The house where doomed star Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack, died was sold for $ 12.2 million, the Post may reveal.
The sale, which took place under the radar on December 29, 2020, is just the latest chapter in the long and mysterious saga of the house.
Perched atop the Sunset Strip, the Los Angeles home was sold to Murphy by pop superstar Britney Spears in 2008.
At 8 am on December 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at the house, where Murphy, 32, apparently passed out in a bathroom. She was transported to Cedars-Sinai hospital, where she died about two hours after suffering cardiac arrest.
Her husband, 40, died just five months later, on May 23, 2010 – also at the Hollywood Hills residence.
The fire department was called back to the house for a medical emergency, after Murphy’s mother, Sharon, found Monjack unconscious in the main room at around 9:20 pm. He was pronounced dead by paramedics.
The coroner’s report concluded that Monjack’s cause of death was acute pneumonia and severe anemia, similar to the causes attributed to his wife’s death.
In late 2010, authorities planned an inspection of the home to determine whether the toxic mold could have contributed to their deaths. However, this theory was later dismissed by the coroner’s office. Still, the circumstances surrounding their deaths still haunt fans to this day: This week, HBO Max announced a two-part documentary about the actress “Clueless” and “Uptown Girls”.
But the house itself has a story to tell. In the 11 years since Murphy and Monjack’s death, the property has been listed 10 different times.
In 2013, a complete deconstruction and renovation of the large mansion began, which lasted three years. The developers sought to demolish the original structure and update the property with a contemporary design to suit the SoCal lifestyle.
In 2017, the house was finally sold to a new owner, before being sold again three months ago, at a loss of $ 2 million.
While Spears lived there, she had a decidedly scary experience with the house, according to her ex-makeup artist Julianne Kaye.
In the February 24 episode of the podcast “We Need To Talk About Britney”, Kaye claims that Spears told her about an encounter with supernatural forces: “[Spears] there was that place at Sunset Plaza – and I’m just going to say, this is very strange … She calls me … I asked my friend to do reiki healing on her, he showed up, I think she had a crazy weekend parties and needed to relax. He left, and she swears to God that he opened some spiritual portal or something, and these evil spirits came in … and they were trying, like, to push her down the stairs or something crazy. “
“It was so bad that she left,” continues Kaye. “She went to the Casa Del Mar hotel to stay there and never came home. She said, ‘I know you’re going to think I’m crazy. I’m not crazy. I know what I saw, I know what I felt. ‘”
But it seems that the most recent owners of the house have gone to great lengths to make their history gloomy.
Here is a look inside the mansion with five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
The house has an open floor plan with floor-to-ceiling windows in almost every room. A Crestron smart home system includes automated blinds to allow natural light to flow everywhere, according to the list.
The gourmet kitchen includes state-of-the-art Miele appliances and opens onto a patio with wooden planks. The master suite offers stunning views of the city and has two closets, men’s and women’s bathrooms and a private patio.
An elevator has also been added, which goes from the garage to the master bedroom.
Other features include a home theater, a massage room, a wine cellar, an infinity pool, a spa, a built-in barbecue with seating and a custom fire pit.
