Bittersweet Infamy - #24 - Girl, Interrupted

Episode Date: August 8, 2021

Josie tells Taylor about the mysterious death of actor Brittany Murphy. Plus: gender reveals gone awry.

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Conditions apply. The TD Aeroplan Visa Business Card. Welcome to Bitter Sweet Infamy. I'm Taylor Basso. I'm Josie Mitchell. On this podcast, you tell the stories that live on in infamy. Shocking, the unbelievable, and the unforgettable. Truth may be bitter.

Stories are always sweet. Josie, have you been to a gender reveal? I have not. Would you go to it? What do you think of the gender reveal? I think, I mean, just find it actually in that gender reveal video that you sent to me. You sent it to me, Taylor. Oh God, yes. That Influencer Woman.

And she, it's, I forgot what song it was that's playing. It was Born This Way by Lady Gaga. Of course, how could I forget? And it's like, gender is a construct. Gender reveal. Our baby. And like the reveal is that like, our baby will be whatever it wants to be. And it's like, why did you make this dumb video?

Like, what's the point? Oh no, I think you are misreporting what actually happened. Okay. I shoved it into a far weird. Oh no, you improved it. You made it more acceptable. Because that to me is like a little thirsty for attention. Yes.

But like, sure, yeah, gender is a construct. Why not? But what it actually was, was it was a family of three, two parents and their child. And they were dancing around in rainbow clothes to Lady Gaga's Born This Way with a lot of like preamble text explaining that their child will be whoever they identify as. Which is great. Yeah. Love that.

But then it ends with, but we can tell you one thing. Our baby has a vagina. And it was like, oh no. Oh no. You don't, don't. No, we're all thinking about baby vaginas. No, exactly. And don't, don't do that.

But I do think, I think that's maybe representative of some of the, the angst around gender reveals because I mean, obviously there is that component of more and more we learn that people don't always identify with the sex that they're assigned at birth. And there are kind of more and more prominent examples of like trans and non-binary people to attest to that and so on. And I say more and more as though this is something that has increased. I know just that we have the vocabulary to discuss it and visible people from those communities in the mainstream, but people have been trans, non-binary, two-spirit, whatever concept they

have of it since time immemorial. Exactly. Yeah. Even outside of that, I think there's something like weirdly genderist list about the, the gender reveal that I don't vibe with. And I guess what I basically mean is it's very blue is for boys, pink is for girls. You'll see these cakes that are like half blue and half pink and it'll say pistols or pearls and pistols are on one side because boys are guns and pearls are on the other

side because women are their beauty and nothing else. You know what I mean? I feel like there are so many violent gender reveals in the sense of they involve guns, they involve weapons, they involve explosives. Let me shoot this. Fireworks. Fireworks. I'm gonna AR 15 to fucking shoot a box and if it blows up pink, it's a girl and I'm

like, why are you shooting at something that represents your bait? Like there has to be a chiller way to do this. Right. Or let's light something on fire and oops, we started, you know, thousand acre wildfire that's completely out of control. It's funny you say that. According to global news, a couple in Yuccapa, California has been charged with 30 counts of general recklessness.

Yeah. From a 2020 gender reveal gone wrong that caused a fire which scorched 89 kilometers of land. These charges include the involuntary manslaughter of firefighter Charlie Morton who died combating the blaze. And it's such a heartbreaker because on the one hand like I obviously this poor man Charlie Morton who died just doing his job in a completely preventable way because this never should happened because it was a fucking terrible idea. But on the other, not but on the other, that's first and foremost, the empathetic part of

me also feels terrible for these people didn't want to kill anybody. I can't think. Yeah. You certainly wouldn't want like the announcement of something to do joyous to do with your child to cause something like that. Right, right, right. That was never your intention and yeah. But it's your responsibility.

You did it. Yeah. So you got to take responsibility even for the things that you did not mean to do. Yeah. So this KIPA case is the latest in a series of gender reveal related injuries and fatalities. Oh shit. In Kingston, New Hampshire a gender reveal where the family detonated 80 pounds of the explosive Tannerite.

Is that that's the name of their child though. They're calling their child Tannerite. They better. So that was part of it. They fucking better. It created an earthquake that damaged the foundations of nearby homes. Oh my God. Oh my God.

And I mean another part of the gender reveal that's pretty objectionable is it's so much become like a spectacle based let me post this on the internet thing. Yeah. I can't think of anything that I would announce about my child or indeed anybody in my family that would require 80 pounds of explosives. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Even like an 80th birthday party. Yeah. 80 pounds for every year. You're kind of bringing me around to actually know that you say that. Give the poor person a heart attack. Cool. So Tannerite also created a 182 kilometer $8 million fire in Arizona. Thanks to a 2017 gender reveal.

I think you can find footage of this online. It was I think it's the first like kind of iconic gender reveal gone horribly wrong resulting in a fire in Australia one man purchased car tires that released colored smoke when the car burns out so you just go and then it'll kick up blue smoke or pink smoke. Oh my God. Another fire engulfing the entire car. It's not funny but it's funny. Yeah.

It's hard. You might want to hold your laughter for these next ones because we're getting into fatalities now a Michigan man was killed with a cannon that exploded during a gender reveal and Iowa grandmother to be and a New York dad have both died in pipe bomb explosions to do with gender reveals. What kind of fucking anarchist gender reveal do you need a pipe bomb for? Is it going to be a pink or a blue car? Exactly.

What fucking color of gas are we going to flood the stock exchange with? Like what the fuck is that? So two people died in Cancun when a gender reveal flyover turned into a tailspin into open water. Oh no. In Cancun were they Americans vacationing? I don't know. I know that there's a video.

I didn't watch the video kind of because it seemed morbid but apparently there's a video in which the people involved are speaking in Spanish and saying something to the effect of what if the plane goes down as long as it doesn't land on us. Among the critics of gender reveal culture such as it exists now are the concepts inventor Jenna Carvanitis who started this whole thing. I've heard this. Doesn't her child not identify the gender that she revealed as well? I don't know that but I do know that she's on record saying quote could we just stop having

these stupid parties and the problem would solve itself. She just like cut into a cake way back when though she wasn't doing this fucking prom puzzle I hired out fucking the people from public enemy that would return my calls to you know what I mean. So Flavor Flav basically Flavor Flav. Well that's another kind of interesting thing is it's like it's so recent. There's not like a long story tradition of gender reveal. No this is from 2007 but the way that people act like it's been there the whole time.

