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12/20/09
I knew the heat would be on her husband now. Everyone talked about how bizarre their marriage was but to honest with you, Brittany always seemed a little different. She went from being lovably eccentric to just plain kooky to something else. Hopefully there was no foul play involved.
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They were such an odd couple and he always seemed so sinister.
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If yes then I think an autopsy and a police investigation are justified.
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No, what will be taken into account are the medical facts of her case. Whether there are drugs in her system or not is not that difficult to determine. And whether they're found or not, her past rumored history (and rumors are not always facts, you know) will not enter into whatever final determination is made.
In other words, there's no autopsy in history that's said "you know, we could have actually tested for stuff, but given her history, we thought we'd just call it drugs and be done with it."
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Seriously, though. There is so much crazy stuff on this guy Monjack out on the interwebs. In the link above ("readers decry" on Hollywoodgossip) various women claim they are his ex wives, step daughters, former workers, etc. And they seem to have inside knowledge. Insane things to be read right there.
The world will know more about this guy soon enough.
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It seems that their relationship, though filled with bizarre events and career strains, was one that was tightly guarded and largely private. Her death occured in a private place, and she was discovered by a family member, among family members. I don't think anybody besides her mother and husband and those other close family members "deserve" any sort of explanation, and I imagine that even if they are suspicious of something, they'd rather the media just fuck off with their cloying empathy. Sure he seems like a skeeveball on the outset, but part of the reason he came to America in the first place no doubt was that this is the land of fucking skeeveballs, and they are allowed to be such without much outside interest.
I don't know. I just don't like the idea of people in the media circling the wagons on a pop culture figure that, prior to her sudden death, no one really thought about or gave much of a shit about except on those few occasions where she did something deemed suitably "strange" for the tabloid press to make a blurb about. It reminds me a lot of Natasha Richardson's death, and how nobody aside from theater patrons really followed her career, and suddenly everyone wanted to know why this tragedy happened, that there must be answers, when the reality is if she were still alive today nothing she could do could garner her column inches outside of, of course, dying.
I love you, Gawker, but you're bringing me down.
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And no, don't give me religious reasons, one can only imagine what a great excuse that would be for murderers everywhere. Very strange request from the husband.
There's enough oddness in this girl's history, this couple's history, that it's a legitimate question. TMZ reported last year that Murphy had a freakout and called the police because she thought people were shooting at her house trying to kill her. Turns out it was a malfunctioning furnace making noises. Sorry, that sounds like textbook cokey paranoia.
And this husband of hers seems shady as well. I forget where I read it today, but he also got in trouble for overstaying his US visa at some point. Between that and his airplane emergency where he was described as "incoherent", I'm afraid people who want to say they were just some ordinary folks need to stop denying the many irregularities, in this girl's life and now. Like requesting there be no autopsy.
I am genuinely sorry to hear of this news, it's a tragedy. But just as a civilian, I could see there was something sickly about her appearance by 8 Mile, something unwell. I didn't know she was diabetic, if that's indeed the case I regret thinking she might be on drugs.
It was purely my own observation.
There's enough strangeness to go around here though, and I don't know why not finding out what killed her is supposed to be somehow respectful.
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My 88 y.o. grandma died of lymphoma 3 years ago. It was pretty gosh-darned obvious what killed her (it only took 2 months, mercifully), but they still had to do some sort of cursory c.o.d. determination here in Ohio.
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My guess is that Brittany was taking drugs. That's probably why he doesn't want an autopsy - because he doesn't want people to know she was snorting or shooting or smoking or whatever.
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