14 DAY TRIAL // Only a few days ago, Brittany Murphy’s father, Angelo Bertolotti, spoke up about his belief that his famous daughter and her husband Simon Monjack had been murdered by poison, most likely by government spooks because of Brittany’s involvement with a controversial whistleblower named Julia Davis.
The late actress’ mother, Sharon, who was with her at the time of her death but also with Simon when he too died 5 months later, is now addressing the claims in an open letter to The Hollywood Reporter, stressing that Bertolotti was never a father in the real sense of the word to Brittany and, therefore, couldn’t possibly have the inside information he claims to have.
Bottom line is that Ms. Murphy, who raised the actress alone when Angelo walked out on them both when she was still a toddler, says that Brittany had no relation with him – and certainly no involvement with Davis.
More importantly, the so-called lab results that Bertolotti claims he has and that prove that his daughter was poisoned, have no relevance because they’re not conclusive.
“An analysis from a sample of hair is not considered dependable unless it is backed up by tests of tissue and blood and other analysis – which he did not do (the coroner did, but they show no similar results). I am also told one lab may give different results than another lab in terms of heavy metals, and the proper method requires multiple tests before any results are released,” Ms. Murphy says.
“The lab Angelo used, if you can call it that, is an Internet site that farmed out the actual testing and then wrote horribly untrue things under the guise of ‘analysis.’ It mentioned rat poison as a possible cause and claimed to be able to say that a third party murdered my beloved daughter,” she continues.
“To even mention that the heavy metals that were listed in his test are in rat poison, leading to articles suggesting Brittany ingested that or anything like it, is absurd. If she had, don't you think it would have shown up in the coroner's test of her blood and tissue? A reputable expert will tell you that what this lab did is an ethical violation of the highest order; to even pretend to be able to draw such conclusions on unreliable evidence is the real crime,” Ms. Murphy says.
Brittany died in December 2009 of natural causes related to pneumonia and anemia. Her husband died 5 months later of the same cause, which has prompted Sharon Murphy to believe that the mold in the house might have played a part in their death.
However, toxicology tests ran by the Coroner’s Office did not detect anything even remotely similar to poison, as she also says. Convinced that there was something fishy or, according to his ex, simply eager to make a buck off his dead daughter, Bertolotti filed a lawsuit against the Coroner’s Office to obtain the samples and have them tested at a different laboratory.
His case was dropped after he failed to show up on court on the appointed dates. He didn’t say where he got the hair sample from, on which he claims he had experts conduct those “revealing” tests, but this open letter from Brittany’s mom sure is an eye-opener.
Embedded below is a recent appearance by Bertolotti and Davis on The Doctors.