Oh my God.

Five months after the death of actress Brittany Murphy, her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, was found dead Sunday night in the couple’s Hollywood home, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.

Monjack, 39, was pronounced dead after the Los Angeles Fire Department was called to the residence for a medical emergency, say authorities. Police spokesman Sgt. Louie Lozano said the preliminary cause of death was natural causes, but investigators remained at the scene.

Law enforcement sources told the Hollywood Reporter that Brittany’s mother, Sharon, discovered Monjack around 9:30, unresponsive, and called 911.

Murphy, 32, died in December due to pneumonia, an iron deficiency and multiple drug intoxication. The couple, who married in 2007, had no children.

After Murphy’s death, a Los Angeles coroner official, Assistant Chief Ed Winter, told PEOPLE: “This death could’ve been preventable. Murphy was planning on seeing a doctor, but she unfortunately passed away before she did. This was a case of a person with pneumonia who was anemic [having a low blood count] who was taking medication when she should’ve been getting medical treatment.”

In an interview with PEOPLE in January, Monjack maintained that his wife had visited a doctor. “I took very good care of my wife … She was on an antibiotic and she was taking cough medicine and doing all the right things,” he said.

Regarding concern from Murphy’s friends that Monjack should be investigated, Winter said: “He was never considered a suspect. No one’s criminally liable here because this has been ruled an accident.”

Almost six months after his former co-star and girlfriend Brittany Murphy died unexpectedly at the age of 32, Ashton Kutcher says he still cannot make sense of her passing.

In his first in-depth public comments about Murphy’s death, Kutcher told ABC’s “Nightline,” “I don’t think you can [make sense of her death]. I don’t know if you try to make sense of it or not. I just celebrate who she was. She was like the person who walked in the room and she was always, like, the first person to dance.

“You know when you go to a party and everybody is standing around and the music is going and, you know, sooner or later everyone is going to dance,” he continued. “She was always the first person to dance. And I just try to connect to that and celebrate who she was and how she was and not make sense of it, ’cause there is no sense of making sense of it.”

MTV News got an inside look at Kutcher and Murphy’s relationship when we visited the set of their 2003 film, “Just Married.” “I learn something from that girl every day. She is a pro,” he said. “She just brings it, man. She’s really, really awesome. She makes me smile every day. She shows me something about my job every day. She’s the best, man. I’ll do anything with her, any movie, hands down.”

But the couple eventually split and Murphy was long dogged by rumors of drug abuse and eating disorders. Her death in December 2009 was officially ruled a result of pneumonia. By that point, the former flames had largely lost touch.

“I mean, she came in, we were casting a TV show that we were producing, and I wanted her to play this role in it,” Kutcher said. “And she came in, and I got to see her probably about two months before she passed away.”

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DVD/Blu-ray Release Slated for Summer 2010

Anchor Bay Entertainment announced today the acquisition of the psychological thriller Abandoned for North American distribution through its Anchor Bay Films label. Directed by Michael Feifer (A Christmas Proposal, Soda Springs), the film is written by Peter Sullivan (Eve’s Christmas, Termination Point), from a story by Jeffrey Schenck and Peter Sullivan and is the last screen appearance by the late actress Brittany Murphy.

Produced by Jeffrey Schenck (Boy Next Door, American Bandits, “The Dog Who Saved Christmas”) and Barry Barnholtz (“The Dog Who Saved Christmas”, Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas) for Hybrid, Abandoned is slated to be released in summer 2010.

“Anchor Bay established its reputation by releasing some of the most thrilling films on the market, and Abandoned is a movie that delivers,” states Kevin Kasha, senior vice president, acquisitions, Anchor Bay Films. “Abandoned has the kind of twists and turns that will have the audience guessing until the end; and keep them talking after.”

Producer Barnholtz says, “Anchor Bay understands the horror and thriller genres, the entire team is unbelievably talented, and I think Abandoned fits in perfectly with the company’s outstanding catalog.”

Abandoned is, sadly, the final film role for the talented actress Brittany Murphy (Sin City, 8 Mile, Girl Interrupted, Clueless), who passed away in December. Producers Barnholtz and Schenck have released this joint statement: “Brittany will be deeply missed by everyone who worked on Abandoned. The film is a taut thriller which portrays Brittany’s character as smart and tough – and that’s how we all want to remember her.”

Anchor Bay Entertainment President Bill Clark adds, “Releasing this young actress’s last film is both an honor and bittersweet. It was important to Anchor Bay that the timing of this release be right, because we’re sensitive to such a tragic loss. However, we also recognize that Brittany’s fans will want to see her amazing work.”

Abandoned follows Mary Walsh (Murphy) as she delivers boyfriend Kevin (Dean Cain, TV’s “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”) to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he’s mysteriously vanished. An administrator (Mimi Rogers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, TV’s “The X Files”) can’t find any record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary is taken to staff psychiatrist Dr. Bensley (Peter Bogdanovich, TV’s “The Sopranos,” directed Mask, Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show), who pronounces her unstable. Now she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity. A stranger informs Mary he knows Kevin’s whereabouts, but demands a $10 million ransom, this forces Mary to save herself and the man she loves … by any means necessary.

Anchor Bay Films is unique in that it offers the creative community a fully integrated distribution capability and an international solution extending beyond the U.S. Anchor Bay Films, a division of Anchor Bay Entertainment, is on the ground providing quality distribution with operations in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, as well as distribution capabilities in other key territories. The company focuses on a platform release strategy for its films with an eye toward maximizing their potential across all ancillary distribution platforms. Recent releases include Spread starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche, The Open Road starring Jeff Bridges and Justin Timberlake, Broken Lizard’s The Slammin’ Salmon starring Michael Clarke Duncan, and After.Life starring Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci. Its current theatrical release Frozen premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and it will release City Island, starring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies, in March 2010.

The L.A. County coroner’s office says actress Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia complicated by an iron deficiency, anemia and multiple drug intoxication.

Coroner officials said Murphy had gone into sudden cardiac arrest because of “drug intake,” and the Dec. 20 death was classified as an accident. They said an autopsy report would be available in two weeks.

Murphy, 32, went into cardiac arrest at her home in the Hollywood Hills. L.A. firefighters responded to a medical call at about 8 a.m. at the home she shared with husband Simon Monjack in the 1800 block of Rising Glen Road.

Firefighters tried unsuccessfully to revive Murphy on the way to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead about two hours later.

Born Nov. 10, 1977, in Atlanta, Murphy moved to Burbank with her mother when she was 13. Her film break came in the movie “Clueless” (1995), in which she starred opposite Alicia Silverstone.

Murphy made many other film appearances, including in “Girl Interrupted” (1999), “8 Mile” (2002), “The Dead Girl” (2006), and “Across the Hall” (2009). She also was featured as the voice of Luanne Platter in the Fox TV show “King of the Hill.”

From the Los Angeles Times