Yeah you know but I guess there's a lot of there's a lot of baby stuff that wasn't super popular until last century then right like a baby shower and all of that like people were just popping them out and being like okay there's a drawer sleeping that thing. We have to close it or the cat will get you. Steal your soul. Yeah exactly. Yeah no for sure for sure and I'm sure the I'm sure Big Mothers Day that lobby I'm sure they're not mad about it.

Yeah it feels like a Big Mothers Day. Yeah. A ploy. A ploy. Jenna Carbonitis you can tell us the truth right to us. Oh baby. Oh no not a baby. Taylor.

Yes. Today I'm gonna bring an unsolved mystery to the table. I almost pitched making August mystery month because I like mysteries and then I was like no I want to do something else so I never even mentioned it but you've done it for me regardless. Oh we vibe. We vibe hard. I'm excited. By national vibe.

Absolutely. Open those borders. That's nice. COVID passports let's go. Get those mysteries afloat wing. Yep. Now I wish that I could present this unsolved mystery with a solution but that is not the nature of unsolved mysteries.

No they're unsatisfying by their very construction. All I can do for you is to chronicle the craziness of the story and I'm sure it is a story that you know pretty well. I'm not sure if you know all the ins and or outs but Taylor this is the story of actress Brittany Murphy and her mysterious death. Whoa. That's heavy. I don't know much about this.

Yeah. There's a lot of fashion controversy about the circumstances behind her death but I don't really know much. The interesting thing about this story is like every time anybody seems to kind of scratch a little bit below the surface it just reveals oh my god that was there. What? Really? It supplies absolutely no answer.

So it's a little wild. Okay. So to get us started I want to acknowledge that this story is also and a lot of my sources come from some pretty sensationalist journalism. Okay. So you know E true Hollywood, the Hollywood reporter, Hollywood access like that's where a lot of the information comes from. What we would call in the 1990s news magazines.

News magazines. Inside edition. Yeah. Current Affair. Exactly. Other various Illuminati looking shows where they rifle through celebrities trash. We'll see how that has played out because of how news about this particular event was coming out and it just like that those were the channels that were picking up but there

was not some rich you know deep dive by some storied writer, you know what I mean. So to start as a young child, Brittany Murphy absolutely loved to perform which is probably true of a lot of actresses and actors in Hollywood. But in her particular case she was very energetic. She had just kind of this bubbling excitement about her even as a kid but it was also she could harness it really well even at a young age. There's video of her doing this cute little interview at a New Jersey State Fair. She's interviewing other kids and she's just like attentive and paying attention and giggling

and laughing but she never lets like when I was a kid and if I was in a position like that and I thought something was funny, I would just fall into giggles and tears and like and it would it would be a mess but obviously Brittany Murphy keeps her shit together. So she loves to perform and her mother Sharon Murphy was thrilled to support her daughter's obvious talents. So it was dance lessons, sure let's do it. Voice lessons. Right.

Oh yeah, I'm on it. Theater, I need to drive you and bring you home at 10.30pm and wake up at six to drive you to your other lesson. I'm on it girl, let's do it. So show mom vibes but it's clear that Brittany always really enjoyed it. There was never any type of indication that she was not having a good time or not developing her skills and being stoked in general. The stereotype of a stage mom is that they are you know abusive or living vicariously

through their child or whatever but there are these parents who are just proactive and motivated supporters of something that their child really enjoys doing. Exactly. When I was 14 I and every other boy in Surrey, Vancouver, anywhere in the lower mainland all auditioned for the lead role in the Disney film Sky High because they were doing a big talent search and everyone thought they were going to be the one to get discovered. Were you discovered? I got a callback.

I wasn't discovered because here I fucking am doing fucking podcasts for you cretins. So no I didn't get discovered. I take that back. You're all lovely. Thank you for watching. So I got a callback actually and my mom was very chill and supportive of it and we went to Lionsgate Studios and I gave an underwhelming audition I could tell they weren't really into it and it wasn't my best work and whatever and I left and that was that for that experience

and I never really pursued anything like that again. But when I was there there was this sweet kid there who just wanted to come over and make kind of friends with some of the other like me and some of the other auditioners were just kind of shooting the shit or whatever and this kid came over and his mom was on him like fucking stench on a skunk like she was like get back here you need to be learning your lines you know we're in reality TV terms we're not here to make friends I was like that's some pretty singular and aggressive energy to bring to this child's audition but whatever.

Yeah and you're picking up on that as a kid too you're not a parent in that situation you're like. Yeah whereas my parents were lovely about it and perhaps Britney Murphy's mother is one of those. Yeah that's the vibe that I get and I think part of that too is that Britney's dad was never very much in the picture so Sharon Murphy and Angelo Bortatelli met in Atlanta where Angelo ran a few nightclubs he supposedly hired her to work at one of those nightclubs and that's how they met and they hit it off they got married and on November 10th 1977

they gave birth to their daughter, Britney, B-R-I-T-T-A-Y, yes. If you're playing the how do you spell this Britney game. Yeah important knowledge. So Angelo, Britney's father has also had some connections to organized crime though he had some good money at the time through his nightclubs and stuff like that the means by which he made his money was always kind of a point of contention between Sharon and him. They fought continually until they divorced when Britney is just two years old so just you know and with that divorce Sharon moves Britney to Edison, New Jersey so that they

could be closer to her family and Sharon starts working in advertising to help support Britney and her talents you know to go at all these voice lessons acting lessons all that stuff. And Britney is still this young age her dad Angelo who lives for a time in Atlanta but then also in Florida he is arrested in connection with his affiliations with organized crime. Those nightclubs. Those nightclubs whatever else those things were right and he's incarcerated for nine years. So yeah whatever else those things were those weren't just nightclubs.

So it's a pretty pretty sizable chunk of Britney's childhood to one not only be living afar but two to have a father incarcerated. So that also means he's not really he's not doing the child support thing there's you know it's it's a little messy and ties are not very tight between them but Britney and Sharon Britney and her mother are extremely close like best buds kind of mother daughter duo. And they carry on just fine without they finish each other's each other's sentences and you can see that fact kind of played out that they're so close to and the the not so tightly

tied ties to Angelo because Murphy is Sharon's maiden name and apparently Angelo was was fine with that because after being incarcerated he didn't want his daughter's talent to be besmirched by his name. Okay. Maybe maybe that was a nice thing I don't know if it isn't the world complicated. It's so true. So when Britney is still a teenager Sharon is diagnosed with breast cancer she undergoes treatment.

