{"id":239700,"date":"2010-01-28T00:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T05:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=90707"},"modified":"2010-01-28T00:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T05:38:45","slug":"simon-monjack-threatens-brittany-murphy-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/239700","title":{"rendered":"Simon Monjack Threatens Brittany Murphy Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Simon Monjack, widower of late actress Brittany Murphy, blames Warner Brothers Studios for the star’s sudden death last month and the grief-stricken hubby plans to make the film company pay. Brittany died of an apparent cardiac arrest after collapsing in her Los Angeles mansion only days before Christmas. She was 32.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy interview with The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em> Wednesday, the British producer claims that the devastation Brittany felt over losing a role in the forthcoming sequel to Happy Feet<\/em> — the 2006 animated adventure in which she starred — caused the actress to suffer a heart attack.<\/p>\n

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Monjack said Warner dropped Murphy from the project because of false reports of drug use and erratic behavior on the Puerto Rican set of the box office thriller The Caller<\/em>. Simon claims Brittany withdrew from the film after she was forced to work an exhausting 12 hour schedule. Tabloid reports, on the other hand, claim Monjack turned up drunk on set and caused a scene.<\/p>\n

A fuming Simon told the site: “The reports about the Puerto Rican set are fantasy. I was never, ever drunk there. What I did do was demand they follow union rules and after she had worked 12 hour days, six days a week, that she get the breaks she was entitled to. I was \u2018difficult\u2019 because I was the enforcer to protect Brittany. She was far too nice to stand up to directors and producers who wanted her to work to exhaustion. Warner Brothers relied on conjecture and hearsay about the Puerto Rico film for why they cancelled Brittany\u2019s role in Happy Feet. You\u2019re disposable as an actress or actor.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

In an interview on NBC’s The TODAY Show<\/em> last week, urged actor Brad Pitt and Matt Damon — who have been linked to the Happy Feet sequel — to boycott the feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simon Monjack, widower of late actress Brittany Murphy, blames Warner Brothers Studios for the star’s sudden death last month and the grief-stricken hubby plans to make the film company pay. Brittany died of an apparent cardiac arrest after collapsing in her Los Angeles mansion only days before Christmas. She was 32. In a lengthy interview […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}