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[indistinct chatter]
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- Oh, they're gonna have a
weekend rendezvous, look out.
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[laughter]
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- One day, a friend of mine,an Englishman,
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who lives in Los Angeles,
who was in the world of film,
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he called me and told me that
he had two friends in town,
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a filmmaker who was making
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an important indie filmin London,
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and his girlfriend.
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I learned that
this is Simon Monjack.
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He said his grandfather
founded British Steel,
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something like that,
and he's worth $1 billion.
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Since I'd never met
a billionaire before,
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and I'm a very curious person,
I decided to host a dinner.
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[glasses clink]
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So Simon kind of held forth
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and he kind ofcontrolled the table.
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And he told us a lot of thingsabout himself that night.
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He said that he was thelargest collector of Vermeer,
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the great Dutch painter.
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He had more Vermeersthan anyone else in the world.
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He had dated Elle Macphersonand Madonna.
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He said that he had been dyingfrom terminal brain cancer
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and that he had boughtan experimental treatment
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derived fromthe fins of sharks
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and that ithad saved his life.
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He said that he hada collection of Ferraris,
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17 in all.
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You know, we laughedand we had a good time,
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and, you know, I wondered
if he'd ever finance
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one of the movies
I wanted to make,
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and that was it.
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The only hint
that anything was askew
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was that Simonhad told me his movie
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was getting the best reviews
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in the history of independentfilm in England.
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My friend, in London,
went to see the movie,
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and he came back and he said,
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"This is--
it's pretty terrible."
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- In this generation of lust,
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I never [...] found you, Lucy.
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No, I can't hear you, Lucy.
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[tires screeching]
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[screaming]
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- So that was kind of shocking.
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Time goes by, I get an email
from his girlfriend.
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And I find out that
every single word
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out of his mouth
was a lie.
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One of the ways that Simonlegitimized those lies
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was by bringing a lovely girlinto the equation.
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That was the cloak.
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And it was perfect because
she believed the lies too.
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So he lived off this girlthat had worked her heart out
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for every penny she had.
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And when her money ran out,he was gone.
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And very quickly, he became
engaged to one of her friends.
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I can't stress enoughhow convincing this man was.
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["Die Young"by Sylvan Esso playing]
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♪ ♪
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- ♪ I had it all planned outbefore you met me ♪
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♪ Was gonna leave earlyand so swiftly ♪
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♪ Maybe in a fireor crash off a ravine ♪
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♪ People would weep,how tragic, so early ♪
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♪ I was gonna die young ♪
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♪ Now I gotta waitfor you honey ♪
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♪ I was gonna die young ♪
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[thunder rumbles]
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- I want to talk nowabout Brittany Murphy,
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her controversial husband.
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The unemployed British
screenwriter Simon Monjack
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is being portrayedas the villain,
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the drunken bully living offa woman that he married
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because his visa had expired.
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- I don't thinkSimon has recovered
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from the bad publicity.He was like a Svengali.
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- People don't die at home
with the husband present
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of pneumonia, of anemia.
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- "Every storyneeds a villain,"
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Monjack said after his wife'stragic death, concluding,
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"And everyone decidedit is me."
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And on that point,ladies and gentlemen,
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I agree with him.
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- I'm Linda Monjack,and I am
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Simon Monjack's mother.
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- And I'm James Monjack,
Simon's brother.
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- As he was growing up,
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Simon wasthe most incredible guy.
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He had an IQ off the scale.
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He was able to charm anyone,old ladies, mothers.
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He would turnhis charm on anyone.
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- From early childhood,
Simon had that ability
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to manipulate the environment
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to get what he wanted
out of it.
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- Simon was 16when his father died.
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It was a terrible,terrible shock.
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He never was the same again.
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He was still wittyand full of life and funny,
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but something died in him.
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And I think he became
more and more...
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unreal.
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He lived in the now.The now is important.
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The now meanteverything to him.
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In a minute,that's not the now.
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The next moment happened,
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and there's a new momentto experience.
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But he did fall inand out of love very easily.
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He was in a very good placewhen he met Brittany.
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They were very much in love.
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When you saw them together,
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they literally fellinto each other's eyes.
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I mean, literally drownedin each other.
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The one conversationthat I remember with her
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was just before she died,and I said,
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"Oh, Brittany, Simon tells me
you're not feeling well.
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What's the matter?"
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She said,
"I'm having trouble breathing.
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If I go up the stairs,"
she was like,
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"By the time I get
to the top of the stairs,
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I can't breathe."
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She said,
"Do you think I'm dying?"
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So I said, "No, of course
you're not dying, you're fine.
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But you need to goto the doctor."
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[siren wails]
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I didn't speak to them againuntil Simon phoned me
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on that terrible day.
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He was totally devastated,
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and he cried for abouttwo hours on the phone.
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He just could not gethis head around it.
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He kept saying, "She's dead.
How can--she can't be.
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How? How?"
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[somber music]
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♪ ♪
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He was in shock for months.
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Nobody could getthrough to him.
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He's too frightenedof the paparazzi,
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and he was getting
increasingly ill.
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And you could see it inhis face, his hair was wild.
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I phoned him, and I couldn'tget him for a couple of hours.
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And I finally got hold of him,
and he said, "I'm alive.
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I'm alive.
I went sleep and I'm alive."
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Which I couldn't get
my head around.
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I didn't know why
he would say such a thing.
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He was confused.
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So I think he feltlet down by everyone.
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[birds cawing]
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[clock ticking, bell chimes]
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- In May, I hadtaken a trip to Hawaii
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with, like, a significantother at the time.
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Simon called me a lot.
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And I didn't answer a lot
because I was,
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like,
"No, I'm on vacation."
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Some of his messages,
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you could sensethis growing frustration
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that I wasn't there for him.
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I certainly never viewedmy friendship with Simon
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as anything romantic.
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And I don't think he did.
I mean, I have a wife.
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I don't even look
at men that way,
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so it definitely
wasn't something,
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but it did cross my mindjust because you never know.
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That probably was hard
for him at the time.
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I'll never know
because it was
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right after I got home
from that trip that he died.
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[helicopter blades whipping]
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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[siren wails]
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[indistinct chatter]
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- Everybody ready?
- Yes, sir.
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- This evening, Mr. Monjack
was found unresponsive.
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Paramedics responded
to the house.
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He was pronounced
at 2145 hours.
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His death
is under investigation
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by the Los Angeles County
Department of Coroner
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with the assistance of LAPD.
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I got notifiedof Simon's death,
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and then it's like,
"Are you kidding me?"
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- I get a call in the night.
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Sharon's screaming,
"Please, please come here.
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"Please come here.
It's happening all over again.
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I'm living Brittany
all over again."
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So I get in the car,head up to the house,
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and when I get up there,there is media everywhere.
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I couldn't get to the gate,
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much lessget through the gate.
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- That's a day I won't forget.
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Simon came out,
he was sweating.
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And he's got a cigarin one hand,
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a cognac in the other hand,but he would be talking to me
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and he would drift offto sleep.
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And then he would justopen his eyes
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and come backinto the conversation
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like he was therethe whole time.
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And when I thinkback about it,
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he's dying in front of me,
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and I don't know
he's dying in front of me.
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- Here's a copy of
Simon Monjack's report.
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Cause of death is listed as
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community acquired acutebronchial pneumonia.
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The toxicology study
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showed the presenceof multiple medications.
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The media, they said,"Isn't that strange?
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Both died from the samecause of death."
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And it'd be like, "Yeah,
we don't get a lot of those."
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- Just five months
after Brittany passed away,
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Simon, her husband, passed away
in the same bathroom
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in the same mansion
for almost identical reasons.
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- A small, tiny, petite woman
and a very large man,
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they die of the same thing
in the same house.
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- People start thinking
there's more behind this,
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there's something else.
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[dark music]
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♪ ♪
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[wind whistling]
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- After Simon died,it was like, "What happened?"
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You know?
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I think the initialthought was like something
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is causing this
in the house.
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- I've pleaded with Simonto go to the hospital.
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He looked terrible.
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My husband was very worried
because he's a builder,
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and he thought
it was to do with the mold.
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- To me, it was obviouswhen I went to the house,
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in this gorgeouspicture window.
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I'm looking around
the frame of that window
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and you visibly see mold
on the side,
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across the top,across the bottom,
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and I look over to the Frenchdoors and there's mold there.
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I don't think there'sany other explanation
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for their death.
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- All of the symptoms,disorientation,
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feeling sick,dreadful headaches,
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all these things come from
inhaling spores from mold.
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- Sharon Murphyclaims she discovered
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deadly mold hidingin the walls of their mansion.
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Just look at what we foundat Brittany's home today.
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- I know that there
were rumors that toxic mold
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may have played a role
in Brittany's death
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and possibly the death
of her husband.
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But on my autopsy,
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I didn't see any evidenceof mold in her lungs
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or any other organs becauseyou can see the hyphae,
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which are little strands ofmold or the fruiting bodies.
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- I told Sharon I would getsomebody from County Health
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to come upand they'd check the house.
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And then I got a callfrom her attorney
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who said Sharon doesn't want
to give any access,
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and she's selling
the house anyway.
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Just stay away.
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- New shocking allegationscoming from her father,
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who says she was poisoned.
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And Murphy's father, AngeloBertolotti, joining us now.
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Angelo, do you
suspect somebody?
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- Yeah, I do really, but I'd
rather not speak about that.
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I feel she was poisoned.
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There's no questionabout that.
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And I feel she was murdered.
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- Once the two of themhad died of the same cause,
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Brittany's dadreached out to me.
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He was sure that
someone had done it.
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- Angelo Bertolottilived down in Florida
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and ran a string
of nightclubs.
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- Sharon, Brittany's mom,
really does not like Angelo.
