Actress Brittany Murphy dies at age 32
BRITTANY MURPHY HAS PASSED!!! 
I want to send out my condolences to Brittany’s family, especially her mother Sharon – as I know they shared a very close bond… I am so, so sad to hear this news… Brittany was an incredibly talented individual and I’m an so sorry that she has been taken from us too soon!
Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit “Clueless” and rose to stardom in “8 Mile,” died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 32.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Spokeswoman Sally Stewart said Murphy died at 10:04 a.m. She would not provide a cause of death or any other information.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at 8 a.m. Sunday at the home Murphy shared with her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, in West Hollywood hills. Murphy was transported to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into Murphy’s death, Officer Norma Eisenman said. Detectives and coroner’s officials were at Murphy and Monjack’s home Sunday afternoon but did not talk to reporters. Paparazzi were camped outside.
Messages left for Murphy’s manager, agent and publicist by The Associated Press weren’t immediately returned.
Neighbor Clare Staples said she saw firefighters working to resuscitate the actress Sunday morning. She said Murphy was on a stretcher and “looked as though she was dead at the scene.”
Murphy’s husband, wearing pajama bottoms and no shoes, appeared “dazed” as firefighters tried to save her, Staples said.
“It’s just tragic,” she said.
TMZ.com first reported Murphy’s death Sunday morning.
