Simon Monjack
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Monjack in March 2010
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| Born |
Simon Mark Monjack 9 March 1970 Hillingdon, Greater London, UK |
| Died | 23 May 2010 (aged 40) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | pneumonia and anemia |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British/American |
| Education | Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe |
| Occupation | Writer, director, producer |
| Years active | 2000–2007 |
| Spouse(s) |
Simone Bienne (m. 2001; div. 2006) Brittany Murphy (m. 2007; d. 2009) |
| Children | 1 |
Simon Mark Monjack (9 March 1970 – 23 May 2010) was a British screenwriter, film director, film producer and make-up artist. He was the husband of American actress Brittany Murphy.
Simon was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, to a Jewish family. He grew up in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. He attended Juniper Hill School, Flackwell Heath, then Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. When he was 15, his father, William (1949–1986), died of a brain tumour in Oxfordshire. His mother Linda (née Hall), a hypnotherapist, lives in Bourne End.
Monjack directed, produced, and wrote the B-movie Two Days, Nine Lives in 2000. He received story credit for the 2006 biographical film Factory Girl about Warhol actress/model Edie Sedgwick. Director George Hickenlooper contended that "Monjack had nothing to do with Factory Girl" and that "he filed a frivolous lawsuit against us [...] making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel." Monjack denied these claims. In 2007, E! News reported that Monjack was slated to direct a film adaptation of D. M. Thomas's novel about Sigmund Freud, The White Hotel, with Brittany Murphy cast in a leading role.
Monjack married Simone Bienne in Las Vegas in November 2001; they separated five months later, and were divorced in 2006. That year, he met actress Brittany Murphy (although he claimed to have met her when she was a teenager and stayed in touch). In April 2007, they married in a private Jewish ceremony at their Los Angeles home. The couple did not announce their engagement beforehand and rarely made public appearances together before their marriage. On 20 December 2009, Murphy died after collapsing in their bathroom. The cause was later revealed to be pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anemia and multiple prescription drug intoxication.
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