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She said that he only
came around
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when she started making money.
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- He says, "I was involved
with the mob.
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I wasn't very involved
in my marriage."
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- Angelo was actually bannedfrom ever seeing his daughter
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at the gravesite multiple times
until he was able to prove
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he was the biological father
of Brittany Murphy.
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That's horrible.
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- Take two.
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- I'm Wendy Abrahamson,
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and I was a fan of Brittany
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and the best friend
of her father Angelo.
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So her dad, he needed helpto find her grave,
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and so some of the fans said,"Oh, we're gonna help."
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We just became really close.
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Of course, that common
denominator of Brittany
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started it and then we werejust best friends.
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And of course, he thought
it was really strange
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that the mother, his ex-wife,
was perfectly fine.
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And that the married couple,
much younger than her,
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were both dead.
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These are things
that nobody has seen.
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We went, of course,
to the coroner's office
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to obtain the hair samples
and have those tested.
287
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- Ed Winter says his officedid forward toxicology samples
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to a private lab hiredby the late actress's father.
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The private analysisstates Brittany Murphy
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had high concentrations of tenheavy metals in her system
291
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and may have beenintentionally poison.
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- I received a call, an email
from Angelo Bertolotti.
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I can understand him asking,
294
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"What are you telling me,
my 32-year-old daughter,
295
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she just died like that
from pneumonia and anemia?"
296
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He then said he had gottenhold of a toxicology report
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on a sample of hair,
298
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and it showed heavy levelsof heavy metals.
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I've had cases like that,
fascinating cases,
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one with a woman
who was repeatedly poisoning
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her husband with thallium.
302
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I'm not unfamiliar with that.
303
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- Heavy metalsare commonly found
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in rat and insect killers.
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They can cause the symptoms
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Murphy experiencedbefore her death.
307
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- I absolutely, positivelythinks she was poisoned, yes.
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I'm calling for her
to be exhumed.
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- You know, Angelo was
in the press quite a bit.
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And they were
putting stuff out there,
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like she poisoned them.
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She's responsiblefor their deaths.
313
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So what happens?
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You got a grieving mom who nowbecomes a murder suspect.
315
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That's ridiculous.I mean, it's crazy.
316
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- It was just magazine coversand salacious headlines,
317
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and it became this circus.
318
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So that's when the conspiracy
theories go into overdrive.
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- Like, maybe her mother
could have had something
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to do with it,
just speculation.
321
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- It was a plan from
the beginning for both of them
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to take her money
after she died.
323
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And the mom
got the last laugh.
324
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- I would never put two
and two together,
325
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but these days and age,
mothers, you know,
326
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they take out their kids
all the time.
327
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- Brittany and Sharon were asclose as two people could be.
328
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Maybe Sharon
made some mistakes.
329
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But I know that she loved
that girl wildly.
330
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- Never for a minutedid I ever believe
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that Sharon Murphywas responsible
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for thosetwo young people dying.
333
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I would never believe it.
334
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Not for a millisecond.
335
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- Initially, when I was given
this private laboratory report,
336
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I said, "Oh, my God.
What is this?"
337
00:16:42,868 --> 00:16:46,672
And then I looked
carefully and saw
338
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that this was not
a case of poisoning.
339
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The heavy metals were found
in the hair, not in the roots.
340
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Heavy metals take a while
to be absorbed from the blood.
341
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In order to be in the hair,
342
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they got to be picked upby the hair root,
343
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and then they got to grow out.
344
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These metals had to have come
from hairsprays, hair dyes,
345
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and things of that nature.
346
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They are not
in her bloodstream.
347
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They are in her hair.
348
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Did she die because
someone poisoned her?
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No.
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- There were elevated levelsof things like aluminum
351
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or one or two other things,
but it's hair dye.
352
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That's what does it.
353
00:17:26,678 --> 00:17:29,615
And Brittany has dyed her hairmany different times.
354
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And I didn't see any evidence
of any type of poison.
355
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- There is no questionin my mind
356
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about the cause of death.
357
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So this is
a 32-year-old woman.
358
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I don't know the bankroll
of her and her husband,
359
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but I assumethat they had money.
360
00:17:46,698 --> 00:17:50,436
And yet they lived as ifthey were peasants in squalor.
361
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To develop an anemiaof this nature,
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she was not eating.
363
00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,409
How did all of this develop?
364
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That's the fascinatingquestion.
365
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This is where you got to bring
in the forensic psychiatrist
366
00:18:01,814 --> 00:18:05,551
and see if he can dig up
enough information about her
367
00:18:05,617 --> 00:18:07,653
and her husband Simon Monjack
368
00:18:07,753 --> 00:18:10,756
to try to answerthat question.
369
00:18:17,596 --> 00:18:19,798
- That was during a little dip
she was having
370
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that he came along.
371
00:18:21,333 --> 00:18:25,838
And I think that's
where her judgment
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was muddled and desperate,
373
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and she became prey to things
374
00:18:31,677 --> 00:18:34,012
that she thought
would help her.
375
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[tense music]
376
00:18:39,585 --> 00:18:42,921
- I feel like what broughtBrittany Murphy's career down
377
00:18:42,988 --> 00:18:47,292
is a perfect storm of gettingcast in the wrong movies
378
00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,128
and her personal life.
379
00:18:49,194 --> 00:18:53,799
Mid 2000s, the biggest rumors
that I was hearing
380
00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:56,301
and not reporting
were about drugs.
381
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- Do we read them?
382
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No, we wait.
Okay.
383
00:19:00,939 --> 00:19:02,674
- I remember heras a presenter
384
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at the 2003
Independent Spirit Awards,
385
00:19:05,511 --> 00:19:07,546
where her assignment
was to read the names
386
00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:08,847
of five nominees,
387
00:19:08,947 --> 00:19:10,849
open an envelope,
and read the winner.
388
00:19:10,949 --> 00:19:13,152
She kept trying to read
every nominee as the winner.
389
00:19:13,218 --> 00:19:15,187
And when she arrivedtriumphantly
390
00:19:15,287 --> 00:19:16,889
at the real winner,
391
00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:19,858
she inspired no confidencethat she had it right.
392
00:19:19,958 --> 00:19:25,030
- America, just one moment,
please.
393
00:19:25,130 --> 00:19:26,532
audience: No!
394
00:19:26,632 --> 00:19:28,233
For crying out stinking loud,
395
00:19:28,333 --> 00:19:30,235
please tell me
when you're going to drop it.
396
00:19:30,335 --> 00:19:31,970
Okay.
And the winner is...
397
00:19:32,037 --> 00:19:34,072
audience: No!
398
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- Brittany Murphy, around
the beginning of my career,
399
00:19:40,345 --> 00:19:45,317
was talked about a lot.
400
00:19:45,384 --> 00:19:47,386
I first started hearing rumors
401
00:19:47,486 --> 00:19:50,522
shortly after her splitfrom Ashton Kutcher,
402
00:19:50,589 --> 00:19:53,725
rumors about her just beingimpossible to deal with,
403
00:19:53,825 --> 00:19:58,063
whereas Ashton wasthe golden boy of Hollywood.
404
00:19:58,163 --> 00:20:02,901
Ultimately, you can only
keep things quiet for so long.
405
00:20:03,001 --> 00:20:05,370
When it starts
to get out there,
406
00:20:05,437 --> 00:20:09,575
then you start to developa reputation.
407
00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:13,178
- Perez Hilton didn't get
to be Perez Hilton
408
00:20:13,245 --> 00:20:15,914
by writing nice stories
about celebrities.
409
00:20:16,014 --> 00:20:18,684
He was writing doodles
on their photos.
410
00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,619
Brittany Murphy,"Is she pill popping?"
411
00:20:20,719 --> 00:20:22,754
"Is she anorexic?""Is she bulimic?"
412
00:20:22,854 --> 00:20:27,426
- I remember she called me
crying and said,
413
00:20:27,526 --> 00:20:29,094
"Can you call my manager?"
414
00:20:29,194 --> 00:20:32,864
Who was a very, very,
very big manager at the time.
415
00:20:32,931 --> 00:20:34,800
"He thinks I'm on drugs."
416
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:38,604
I know that hurt her deeply.
417
00:20:38,704 --> 00:20:40,639
- You were kind of nastyat times.
418
00:20:40,739 --> 00:20:42,107
- I was more than nasty.
419
00:20:42,207 --> 00:20:45,277
I--I didn't even view
Brittany Murphy
420
00:20:45,377 --> 00:20:49,581
or any of the celebrities
that I covered as real people.
421
00:20:49,648 --> 00:20:51,483
They were characters to me.
422
00:20:51,583 --> 00:20:52,818
It was almost like a way
423
00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:56,588
to disassociate myself
from my actions,
424
00:20:56,655 --> 00:20:58,457
from what I was writing
and saying.
425
00:20:58,557 --> 00:21:00,425
"Oh, this isn't real,
426
00:21:00,492 --> 00:21:03,629
and also Perez
is a character."
427
00:21:03,729 --> 00:21:06,131
I would tell all these things
to myself
428
00:21:06,231 --> 00:21:09,268
to help me sleep at night.
429
00:21:10,402 --> 00:21:12,271
If you're at a pointin your life
430
00:21:12,337 --> 00:21:14,740
where your careeris struggling,
431
00:21:14,806 --> 00:21:18,577
your personal lifeis also struggling,
432
00:21:18,644 --> 00:21:23,415
you might be drawnto the wrong people.
433
00:21:23,482 --> 00:21:26,985
[indistinct chatter]
434
00:21:27,085 --> 00:21:28,587
- Hey, hey, hey!
Whoa!
435
00:21:28,654 --> 00:21:30,489
- Brittany, can we get
a fashion shot?
