Did Mold Kill Brittany Murphy?
Now I am not one to pay too much attention to the lives and deaths of celebrities (who the heck was Brittany Murphy anyway?) but when the name of one is mentioned in the same sentence as mold, I’ll bite.
There are many articles floating around today discussing the possibility that mold played a part in the deaths of actress Brittany Murphy and her husband Simon Monjack. They both reportedly suffered from respiratory problems, which may have been a complicating factor in their deaths. It is kind of weird that they both died of similar (perhaps even identical) maladies in such close time proximity. And they did live in the same home.
Take for example, Mould in your home can kill as actress Brittany Murphy’s death linked to fungus in LA mansion:
A more unlikely end to the Hollywood dream could not seem possible – but this week it was reported that the deaths of actress Brittany Murphy and her British screenwriter husband Simon Monjack might have been caused by mould growing in their luxury Los Angeles home.
Murphy, who starred in such films as Clueless and Sin Sity, was only 32 when she died last December – at the time there was speculation her death was linked to drug abuse or an eating disorder.
When Monjack died in May at the age of 40, his death was blamed on heart failure.
Now, in both cases, the cause of death has been recorded as pneumonia and anaemia, and experts have suggested mould could be to blame, damaging the couple’s respiratory systems.
The tabloids should have a field day with this!
Then again, it’s probably just an Internet rumor as there plenty of counterclaims to the mold hypothesis. As in Coroner: No indication mold killed Brittany Murphy or Simon Monjack:
A coroner’s investigator dismissed online speculation that the pneumonia deaths of actress Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack, may both have been related to viral mold inside their Los Angeles home.
“There were no indicators that it was from mold,” Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Monday.
Murphy, 32, and Monjack, 39, died five months apart in the same bedroom of the home they shared with the actress’ mother, Sharon Murphy, in Hollywood Hills.
The preliminary autopsy concluded that Monjack’s death May 23 was caused by acute pneumonia and severe anemia, “just like Brittany,” Winter said last week.
But what do most coroners know about mold anyway?
More on the Brittany Murphy Mold Issue
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Murphy, Monjack’s Home Investigated For Toxic Mold
Toxic Mold Possible Factor in Brittany Murphy’s death?
Tags: Brittany Murphy, celebrities, Hollywood, medical mycology, toxic mold
So What.
Agreed, but what the heck; it had to do with fungi. Phil…
I’m a property manager in Redondo Beach for the last 3 years. I’m in the process of finalizing my move due to mold.
Within my first year in my apartment I had the misfortune of assisting the police to find one of my tenants dead. His apartment had mold but no one in my management company took that serious.
Later I was going to the hospital / ER which totaled 14 separate times. Including by Ambulance 5 of those. I personally had the mold tested and proved it was toxic.
In doing more research found that prior to this first dead tenant 3 others had passed away. About the time I’m learning this I have a tenant who needed an emergency heart valve operation.
6 ER worthy issues, 4 deaths in a span of 7 years in a complex of 30 people. Some barely over 50 and one was 73. Ask when the last time 23% of your neighbors died in a 7 year period? Pets also die, we’ve lost 4 cats in 3 years. Two after work began exposing mold.
Brittany’s pneumonia and anemia are both symptoms of toxic mold exposure. She’s denying this possibly because it’s so hard to prove and until she has a case she needs to evaluate the downside of possibly selling her home at a loss because of it.
In my case the management also knows it’s hard to prove and it took citations from the city to even get them to remove the moldy film covering 13 of the tenants windows. I have a disabled couple and an elderly Hispanic woman living in an apartment we are positive needs addressed. Mold tests requests are declined.
The sad thing is I have 4 deaths and broken families, 2 changed lives, tenants living in moldy conditions and no lawyer seems to feel this case is big enough to pursue. So you can imagine why Sharon would refrain from confirming such suspicions.
Feel free to contact me with questions about toxic mold. I’ll point you in the right direction. paul@ugotstyle.com.
Yes, I’ve been fighting for my life the last ten years because of toxic mold. I also got extremely thin like Brittany (down to 95 lbs. from 140), my husband swelled up like Simon. I’m anemic, my husband always has respiratory problems, yadda yadda… I can go on & on, but I know it’s what caused their deaths and the doctors in this country are too ignorant to recognize mycotoxicosis and the government is too dirty to raise awareness, so according to recent statistics, 500,000 people will die each year in the U.S. from mold related illness.