

Law enforcement sources say the Los Angeles Fire Department was called there for a medical emergency after Murphy's mother, Sharon, found Monjack unconscious in the master bedroom around 9:20 pm, and then called 911. Monjack was found dead on in his house in Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. I believe it's common knowledge, and it's been in the press that he had a slight heart attack a week before Brittany's death." On whether he has a heart problem, it is not really for me to say, you must ask him, but yes, there have been health problems in the past. In January 2010, Monjack's mother, Linda Monjack, told People that her son was "unwell, and the doctors are carrying out tests. In February 2007, Monjack was arrested and spent nine days in jail, facing deportation, because his visa to the United States had expired. In 2006, Coutts & Co bank successfully sued Monjack, who had been evicted from four homes, for $470,000. In 2005, warrants were issued for Monjack's arrest in Virginia on charges of credit card fraud, but the charges were later dropped. According to the testimony of his ex-fiancée, Elizabeth Ragsdale, Monjack "was a disturbed individual who was used to conning people and Brittany was one of his latest victims." Legal issues In the 2021 documentary What Happened to Brittany Murphy?, several of Monjack's colleagues and friends accused him of being responsible for Murphy's physical changes and also of not letting her connect with her family. The cause was later revealed to be pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anaemia and drug intoxication from prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

On 20 December 2009, Murphy died after collapsing in their bathroom. The couple did not announce their engagement beforehand and rarely made public appearances together before their marriage. In April 2007, they married in a private Jewish ceremony at their Los Angeles home. That year, he met actress Brittany Murphy. Monjack married Simone Bienne in Las Vegas in November 2001 they were divorced in 2006. Thomas's novel about Sigmund Freud, The White Hotel, with Brittany Murphy cast in a leading role. In 2007, E! News reported that Monjack was slated to direct a film adaptation of D. He held us literally hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel." Monjack denied these claims. Director George Hickenlooper contended that "Monjack had nothing to do with Factory Girl" and that "he filed a frivolous lawsuit against us making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He received story credit for the 2006 biographical film Factory Girl about Warhol actress/model Edie Sedgwick.
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Monjack directed, produced, and wrote the B movie Two Days, Nine Lives in 2000. His mother Linda (née Hall) is a hypnotherapist. When he was 16, his father, William (1949–1986), died of a brain tumour in Oxfordshire. He attended Juniper Hill School, Flackwell Heath, then Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. He grew up in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. Monjack was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, to a Jewish family. He was the husband of American actress Brittany Murphy. Simon Mark Monjack (9 March 1970 – ) was an English screenwriter, film director, producer and make-up artist.