436
00:21:30,589 --> 00:21:31,990
- She was an open vessel.
437
00:21:32,090 --> 00:21:35,327
If she trusted you,she let you in.
438
00:21:35,427 --> 00:21:38,430
He saw her cominga mile away.
439
00:21:38,497 --> 00:21:41,366
She was pure, trusting,
440
00:21:41,466 --> 00:21:45,837
loving, open,and he saw her coming.
441
00:21:45,937 --> 00:21:48,640
- And got it.
Mark.
442
00:21:48,707 --> 00:21:50,309
Great.
Thank you.
443
00:21:50,375 --> 00:21:52,144
- My name is Harley Pasternak.
444
00:21:52,210 --> 00:21:55,213
I am a celebrity fitness
and nutrition author.
445
00:21:55,314 --> 00:22:00,819
I trained Simon Monjack
a number of years ago.
446
00:22:02,187 --> 00:22:03,522
First time I met Simon,
447
00:22:03,622 --> 00:22:05,857
he rolled upin a vintage Ferrari,
448
00:22:05,957 --> 00:22:08,393
and he got out smokingthese fancy, I think,
449
00:22:08,493 --> 00:22:10,629
Cohiba cigars,and his girlfriend
450
00:22:10,696 --> 00:22:12,531
had the biggest diamond ringyou've ever seen.
451
00:22:12,631 --> 00:22:15,400
They got engaged the nightbefore, and she was happy.
452
00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:18,337
And then he said, "We're both
gonna work with you."
453
00:22:18,403 --> 00:22:21,873
And then his balance
started to run up a lot more,
454
00:22:21,973 --> 00:22:24,042
and I wouldn't let him
book new sessions.
455
00:22:24,142 --> 00:22:25,744
And then he called me
one day and he says,
456
00:22:25,844 --> 00:22:28,547
"Hey, I'm dating
Brittany Murphy now.
457
00:22:28,647 --> 00:22:31,350
"And I want to bring her in and
for us to work out together,
458
00:22:31,416 --> 00:22:33,385
and I'll pay you
what I owe you."
459
00:22:33,485 --> 00:22:35,354
And they showed up one day.
460
00:22:35,420 --> 00:22:38,724
Brittany was for sure under
the influence of something.
461
00:22:38,824 --> 00:22:40,025
Pills maybe.
462
00:22:40,092 --> 00:22:41,893
She was kind of slurring
her words.
463
00:22:41,993 --> 00:22:44,563
She was very sweet and--and--
464
00:22:44,663 --> 00:22:46,365
but kind of
all over the place.
465
00:22:46,431 --> 00:22:48,900
And he said,"Brittany's got a big project,
466
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,436
and I want you to get herready for the role."
467
00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:54,506
"Okay, well, if I'mgonna work with Brittany,
468
00:22:54,573 --> 00:22:56,241
I'll just dealwith her team."
469
00:22:56,341 --> 00:22:58,043
And I remember reaching out
to her team and saying,
470
00:22:58,110 --> 00:22:59,845
"She fired all of us.
471
00:22:59,911 --> 00:23:03,181
"Simon is her agent, manager,
and lawyer and everything now.
472
00:23:03,248 --> 00:23:05,250
You have to go through Simon."
473
00:23:05,350 --> 00:23:06,852
And they said,
"We're concerned
474
00:23:06,918 --> 00:23:10,088
"because no one
can contact her directly.
475
00:23:10,188 --> 00:23:11,790
You can only
go through Simon."
476
00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:13,392
I don't even know
if she had a phone.
477
00:23:13,458 --> 00:23:15,594
Simon was the only one
who carried the phone.
478
00:23:18,864 --> 00:23:21,967
- She just seemed
like she was high.
479
00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:25,103
So I don't--I don't know.
480
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[uneasy music]
481
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,909
♪ ♪
482
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- I would saythat Simon Monjack
483
00:23:33,779 --> 00:23:36,815
accelerated the path
that Brittany Murphy
484
00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:39,951
was heading down by the time
that they got together.
485
00:23:40,051 --> 00:23:43,989
- I couldn't believe that thisbottom-feeding sociopath
486
00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:47,459
had actually worked his way
up the food chain
487
00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:50,562
to someone who was actually
a legitimate artist.
488
00:23:50,629 --> 00:23:52,998
So the first thing I didwas I called her agency.
489
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:55,967
I said, "You need to tell herevery word out of his mouth
490
00:23:56,067 --> 00:23:59,304
is a lie and that she's gotto get the hell out."
491
00:23:59,404 --> 00:24:02,607
The word coming back
was her manager had tried
492
00:24:02,674 --> 00:24:04,643
and gotten fired
as a result,
493
00:24:04,743 --> 00:24:06,311
that there was
no talking to her.
494
00:24:06,411 --> 00:24:09,347
So I did something I never
imagined myself doing,
495
00:24:09,448 --> 00:24:11,483
I called
the "National Enquirer."
496
00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:13,018
I called their tip line,
497
00:24:13,118 --> 00:24:14,653
and I said,"I don't want money for this,
498
00:24:14,753 --> 00:24:16,688
because this guyis dangerous."
499
00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:21,526
This big story comes outabout Simon and Brittany.
500
00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:24,262
A week later, Perez Hiltoncame out with a headline
501
00:24:24,329 --> 00:24:26,998
that said"The kook and the crook."
502
00:24:27,098 --> 00:24:29,634
And I thought,
"Okay, my work is done here.
503
00:24:29,701 --> 00:24:31,503
I have gotten the word out."
504
00:24:31,603 --> 00:24:33,338
- This is all startingto come out.
505
00:24:33,438 --> 00:24:37,008
Her true friends knowthat Simon's not good news.
506
00:24:37,108 --> 00:24:39,778
There was this talk
of an intervention,
507
00:24:39,845 --> 00:24:43,815
and this intervention
took place at Brittany's house.
508
00:24:45,183 --> 00:24:47,219
These friendswere showing Brittany
509
00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:49,054
and her mother documentation
510
00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:52,023
that, you know, Simonhad trouble with the law,
511
00:24:52,123 --> 00:24:56,027
that Simon had outstayedhis visa, which he had.
512
00:24:56,127 --> 00:24:58,396
Brittany and her mom said,"No, we love Simon,
513
00:24:58,497 --> 00:25:00,499
and we believe Simon.Sorry."
514
00:25:00,565 --> 00:25:01,900
And the intervention fails.
515
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,871
- Simon started building
a wall around her.
516
00:25:05,971 --> 00:25:08,006
He took charge--he took charge of finances,
517
00:25:08,073 --> 00:25:09,407
making investments.
518
00:25:09,508 --> 00:25:11,176
He was buying property.
519
00:25:11,243 --> 00:25:15,213
He was buying jewelry,had a tiara made of diamonds
520
00:25:15,313 --> 00:25:18,083
that was a replicaof Audrey Hepburn's tiara
521
00:25:18,183 --> 00:25:19,818
in "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
522
00:25:19,885 --> 00:25:21,386
So they could have
523
00:25:21,486 --> 00:25:23,588
all these investmentsto fall back on.
524
00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:25,891
- He was makingall of her decisions.
525
00:25:25,991 --> 00:25:28,693
He was clearlygetting her money.
526
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,397
He started driving herto work but waiting.
527
00:25:32,497 --> 00:25:34,766
And every time
there was a break,
528
00:25:34,866 --> 00:25:37,502
she would leave
and go be in the car with him.
529
00:25:37,569 --> 00:25:39,571
And it got more
and more restrictive,
530
00:25:39,671 --> 00:25:41,706
and it got more and more
apparent to all of us
531
00:25:41,773 --> 00:25:43,375
that she wasn't hanging out
532
00:25:43,441 --> 00:25:46,444
or having lunch with us
or talking.
533
00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:49,247
- One day,
her numbers were changed.
534
00:25:49,347 --> 00:25:53,118
No one knew where she was,
couldn't find her.
535
00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:56,254
Disappeared.
Disappeared.
536
00:25:56,354 --> 00:25:59,457
Simon took her away.
537
00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:00,859
That was it.
538
00:26:00,926 --> 00:26:03,795
He made sure
no one could get to her.
539
00:26:03,895 --> 00:26:08,099
♪ ♪
540
00:26:08,199 --> 00:26:09,568
- Action.
541
00:26:11,937 --> 00:26:14,973
- This room is a personal
favorite of mine.
542
00:26:18,109 --> 00:26:21,613
You will be joining some
very distinguished company.
543
00:26:24,049 --> 00:26:25,884
- Cut.
544
00:26:25,951 --> 00:26:28,286
- My name is Alex Merkin.
I'm a director.
545
00:26:28,386 --> 00:26:29,955
I directed Brittany Murphy
546
00:26:30,055 --> 00:26:32,223
in the film
"Across the Hall" in 2008.
547
00:26:32,290 --> 00:26:34,559
"Across the Hall"was my first feature film.
548
00:26:34,626 --> 00:26:36,094
When we sat down and we met,
549
00:26:36,161 --> 00:26:37,996
she was incredibly engagedin the material.
550
00:26:38,096 --> 00:26:41,566
She was so enthusiastic,so bright.
551
00:26:41,633 --> 00:26:43,668
There's this energy
that's very infectious.
552
00:26:43,768 --> 00:26:47,405
In the meeting, I felt
confident in her dedication
553
00:26:47,472 --> 00:26:49,608
to the material
and her excitement for it.
554
00:26:49,674 --> 00:26:52,344
- ♪ Shine in
my backyard someday ♪
555
00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:56,314
- B15, 66 apple.
Take one, mark.
556
00:26:56,414 --> 00:26:59,351
- ♪ I'm going down ♪
- Cut.
557
00:26:59,451 --> 00:27:03,655
- I did start to feelsome red flags.
