He made sure no one could get to her,” actor Lisa Rieffel, a friend of Murphy’s, says in the documentary. “One day numbers were changed, no one knew where she was, couldn't find her. According to those who knew Murphy, Monjack soon began to isolate her from her friends and family. Monjack and Murphy’s relationship moved quickly, and they got married in 2007, just a year after they met. Monjack was engaged to Elijah’s mother Elizabeth Ragsdale when she got pregnant in the late ‘90s, but abandoned her while she was still carrying their child.
In addition, Monjack had apparently secretly fathered two children with other women before meeting Murphy - a daughter named Jazmyn who lives in England and a son named Elijah who lives in Paris, neither of whom Murphy knew about. His lies ranged from the absurd to the fantastical: Monjack told multiple people that he had terminal spinal cancer that required an experimental treatment derived from shark fins, and he reportedly bragged to filmmaker Allison Burnett at a dinner party that he had dated Madonna, owned 17 Ferraris, and had the world’s largest collection of Johannes Vermeer paintings. He and Bienne divorced the same year, and he met Murphy shortly afterward.īy the time Murphy began dating Monjack, he was known to many of the people around him as a compulsive liar and con artist. And in 2006, Monjack - who had been evicted from four homes - was sued by Coutts bank for $470,000. During their marriage, he faced several legal troubles: In 2005, warrants were issued for Monjack's arrest in Virginia on charges of credit card fraud, but the charges were later dropped.
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In 2001, he married a woman named Simone Bienne, a UK TV personality, in Las Vegas. As an adult, Monjack wrote and directed the 2000 B-movie Two Days, Nine Lives. His father, William, died of a brain tumor when he was 15, which his mother says in What Happened, Brittany Murphy? made Monjack paranoid about his own health. Monjack grew up in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England. The documentary largely casts suspicion on Murphy’s husband, a British screenwriter and aspiring filmmaker named Simon Monjack who those close to Murphy describe as abusive and controlling. After her death, countless rumors swirled about what had happened. At 32, the actor died in her home as a result of untreated pneumonia exacerbated by severe anemia and drug intoxication from over-the-counter and prescription medications. HBO Max’s new two-part docuseries What Happened, Brittany Murphy? aims to explore the strange circumstances surrounding Murphy’s sudden death in late 2009.
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