they found Murphy just barely alive and transported her to Cedars-Sinair Medical Center, where at 10:04AM she died after going into cardiac arrest

Ed Winter, the assistant chief Coroner of LA County, known for performing celebrity autopsies, including Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, performed the autopsy.

His initial findings were that the death seemed natural, but in February when the toxicology report returned her official cause of death was listed as: acute pneumonia with secondary factors of anemia and multiple drug intoxication, caused by over the counter drugs.

The medication was most likely treatment for her flu-like symptoms and her anemia attributed to heavy periods, a common factor among women. Her death appeared to be an accident.