558
00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:05,824
First day,Brittany's coming set,
559
00:27:05,924 --> 00:27:07,692
she's three hours late.
560
00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:10,629
And I went to her trailer,
561
00:27:10,695 --> 00:27:14,766
and Simon Monjack ordered
an egg sandwich off of me.
562
00:27:14,833 --> 00:27:17,602
He seemed--he seemed
fairly out of it.
563
00:27:17,669 --> 00:27:19,337
He seemed
to not exactly know
564
00:27:19,437 --> 00:27:22,140
who he's talking to
or where he was.
565
00:27:22,207 --> 00:27:24,175
And yeah,
I was concerned about it.
566
00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:25,677
I was definitely
concerned about it.
567
00:27:25,777 --> 00:27:28,346
I say, I say, "He's here.
He's at the hotel.
568
00:27:28,446 --> 00:27:29,881
How did he find us?
Or how did he--"
569
00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:31,650
- Yea, how did he--
- Set.
570
00:27:31,716 --> 00:27:33,218
- How did he find me here?
571
00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:34,786
- And...
- Oh, I'm sorry.
572
00:27:34,853 --> 00:27:36,221
Hold on one second, please.
Sorry.
573
00:27:36,321 --> 00:27:37,956
- There would often be times
574
00:27:38,023 --> 00:27:39,858
where she just completelydidn't know the lines,
575
00:27:39,958 --> 00:27:41,526
and I'd be feeding herthe line
576
00:27:41,626 --> 00:27:43,061
or the actor would haveto feed her the line.
577
00:27:43,161 --> 00:27:46,364
- He didn't screw it up at all.
- Line.
578
00:27:46,464 --> 00:27:49,567
- I think you get off
on fucking him over.
579
00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:52,003
- No, you mean everything
in the world to him.
580
00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:55,373
More than I ever could.
581
00:27:55,473 --> 00:27:58,076
We'll take it from here.
Keep rolling, please.
582
00:27:58,176 --> 00:27:59,711
- The other thingthat I was seeing
583
00:27:59,811 --> 00:28:02,580
was that Brittanywould come to set
584
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:05,250
and she'd be
in a really good space.
585
00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:11,356
And then I would see her,
you know, go off with Simon
586
00:28:11,423 --> 00:28:13,925
and spend some time,
and when she came back,
587
00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:16,227
I felt a stark change
in her mood.
588
00:28:16,327 --> 00:28:18,563
- [groaning indistinctly]
589
00:28:18,663 --> 00:28:20,665
[sobs]
590
00:28:20,732 --> 00:28:23,201
- It would be likeJekyll and Hyde
591
00:28:23,268 --> 00:28:25,236
from the moment she hadinteracted with him.
592
00:28:25,336 --> 00:28:27,372
I mean, I learnedthat she didn't have access
593
00:28:27,439 --> 00:28:28,873
to her own email address.
594
00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:31,409
I learned she had no access
to her own phone.
595
00:28:31,509 --> 00:28:34,879
And if I wanted to reach her,
I had to reach her through him.
596
00:28:34,946 --> 00:28:38,116
It felt to me a lot like hewas planting this insecurity
597
00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:39,584
and this fear into her.
598
00:28:39,684 --> 00:28:41,052
- That's a cut.
599
00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:42,754
- I'm so sorry.
600
00:28:45,056 --> 00:28:46,691
- Yeah, let's go.
601
00:28:46,758 --> 00:28:49,861
- We had a scene to filmwith her, they embrace.
602
00:28:49,928 --> 00:28:51,529
There's some short kissing,
603
00:28:51,596 --> 00:28:54,232
and then they fallout of frame, and that's it.
604
00:28:54,299 --> 00:28:58,236
And I had to spend time
on the set with her
605
00:28:58,303 --> 00:29:00,438
fighting where she wasnot gonna do any scenes
606
00:29:00,538 --> 00:29:03,241
that depictany kind of intimacy
607
00:29:03,308 --> 00:29:05,143
with anybodyother than her husband.
608
00:29:05,243 --> 00:29:09,614
She sold it to me as thisthing that she could not do
609
00:29:09,714 --> 00:29:14,486
because she's evolved into
this magical relationship.
610
00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:16,755
This is actually
the moment where I was--
611
00:29:16,821 --> 00:29:18,623
I was ready
to replace her.
612
00:29:18,723 --> 00:29:20,892
I went outside with
one of the producers,
613
00:29:20,959 --> 00:29:24,629
and I saw Simon Monjack.
614
00:29:24,729 --> 00:29:27,732
And I intentionally
loudly said,
615
00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:30,235
"We're gonna just have to go
with somebody else."
616
00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:32,504
I wanted him to hear it.
617
00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:34,139
And he did.
618
00:29:34,239 --> 00:29:37,075
And he started to panic,
and he came up to me.
619
00:29:37,142 --> 00:29:39,811
He said, "Hey, listen, we can--
we can work this out.
620
00:29:39,911 --> 00:29:42,781
"She'll do whatever
you want to do.
621
00:29:42,847 --> 00:29:47,185
Let me go speak with her and
we'll get this all worked out."
622
00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:53,525
- Hey.
- Hey.
623
00:29:58,296 --> 00:30:01,266
[gentle music]
624
00:30:01,332 --> 00:30:06,037
♪ ♪
625
00:30:06,137 --> 00:30:08,339
- I do love him.
626
00:30:13,611 --> 00:30:17,115
I wanted to make sure
that it was my love
627
00:30:17,182 --> 00:30:19,017
that I was feeling,
628
00:30:19,117 --> 00:30:23,688
and not--not just his love.
629
00:30:24,622 --> 00:30:26,357
- There was something,
630
00:30:26,457 --> 00:30:29,494
I don't want to say worshipingabout their relationship,
631
00:30:29,561 --> 00:30:32,831
but it did feel like it
bordered on that.
632
00:30:32,897 --> 00:30:34,999
- [indistinct]
633
00:30:35,066 --> 00:30:36,901
- It's something that feltcompletely unhealthy,
634
00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:39,971
something that feltdelusional on some level,
635
00:30:40,038 --> 00:30:43,208
a manipulative ployon his part to control her
636
00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:46,144
and to keep his hooks in her.
637
00:30:46,211 --> 00:30:48,813
- This isn't me.
638
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,716
[indistinct chatter,
camera shutters clicking]
639
00:30:52,984 --> 00:30:56,321
This--this isn't me.
640
00:30:56,387 --> 00:30:58,423
Jules.
641
00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:03,695
- We heard that
he was controlling.
642
00:31:03,761 --> 00:31:06,097
Is that something
you would agree with?
643
00:31:06,197 --> 00:31:08,366
- Well, only to say that
when I saw them together,
644
00:31:08,433 --> 00:31:09,767
they were very much in love.
645
00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:12,237
It's a very fine line,
isn't it,
646
00:31:12,337 --> 00:31:13,705
between controlling somebody
647
00:31:13,771 --> 00:31:17,742
and managing them
to have the best career?
648
00:31:17,842 --> 00:31:19,410
I don't know.
649
00:31:19,510 --> 00:31:23,615
- Do you think that how Simon
presented himself to Brittany,
650
00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:26,618
he exaggerated things to her?
651
00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:28,920
- Um, I don't know
how I can answer that.
652
00:31:29,020 --> 00:31:30,722
- There's a chance.
653
00:31:30,788 --> 00:31:33,258
- I know he wasn't in
the market to hurt anybody.
654
00:31:33,358 --> 00:31:36,094
You know, people do believe
what they want to believe.
655
00:31:36,194 --> 00:31:37,929
You hear what you want to hear.
656
00:31:38,029 --> 00:31:41,766
You react to what you want
to hear from that other person,
657
00:31:41,866 --> 00:31:46,271
and I think that's--you know.
658
00:31:46,371 --> 00:31:49,274
[uneasy music]
659
00:31:49,374 --> 00:31:52,076
♪ ♪
660
00:31:52,143 --> 00:31:54,112
- Less than a weekafter Simon passes away,
661
00:31:54,212 --> 00:31:56,281
Sharon calls meup to the house
662
00:31:56,381 --> 00:31:58,283
and she brings out
this jewelry,
663
00:31:58,383 --> 00:32:01,486
diamond rings,bracelets, necklaces.
664
00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:03,454
And she says,"I need cash.
665
00:32:03,554 --> 00:32:05,556
So I want you to take thisand sell it."
666
00:32:05,623 --> 00:32:07,625
I said, "I represent
two jewelry designers
667
00:32:07,725 --> 00:32:11,262
on Rodeo Drive."
668
00:32:11,329 --> 00:32:13,097
And so I took everything
669
00:32:13,164 --> 00:32:15,233
and I went to the firstjewelry designer client
670
00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:17,802
and I said,"Well, what's it worth?"
671
00:32:17,902 --> 00:32:20,471
And he just took the thing
out of his eye and he said,
672
00:32:20,571 --> 00:32:22,140
"None of it's real."
673
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,842
So I take it and I go
to my other jewelry client.
674
00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:26,811
I said, "Can you tell me howmuch this jewelry is worth?"
675
00:32:26,911 --> 00:32:28,479
He takes the thing out,puts in his eye,
676
00:32:28,579 --> 00:32:30,315
and he's looking at it,he's looking at.
677
00:32:30,415 --> 00:32:33,418
He said, "Roger, I'm so sorry,none of this is real."
678
00:32:33,484 --> 00:32:36,454
And I started realizing,
"Oh, my gosh.
679
00:32:36,521 --> 00:32:40,258
"He has lied to Sharon.
She's gonna be devastated.
680
00:32:40,325 --> 00:32:42,126
"She thinks she's gota million dollars
681
00:32:42,193 --> 00:32:43,261
just in one piece."
