What did Brittany Murphy really die of?

Brittany Murphy

"I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious."

She was born  Brittany Anne Bertolotti on November 10, 1977, in Atlanta Georgia.

She was an American actress and singer.

Her parents were Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Joseph Bertolotti.

Her breakthrough role was as Tai Frasier in Clueless. 

She also voiced the character Luanne Platter on Fox's animated sitcom King of the Hill. 

She was in a band called Blessed Soul with fellow actor Eric Balfour in the early 1990s.

In April 2007 she married British writer/director Simon Monjack.In December 2009, Murphy died of pneumonia at the age of 32. Her widower Simon Monjack died from the same illness five months later,

8:00 am on December 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to "a medical request"at the Murphy's Los Angeles home she shared with her husband and also her mother.

She had apparently collapsed the shower.

Firefighters attempted to resuscitate her.

She was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

She went into cardiac arrest and died at 10:04.

An autopsy was performed the day after she died, her death certificate listed the cause of death as "deferred".

That means they are not sure because they have to run toxicology tests.
February 4, 2010, the Los Angeles County coroner stated that the primary cause of Murphy's death was pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication.

February 25, 2010, the coroner released a report stating that Murphy had been taking a range of over-the-counter and prescription medications, with the most likely reason being to treat a cold or respiratory infection.

These all included legal drugs,"elevated levels" of hydrocodone, acetaminophen, L-methamphetamine, and chlorpheniramine.
No illegal drugs were found in her system.

The death was ruled to be an accident, but the report observed: "the possible adverse physiological effects of elevated levels of these medications cannot be discounted, especially in her weakened state."

Murphy's husband stated that he was convinced his wife had perished from a broken heart.

She had a heart murmur, which could have been seriously amplified if drugs entered her system.

While on vacation in San Juan, Puerto Rico Monjack and Murphy’s mother caught colds, and after returning home, Murphy caught the same bug.

On top of the prescription medication she was taking for pain from a previous car accident and for seizures caused by an accident on the set of 8 Mile, Murphy took the antibiotic Biaxin, migraine pills, cough medicine and an over-the-counter nasal spray.

Ten days from when she first fell ill, Murphy could barely breath.
Her lungs filled with fluid and, according her lips turned blue from lack of oxygen.

Murphy only talked to doctors over the phone, because she didn't want the paparazzi to find out she was ill, afraid it would affect her career.

Supposedly, Monjack incited that paranoia regarding paparazzi in Murphy. and that he was a frequent liar and manipulator who used those traits to control Murphy and separate her from the outside world.

Murphy had a doctors appointment scheduled for the day after her death.

December 24, 2009, Murphy was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.

May 23, 2010, Simon Monjack was found dead at the same residence.

July 2010, Los Angeles Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter stated that the his cause of death was acute pneumonia and severe anemia.

The Los Angeles County Department of Health had considered toxic mold in their house as a possible cause of the deaths.

This was dismissed by Ed Winter, he stated that there were "no indicators" that mold was a factor.

In December 2011, Sharon Murphy, Brittany's mother, announced that toxic mold was indeed what killed her daughter and son-in-law. She then filed a lawsuit against the attorneys who represented her in an earlier suit against the builders of the home where her daughter and son-in-law died.

January 11, 2012, her father Angelo Bertolotti applied to the Superior Court of California requesting that the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office be required to hand over samples of his daughter's hair for independent testing.
The suit was dismissed on July 19, 2012, because Bertolotti failed to attend two separate hearings.

November 2013, Bertolotti claimed that a toxicology report showed that deliberate poisoning by heavy metals, including antimony and barium(found in rat poison), possibly caused her death.
In a 2014 interview with the Examiner, Bertolotti said that he believed his ex-wife murdered their daughter.

Sharon Murphy denied any involvement in her daughter's death.

LA County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter, has said he’s open to taking a closer look at their initial findings.

What do you think caused her death?

Do you think her death was due to mold?

Did her mother poison her?

At one point her dad thought it was a government assassination.

Or is her death like it seems?