By abcnews.com
It’s a tragic end for a Hollywood couple: just five months after the sudden death of his actress wife, Brittany Murphy , Simon Monjack was found dead at his Los Angeles home late Sunday, according to police.
The 39-year-old British screenwriter’s preliminary cause of the death is natural causes, police spokesman Sgt. Louie Lozano told The Associated Press.
“We concluded there no signs of foul play or any criminal activity involved,” Sgt. Alex Ortiz, another police spokesman, told the AP.
Firefighters found Monjack dead at his Hollywood Hills home after responding to an emergency call from a woman at 9:40 p.m., according to police spokesman Sgt. Louie Lozano. Ortiz told the AP he didn’t know who placed the call. Monjack and Murphy had shared their home with Murphy’s mother, Sharon.
Monjack was outspoken about his grief following Murphy’s December death. He described how he had lost his “best friend and soul mate” as the “Clueless” and “Girl, Interrupted” star was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park on Christmas Eve.
The 32-year-old actress was found in the bathroom of her Hollywood Hills home on Dec. 20, 2009 and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
At the time, Monjack said that the day before Murphy’s death, she was ill and stayed in bed all day. She was suffering from laryngitis, which she treated with herbal tea, ginger and lemon.
“She was on herbal remedies that wouldn’t speed up her heart,” Monjack told People magazine. “There was nothing here that could endanger her. There was prescription medication in the house for her female time and some cough syrup. That was it.”
In February, the Los Angeles County coroner concluded that Murphy’s death was accidental but likely preventable. The office said the primary cause of her death was pneumonia, while iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication also played a part. The coroner found “elevated levels” of Vicodin and drugs from over-the-counter cold medicine in her system, but no illegal substances.
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he took being a DIE-HARD too literally.