682
00:32:43,328 --> 00:32:44,796
So I get back to the house.
683
00:32:44,862 --> 00:32:46,364
And she looked at me like,"What is it?
684
00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:48,132
Why is this jewelry here?"
685
00:32:48,199 --> 00:32:50,668
I said, "I just have totell you, none of it's real."
686
00:32:50,768 --> 00:32:52,971
And her face,
687
00:32:53,037 --> 00:32:54,505
she didn't have
to say anything,
688
00:32:54,605 --> 00:32:55,807
'cause her face said at all.
689
00:32:55,873 --> 00:32:57,175
She said, "Well, I guess
690
00:32:57,275 --> 00:32:58,710
"there's no propertyeither then.
691
00:32:58,810 --> 00:33:00,345
"I guess there'sno stocks and bonds,
692
00:33:00,445 --> 00:33:02,347
and I guessthere's no real estate."
693
00:33:02,447 --> 00:33:05,516
Simon went through 3 million
of Brittany's dollars
694
00:33:05,616 --> 00:33:06,951
in three years,
695
00:33:07,018 --> 00:33:08,619
a million a year
in three years.
696
00:33:08,686 --> 00:33:11,689
Sharon thinks
she's got financial security.
697
00:33:11,789 --> 00:33:13,324
She has nothing.
698
00:33:13,391 --> 00:33:17,195
All she's left with
is the house,
699
00:33:17,295 --> 00:33:19,230
Brittany's pension,
700
00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:21,632
and whatever was in the bank.
701
00:33:21,699 --> 00:33:23,868
She was devastated.
702
00:33:23,968 --> 00:33:26,871
She was devastated.
703
00:33:26,971 --> 00:33:29,741
- He owed me a lot of moneyfor a long time.
704
00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:31,242
It's funny, in Hollywood,
705
00:33:31,342 --> 00:33:32,977
you don't need
to threaten violence.
706
00:33:33,044 --> 00:33:34,979
You just need
to threaten publicity.
707
00:33:35,046 --> 00:33:37,682
I told him
I was going to the press.
708
00:33:37,749 --> 00:33:40,852
And then I got a check
for the whole amount.
709
00:33:40,918 --> 00:33:42,687
He had been running
for a long time.
710
00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:44,322
There was things he did
in other states,
711
00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:47,725
used fake names,stole money, bounced checks.
712
00:33:47,825 --> 00:33:50,194
And then when he becamethis public figure because
713
00:33:50,261 --> 00:33:53,064
he was with Brittany Murphynow, people could find him.
714
00:33:53,164 --> 00:33:55,433
So all the people that he
screwed over all of a sudden,
715
00:33:55,533 --> 00:33:59,537
"Oh, I know where he is."
Very simple.
716
00:33:59,604 --> 00:34:02,273
- Once I was toldcertain things,
717
00:34:02,373 --> 00:34:03,741
everything elsemade sense to me.
718
00:34:03,841 --> 00:34:05,243
I was puttinga puzzle together,
719
00:34:05,343 --> 00:34:08,045
a jigsaw puzzle,very complicated puzzle.
720
00:34:08,112 --> 00:34:10,348
And the moreinformation I got,
721
00:34:10,415 --> 00:34:14,752
the more everything elsethat happened made sense.
722
00:34:14,852 --> 00:34:17,622
He had all these secrets.
723
00:34:17,722 --> 00:34:20,925
None of--nobody knew about,
all these little secrets.
724
00:34:21,025 --> 00:34:23,094
And if something started
come to the surface,
725
00:34:23,194 --> 00:34:24,729
"It's absurd.
It's crazy."
726
00:34:24,796 --> 00:34:28,299
He would, "No, they're lying.
It's not true."
727
00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:30,635
Brittany and Sharon
believed him.
728
00:34:30,735 --> 00:34:35,139
And what we find out later,
we find out that he had a child
729
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,774
that Brittany
didn't know about,
730
00:34:36,874 --> 00:34:38,309
that none of us knew
that he had a child.
731
00:34:38,409 --> 00:34:40,078
He was putting that child
through private school
732
00:34:40,144 --> 00:34:41,579
in England.
733
00:34:41,646 --> 00:34:43,581
So I'm sure quite a bit
of money of Brittany's
734
00:34:43,648 --> 00:34:45,550
went to the child.
735
00:34:45,616 --> 00:34:48,386
- The interesting thingabout Simon's personal life
736
00:34:48,453 --> 00:34:50,755
is how little I think
Brittany really knew about it.
737
00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:52,890
When he died,it started coming out.
738
00:34:52,957 --> 00:34:54,659
So he had a daughterin England,
739
00:34:54,759 --> 00:34:56,561
by then she was a teenager.
740
00:34:56,627 --> 00:34:59,163
But what people didn't knowwas that through my reporting,
741
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:01,165
I had gotten in touch with
a woman who lived in France,
742
00:35:01,265 --> 00:35:02,967
and she had had
a son with him.
743
00:35:03,067 --> 00:35:06,304
He had a child thatnobody was talking about
744
00:35:06,404 --> 00:35:10,141
and nobody really knew about.
745
00:35:13,611 --> 00:35:15,146
- Excuse me?
746
00:35:15,246 --> 00:35:17,315
- There's a second child.
- I didn't know that.
747
00:35:17,415 --> 00:35:19,350
Uh-uh.
I only know about one child.
748
00:35:19,450 --> 00:35:22,353
There was a second child?
Wow.
749
00:35:24,856 --> 00:35:27,425
- My name isElizabeth Ragsdale.
750
00:35:27,492 --> 00:35:29,694
I knew Simon.
751
00:35:29,794 --> 00:35:33,131
I was engaged to him,
and I have his child.
752
00:35:33,197 --> 00:35:37,034
And so it's time now
to tell my story.
753
00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:40,538
[mellow guitar music]
754
00:35:40,638 --> 00:35:42,673
♪ ♪
755
00:35:42,773 --> 00:35:45,710
So the night that I met Simon,it was, like,
756
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:48,012
probably one of the strongesttimes in my life.
757
00:35:48,112 --> 00:35:50,848
I'd financed myselfan apartment in Paris.
758
00:35:50,948 --> 00:35:53,050
I was gonna write my book.
759
00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:55,186
A friend,she called me up and said,
760
00:35:55,286 --> 00:35:56,854
"You gotta meet this guy."
761
00:35:56,954 --> 00:35:59,457
I'm like,
"Okay, I'll come."
762
00:35:59,524 --> 00:36:02,193
So he had a car come
and get me.
763
00:36:02,293 --> 00:36:04,362
I just immediatelywas intrigued
764
00:36:04,462 --> 00:36:06,564
with hisdark chocolate eyes.
765
00:36:06,664 --> 00:36:11,002
I just felt like he could see
all the way down into my soul.
766
00:36:11,068 --> 00:36:16,007
He wanted to see me
the next night.
767
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:21,479
And I stayed
the next night, so...
768
00:36:21,546 --> 00:36:23,714
I never left him again.
769
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:28,219
He proposed to mein Harrods department store,
770
00:36:28,319 --> 00:36:30,021
and he called me on the phone.
771
00:36:30,087 --> 00:36:32,823
And I answered it,
and he said, "Look behind you."
772
00:36:32,890 --> 00:36:36,861
And I turned around,
and he was on one knee.
773
00:36:36,928 --> 00:36:39,897
And he had a Tiffany's bag.
774
00:36:39,997 --> 00:36:43,334
He took a box out of it
and a crowd gathered around,
775
00:36:43,401 --> 00:36:45,603
and he--he said,
776
00:36:45,703 --> 00:36:48,272
"Elizabeth Ragsdale,
will you marry me?"
777
00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:51,909
And, um...
778
00:36:52,009 --> 00:36:56,180
and I said,
"Yes, yes, I will."
779
00:36:58,683 --> 00:37:01,719
Simon tearfullytold me one night
780
00:37:01,786 --> 00:37:04,388
after I would notmake love with him
781
00:37:04,455 --> 00:37:07,258
that he had spinal cancer
782
00:37:07,358 --> 00:37:09,760
and that he was gonnahave to go
783
00:37:09,860 --> 00:37:13,264
to have this shark cartilage
treatment in Monaco.
784
00:37:13,364 --> 00:37:15,233
So of course,
I break down
785
00:37:15,299 --> 00:37:19,537
because the love of my life
has cancer,
786
00:37:19,604 --> 00:37:21,072
I find out all of a sudden,
787
00:37:21,138 --> 00:37:26,611
and, you know,
so everything changes,
788
00:37:26,711 --> 00:37:30,448
and then we have sex
789
00:37:30,548 --> 00:37:31,949
after that.
790
00:37:32,049 --> 00:37:34,318
- So he got what he wanted?
- He got what he wanted.
791
00:37:34,418 --> 00:37:37,555
He was very rough.
792
00:37:40,992 --> 00:37:44,128
It wasn't always
when I wanted to.
793
00:37:44,228 --> 00:37:47,231
[gentle music]
794
00:37:47,298 --> 00:37:52,169
♪ ♪
795
00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:53,971
He said that we hadto get pregnant
796
00:37:54,071 --> 00:37:56,107
if we were gonna haveour own children
797
00:37:56,173 --> 00:37:58,175
because the sharkcartilage treatments
798
00:37:58,276 --> 00:37:59,977
would make him sterile.
799
00:38:00,077 --> 00:38:02,980
I was really sick in Monaco
800
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,349
in the beginningof the pregnancy.
801
00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:08,319
It was just severe nausea,
802
00:38:08,419 --> 00:38:10,588
where I couldn'traise my head.
803
00:38:10,655 --> 00:38:13,357
So I wanted to fly my sister
and everybody over.
