I just posted about Brittany Murphy’s gone-too-soon death, and have been browsing around the sites for more info.
On Showbiz411, Roger Friedman gives some insight as to what was happening behind the scenes with Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack. It sounds like he was bad news.
Apparently, Murphy had been fired from the film “The Caller,” because Monjack came on the set inebriated. The producers wanted to keep him away, but Murphy defended him. So she was let go.
Even after hearing this story, however, director Michael Z. Gordon planned to cast her in a movie called “Shrinking Charlotte.”
Friedman reports that Monjack is not a favorite of the Hollywood crowd. “I spoke to two others movie producers today who came in contact with him on a project in the last couple of years. They described him as a ‘con man.’ Neither had anything nice to say, but one of them warned: ‘He’s a dangerous guy.’ According to this producer, Monjack presented himself as someone with a lot of money and had none at all. A lawsuit was settled after the film in question was made.”
The British Monjack also has a lot of legal problems. He was arrested a month prior to marrying Murphy in May 2007 because his visa had expired. The tabloids have speculated that he married her to avoid deportation.
He’s also a defendant in several lawsuits. In 2006, the British bank Coutts and Company received a judgment against him to the tune of $470,000. In 2005, he and his girlfriend were evicted from their New York apartment for $7,025 in back rent. And in November 2007, six months after marrying Murphy, Monjack was chased into a Los Angeles Superior Court by his ex-wife, Simone Bienne. She claimed that Monjack never paid her the $50,000 she was owed from their 2006 British divorce. The court awarded her the money, plus fees and interest.
You know who this reminds me of? Martin Melcher, the con man who was married to Doris Day and bilked her out of millions. Murphy even looks a little like a young Doris Day. The rumor mill is also buzzing that Murphy had drug problems, though. If Monjack is everything Friedman is reporting, it’s no wonder she did.
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she didn’t care about anything but the drugs he supplied her with.
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Martin Melcher was NOT a con-man. He was bilked out of Doris Day (and his) money by an unscrupulous business associate. Like many in show business, they trusted their financial advisor and both had been duped.
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You said: “You know who this reminds me of? Martin Melcher, the con man who was married to Doris Day and bilked her out of millions.”
It was originally thought that Melcher was behind Ms Day’s financial problems, but it was later proven that he was merely duped by the unscrupulous tactics of their financial manager, Jerome Rosenthal. Many others in Hollywood had been “taken” by this guy.
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