When Brittany Murphy died, everyone just assumed that she’d gone overboard on the ol’ drugs. That’s what famous young people do, right? They hammer it too much and their famous hearts just give up.
Alas, it would appear that Brittany died of Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Iron Deficiency Anemia.
And now, oddly, Brittany Murphy’s dad, Angelo Bertolotti, isn’t happy about the result and is suing the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office because he’d like to do his own tests. What was he hoping for? Something more decadent or glamorous?
Angelo wants access to his late daughter’s hair samples so he can conduct his own testing after disagreeing with the official cause of her death.
Radar Online report that Angelo states in court documents:
“Plaintiff discussed the findings in the Autopsy Report which attributed his daughter’s death to Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Iron Deficiency Anemia. Plaintiff repeatedly voiced his concerns about these findings as being incorrect, since the testing/toxicology was incomplete and the death of Brittany Anne Murphy Monjak was never fully investigated”.
Of course, the whole story that surrounds this is pretty grim.
Brittany died around Christmas some years ago and then, to make matters grimmer, her husband Simon died too, after her mum, Sharon, found him unresponsive.
Simon also died from Pneumonia and Anemia.
Now, Angelo now wants a judge to order the LA County coroner to help him in his case to carry out further testing… presumably with an independent scientist, rather than some home science kit he’s got from the catalogue.