804
00:38:13,457 --> 00:38:18,996
"No, no, no, no, I don't want
any people around right now."
805
00:38:21,198 --> 00:38:23,534
Then my friend who,
806
00:38:23,634 --> 00:38:26,704
she's not the typeto take no for an answer
807
00:38:26,804 --> 00:38:28,539
and she was alsovery worried about me
808
00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:30,941
'cause I'd been cut offfrom everybody,
809
00:38:31,008 --> 00:38:35,179
and she showed up at the villa,
and she said, you know,
810
00:38:35,279 --> 00:38:39,350
"You look like you've just come
out of a concentration camp."
811
00:38:39,450 --> 00:38:43,688
And she tells Simon, "If you
do not get her to a doctor,
812
00:38:43,788 --> 00:38:45,623
then I'm taking her now."
813
00:38:45,690 --> 00:38:47,024
And he said, "I will."
814
00:38:47,124 --> 00:38:50,695
But I believe that
my friend saved my life.
815
00:38:52,863 --> 00:38:56,867
He said, "I want for you tohave the baby on U.S. soil."
816
00:38:56,967 --> 00:39:01,505
So Simon got me to New York,and he was in Monaco.
817
00:39:01,572 --> 00:39:03,708
You know, he got my ticketand everything,
818
00:39:03,808 --> 00:39:06,010
and I got there and I got upinto my little studio,
819
00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:08,012
and I called himto tell him I was there.
820
00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:10,548
And I said, "Simon,
I've made it, I'm here in--"
821
00:39:10,648 --> 00:39:13,150
Click, he hung up on me.
822
00:39:13,217 --> 00:39:16,887
And then trying to call him
back a million times
823
00:39:16,987 --> 00:39:19,690
and realizinghe's just not picking up
824
00:39:19,757 --> 00:39:21,926
or something's happened to himor something's wrong.
825
00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:23,828
And I startedlooking for ways
826
00:39:23,894 --> 00:39:25,563
to get in touch
with his mother.
827
00:39:25,663 --> 00:39:27,732
And I found his mother,
and she told me
828
00:39:27,832 --> 00:39:30,434
that he didn't havespinal cancer
829
00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:33,504
and that he had beenusing her money for that.
830
00:39:33,571 --> 00:39:35,573
But she was furious with him.
831
00:39:35,673 --> 00:39:37,742
The owner of the villatold me
832
00:39:37,842 --> 00:39:41,746
that he was alreadywith somebody else.
833
00:39:41,846 --> 00:39:45,516
I thought about, um...
834
00:39:45,583 --> 00:39:47,918
killing myself
835
00:39:48,018 --> 00:39:50,554
because I didn't--
836
00:39:50,621 --> 00:39:54,125
Who does that?
I mean--
837
00:39:54,225 --> 00:40:00,564
And then the reason I didn't
is because of the baby.
838
00:40:00,631 --> 00:40:03,567
[light music]
839
00:40:03,634 --> 00:40:10,741
♪ ♪
840
00:40:12,042 --> 00:40:14,278
After not being in touchfor a long time,
841
00:40:14,378 --> 00:40:16,781
I worked in Parisand lived outside Paris.
842
00:40:16,881 --> 00:40:19,150
And so I was on the traincoming home from work,
843
00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:22,386
reading a magazine, there wasa little picture that said,
844
00:40:22,453 --> 00:40:23,954
"Brittany Murphyhas married."
845
00:40:24,054 --> 00:40:26,791
And it was Simon.He got in touch with me.
846
00:40:26,891 --> 00:40:29,326
He offered, at that point,
to buy me a house,
847
00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:31,128
and we talked
for a little while,
848
00:40:31,228 --> 00:40:33,264
and that one ended with him
849
00:40:33,330 --> 00:40:35,466
threatening to come
and get my son.
850
00:40:35,566 --> 00:40:37,134
So I was quiet.
851
00:40:37,234 --> 00:40:39,270
That, I believe,was his intention
852
00:40:39,336 --> 00:40:41,005
was to try to keep me quiet
853
00:40:41,105 --> 00:40:43,607
because the stakes
were a lot higher with him
854
00:40:43,674 --> 00:40:45,309
being married to Brittany.
855
00:40:45,409 --> 00:40:46,811
He didn't needanybody to know
856
00:40:46,911 --> 00:40:50,648
that I was out therewith his son.
857
00:40:50,748 --> 00:40:53,317
I know why Brittanychose Simon.
858
00:40:53,417 --> 00:40:56,821
He worked his spell on her.
859
00:40:56,921 --> 00:40:59,256
And she fell for it
like I did.
860
00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:03,994
- Everything is a lie?
861
00:41:04,094 --> 00:41:05,362
Everything is a lie.
862
00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:06,964
[static crackling]
863
00:41:07,031 --> 00:41:10,367
Every--every--everything--
everything is a lie.
864
00:41:10,468 --> 00:41:12,603
- Don't take it personally,
Mare.
865
00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:13,671
Mare Bear.
866
00:41:13,771 --> 00:41:15,372
- Don't touch me.
867
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:21,212
- The man you fell in love
with is not real.
868
00:41:21,312 --> 00:41:24,181
[somber music]
869
00:41:24,281 --> 00:41:25,850
♪ ♪
870
00:41:25,950 --> 00:41:29,019
- So, you know, we did speakto Elizabeth Ragsdale,
871
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:31,856
Elijah's mom.
872
00:41:31,956 --> 00:41:33,491
- Well, he never
acknowledged--
873
00:41:33,557 --> 00:41:38,496
you do know that he never
acknowledged his existence.
874
00:41:38,562 --> 00:41:40,164
When you look at Elijah,
875
00:41:40,231 --> 00:41:41,966
you can seethere's a likeness,
876
00:41:42,032 --> 00:41:45,169
but what I'm sayingis that it's very difficult
877
00:41:45,236 --> 00:41:48,072
to acknowledge something
that you don't know.
878
00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:50,708
- There's this story about
the shark fin treatments.
879
00:41:50,808 --> 00:41:52,510
Was there any truth
to any of that?
880
00:41:52,576 --> 00:41:56,847
- He was terribly fearful that
his father got cancer at 29.
881
00:41:56,914 --> 00:41:59,216
I certainly don't think
he went out to tell people,
882
00:41:59,316 --> 00:42:01,185
"I have cancer."
I think he believed it.
883
00:42:01,252 --> 00:42:04,021
- We heard that
Simon had actually
884
00:42:04,088 --> 00:42:06,490
swindled money off of you.
885
00:42:06,557 --> 00:42:09,326
- He never swindled money
from me.
886
00:42:09,393 --> 00:42:13,030
I gave him money,
copious amounts of money,
887
00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:17,067
but I just gave it willingly
and freely, probably foolishly.
888
00:42:17,167 --> 00:42:23,274
But nevertheless, he didn't--
he didn't cheat me.
889
00:42:32,116 --> 00:42:35,252
[gentle music]
890
00:42:35,352 --> 00:42:37,955
♪ ♪
891
00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:39,423
- Simon and Brittany
892
00:42:39,523 --> 00:42:41,392
were basicallylocked up in that house.
893
00:42:41,458 --> 00:42:43,427
They did these reallyweird photoshoots
894
00:42:43,527 --> 00:42:44,895
in the middle of the night
895
00:42:44,962 --> 00:42:47,197
where he would dress herlike a doll.
896
00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:51,268
He encouraged her to becomeaddicted to plastic surgery.
897
00:42:51,368 --> 00:42:53,270
He would tell her,"Your teeth aren't right.
898
00:42:53,370 --> 00:42:54,805
"Your nose isn't right.
899
00:42:54,905 --> 00:42:56,807
We might need to do somethingwith your chin."
900
00:42:56,907 --> 00:42:58,976
And she became increasinglyinsecure about her appearance,
901
00:42:59,076 --> 00:43:02,580
increasingly paranoid aboutpeople being out to get her.
902
00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:07,551
Simon had the landlinesdisconnected.
903
00:43:07,618 --> 00:43:10,421
So the only way you couldreach Sharon or Brittany
904
00:43:10,487 --> 00:43:11,989
was through Simon.
905
00:43:12,089 --> 00:43:14,625
Simon and Brittanywould stay up late nights
906
00:43:14,725 --> 00:43:16,794
and take downersand then chug coffee
907
00:43:16,894 --> 00:43:18,662
and take uppersto come back up.
908
00:43:18,762 --> 00:43:20,965
And, you know,they rarely left the house.
909
00:43:21,065 --> 00:43:23,934
- I rememberI was at some show,
910
00:43:24,001 --> 00:43:25,803
like 40 minutes into it,
911
00:43:25,903 --> 00:43:29,807
she shows up scooting
through the seats with Simon
912
00:43:29,907 --> 00:43:31,675
with, like, bleary eyes,
913
00:43:31,775 --> 00:43:34,645
and I just didn't
recognize her anymore.
914
00:43:34,745 --> 00:43:40,818
Brittany was
just cloudy and gone.
915
00:43:40,918 --> 00:43:46,190
- It was alarming to seehow thin she had gotten.
916
00:43:46,290 --> 00:43:48,125
Emaciated.
917
00:43:48,192 --> 00:43:51,128
She was so frail.
918
00:43:51,195 --> 00:43:54,431
- When I saw Brittany Murphygetting really thin,
919
00:43:54,498 --> 00:43:57,201
I knew that he had
something to do with that.
920
00:43:57,301 --> 00:43:59,837
He loved anorexic women.
921
00:43:59,937 --> 00:44:04,508
He would look at me from behind
in my jeans and he would go,
922
00:44:04,608 --> 00:44:07,144
"Do you really thinkyou need to wear those jeans?
923
00:44:07,211 --> 00:44:11,348
Because, you know,
you look kind of--"
924
00:44:11,448 --> 00:44:12,883
- He was everything.