Britney is there through it all they're still extremely close and Sharon survives it's totally fine it's in remission. Once Britney graduates from high school Sharon and her decide that it's time to kind of step up her career and that they're going to make the move out west to the glittery flashbulbs of Hollywood baby. Okay. So at that time even in Jersey Britney has an agent and things are kind of starting to pick up she's getting more and more and so they're like this just makes sense you want

to do this let's let's do it let's make it happen. Right. So she's gets some very classic 90s TV roles she has a short but reoccurring spot in shows like Boy Meets World sister sister one of those like seventh heaven spinoff or maybe seventh I don't know you know one of those little shaboos. So Britney's career is building and with the pay the increase in pay she's now able to support Sharon the tables shift a little bit there even though Britney is still pretty young she's 17 18 right.

So and I think it's important to note that you know we're talking about stage moms Sharon doesn't work as her manager doesn't work as agent she's there she's probably attending those meetings and she knows about her daughter's career but she's not wielding all the power right Britney is the one who's making these connections and they really seemed to have that friendship type of relationship. That's a hard line to toe when you're like I don't know climbing the ladder in Hollywood it's so hard to like be an attentive parent who is letting your kid make their own decisions and earn their own money but also like making sure that it's not one of these cases that

you see of child stars who fall prey to these kind of like awful situations by meeting the wrong people or being given the wrong advice and so forth down the line even worse from there right. Right. So the testament to that fact is that they didn't move to Hollywood until she was an adult right she had graduated from high school and kind of had that under her belt. I think like that scenario happens a lot when kids are like 1415 yeah especially actresses where they look like they're adults and and people are kind of taking over their still

children adults are taking over their career decisions and that transition to adulthood is really a challenge because it's all happening. Yeah. Lime lady. Yeah. Yeah. Brittany Murphy she's 18 years old she's good in these spots and TV it's kind of happening and then she auditions for a little known teenage indie retelling of Jane Austen's Emma

written and directed by the same woman who made fast times at Ridgemont High right Amy Hecker like because she don't I love Clueless. So apparently Brittany fucking nails this audition yeah Alicia Silverstone she was already cast as Cher at that point but she was in the room when they were auditioning for for the part of tie and she had no decision to make but she was like we're gonna pick her right because she was the best one and everyone was like yeah no no no of course yeah so interestingly enough to this part that Brittany Murphy plays is this character named Ty and she's a virgin who can't drive no Ty is not the virgin shares the version who can't drive shares the in

my head it was Ty I need to rewatch you can't drive yeah and then she tries to like put the cassette in the in the fake fireplace and shares like I'll take that yeah it's been so long since I need to rewatch this I was really really drunk but I think I've only ever watched this once and I was quite drunk so I don't didn't retain much of it yes I remember I loved role with the homies I love the kind of weird incest vibes with Paul Rudd that was very up my alley yeah aren't they all I have such a unique relationship to this movie because I start I watched it maybe for the first time when I was like 10 or 11 and I did not understand right I understand like the general story but I did not understand any of

the like the fine minutiae jokes like sorry I was late Mr. Hall I had to haul asked a ladies room I was writing the Crimson Tide I had no idea what that was when I was 11 but when I watched that movie again when I was 12 I was like oh shit I know what that means and I like by watching it on this like annual basis I realized more and more I was kind of coming online and this was my meter to market it was really wild so wild yeah my relationship with this film isn't nearly so profound congratulations on your men are key but what's also really interesting that I found out for researching with this is that so ties character that Brittany Murphy plays she's a new transplant to Hollywood from Jersey oh yeah which I don't know if that

Amy Heckeling was like well let's just make it Jersey or if it was actual Jersey and Brittany read for it and just that all right in the movie share who is played by Alicia Silverstone and Deon who is played by political numb nuts Stacy Dash very same of Kanye West's all falls down out okay nailed it nailed it so these two girls they're very popular they're like the height of the social hierarchy at this high school and they are feeling very charitable when Ty shows up in her trolls flannel baggy jeans and they take her under their wing and they give her this huge Hollywood makeover and so she's wearing crop tops and plaid skirts and looking cute in a whole different way yes looking great again just in different clothing this through trials and tribulations

of the story tie she kind of turns to catty mean but then towards the end she retains her quirky charm but also her fly-ass style right and by the end of the film right wonderful the connection to all of this in terms of Brittany Murphy's real life is that she's a transplant to Hollywood she appears in this film she's 18 she's pretty young she has brunette hair she has still a little bit of her baby fat going on and she's obviously very I mean the character is very quirky but she's a very good actress and so it's very clear that her own personality has a little work in it too so mirrors her experience in a really kind of startling way I think and maybe it's because I have this like very deep connection to Clueless that that's why I think it's of note but we all bring our

baggage listen we all bring our baggage let's go but it's also very clear even though she's slightly under co-star to Alicia Silverstone and Stacy Dash and some of these other big actors and actresses it's clear that she's a standout talent her comedic timing is perfect she is oh yeah she's beautiful like her character is a real gem in that story and I think the writing of course is there but it's her acting who kind of gives it that extra oomph so that is her breakout role into Hollywood she's you know a leading part and then from there she gets other leading roles in major features including eight mile yep are we doing Britney Spears filmography Murphy you mean yes and keep that in your like little your little head cloud though okay yeah yeah no she's

dropped at gorgeous girl interrupted beautiful Lou Ann Platter she does all 13 seasons she plays she voice acts Lou Ann Platter who's like the dumb yet sweet niece of Hank and Peggy Hill and that's for those who have not watched King the Hill oh when she lost her hair in the Megalomart explosion that was like that was so good so good that character that character again is like it's really well written of course because it could just be this dumb blonde character but I think there's also something that Britney Murphy brings to it they just like oh of course it's a very endearing performance exactly did you know she also does the voice of pre-puberty Joseph Gribble Bobby's friend no yeah which is kind of wild because if you go back to hear it I never

heard that before yeah a little earlier because she's like does this weird like she's got popcorn in her mouth sounding thing but it's interesting so she's got range and also Lou Ann like she has a pretty classic Texan accent and Britney Murphy is she was in Atlanta as a baby and then oh yeah true and not yeah I didn't even think about that it's very good I think that's pretty flat so she we talked about her comedic timing she also gets a lot of roles in kind of big Hollywood a little fluffy but romantic comedies she does just married little black book yeah she does town girls there's a few more in there but those you know those are big ones and we talked about her voice acting she's also she also does a voice and happy feet don't say a word yeah yeah I'll never tell that one

