Simon Monjack, Brittany Murphy's Husband, Dead from Overdose?

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office believes that Simon Monjack, the 39-year-old husband of Brittany Murphy whose body was found in his L.A. home Sunday, may have died of an overdose. Given the number of prescription medication bottles found in the master bedroom where Monjack's body was discovered, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter told Radar Online that investigators now think Monjack either died of a heart attack or an accidental overdose. Simon Monjack's death may come to mirror Murphy's.

It didn't take long for the numerous bottles of prescription bottles found in the same room where Brittany Murphy was found unresponsive on December 20 to ignite speculation that the young actress may have died of an overdose. The same can be said for her husband. Winter said that Monjack had a "huge number of medicines by his bedside." And until the toxicology and screenings tests are finalized, an overdose, accidental or otherwise, cannot be completely ruled out as a cause of death.

Although many assume that if the cause of death -- if it were to be found to be an overdose -- was accidental or self-induced, he would then have died by his own hand. But that would not necessarily true. The presence of drugs in Monjack's system would also open the door to premeditated murder.

Someone else could have introduced the drugs into his system.

Nothing like a death in Hollywood to ignite the imaginations of writers...

Simon Monjack was discovered in the master bedroom of the Los Angeles home he shared with his wife, Brittany Murphy, until her death. Brittany's mother, Sharon, also lived in the home. It was she that found Monjack's body and called 911. Firefighters arriving on the scene found Monjack to already be dead.

Sharon Murphy also found the body of her daughter in December.

The Los Angeles Police Department released Monjack's body to the Coroner's Office after determining that there was no obvious signs of criminal activity or weapons.

But no signs of criminal activity does not mean that criminal activity did not transpire, nor does it mean that a criminal act did not lead to Monjack's death. It simply means that there were no obvious signs of criminal activity found in the preliminary investigation, which determined that Monjack died of natural causes. The autopsy and investigation by the Coroner's Office may reveal evidence of criminal activity.

Or it may not.

Which then leads back to an induced (self or otherwise) overdose or an accidental overdose. And just because there are no obvious signs of a criminal or malicious act does not mean that one did not take place. Still, an overdose engineered by another person would be extremely difficult to prove without some kind of circumstantial of physical evidence to support the theory.

And that is if Simon Monjack died of an overdose.

He could have died of natural causes, such as a heart attack or some other type of organ failure.

In the end, it must be remembered: Hollywood hates a dull story...

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RadarOnline.com