925
00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:15,185
He was the agent.He was the manager.
926
00:44:15,285 --> 00:44:16,787
He was the makeup artist.
927
00:44:16,854 --> 00:44:18,856
Nobody touched her.Nobody got close to her.
928
00:44:18,956 --> 00:44:20,024
It was all him.
929
00:44:20,124 --> 00:44:21,525
When the offers are drying up
930
00:44:21,625 --> 00:44:23,527
because you got goingaround town,
931
00:44:23,627 --> 00:44:25,029
"Don't deal with Brittany
932
00:44:25,129 --> 00:44:26,697
because her husband'sa lunatic,"
933
00:44:26,797 --> 00:44:28,365
he took what he could get.
934
00:44:28,465 --> 00:44:30,367
- If you look at someone
who just a few years ago
935
00:44:30,467 --> 00:44:32,536
was in really iconic movies,
936
00:44:32,636 --> 00:44:34,405
I mean, "Eight Mile,"
"Clueless."
937
00:44:34,505 --> 00:44:36,907
These are movies that will
stand the test of time,
938
00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:39,877
to then be in thrillersand slashers
939
00:44:39,977 --> 00:44:42,479
that are goingstraight to video,
940
00:44:42,546 --> 00:44:45,049
it looks like failure.
941
00:44:45,149 --> 00:44:47,384
- Mark.
942
00:44:47,484 --> 00:44:48,719
- I'm Trista Jordan.
943
00:44:48,819 --> 00:44:50,854
I am a celebritymakeup artist.
944
00:44:50,921 --> 00:44:56,026
And I was the last one
to film with Brittany.
945
00:44:56,093 --> 00:44:58,696
When I got to that set,I was told her husband
946
00:44:58,762 --> 00:45:00,330
was gonna beher makeup artist.
947
00:45:00,397 --> 00:45:01,765
So it's day one.
948
00:45:01,865 --> 00:45:05,903
I rushed to set just to find
a makeup disaster.
949
00:45:06,003 --> 00:45:07,271
[chuckles]
950
00:45:07,371 --> 00:45:10,774
Simon had takena red tube of lipstick
951
00:45:10,874 --> 00:45:13,444
and had drawn lips
952
00:45:13,544 --> 00:45:15,913
outside her natural lip linelike a clown.
953
00:45:16,013 --> 00:45:19,783
Her blush was lopsided.Her hair was greasy.
954
00:45:19,883 --> 00:45:21,452
Your job as a makeup artist
955
00:45:21,552 --> 00:45:22,920
is you're looking behindthe monitor
956
00:45:23,020 --> 00:45:24,755
to see if thingsare changing.
957
00:45:24,855 --> 00:45:27,357
And watching Simon, he wasn'tlooking in the monitor.
958
00:45:27,424 --> 00:45:29,059
He was looking straight ahead.
959
00:45:29,126 --> 00:45:31,095
He was in a catatonic state,
960
00:45:31,195 --> 00:45:33,030
and I snapped my fingers
in front of his face
961
00:45:33,097 --> 00:45:35,766
to see if he'd react,
and he didn't even flinch.
962
00:45:35,866 --> 00:45:38,769
I've been aroundthousands of actors
963
00:45:38,869 --> 00:45:41,438
and never seensomeone that thin.
964
00:45:41,538 --> 00:45:43,273
Her elbows.
965
00:45:43,373 --> 00:45:46,043
And getting out of a chair,
she looked like Bambi.
966
00:45:46,110 --> 00:45:48,112
She just seemedlike she was in pain,
967
00:45:48,212 --> 00:45:50,114
especially when she moved.
968
00:45:50,214 --> 00:45:51,982
I think she was sick.
969
00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:53,917
She didn't careif her hair was messed up.
970
00:45:53,984 --> 00:45:55,385
She didn't ask for a mirror.
971
00:45:55,452 --> 00:45:57,654
And that's unusualin Hollywood.
972
00:45:57,755 --> 00:46:00,958
I just think she lostthe ability to care.
973
00:46:01,058 --> 00:46:02,893
She was a disasterin her heart,
974
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,797
and she was a disasteremotionally and physically.
975
00:46:06,897 --> 00:46:09,433
[thunder rumbles]
976
00:46:28,285 --> 00:46:31,455
- We found that, evidently,Simon got involved.
977
00:46:31,522 --> 00:46:33,991
I don't know if he slapped
somebody or hit somebody,
978
00:46:34,091 --> 00:46:35,592
and she got fired.
979
00:46:35,659 --> 00:46:38,428
And that's why
they came back early.
980
00:46:38,495 --> 00:46:41,331
- It was reported this weekthat actress Brittany Murphy
981
00:46:41,431 --> 00:46:43,500
was fired from her
upcoming film "The Caller"
982
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,104
for being a detriment
to production and--oh, no.
983
00:46:47,171 --> 00:46:49,506
- Seth...
[laughter]
984
00:46:49,606 --> 00:46:50,841
- Brittany Murphy.
985
00:46:50,941 --> 00:46:52,543
- Yeah.
986
00:46:52,643 --> 00:46:54,278
They fired me.
987
00:46:54,344 --> 00:46:57,114
[chuckles]
Yeah.
988
00:46:57,181 --> 00:46:59,349
[laughter]
989
00:47:00,884 --> 00:47:05,289
- In Puerto Rico, they becameill with flu-like symptoms.
990
00:47:05,355 --> 00:47:07,324
They had flown back.
991
00:47:07,391 --> 00:47:10,527
Brittany started showing signsof not feeling good,
992
00:47:10,627 --> 00:47:12,996
but they were treatingher sickness
993
00:47:13,063 --> 00:47:15,699
with over-the-counter
medications.
994
00:47:15,799 --> 00:47:17,467
And, you know,
after a few days,
995
00:47:17,534 --> 00:47:20,204
if the over-the-counter
medications aren't working,
996
00:47:20,304 --> 00:47:25,209
you know, seek a professional
diagnosis on what's going on.
997
00:47:25,309 --> 00:47:27,911
According to the informationthat we got,
998
00:47:28,011 --> 00:47:30,514
it was kind of a habitthat Simon,
999
00:47:30,581 --> 00:47:33,083
he'd keep her up late,they would order food in
1000
00:47:33,183 --> 00:47:34,718
at 2:00 and 3:00in the morning,
1001
00:47:34,818 --> 00:47:37,154
and stay upand watch television.
1002
00:47:37,221 --> 00:47:39,056
She'd be exhaustedthe next day
1003
00:47:39,156 --> 00:47:40,824
and she wasn't gettingenough rest
1004
00:47:40,891 --> 00:47:43,060
and her immune systemwas dropping.
1005
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:44,895
He just was blanketedaround her
1006
00:47:44,995 --> 00:47:47,764
and yet didn't removethat blanket
1007
00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:51,068
and seek medical attentionwhen she needed it.
1008
00:47:51,168 --> 00:47:52,736
- She was a tiny girl.
1009
00:47:52,836 --> 00:47:55,372
Your body can onlytake so much.
1010
00:47:55,439 --> 00:47:57,908
[static crackling]
1011
00:47:58,008 --> 00:48:00,911
[light music]
1012
00:48:01,011 --> 00:48:03,247
♪ ♪
1013
00:48:03,347 --> 00:48:05,349
[indistinct chatter]
1014
00:48:05,415 --> 00:48:07,517
- Don't move, ma'am.
Don't move.
1015
00:48:07,584 --> 00:48:10,053
♪ ♪
1016
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,423
- The premiere of our filmwas at the end of 2009.
1017
00:48:13,523 --> 00:48:16,193
When I saw her there,
she was extremely sweet,
1018
00:48:16,260 --> 00:48:19,263
she was extremely proud.
1019
00:48:19,363 --> 00:48:22,599
But she was also,
felt to me, extremely frail.
1020
00:48:27,070 --> 00:48:30,707
- She embraced my hands
and her hands were shaky.
1021
00:48:30,774 --> 00:48:33,277
She looked very,
very, very thin,
1022
00:48:33,377 --> 00:48:35,379
like she had lost
a lot of weight.
1023
00:48:39,149 --> 00:48:42,252
Outside of that,she wasn't acting strangely.
1024
00:48:42,319 --> 00:48:44,388
She actually talked to meabout children that she was
1025
00:48:44,454 --> 00:48:46,890
planning on having,things that were very sweet.
1026
00:48:46,957 --> 00:48:50,761
It felt really a lot morelike the person that I had met
1027
00:48:50,827 --> 00:48:52,896
when we were going into
this whole process.
1028
00:48:52,963 --> 00:48:54,765
- Thank goodness
everyone was kind.
1029
00:48:54,831 --> 00:48:58,802
No one generally
tends to be in a--
1030
00:48:58,902 --> 00:49:03,173
on a set that's
an independent film,
1031
00:49:03,273 --> 00:49:07,077
that has a short schedule
unless they really want to be.
1032
00:49:07,144 --> 00:49:08,445
- What do you think--
1033
00:49:08,512 --> 00:49:10,013
- Everyone
wanted to be there,
1034
00:49:10,113 --> 00:49:11,915
and that was a pleasure.
1035
00:49:11,982 --> 00:49:14,184
♪ ♪
1036
00:49:14,284 --> 00:49:16,253
- Obviously,the shoot experience
1037
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,122
was crazy and chaoticand volatile at times.
1038
00:49:19,189 --> 00:49:21,858
But I saw the person thatI had originally met with.
1039
00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:24,094
It almost felt like itcame full circle.