which is I tried to watch it I couldn't even get to the Britney Murphy part so I just found it really dry boring so I didn't you got to get to the the Britney Murphy part so you get a little that's true in there so it's also noticeable to any viewer in Hollywood and especially Hollywood press that as she transitions from clueless in the Thai character into these leading lady roles she starts to dye her hair blonde right the media reports that she loses a whole bunch of weight right and so there's some speculation about eating disorders and stuff like that Britney herself maintained throughout her life that she weighed the same in her later 20s as she did when she was in clueless when she was 18 she addresses those claims made by the media and she just says listen

it's baby fat as you get older your face changes like right where your fat is just kind of moves around and that's that's what was happening I don't know the truth behind that at all but I choose to believe Britney Murphy because that's her own experience and also Hollywood would have issue you're damned if you do yeah you're damned if you they would jump on her if she were brunette and looked had a normal physique and then they're gonna jump on her if she's blonde and they jump on you if you're too fat they jump on you if you're too skinny they jump on you if you're too old they jump on you if you had too much work done if you're black they jump yeah anything like they'll jump on you they'll any foothold they can get they'll take so yeah fuck the foothold

vultures the fact remains that she's super talented no matter what she's like yes and I heard someone describe her to be akin to Lucille ball and I had never really thought of it that way but like that that same kind of energy the physicality and how beautiful she is I think Lucille ball is really really pretty I don't know I liked I liked that match I thought that was kind of kind of nice I think that Britney hat might have slightly more range than Lucy okay I think that Lucy is like a comedian and I think that Britney Murphy is funny do you know what I mean like I think that they're they're different but I also never saw Lucy in a dramatic role other than the part at the end of the long long trailer when she's collected too many jams and rocks from around from around

the world and they have to go up this big mountain and Desi and they can't get up the fucking hill and Desi is like listen bitch these rocks gotta go so he flings open the door to the long long trailer and he's whipping him out and Lucy's losing her shit because I need these jib this is these are my memories I put all his work into it they patch it up they patch it up it's fine I didn't see that coming so Britney Murphy has a bit of a rocky dating life as she ascends the the heights of the Hollywood food chain she doesn't date anyone for very long and she has a tendency to date her leading men so she did oh did she did a she dates Ashton cook shirt like anybody worth their salt in the early millennia she actually they were in just married and then once

that wrapped they started dating for a few months she dates Eminem right of eight mile yes yeah she dates a production manager on one of her films and then some other industry dude and she briefly she's briefly engaged to one of those guys but neither of those relationships either really lasts even the engagement right then she reads the script for a novel adaptation the novels called the White House and she wants to meet the scriptwriter she's really interested in the project she's like let's go and so in 2006 she meets a man named Simon Monjack and okay everybody knows Simon Monjack so I won't really say much about him here JK no one knows who the fuck I was literally I felt so stupid you did get me so Simon Monjack he's a British screenwriter

and just a general he works in film industry right he's worked on a few British indie films as a writer and a director none of which I don't think anybody's heard he has a few writing credits on some American films like the movie Factory Girl which I haven't I haven't seen it's a it's a movie about like Andy Warhol so he's got a few credits to his name you know he's right little building a resume it's not his first rodeo but he hasn't done anything major he's six years older than Brittany okay and she's how old 2006 she's 30 she's 29 29 yeah okay so that puts him mid 30s yeah he's mid 30s yeah okay I I'm just gonna say that he's generally less photogenic than Brittany Murphy that's so harsh but okay so he's been married twice before in two relatively short-lived marriages

and he's not a super wealthy dude there's some issues with credit card fraud some debt and just general some financial issues it's reported that he owed his ex-wife $50,000 that he never paid her okay and that movie that we know and love Factory Girl there's actually a lawsuit surrounding that film because the film that was the basis of his Hollywood career more or less because Simon claimed that the screenwriters stole the original idea from him so he sued the production company and instead of taking it to court the production company they just decided to give Simon a Simon a writing credit and that was that right so he was never actually in a writer's room for this like foundational career builder credit that he has right I see I see

okay I think it just all of it goes to show you that a British accent can get you really far in America you know yeah he grant yeah sure so within a year Brittany Murphy and Simon Montec are married Brittany's first marriage and only I should say that it's a small Jewish ceremony Simon is Jewish okay it's not a big to-do in Hollywood terms in fact the media doesn't even know about it until they are photographed together they knew that they were together but they didn't know that they were married until they were photographed the Kentucky Derby and they saw their rings okay so that same year that Brittany Murphy and Simon Montec are married they buy a house a home more than a house it's a home in Hollywood oh yeah put up some photos

gotcha Brittany's got some maribolds growing out back I see how it is maybe not but you know what so they purchased the 3.9 million dollar home from another media darling Brittany this time it's our girl Brittany Spears hashtag free Brittany hashtag free Brittany yes wow the names get confused the story is asking you to just smoosh it all together there was a real influx of famous Brittany's that Brittany was a very popular name in my grade growing up I went to school with six or seven Brittany's exactly it's there it's there it's a cultural moment you can't deny yeah and they were all spelled different from each other yeah and and these two are spelled different BRIT any why for for our Spears yeah double TA and Y for our Murphy so Brittany Spears

and Justin Timberlake to kind of culturally earmark that they live together in that house right archaeological layers in this house are pretty yeah I know I got that the strata are interesting yes so Brittany Murphy and Simon Montec are married they're living in this 3.9 million dollar home and Sharon Brittany's mom her bff mom is living with them in the home it's a mansion on a hillside it's huge there's plenty of room I do imagine that there would be finances enough to get Sharon her own home nearby so I it's of note that Sharon is living with this newly married couple okay it's either a testament to how close Brittany and her mom are and how like the two of them against the world or or she wants to keep an eye on them something yeah

or maybe the finances aren't as free-flowing and Simon has a few debts that need to be paid whatever it is I don't know right around this time that she's getting married Brittany's career is not doing too hot she's not pulling the same leads as before but she's also cut she's outside of the limelight in some ways too she's not dating her leading men she's married she's kind of she's take a few quiet moments for herself so right she's still landing steady work but work is decidedly like bb plus films so a lot of horrors and thrillers uh starring alongside little known actors or less known actors right a lot of people accredit this decline to Simon according to some Simon was putting himself in charge of Brittany's career and you couldn't really get to her without going through

