A senior LAPD source said yesterday the investigation into Brittany Murphy’s death will focus on “overdose scenarios”.
She was said to have been taking prescription drugs for “flu-like” symptoms.
Capt. John Kades told the Daily News that the prescription drugs recovered from Murphy’s home were all written to her.
“We didn’t find any illegal drugs,” he said. “All the medications were collected and booked here as evidence.”
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said the reported illness could have contributed to her death, but it will be weeks before a final determination is made.
As cops probed her mystery heart attack, details of Brittany and Monjack’s relationship began to emerge.
He was arrested by immigration officials in April 2007 after overstaying his visa, it was claimed.
A month later he married Brittany and was forced to deny hurtful rumours that the wedding was arranged to avoid deportation.
In an interview, the couple said the gossip about a staged marriage was “preposterous lies”.
They added: “Everything was just so fabricated and hurtful.”
Monjack – who has a writing credit on Sienna Miller movie Factory Girl – faced a series of financial problems.
A judgment for approximately $450,000 was made against him in 2006 by Coutts & Company, the Queen’s bankers.
A year earlier he was booted out of his New York flat for failing to pay more than $9,000 in rent.
Even after he married Brittany in 2007 he was in court again – in a $50,000 dispute over a divorce settlement with ex-wife Simone Bienne.
“My world was destroyed yesterday,” Simon Monjack told Access Hollywood, describing the horror of seeing his 32-year-old wife collapsed in the shower.
“[Her mother] Sharon went into the bathroom because she had been in there a long time. Her mom screamed for me and I ran. Then called 911,” he told the celebrity outlet.
Monjack, 39, confirmed Murphy had been sick in recent days but said the family didn’t think it was serious.
“She had laryngitis” and had recently seen a doctor, said Monjack, a British writer. “She had been tired at the end of the year. She had made a couple movies.”
Monjack did not address an unconfirmed Los Angeles Times report that Murphy was suffering internal bleeding.
Murphy’s estranged dad, Angelo Bertolotti, demanded a full probe and said he was always “skeptical” that Monjack was the best match for her.
“It just astounds me that she’s dead,” he told The News. “She was just so bubbly, even as a little girl. I don’t recall her ever having any health problems.”
“She got married and everything seemed to go downhill,” said Bertolotti. A friend of the star echoed those accusations.
“When Brittany married Simon, she cut off communication with a number of people who cherished her,” the pal told the Daily News. “She lived in denial about him.”
“I don’t know why anyone would think that,” Monjack shot back in the Access Hollywood interview posted online. “She found love. We found love.”
Some reports suggested that Murphy’s decline – she had become emaciated in recent months – was there for all to see.
A report on TheWrap.com said Murphy was “in and out of consciousness in the middle of takes” during shooting of the indie flick “Something Wicked” – and that Monjack, who reportedly tried to block the autopsy, had to shuttle her around.
In an eerie last interview, Murphy said earlier this month that she shared concerns about her frail frame: “I am a bit thinner now than what I would like to be,” she told Fox News.
She was also dogged by eating disorder and drug-use rumors that she denied.
“As far as having a New Year’s resolution, I’d love to have a child next year,” she told Access Hollywood at the same press event.