1040
00:49:24,161 --> 00:49:25,829
If we were like,let's do another one,
1041
00:49:25,929 --> 00:49:28,966
I probably would have been
in this weird sort of,
1042
00:49:29,032 --> 00:49:31,768
you know, euphoric space
with like,
1043
00:49:31,835 --> 00:49:33,337
"Oh, this is great,
everything's good,
1044
00:49:33,437 --> 00:49:35,539
and she's proud
and she's here to support."
1045
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:39,042
It turned out to be two weeks
before she passed away.
1046
00:49:39,142 --> 00:49:43,146
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
1047
00:49:43,213 --> 00:49:46,316
- On a radio interviewin 2009,
1048
00:49:46,383 --> 00:49:50,954
somebody asked me to make
a prediction of who would die,
1049
00:49:51,021 --> 00:49:53,223
what celebrity
would pass away.
1050
00:49:53,323 --> 00:49:56,226
And I said Brittany Murphy.
1051
00:49:58,328 --> 00:50:02,566
And all these years later now,
I just--
1052
00:50:02,666 --> 00:50:06,837
I regret saying that, just
putting that energy out there.
1053
00:50:06,903 --> 00:50:09,539
It's gross.
1054
00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:11,341
Gross of the interviewer
1055
00:50:11,408 --> 00:50:14,411
and gross of me
for giving a response.
1056
00:50:16,513 --> 00:50:20,384
But that's definitely
telling of the time.
1057
00:50:20,484 --> 00:50:25,555
2009, in many ways,
was a very gross time.
1058
00:50:30,594 --> 00:50:32,062
- [indistinct] 197.
1059
00:50:32,162 --> 00:50:33,563
What's the addressof the emergency?
1060
00:50:33,663 --> 00:50:36,233
- 1895 Rising Glen Road.
1061
00:50:36,333 --> 00:50:37,901
- Tell me exactlywhat happened.
1062
00:50:38,001 --> 00:50:40,370
- My daughter's passed out.
1063
00:50:40,437 --> 00:50:42,906
She's--they're doingmouth to mouth.
1064
00:50:43,006 --> 00:50:44,541
Please get here.Please, please.
1065
00:50:44,608 --> 00:50:46,109
[wind howling]
1066
00:50:46,209 --> 00:50:49,913
- My husband came in,
he said I have bad news.
1067
00:50:50,013 --> 00:50:54,084
And I said,
"Did Brittany die?"
1068
00:50:54,184 --> 00:50:56,253
And he said, "Yes."
1069
00:50:59,222 --> 00:51:03,527
And I just felt so--
I felt bad for her.
1070
00:51:03,593 --> 00:51:06,797
But I also felt,
1071
00:51:06,897 --> 00:51:08,765
why didn't I
just go over there
1072
00:51:08,865 --> 00:51:11,468
and knock on the door
all day long?
1073
00:51:18,375 --> 00:51:21,745
And just have her hate me
or call the police
1074
00:51:21,812 --> 00:51:25,382
but just knock on that door
and take her away.
1075
00:51:25,449 --> 00:51:28,485
[uneasy music]
1076
00:51:28,585 --> 00:51:31,721
♪ ♪
1077
00:51:31,788 --> 00:51:34,958
- You know, I ofttimes thinkabout Sharon too,
1078
00:51:35,058 --> 00:51:37,994
just hoping she's okay,
1079
00:51:38,095 --> 00:51:39,663
'cause when I had beento the house,
1080
00:51:39,763 --> 00:51:41,631
she would walk byBrittany's clothes
1081
00:51:41,731 --> 00:51:43,300
and she would smellthe clothes.
1082
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:44,835
But I rememberwhen she finally
1083
00:51:44,935 --> 00:51:46,636
got all of Brittany'sclothes together
1084
00:51:46,736 --> 00:51:50,273
and it filled up a whole roomand she had a sale.
1085
00:51:50,340 --> 00:51:51,908
She sold them all.
1086
00:51:51,975 --> 00:51:55,579
It took her about a yearto be able to do that,
1087
00:51:55,645 --> 00:51:57,180
to come to terms with that.
1088
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:58,782
The last I heard about Sharon,
1089
00:51:58,849 --> 00:52:01,284
she was living
in Southern California,
1090
00:52:01,351 --> 00:52:03,787
but very reclusive.
1091
00:52:03,854 --> 00:52:06,756
She won't return emails
or phone calls.
1092
00:52:06,823 --> 00:52:09,860
Sharon was just heartbroken.
1093
00:52:13,363 --> 00:52:14,998
- I had to accept
1094
00:52:15,098 --> 00:52:17,834
there were no answersfor me to find in this.
1095
00:52:17,934 --> 00:52:21,171
So I had to kind of
step away from it.
1096
00:52:22,272 --> 00:52:24,508
That was difficult
for me to do,
1097
00:52:24,608 --> 00:52:25,976
but for a mother to accept
1098
00:52:26,042 --> 00:52:29,045
that she might
not fully understand
1099
00:52:29,146 --> 00:52:33,483
what happened to her son
can be quite devastating.
1100
00:52:34,851 --> 00:52:38,822
- I can't say why or whathappened in that house.
1101
00:52:38,889 --> 00:52:42,192
It became
a really awful tragedy
1102
00:52:42,292 --> 00:52:44,361
that should never
have happened.
1103
00:52:44,461 --> 00:52:49,966
But the reason why it happened
is very difficult to state.
1104
00:52:50,967 --> 00:52:52,869
- I believethat Simon Monjack,
1105
00:52:52,969 --> 00:52:55,739
even if he did not killBrittany Murphy,
1106
00:52:55,839 --> 00:52:57,974
he allowed her to die
1107
00:52:58,041 --> 00:53:01,545
because he did not get her
to the doctor and get her help,
1108
00:53:01,645 --> 00:53:05,882
and I believe that he did
the same thing to himself.
1109
00:53:05,982 --> 00:53:08,318
Knowing that he needed
medical treatment,
1110
00:53:08,385 --> 00:53:11,254
he didn't get it and he died.
1111
00:53:11,354 --> 00:53:15,725
He would rather be deadthan to be discovered
1112
00:53:15,825 --> 00:53:19,029
as the con artist he was.
1113
00:53:20,096 --> 00:53:22,899
- I think if it wasn'tfor Simon Monjack,
1114
00:53:22,999 --> 00:53:24,734
there's every chanceBrittany Murphy
1115
00:53:24,834 --> 00:53:26,403
would still be alive.
1116
00:53:26,503 --> 00:53:28,338
It ultimately is like
a very banal story.
1117
00:53:28,405 --> 00:53:30,340
It's just--it really
isn't a huge mystery.
1118
00:53:30,407 --> 00:53:34,344
It's just very simple,a predator targeting someone
1119
00:53:34,411 --> 00:53:35,845
at their most vulnerable.
1120
00:53:35,912 --> 00:53:38,281
It was the perfect storm.
1121
00:53:38,381 --> 00:53:40,450
- The cause of deathis not a mystery.
1122
00:53:40,550 --> 00:53:44,254
The mystery is why
didn't somebody catch it.
1123
00:53:44,354 --> 00:53:46,723
Had they taken her to
the doctor a few days before,
1124
00:53:46,790 --> 00:53:49,593
she'd still be alive.
1125
00:53:49,693 --> 00:53:51,895
There are some peoplethat they're not satisfied.
1126
00:53:51,962 --> 00:53:54,564
You know, they thinkmaybe there's more.
1127
00:53:54,631 --> 00:53:56,900
You just haveto go on the facts.
1128
00:53:59,436 --> 00:54:01,204
- Why do you just want
to settle for,
1129
00:54:01,271 --> 00:54:04,808
"She died of pneumonia,
oh, well"?
1130
00:54:04,908 --> 00:54:07,744
It just doesn't make sense.
1131
00:54:07,811 --> 00:54:10,146
- Her death was not accidental,
1132
00:54:10,247 --> 00:54:12,115
and her husband's
was not accidental.
1133
00:54:12,215 --> 00:54:14,884
I believe they both
were targeted.
1134
00:54:14,951 --> 00:54:18,255
- I think that their autopsies
were forged.
1135
00:54:18,321 --> 00:54:19,456
- Something happened.
1136
00:54:19,556 --> 00:54:21,625
Someone must have
bribed someone.
1137
00:54:25,562 --> 00:54:28,732
- No, it just--it just
doesn't sound right.
1138
00:54:28,798 --> 00:54:30,900
It doesn't even sound
like it adds up.
1139
00:54:30,967 --> 00:54:33,937
It just--I'm sorry.
It don't add up.
1140
00:54:34,004 --> 00:54:36,006
[gentle music]
1141
00:54:36,106 --> 00:54:38,742
[indistinct radio chatter]
1142
00:54:38,808 --> 00:54:45,181
♪ ♪
1143
00:54:46,249 --> 00:54:50,186
- Please.
Why can't you just let me die?
1144
00:54:50,287 --> 00:54:57,360
♪ ♪
1145
00:55:05,769 --> 00:55:08,038
- We're gonna get out of here.
1146
00:55:08,138 --> 00:55:09,673
- Where are we gonna go?
1147
00:55:09,773 --> 00:55:14,010
- I don't know, someplace
where there's trees and sky,
1148
00:55:14,110 --> 00:55:16,780
we can breathe
the fucking air.
1149
00:55:16,846 --> 00:55:18,848
Some place that's
not so fucked up.
1150
00:55:18,948 --> 00:55:26,022
♪ ♪
1151
00:55:50,380 --> 00:55:51,881
Hi, my name
is Brittany Murphy,
1152
00:55:51,981 --> 00:55:54,384
and I go to Herbert Hoover
Middle School.
1153
00:55:54,484 --> 00:55:59,055
♪ ♪
1154
00:55:59,155 --> 00:56:02,158
[light dramatic music]
1155
00:56:02,225 --> 00:56:09,332
♪ ♪
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