him so she he's kind of cutting her off you know or isolating her in certain ways right her manager and her agent they both drop Brittany and there's also reports that her behavior is getting erratic on the sets that she is cast on some attribute to her declining roles because she's frustrated with the way that Hollywood has portrayed her some attribute it to Simon and some attribute it some go so far to attribute it to drug use that was encouraged and partaken in by Simon Monjack so people are saying like he's got her on drugs okay he's an addict and he's got her on drugs too okay so around this time there are some reports that Simon and Brittany are acting kind of erratic a family friend said that they thought that someone was surveilling the house

and Brittany also had on her own Simon didn't have this but she had this feeling about their home she had this kind of icky vibe when it came to their house okay it would manifest in the way that like she would repeatedly request that they stay at a hotel like they'd be on their way home and they'd be like can we just can we just go to the I don't know fancy Hollywood hotel whatever it was the Belage the Belage yeah I think the Belage was Dylan McKay's father's hotel in Beverly Hills 902 and oh there we go thank you yeah that's where they went they went to the Belage yes so yes strangely enough Brittany Spears it is said felt the same exact way about that house and that is why she sold it according to Perez Hilton oh no Josie what have you turned this podcast

Brittany Spears' makeup artist recommended a Reiki massage therapist to Brittany Spears and when that therapist came over as he did the therapist did her thing did her Reiki and she opened up some portal thingy and Brittany believed that bad spirits entered the house that way why is she opening up a portal I don't know I don't know that's not that is not consonant with my understanding of Reiki like I said I'm taking the podcast this dirty direction into the gutter I love it down there this is like more this is like old-school Mary Pervitt show you I love it now let's bring out Brittany Spears yeah so Brittany Spears she was creeped the f**k out by the house and so that's why she sold it and Brittany Murphy also got the same creepy vibe

so it's November of 2009 Brittany Simon and Sharon they fly to Puerto Rico because Brittany is meant to star in a film called The Collar they get there the first day on set Brittany is either fired for misconduct or something like that or it's that Simon has come on set intoxicated and when he's escorted off she quits because she's upset about it right or it's an amical decision between her and the production team so you don't fly to Puerto Rico to make amical decisions exactly yeah either way Brittany's not working on this film anymore and they have about two weeks in Puerto Rico so Brittany Simon and Sharon they have a vacation but Simon and Sharon both contract Stephacoccalus is how you say that Stephacoccus Stephacoccus yeah that's it

is there's all those C's in the end I guess whatever it's complicated it's a complicated disease yeah yes so they are very unwell and it's even said that Simon suffered a small heart attack on the flight home and Brittany had to perform CPR on him Jesus Sharon and Simon are really sick uh it's you know end of November Brittany is taking care of them Sharon Sharon contracts staff as well yeah right okay Sharon's got staff too okay so they're sick Brittany's taking care of them she's not working in that moment and she starts to get sick herself during that time forgive my ignorance how is staff transmitted I'm not too sure I think they had I think you can get staff from like an infection like you have a wound or you have an illness and then staff

is an infection that can kind of feed off of that it's like sepsis or something yeah I think it's I think it's something like that organ green yeah I mean hopefully someone will correct us if we're terribly wrong email us we like it but I yes yeah it's something serious they get sick I don't know anyway yes Brittany gets sick herself back in LA end of November and she has some pretty severe flu symptoms for about a week she does not go to the doctor which you know I tend to do the same I'm just like oh just have a pseudofed it'll be fine and then but I'm also not a multimillionaire Hollywood actress I'm not sure why she's not going to the doctor it's 8 a.m December 20th 2009 and Sharon Brittany's mom walks into Brittany's

messy bathroom and I say messy bathroom because there are products and makeup and skincare all this all over the bathroom it's a big huge you know jacuzzi bathtub and like on the floor like no like on the on the counters and around the tub it's cluttered but it doesn't look like it's been disrupted that's just how the room is everything is like upright and like in its space but there's very little counter space because there's just so many products going on okay you must forgive me when you promise me a mystery I put my detective hat on so I'm just getting the lay of for sure please do so Sharon finds her daughter passed out on the floor Brittany is unresponsive and she's not breathing her mother is in a panic when she calls 911 of course Simon appears in the

bathroom right and Sharon is on the phone with the dispatcher getting instructions about how to perform CPR and she's relaying those to Simon so when the paramedics arrive they haul her away to Cedar Sinai hospital and the doctors do all that they can to resuscitate her but by 10.05 a.m just two hours after she's found they declare her dead poor thing she was 32 years old very too young that's how old I'm gonna be and a few short days that's how well I am right now my dude poor Brittany I know right she's buried December 24th at Forest Lawn Memorial I know right Christmas Eve oh oh that breaks my heart the initial cause of death is determined to be quote unquote natural causes which is nice and vague so all the speculation

can happen right the LA County Coroner does a follow-up on the death certificate and after testing tissues urine and blood samples two months after that initial natural causes they update it and declare her cause of death to be community acquired pneumonia with complications due to iron deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication okay so like the main thing is the community acquired pneumonia and then things that complicated it were anemia and prescriptions so is the implication that in the process of taking care of these people who had a staff infection perhaps as a comorbidity they had no they got pneumonia because of their weakened immune systems which they passed on to her and this all in connection with these other

kind of lifestyle factors about her maybe doing prescription drugs or whatever yeah and I mean when at least when I hear and when a lot of people hear prescription drugs multiple drug intoxication on a death certificate well sounds like a drug overdose but the thing is is that the drugs that were found in her system were all over-the-counter drugs it's what you'd find in the pharmacy aisle kind of thing so it's like cough syrup and pseudo-fed and it's not like they found methamphetamines or I mean actually cough syrup is a type of methamphetamine but they didn't find the like meth meth they they didn't find anything illegal exactly that's the best way to put it yeah interesting I mean you can get intoxicated off of pseudo-fed and cough syrup

yeah that's true not that I'm saying that that's the case here but I just say it put it out there yeah she does have some prescribed medication that's not over-the-counter but it's four really bad menstrual cramps and her periods are really really heavy the crimson tide the crimson tide had to haul ass and that is actually tied to her anemia it's because her periods were so heavy that she was losing blood which is an iron deficiency okay from what toxicologists and some other reporters have said the diagnosis of death caused by pneumonia like this would would fit someone of this age if they were in really uninhabitable living situations living on your car in a winter right you know and you just can never keep warm you know that

