Brittany Murphy died at the age of 32 in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a medical request at her home at 8:00 a.m. after she collapsed in a bathroom. She was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 10:05 a.m. after going into cardiac arrest. The coroner's report later cited pneumonia, exacerbated by anemia and multiple drug intoxication, as the cause of death, with the manner of death ruled as accidental. This event is the central tragic event in her biography.
