54. He Has His Suspicions
Following the loss of Murphy, her father Angelo Bertolotti came out of the woodwork and made some shocking allegations of his own. He acquired some of his daughters hair and had a toxicology test done on the strands. The results convinced him that someone had poisoned his daughter and son-in-law…and his suspicions fell on one person in particular: his ex-wife, Sharon Murphy.
Murphy disputed the claims in a public letter—but Bertolotti wasn’t done yet.
55. Things Got Even Weirder
The tabloids went wild covering the public feud between Brittany Murphy’s parents—but what many missed was the couple’s bizarre potential connection to an alleged government cover-up. Remember how many remarked that Monjack was particularly paranoid about surveillance? Well, if the story is true, he may have had good reason…
56. Another Character Appears
The tale is strange and complicated, so buckle in. In 2004, Former Department of Homeland Security officer Julia Davis reported an influx of people with “suspicious” backgrounds entering the US on July 4th to her superiors. Upon finding that most of them were on leave for the holiday, she escalated her report to the FBI.
It was then that Julia Davis alleged that DHS retaliated—and where Brittany Murphy comes in.
57. They Were Targets
Julia Davis claims that she was close friends with Murphy, and that Murphy even testified on her behalf during Davis’s litigation against the government. She says that, as a result, the DHS put Murphy and Monjack on a DHS watch list and that the DHS targeted Monjack, who was British, for deportation. Still with us? Well, it gets deeper…
58. They Lived In Fear
Davis produced a documentary about her experiences titled Top Priority: The Terror Within in 2012. One of her interview subjects? None other than Angelo Bertolotti. In the doc, Davis claims that Simon Monjack suspected that the government was monitoring him and his wife and that agents had bugged their phones. A few days after Monjack made his suspicions public, Murphy passed on.
[/media-credit] Brittany Murphy's father, Angelo Bertolotti, national security whistleblower Julia Davis, and director Asif Akbar attending the premiere of documentary film Top Priority: The Terror Within.Wikimedia Commons Brittany Murphy's father, Angelo Bertolotti, national security whistleblower Julia Davis, and director Asif Akbar attending the premiere of documentary film Top Priority: The Terror Within.
59. She Doesn’t Believe A Word
It’s worth noting that Murphy’s mother Sharon has refuted all of Davis’s claims about her daughter, saying that “Brittany never cooperated with Julia Davis, never signed any statement in support of her, never met with her and barely knew she existed." Well, considering that her ex-husband was working with Davis, it’s not surprising.
60. They’re Still Fighting About It
In January 2019, nine years after Murphy’s loss, Angelo Bertolotti passed on at the age of 92—but that doesn’t mean that his cause did. His son, Brittany’s half-brother, has continued his father’s quest for the truth about Murphy’s passing, keeping her name in the news more than a decade after she took her final breaths. With all the competing stories and third parties, it’s unlikely that we’ll ever know what really happened to Brittany Murphy.
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