kind of thing but she's affluent she lives in a 3.9 million dollar home like there's all these things that are just kind of like question mark no there's something fucked up with the house okay you're saying the house there's something fucked up with the house we'll come back to that okay so Simon Monjack her husband of about three years now when asked that not really asked when told that the authorities will be performing an autopsy he says that he doesn't want them to perform one that's some people attribute it to the fact that Simon was Jewish in the Jewish tradition an autopsy can prevent somebody from being buried in a Jewish cemetery and the LA county coroner's office you can you can't put in a request to not have an autopsy for religious

reasons I see I also know people whose parents have passed away from you know natural causes and their families haven't sought autopsies just because it wasn't particularly information they needed or whatever exactly so it does happen the fact that she's 32 and relatively healthy and this strange cause of death that would make me just be like I think we need to do this I don't want it but I think we need it but he does not say that in fact he does say that he just couldn't think of having to tell her mother that he allowed them to to perform an autopsy it was just too too much considering all the grief okay or of course of course there's the idea that he was responsible for her death in some way and he wants to hide any evidence he can of that and he wants

to obscure this yes of course of course another element of this is that Simon and Sharon both are appalled that people think that it's reported on you know that it's in the the Hollywood media that Brittany had a drug problem and so they take a pretty public stance on this and they show up on programs they do interviews they are in magazines to address and erase that narrative of drug abuse Simon has a weird time post Brittany's death which of course his wife dies unexpectedly but it's a very public time and public by his choice as well yeah he makes an appearance him and Sharon go on the Larry King live show and when Larry King asks why Simon didn't want to have the autopsy conducted Simon responds something to the effect of there's her pristine body curves and all

the right places and I couldn't just let them cut it up why why are you being so sexy about your way of scorpion I know it's a little weird he also says to that I am a rabbi not a doctor in a crisis I pray so I think what he means is like I don't faced with with this overwhelming situation I don't fall to science I fall to really I don't know no yeah it's a weird thing to say no I got that but the flip side of it is we've seen countless times where someone has been on tv or in court or doing an interview with dianne's or whatever and they look like a fucking heartless lunatic and then it turns out they didn't do it that is super true and he looks kind of like a heartless lunatic he does not come off super well Sharon is there and she is oscillating between crying and kind of breaking

down and then laughing at Simon's jokes oh Jesus she's definitely on a roller coaster poor women this is giving me anxiety what the fuck this sounds like the the worst slash maybe best right episode of very king ever fucking film that's terrifying then after Simon does that he does an exclusive interview with it's called radar magazine I know it allows the camera crew to come and tour the home his home where britney murphy died he shows them her closet and in that scene he like pulls out from this huge rack there's racks on racks and racks of clothes and he pulls out this leather jacket and he's like oh I never saw her wear this this is really nice listen even in my deepest throes of grief I am still susceptible to a really nice leather jacket it's true that's true

I've just got to put that out there and you know if that were the only thing then that would be perhaps you know understandable but right he also like sits at the piano and he tells the camera crew he like looks directly in the camera and he's like we just had so many good moments I would sit here and play the piano and she would fall asleep over there it's like what kind of memory is that your wife following us I don't know that's heartless that's heartless I think it's well only because I think it's so nice to watch someone fall asleep I wouldn't fucking go on tv and give a monologue about it yes but I think it's but I think the sentiment of it is nice I just think the circumstances are super creepy you know super creepy yes the real kicker is when he

takes them into the bathroom where britney died don't do that and he points out where she was on the ground in the bathroom with the cigar that he has been smoking the entire interview this guy's such a charge it's so strange it's so strange the entire interview taylor he's smoking a cigar counterpoint yes her dad was like an absent organized crime guy yeah here we are here we are I feel like sadly it's so often the case in these situations so we're like yeah well I have mom issues so I need to marry someone exactly like her yeah yeah you know what I mean yeah that feels right so as simon explained to larry king the media just doesn't understand grief and so that's kind of his response when everyone's like what the fuck are you doing dude this is weird this is weird

which I agree I don't think I think grief is very intimate and it's very particular and there's a lot of circumstances surrounding it yeah but you're being weird but but if you know the media isn't a good place to bring that or to unpack that then maybe don't go to the media you know I'm just but what about money I assume that radar is giving him some fucking mula to come see the floor where britney murphy died and all of a sudden I gotta imagine that between him and her she was the income earner he's suddenly yeah very suddenly strapped for cash yeah well the other thing too is britney left everything to her mother she never updated her will this this ooh britney it's britney bitch

so in the media's eyes simon is like suspect number one but it's important to note that according to the LA county sheriff's office there is no suspects because this is not an open case this is not a murder she died of natural causes that they can determine right to be community acquired pneumonia so right it's this kind of media storm that he seems to be swirling up with his own weird his own cigar smoke right right right all right may 23rd 2010 sharon who we should know is still living in the house some five months later sharon again has to call 911 because again she has found someone passed out in the bathroom this time simon it's her son-in-law simon monjack the 911 dispatcher tells her to roll him over and to start performing CPR and all this

but in his grief he has gained quite a bit of weight and he weighs like 300 pounds she can't do it yeah big guy she tries to perform CPR on him but when the paramedics arrive he is declared deceased it is just five months after britney died and now her husband who is 38 at the time not old either it's the house has died in the same room in this it's the fucking house it's a haunted house wait for this taylor and according to the LA county coroner's report he died of the same community acquired pneumonia fuck me with complications due to just an observation the last time we had pneumonia coming up on this many autopsy reports it was a woman strangling children to death on mass oh very true very true making connections do you know it's a factor yes so examining simon's death

it's a little less strange that he's diagnosed or that you know these are the diagnoses of his death he's not as healthy he's not old but he's had a heart attack earlier he's gained quite a bit of weight in these last five months right sharing claims that he died of a broken heart though also happens a lot on the show yeah that happens too i'm gonna throw another rank in here please i want wrenches right i know i brought a whole toolbox my dude but chuck it down the stairs like home alone too bitch let's go when the investigators arrive on the scene of course they're freaked the fuck out because they're like we were just here and we were just taking care of some of these same symptoms they find something like 90 prescription bottles

in simon's bedroom okay some with simon's name some with some other rando guy's name and some with sharon's name on them okay sharon is asked by the chief investigator who is a man who also worked on britney's case his name is ed winters and he works for l.a county sheriff's department uh for the coroner's office and he he's kind of like the the hollywood guy like he investigated whitney houston's death and he basically michael jackson like he gets the he gets the juicy ones right what's his name ed winters so he asks her about these prescription bottles with her name on them and in reply she explains that she had been sleeping in the bed and in that bedroom and that she and simon slept in the same bed to comfort each other

