Late actress Brittany Murphy's husband found dead in LA

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Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia five months earlier at the age of 32.

5 months · time since Murphy's death32 years · Murphy's age at death

Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia at age 32, with iron-deficiency anaemia and multiple drug intoxication as secondary factors.

32 years · Brittany Murphy

Simon Monjack told Access Hollywood: "My world was destroyed yesterday" after Brittany Murphy's death.

The film Factory Girl, based on Monjack's original story, was released in 2006.

2006 year · Factory Girl (film)

Simon Monjack was found dead at his Hollywood Hills home on Sunday night.

Sgt Louie Lozano, Police spokesman

The preliminary cause of Simon Monjack's death was natural causes.

Simon Monjack attended the Academy Awards earlier this year.

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Brittany Murphy's husband Simon Monjack has been found dead at his home in Los Angeles.

Police spokesman Sgt Louie Lozano said the British screenwriter was found dead at his house in Hollywood Hills on Sunday night.

He added that the preliminary cause of death was natural causes but investigators are still at the scene.

The news comes five months after the death of US actress Murphy, who died of pneumonia aged 32.

Iron-deficiency anaemia and "multiple drug intoxication" were secondary factors in her death.

"My world was destroyed yesterday," Simon Monjack told Access Hollywood after the death of his wife, who starred in Clueless, 8 Mile and Just Married.

Monjack wrote the original story of Factory Girl, which was then turned into a screenplay - the 2006 film starred Guy Pearce and Sienna Miller as pop artist Andy Warhol and his muse, Edie Sedgwick.

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