For those of you who don’t know about Brittany Murphy’s sudden death yesterday I will give you a quick rundown. A 911 call was placed from the 32-year-old’s actress home yesterday and after paramedics tried to help her they brought her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m.
Foul play is not suspected but police say they are doing a routine investigation into her death and hope to do an autopsy at some stage today. As soon as news of her sad death broke celebrities took to their twitter accounts and spoke to newsoutlets about the loss….
Alicia Silverstone: “I always felt connected to her as we shared a very special experience in our lives together, I feel love in my heart for her – and hope she is at peace. This is truly sad.”
Donald Faison: “Brittany was one of the sweetest people you will ever meet,” Faison said in a statement to MTV News regarding the actress, who co-starred with him in the 1995 hit “Clueless.” “She had the voice of an angel and a genuine heart of gold. I’m very happy to have known and worked with such a special person. My heart goes out to all of her loved ones.”
Jessica Simpson: “Brittany Murphy was an incredible ray of light to so many people. Her smile was contagious. My prayers are with her family and loved ones.”
Ashton Kutcher: “2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine. My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany’s family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon. See you on the other side, kid.”
Lindsay Lohan: “My deepest condolences go out to all of Brittany Murphy’s loved ones& may she rest in peace….She was a great talent w/a beautiful soul xo”
Alyssa Milano: “Brittney Murphy and I did a USO Tour together in 2003. She was a sweet soul, with a lot of talent and heart.”
Fred Durst: “RIP Brittany Murphy. What a sweet human being. My prayers are with her friends and family.”
Soleil Moon Frye: “am beyond words by the loss of Brittany Murphy. I was so blessed to know your grace. My heart goes out to your mama+ loved ones.”
Ann Curry: “NBCnews just confirmed actress Brittany Murphy died at 10:04am PT today. O man.”
Eliza Dushku: “My heart aches having just learned of Brittany Murphy’s death, we were friends time-to-time through the years. I always admired her pure spirit.”
Kevin Smith: “Never met her, but sad to hear about Brittany Murphy. G’night, Ms. Murphy; hope you’re rollin’ with the homies someplace nice.”
Kim Kardashian: “I am in shock that Britney Murphy has died! Clueless is my all time favorite movie. My prayers go out to her family & husband.”
Juliette Lewis: “I am so sad about Brittany Murphy. Too young. She always seemed like she wanted to please everyone.”
Paris Hilton: “So sad to hear about Brittany Murphy, such a tragedy. She was such a beautiful, funny and sweet girl. My heart goes out to her family.”
Jamie Kennedy: “Britney they say died of cardiac arrest from anorexia. Jesus christ how long before we realize we r too hard on women in this biz?”
Josh Groban: “Hollywood loses another bright soul….how many more? A decade of decadence and devastation. Time to wake up.”
Christian Kane: ” Ive lost a true friend. She was beautiful inside & out. She taught me it was ok 2 B a little crazy. She was my sister. I’ll miss u Brittany.”
Peter Facinelli: “Brittany Murphy… U were Bold, Brave, and Beautiful. Thank you 4 being the free spirit u were, and always putting a smile on my face.”
Elisha Cuthbert: “32 is no age to leave the world. My heart goes out to Brittany Murphy’s family.”
Mena Suvari: “I’m just so devastated now. Found out Brittany Murphy died earlier this morning & I’m shocked. We worked together & I knew her for years. She was an amazing person, an amazing actress & so full of life. I always admired her in so many ways. May you rest in peace…â€
Rose McGowan: “Very depressed about Brittany Murphy… She was like champagne-sparkly & bubbly. Whenever I saw her, it was always laughter. Thankfully, her laugh will forever be preserved on film.â€
Julie Benz: “Sending love and prayers… So sad to hear about Brittany Murphy.”
John Stamos: “Drag losing Brittany – she was endearing, bright and talented – forever always young. Sad.”
Rachel Leigh Cook: “I once told someone, ‘Brittany Murphy was so nice to me that I’m worried she has me mixed up with someone else.’ But thats just how she was.”
Dakota Fanning: “My thoughts go out to her family & friends. I am just very grateful that I had the chance to work with her.â€
Denise Richards: “Brittany Murphy was in Drop Dead Gorgeous with me and was the sweetest and most adorable. Tragic, sad & devastating. Her poor family.”
In what is is her last interview ever, Brittany Murphy seemed happy and was looking forward to the new year and starting a family with her husband.
This is really sad.
source: Stars Tweet Their Brittany Murphy Mourning [E Online]
Following earlier reports that Chris Henry was facing life threatening injuries, it has now been announced that he has sadly died.
Police said that the Cincinnati Bengals receiver died at 6:36 a.m. following a domestic dispute with his fiancee which resulted in her driving off in a vehicle, he then jumped on the vehicle but according to police he fell off about half-mile into the drive.
His fiancee, Loleini Tonga, had posted on her MySpace page that they had just bought their wedding rings yesterday, she hasn’t logged in since then.
Henry’s agent released a statement saying, “It is with great sadness to learn Chris has passed away, for those who knew Chris, he was nothing like his public perception. A loving and caring individual, he was thankful for what he had in life, and proud of what he had overcome.”
Henry has been arrested in the past for marijuana possession, gun possession and assault but he was given a second chance by the Bengals’ owner and had since cleaned up his act.
Chris Henry was just 26-years-old and leaves three children behind.
Solange Magnano, a former Miss Argentina, has died after complications during a failed cosmetic surgery on her butt.