in the grief and despair yeah no i got you i got you i got you i don't know yeah it's a wrench right it's a wrench this is uh you you hit me right in the chest oh yeah some tim allenshake sharon has since denied this but ed winters public employee that he is he's gone on record aka he's gone on like sensationalist documentary record to confirm this info that they were sleeping in the same bed so okay the media has lost their main suspect simon is no longer with us but really no one has any idea of what's going on enter ritney murphy's father angelo oh angelo what are you gonna come stir up for us now angelo this is like four years later i'd say uh 2013 he has hired a forensic pathologist to investigate the case because he is

certain that there's some foul play going on here in order to do a full investigation like he wants to do he needs to exhume britney murphy's body but sharon who's in charge of these things because she was the one who was left everything in the will she won't allow it so angelo instead petitions the court and is able to obtain a hair sample from the coroner's office okay good sideways step there yeah yeah uh it's run through a series of tests and the toxicology report finds extremely high levels of heavy metals higher than the who could ever recommend okay based on what is in the report the pathologist and therefore angelo is convinced that it's arsenic poisoning and that his daughter was murdered this is taking up some uh some media

time sharon the mom in response writes a letter to the hollywood reporter uh this is a circus total circus decrying the hair sample test she says a hair sample test does not take into account the heavy metals that could have been on her hair not just the ones that would like being your system and grow out in your hair but like if you maybe dyed your hair which of course britney murphy did or if you had a lot of product that you put on your hair which we know britney murphy did none of that would really come up is that so though like does that hold scientific weight that like you could have high levels of heavy metal in your hair by using too much aquanet one day like is that true or is this just like it's just like every other open letter to the hollywood

reporter i mean a little bit of calm a little bit of calm v you know i see i see the other thing about this forensic pathologist who takes on this toxicology report too is that in the report he puts together some statement describing how this is definitive proof that there was a third party involved and that this was murder which sharon points out it's a lab report you can't extract that information from it and put it in any official way what's sharon's deal sorry i have this competing sense these two i have a devil and an angel on my shoulder when i hear stories like this because my sense of propriety is very much like it's morbid to speculate on someone's death in this way when you didn't really know them but these are human

beings who've died and i have some sense of like respecting the dead and whatever but then the devil on my shoulder is like what's fucking sharon's deal yeah you know what i mean i think that's totally there yeah it's funny because i'm very gripped this is a very interesting mystery yeah and as a story it's very very intriguing but it's also like very morbid i don't know it is this is me being like a self-critical true crime listener you know what i mean as much as i can and i think the other strange element of this story that i have noticed from the sources that are most they're most available with information on this is that all these sources are pretty sensationalist they're you know they're and i said that at the top but i think what's revealed at

least very clearly was sharon's letter to the hollywood reporter is that the family simon sharon angelo they're all using these types of media to get any type of information out yeah to get their point across yeah so there's kind of the strange sensationalist feedback loop that's happening too it's probably also like who do you already have relationships with exactly not at all insane that britney murphy and her family would have a connect at the hollywood reporter who they thought might be sympathetic to them exactly do that you know what i mean especially if sharon and simon they wanted so badly to clear quote unquote clear britney murphy's name of this drug association too you know right which i don't know about no one in this story strikes me as

super reliable because for all we know one or any of them is in the throes of addiction or yeah there seems to be some sort of like degenerative brain shit happening with this house i'm convinced so who knows yeah so at this point after sharon writes the hollywood reporter letter angelo goes on record with reporters and media that he is certain that sharon killed both of them yeah which is like who talk about your ex right that's rough his evidence for this is that all the money went to her in the will she won't allow anybody to exhume the body and she won't work with angelo on what he is convinced is a murder case so angelo presents that is like well obviously but again angelo has a lot of motives too he didn't get any of the money and he might be trying to

whip up some media attention so that he can gain money that way yeah i don't know there who who the fuck knows off the chain i can't even like i couldn't even list all of them because it would just be oh dude five hours even as you talk i was having this 80 thoughts in my head of like oh they're all part of the same drug thing and that's why they don't want each other autopsy because they're all in this together number two the mom and the son-in-law who were sleeping in the same bed they off britney and then uh he gets he starts getting weird about it so she offs him like you can come up with all of these theories that are completely like those are just two of the most um sensational ones that i came up with off the top of my head but like you say

you could go forever and and i bet people have yeah i'm gonna throw two more at you too yeah i don't think that even your wildest imagination could pull out first one of this very tailored list okay the house has black mold that comes out after simon's death uh in the media people speculate sharon who is living in the house denies that she says no we have the house tested it there's nothing there the real kicker maybe that's what the mold is telling her to say shit dog you do have a crazy imagination yeah one of these broodak situations the thing that kind of puts another wrench in that theory is that they did not find spores in either of the bodies there would have been fungal spores in the lungs or someplace is there something else that could conceivably be

wrong with the house though as far as like are they getting their water from a well that has fucking arsenic in it are they there's no water you know what i mean hollywood yeah yeah is there something in the pipes well the interesting thing about the mold theory is that first sharon denies it and then she tries to sell the house and realizes that there is mold in the house this is like five years later she's convinced then that there is mold she even tries to sue the construction company that built the house because if there's mold issues i learned this if there's mold issues in a building that falls into the fault of the contractors who put the house together okay interesting but she's unable to sue them properly because somewhere in that process she signed a

document that said that she couldn't sue the contractors for any issues with mold so there's that theory the mold which i i agree with you i think there's something in this house yep there's gotta be that's the like the lynch pin everyone who lived there fucking was like hi my name is britney and i feel weird about this house yeah this is for legit i think that maybe that's a like if you're in a house that is like gradually making you sicker and you don't have the concrete vocabulary to describe that you are feeling different in strange ways or whatever it could very easily translate to like something as dark-sided about this fucking house that reiki practitioner opened a portal into another realm okay number two okay on this tailored list in one

of these iterations of media storm angelo britney's father starts making some statements with this stunt double turn customs border homeland security border agent turn filmmaker named julia davis okay and they released statements about the cause of britney and then simon's death so a little backstory on julia davis real quick she's originally from the ussr she's russian she came to the us and she worked in hollywood as a stunt double she changed careers she becomes a homeland security agent she claims that she saw multiple people enter the country from other flagged countries so potential terrorists oh my god she's saying they got killed by like spies no she sees these people go through the border the san asidro border crossing which is in san diego rub rub and she's stationed as an

