# TMZ: 'Sin City' Actress Brittany Murphy Dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976 "2009-12-20T19:15:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/1 "2009-12-20T19:15:37Z")
> **[Brittany Murphy Dies](https://www.tmz.com/2009/12/20/brittany-murphy-dies-cardiac-arrest/)** > > Brittany Murphy died early this morning after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived, multiple sources tell TMZ. Cardiac arrest is given as the cause. She was 32 and also starred in _Clueless_ and _Don’t Say A Word_ ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/2 "2009-12-20T19:18:36Z")
That sucks. I liked her as the voice of Luanne of ‘King Of The Hill’. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Cleveland\_Steamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Cleveland\_Steamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Cleveland_Steamer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/3 "2009-12-20T19:28:33Z")
This is a real loss. Not really. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/4 "2009-12-20T19:37:56Z")
“Sin City Actress”? Is that really the role she’s best known for? A friend just told me. It kind of sucks, but I was never a big fan. Still, I’m a little sad. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/5 "2009-12-20T19:38:15Z")
> [@The\_Cleveland\_Steamer](#): > > This is a real loss. > > Not really. Was this really necessary? She was a human being, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/6 "2009-12-20T19:42:51Z")
This blows. First Dan, now Brittany. She was brilliant in [Spun](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283003/), one of my favorite movies. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Cleveland\_Steamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Cleveland\_Steamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Cleveland_Steamer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/7 "2009-12-20T19:43:05Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Was this really necessary? She was a human being, you know. _Was_ a human being. Now she is apparently rotting meat. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/8 "2009-12-20T19:46:15Z")
Sad. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/9 "2009-12-20T20:02:29Z")
That’s terrible. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/10 "2009-12-20T20:03:48Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Cardiac arrest is given as the cause. She was 32 and also starred in _Clueless_ and _Don’t Say A Word_ Isn’t cardiac arrest just Hollywood-speak for drug overdose? I hope I’m wrong, but something tells me I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/11 "2009-12-20T20:05:36Z")
That \*really \*sucks. I quite liked her in everything she was in. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/12 "2009-12-20T20:05:56Z")
This may as yet be a false rumor. TMZ is the only one reporting it. Everybody else is basing their reports on TMZ. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/13 "2009-12-20T20:07:05Z")
The Huffington post has it now too. > **[Brittany Murphy Was Recent Subject of Controversy](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brittany-murphy-was-recen_b_398594)** > > There's bound to be speculation about the cause of Murphy's death. Initial reports cite cardiac arrest, the same cause that was attributed to Michael Jackson's death this summer. it does reference TMZ as their source though. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/14 "2009-12-20T20:07:59Z")
I’d heard drugs and eating disorder rumours about her before - I do hope it’s not that. Follows an emergency last month when her husband was rushed to the hospital off a flight at LAX. Very sad. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/15 "2009-12-20T20:11:01Z")
I don’t recall TMZ ever fucking up one of these kinds of reports. They apparently have paid sources in pretty much every L.A. area hospital and police station. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/16 "2009-12-20T20:12:04Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > This may as yet be a false rumor. TMZ is the only one reporting it. Everybody else is basing their reports on TMZ. TMZ may specialize in covering dirt, but they’re _very_ reliable as a news source. (Depending on your definition of news.) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/17 "2009-12-20T20:14:30Z")
. . . about 11 or 12 years ago saw her on Broadway in The Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Arthur Miller’s [A View From The Bridge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_view_from_the_bridge). The production also starred Anthony LaPaglia and Allison Janney, an amazing production with one of the best casts I’ve ever been in a live audience for. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/18 "2009-12-20T20:16:35Z")
I know they generally get it right, but they do occasionally get it wrong. As a rule I wait for a larger, more reputable organization to confirm those rumors. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/19 "2009-12-20T20:17:27Z")
I think I heard (just last week) that she was fired from a role in a film that was already partially shot, which is pretty unusual, and would seem to indicate that if the studio was willing to write her off of a project that was fully underway, she must have really been giving them problems… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976/20 "2009-12-20T20:18:57Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > “Sin City Actress”? Is that really the role she’s best known for? For a whlie, she was the insufferable “I’ll never tell” girl from those _Don’t Say a Word_ promos, but I think her most memorable roles were in _Clueless_, with _Girl, Interrupted_ and _8 Mile_ following close behind. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmz-sin-city-actress-brittany-murphy-dead/521976.md?page=2)