Tancredo launches ad blaming Hickenlooper for toddlers death (open and watch the video)
http://washingtonindependent.com/99790/tancredo-launches-ad-blaming-hickenlooper-for-toddlers-death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Monjack
Excerpt:
Career
Monjack directed, produced, and wrote the
B-movie Two Days, Nine Lives in 2000.
[10] He received story credit for the 2006
biopic Factory Girl about
Warhol actress/model
Edie Sedgwick.
[1] Director
George Hickenlooper contends that "Monjack had nothing to do with
Factory Girl" and that "he filed a frivolous lawsuit against us [...] making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel." Monjack denied these claims.
[11] In 2007,
E! News reported that Monjack was slated to direct a film adaptation of
D. M. Thomas's novel about
Sigmund Freud,
The White Hotel, with Brittany Murphy cast in a leading role.
[12] The project never materialized.
[edit] Legal troubles
In 2005,
warrants were issued for Monjack's arrest in
Virginia on charges of
credit card fraud, but the charges were later dropped.
[13]
In 2006,
Coutts Bank successfully sued Monjack, who had been evicted from four homes, for $470,000.
[13]
In February 2007, Monjack was arrested and spent nine days in jail, facing
deportation, because his
visa to the
United States had expired.
[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hickenlooper
Excerpt:
John Wright Hickenlooper (born February 7, 1952) is an
American politician who has been the
42nd Governor of Colorado since January 2011. A
Democrat, he was previously the
Mayor of
Denver,
Colorado from 2003 to 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hickenlooper
Excerpt:
George Hickenlooper's cousin,
John Hickenlooper, then the mayor of
Denver and now the
Governor of Colorado, made a
cameo appearance as a fictional senator in
Hickenlooper's 2010 film
Casino Jack.[2]
In addition to his films, Hickenlooper authored a 1991 book,
Reel Conversations.
[edit] Personal life
Hickenlooper died in his sleep on October 29, 2010.
[3][4] Despite initial reports that Hickenlooper had suffered a heart attack, the coroner ruled that his death was the result of accidental painkiller overdose, combining
oxymorphone with alcohol.
Sleep apnea and a "moderately enlarged heart" were contributing factors.
[5] He is survived by his wife Suzanne, son Charles, a younger brother, and his mother and father.
[3]
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-24/what-killed-brittanys-husband/
Excerpt:
Riccardo Savi / Getty Images When Simon Monjack died in the same house where his wife died five months earlier, the tabloids exploded with allegations of a dark and troubled past.
Celebrity drug addicts, and those who supply them with drugs, have all sorts of ways to try and convince people that they are sober individuals, with no connections to illicit substances. Witness Simon Monjack, who died on Sunday night at the age of 39, amid a torrent of speculation that he and his deceased wife Brittany Murphy had had problems with cocaine and prescription medications.
When his wife died in December, there were pill bottles lying all around the house. But Monjack had explanations: She was hypoglycemic; he had heart problems and survived oral cancer.
Click Image to View Exclusive Images of Brittany Murphy Photographed by Simon Monjack
The final autopsy report later pointed to “multiple drug intoxication,” though it found no evidence of illegal drugs.
Now Monjack is dead, too. And, yet again, reports have surfaced that there were significant amounts of prescription medications in the house. "We're not sure if it is natural causes or a possible accident, maybe because of the prescription medication found there," Ed Winter, the assistant chief coroner in L.A., told People magazine on Monday.
A family spokesman, meanwhile, told the magazine that Monjack was due for a bypass. “I don’t believe he had an overdose,” the spokesman said. “If you have a heart condition, you’re going to have prescription medication for yourself. You’re going to be on some kind of medicine.”
At the time of his death, Monjack, a Brit, was known in Hollywood as a sometime director, with a history of messy romantic entanglements, bad debt, and other legal trouble.
In 2001, he married
Simone Bienne, a British TV presenter and self-described “sex and relationship expert.” But five months after their gunshot wedding in Las Vegas, the couple got divorced.
For a spell, Monjack dated Alexandra Kerry, the daughter of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, according to the New York Post.
But Murphy already owned his heart.
The couple met when Murphy was just 17, the actress later told OK Magazine. “We checked in with each other over the years and remained friends,” she said. “I was very patient,” Monjack added.
Shortly after their wedding in 2007, New York Post’s Page Six reported that Murphy’s behavior on the L.A. set of
Across the Hall had become “increasingly bizarre.” A major issue, according to the gossip column, was Murphy’s “ever-present oddball husband,” who “lurks around the set and intervenes so much that producers had to call a meeting to discuss how to deal with him.”
Other Hollywood trouble included a spat with director George Hickenlooper, who claimed that Monjack had muscled his way to a producer’s credit on
Factory Girl, a biopic of Edie Sedgwick. According to a post by Hickenlooper on the Hollywood Elsewhere blog, Monjack had “nothing to do” with the movie’s development but falsely claimed that the movie’s script had been stolen from him and “held us hostage,” Hickenlooper wrote. “We were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.” In another post on Hollywood Elsewhere, Hickenlooper wrote about Monjack: “He is a con man and a bad guy. When Brittany married him I warned her and warned her as did so many others.”
Other Hollywood trouble included a spat with director
George Hickenlooper, who claimed that Monjack had muscled his way to a producer’s credit on
Factory Girl, a biopic of Edie Sedgwick.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/234431/celebrities/the-brittany-murphy-murder-in-pictures.html
Excerpt:
The word
hurtful is not of the
Sun’s design. Hurtful is what Murphy and Monjack said about the “
preposterous lies”, those “
hurtful” reports on their private lives. The
Sun listens. The
Sun says Monjack once failed to pay rent on a flat. He had been married before, to a Simone Bienne and went to court over a settlement. There was a judgment made against him by Coutts & Company, “
the Queen’s bankers”. How low can you get – getting into a row with a nice old lady like the Queen?
http://www.simonebienne.com/
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