agent there and she sees that nobody follows up on them they're told to give the second round of inspection to anybody from these countries especially on this particular date but they all just walk on through and so she raises an alarm she becomes a whistleblower and the federal government clamps down on her ice doesn't unauthorized you know no warrant invasion of her home she's surveilled left right and center what what the fuck is this on the level are you joking me right now i don't know dude i don't know no this is like this is out there this is there's a documentary but ah she claims that could all be bullshit that could all be bullshit full disclosure i did not watch this documentary because i have i would have had to pay for this documentary and i didn't

want to do that it wasn't in the budget it wasn't in the budget that's fine we don't have a lot of line items on the bittersweet input it's pretty much t street and our web hosting that's it and occasional yeah like this whole story needs like an eight episode arc i can't you know it's just really wild i had no idea there was so much going on here the thing with julia davis is that she claims that britney murphy was a family friend she refers to hers brit right story checks out that's what angelo called her too oh my god and she claims that after julia davis blew the whistle and then got clamped down by the federal government that britney wrote the government and stood up for her and said she's a upright citizen she's doing the job that you guys want

to what on earth are you telling me and because of that the government the us government and all its power was running surveillance on britney murphy and her husband and their home the stuff got too hot and the government killed her and her husband and simon because he knew too much as well and then they covered it up give me a second to process that the documentary is called top priority wow and now she's a filmmaker britney murphy britney murphy from clueless yeah was killed by the government louis and platter yeah jesus jesus meanwhile i can't even get my fucking potholes exactly yeah it's it's pretty wild so how credibly is that theory taken by enlarge not very okay the documentary has some good reviews saying like oh well yes it's getting to the truth

about big government and da da da da da yeah but people love a conspiracy especially if it's about the deep state you know fuck yeah absolutely it's not a very credible theory but like i don't know what's the other option mold a portal opened by rakey massage therapist like pneumonia see and that's what edwinters l.a county chief that's kind of his final statement on it but that's so opportune the same death how like months apart in the same room of the same home with the same person present both times yeah it's a lot and it would have had to been a very particular situation too because why didn't sharing at least become ill maybe the mold was just in that room huh as you say it's the curse of an unsolved mystery isn't it that nothing fits neatly together

and the other thing too is like it's not like a cold case or anything like l.a county views both deaths simon monjack and brady murphy as close cases the toxicology and all the tests were conclusive and correct it's just unfortunate that it happened to the both of them that's all that they can really say because it's all closed these things can get overturned though if you look at the case of the baby was named azaria chamberlain i don't remember the mother's name but it's the dingle at my baby case where they essentially accused a woman who is exactly what we were talking about earlier someone who came off very badly in her media and was completely innocent and she insisted that a dingo had stolen her baby they said no you're a satanist this is a blood

ritual and the autopsy i believe i may be wrong indicated that the baby had been killed she went to jail and then later it was the cause of death was changed to like unconfirmed or something like this and then shortly thereafter they found the baby's jacket in a nearby dingo den and they were like oh fuck she was telling the truth yeah no that and that's totally case the thing is that we're just at a point in in this where we haven't found the dingo den you know we you're one of the britney mass if you're rolling with the homies yeah dude there is an upcoming documentary that you'll be coming out at an undisclosed date it is put together by hbo okay that's gonna be everyone petitioning your man edwinters being like yo what the fuck interesting they claim that they being

hbo max says of the documentary it's an elevated nuanced depiction of a sensationalized story good that sounds like this needs exactly yeah it needs somebody with the big bucks who can ask the right questions of the right people and put it together with care yeah because in the end fucking this wonderful actress this like really really talented individual is dead yeah oh she's she's got a laundry list of great performances absolutely and seems like a really genuinely nice person as well i mean of course she's a star oh yeah she had a very likable vibe yeah and you know like her relationship with her mom is sweet got a little weird when it got churned up into post if the mom didn't kill her but i'm gonna close us out with a with a quote from

britney murphy herself give her voice a little space here do it and i think it it does a interesting address to the sensationalized media attention that she's gotten during her life of course because she said it when she was still living but after two so she says my whole life now is being documented and i love it it's all pretty much like what when no one a writer told me they were together and girl interrupted they acted together so buds they sure were uh it's all pretty much like what when no writer told me that they will always be there during your worst times and your best times it's part of my life now and i signed up for this job and i get that it's a part of it and i can't do without that the most important thing is to have a sense of humor over the really inaccurate

information because if you don't that'll slay you wow jesus i had no idea i knew that britney murphy had died under mysterious circumstances and that people loved to conspiracize about it and i knew i knew somewhere in the back of my mind i knew that her partner had died under similar circumstances sometime later only because when you said it i was like yeah i remember yeah but i had no idea that that whole what what is do you know what what's sharing up to these days private citizen and angelo angelo died in 2019 he was not okay uh healthy and he passed away that's a shame Sharon sold the house finally was able to sell the house in about 2016 and private citizen haven't heard of course it kind of gets like pulled the story gets pulled up into the media

every once in a while and i'm sure she's contacted to appear in documentaries in second or come on dr fail or whatever i watched one documentary from discovery id and it was recorded in 2017 and it had angelo and ed winters the la county coroner chief but it didn't have it didn't have Sharon we'll have to see what this hbo max does yeah that's what i was gonna ask to throw it back to an earlier episode in episode seven jt laroy i watched two different documents two they were both films that had each been done with the participation of one or the other of the people involved in this story and they were completely different they were like night and day totally yeah that's kind of the the the catch all the the final note on this whole story is who the

fuck knows and another mystery gets left unsolved and he has cigarette thanks for tuning in if you want more infamy go to bittersweetinfamy.com or search for us wherever you find podcasts we usually release new episodes every other sunday you can also follow us on instagram at bittersweetinfamy if you like the show consider subscribing leaving a review or just telling a friend stay sweet the sources that i used for this recording were the investigation discovery documentary called britain murphy an id murder mystery the episode aired may 26 2020 directed by brian guildner i also read an article by rachel change published august 5 2020 in biography.com entitled britney murphy the mysterious circumstances surrounding her untimely

death another article this one by keith baldwin published march 19 2021 on popdust.com called this haunts me what really killed britney murphy and i read the letter by sharon murphy britney murphy's mother published in the hollywood reporter the title on that is britney murphy's mother breaks silence disputes poison claim an emotional open letter parentheses exclusive and that was published november 25 2013 i also read an article in parez hilton.com entitled britney spears fled from the house she thought was haunted then britney murphy mysteriously died there and lastly i read the imd dean article on britney murphy the song that you are now listening to is tea street by brian steel