

Apparently, the communications revealed that Simon had both a son and a daughter by separate women. Simon’s mother, brother, and therapist found emails from two women asking him for child support. Upon Simon’s death, TMZ reported that three people close to him went through his laptop. He and Brittany began seeing each other shortly after his divorce was final. “He made sure no one could get to her.” Another teaser showed someone saying, “Every single word out of his mouth was a lie.” Now that What Happened, Brittany Murphy? is available beginning this week on HBO Max, here is everything we know about Simon and his marriage to Brittany.īefore dating Brittany, Simon was previously married to an English woman named Simone Bienne from 2001 to 2006. “Simon took her away,” said actor Lisa Rieffel, a dear friend of Brittany’s. Interviews in the trailer offered similar sentiments. Director of the docuseries Cynthia Hill told Peoplethat Monjack “was a disturbed individual who was used to conning people and Brittany was one of his last victims.” She continued, “There was a pattern of behavior that became very obvious the more research that we did.” More than a decade later, new unsettling and disheartening details about her passing have emerged in the two-part HBO Max documentary What Happened, Brittany Murphy?-a lot of which apparently involve her husband, Simon Monjack, his questionable past, and the couple’s marriage.įYI, Simon certainly wasn’t regarded by others as a good fit for Brittany-to put it gently. Ultimately, medical examiners at the Los Angeles coroner’s office ruled Brittany’s death an accident. Countless rumors circled Brittany’s death, which is said to have been caused by a host of issues like untreated pneumonia, anemia, and drug intoxication (from legal substances such as over-the-counter medicine and prescriptions). When news broke in 2009 that beloved Clueless actor Brittany Murphy died in her West Hollywood home, the world mourned the 32-year-old star.
