Brittany Murphy’s family and friends celebrated her life at a private Christmas Eve funeral.
Her husband, Simon Monjack, also spoke. Murphy and Monjack were married in 2007.
The 32-year-old actress was buried Thursday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. The intimate gathering was “very nice, very respectful,” said longtime family friend Alex Ben Block, who eulogized Murphy.
Three days after Brittany Murphy passed out in her bathroom and later died, DVD rental chain Redbox said on Wednesday it was pulling a poster depicting the actress posing lifeless in a bathtub.
The company said it started removing the artwork following the death of the 32-year-old actress on Sunday, and planned to complete the job by January 1.
Coroner’s officials are looking into how the celebrity Web site TMZ obtained details on prescription drugs contained in an investigator’s report on the death of Brittany Murphy.
“I’m furious,” Winter said. “We don’t normally release partial information. If partial information goes out, it of course makes us look bad.
An autopsy on the body of actress Brittany Murphy was completed on Monday, but authorities said the exact cause of death will not be known until toxicology tests are finished in four to six weeks.
Murphy, who co-starred in the movie “Clueless” and “8 Mile,” suffered cardiac arrest on Sunday in the bathroom of her Hollywood Hills home.
Reality eclipsed fiction in 2009 as Michael Jackson took on mythic status in death, a dowdy Scottish woman burst into song on the world stage and the aura of perfection around Tiger Woods shattered in a cascade of scandal.
A child prodigy and the unrivaled “King of Pop” in the 1980s, Jackson was still in command of his talent and preparing for a comeback mega concert in London when he suddenly died June 25 in his Los Angeles mansion at age 50.
The world cant wait for the whole Michael Jackson death mystery to be resolved.
Just a day after telling E! News that his office was still shooting for the end of the week to announce an official cause of death, Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter now says the results wont likely be out until next week.
Police seized cell phones and a computer hard drive from the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jacksons personal physician on Tuesday as the probe into the pop stars sudden death focused increasingly on the doctor who was at his side when he died.
Murrays lawyer, Ed Chernoff, said after the first raid in Houston last week that police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents were looking for “evidence of the offense of manslaughter.
Police raided the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jacksons personal physician on Tuesday as the probe into the pop stars sudden death focused increasingly on the doctor who was at his side when he died.
Murrays lawyer said after the first raid last week that police and DEA agents were looking for “evidence of the offense of manslaughter.
UPDATE: In a hearing this afternoon, Judge Wendel E. Daniels confirmed that Daniel Bark would be facing the additional charges of aggravated manslaughter, death by auto and eluding police, with the bail on those counts to be set at $150,000.
Meanwhile, Barks lawyer said his client is devastated as a result of the accident.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators have begun an inquiry into whether coroner’s employees illegally leaked or sold private information related to the investigation of Michael Jackson’s death.
“It’s an inquiry, not an investigation, and it is very preliminary,” Whitmore said. “We’ve just made a couple of calls.