The 38-year-old who is a mother of two was undergoing the buttocks surgery, which is known as gluteoplasty, in a clinic and was then transferred to a hospital where she died on Sunday after three days in critical condition.
Roberto Piazza, a close friend of hers, said “the procedure involved injections and the liquid went to her lungs and brain. A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind.”
There has been some aftermath after she died of respiratory deficiency, Argentinian television stations aired the burial live and a lot of people are speaking out against cosmetic surgery.
If she hadn’t of died I would make a joke about having failed butt surgery and it would have involved Kim Kardashian, but I won’t.
It’s been four months since the tragic death of Farrah Fawcett, but Playboy are keeping her memory alive by paying tribute to her.
In the new issue of Playboy which is on newsstands today and on Playboy Digital they have done a six-page tribute to everyone’s favorite Angel.
Along with the photographs of Fawcett .. Playboy’s director of photography, Gary Cole, gives an interview about what it was like working with Farrah when she appeared in the magazine – her cover in 1978 followed by two pictorials in 1995 and 1997.
When describing what she was like, Cole says, “force of nature, that was Farrah, and we’ll always love her for it.â€
I for one will be buying this, it makes me sad that a lot of people forget about Farrah Fawcett because of the death of Michael Jackson.
Ryan Jenkins, the man who is accused of killing his wife, was found dead at a motel in Hope, British Columbia, last night.
Ryan who appeared on VH1′s reality show Megan Wants A Millionaire was charged murdering his swimsuit model wife, Jasmine Fiore, on August 20th.
He was found hanging from a belt in a room at the Thunderbird Motel after the manager decided to check on the room rented three days earlier by an unknown woman.
While the woman checked in – a man waited outside in a silver PT Cruiser with Alberta licence plates (Jenkins is from Calgary). The woman stayed in the room for 20 minutes then left and was never seen from again, but on Sunday at 11am when it was time to check out – the manager went to check the hotel room.
Kevin Walker, the manager of the hotel, said that when he seen the man walk past his own room “he didn’t look like the Ryan Jenkins I’d seen on TV. He looked like a man at the end of his rope, not the muscle-bound macho man you saw on TV.â€
He continued, “I thought maybe they left the key in the room and just left, as I was pushing the door open, I smelled death. And then, as I kept opening the door, there was death staring at me, hanging from the coat rack by a belt. After I swung the door open and saw him hanging there — I didn’t notice anything after that.â€
This whole murder scandal kicked off last Tuesday in Buena Park, CA, after police made Jenkins a man of interest in the death of his ex-wife who’s body was found stuffed in a suitcase with her teeth and fingers removed. The only way to identify her was the serial number on her breast implants.
Police have dismissed the murder charges but are now investigating how he crossed the border into Canada.
By the way Jenkins was also going to be on Vh1′s other show I Love Money 3, which he is rumored to have won. But now a statement has been released saying:
“Just in case you missed it, we’re sad to announce that the fate of both Megan Wants a Millionaire and I Love Money 3 have been determined: both have been canceled and will not make it to air.”
You really could not write any of this if you tried.
source: Accused killer Ryan Jenkins found hanged in B.C. motel [Vancounver Sun]
Two people were pronounced dead just a couple of hours after the stage for Madonna‘s Sticky & Sweet collapsed in Marseille, France.
The accident didn’t happen while there was a concert on, instead it happened while they were building the stage for her gig in the French city which was to take place on Sunday, July 19th. As of now, eight other people are still in hospital with serious conditions.
Madonna issued a statement through her spokesperson Liz Rosenberg saying “I am devastated to have just received this tragic news, my prayers go out to those who were injured and their families along with my deepest sympathy to all those affected by this heartbreaking news.”
The accident happened after four cranes lifting the stage set roof apparently snapped, sending everything crashing to the stage.
Madonna was playing a concert in Italy last night when the accident took place, she apparently broke down crying and said she was devastated, adding “I ask you for a moment to stop and think of the people who have lost their lives, we need to appreciate life, the people we love and our families.”
City officials of Marseille have now canceled the Madonna concert which was scheduled for Sunday – she next plays on July, 21 in Barcelona, Spain.
It’s not even a week since his tragic death and there has been several new stories about Michael Jackson, a lot of them I’m guessing are made up.
Here is another story, this time it is alleged that Michael almost died the exact same way but back in 2004 in his rented out Coldwater Canyon mansion in Los Angeles.
A source tells Fox News that Michael’s brother Randy Jackson found him unconscious in his home and immediately called a paramedic friend who lived very close by.
The source says “thankfully they were able to save him but it was all very frightening. It was a doctor that didn’t normally treat Michael and he was shocked, absolutely shocked by the amount of prescription medications he saw at the house.”
Believe it if you will, I don’t know what to think anymore. On a slightly brighter note, here are some newer pictures than the other day of Michael Jackson‘s final rehearsal on Tuesday (June 23rd) for his upcoming 50 concerts at The 02 in London. This rehearsal is rumored to get released on DVD as it is said to be “electric.”
Sad news to report this morning, it has just been announced that Ed McMahon has passed away after a battle with cancer.
His agent, Howard Bragman, said that the 86-year-old TV personality died at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California this morning.
McMahon is probably best known for being Johnny Carson‘s sidekick on the Tonight Show, on which he made the infamous “Heeeere’s Johnny!” introduction.
David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok, Thailand, hotel, according to his personal manager, Chuck Binder.
Binder said Thursday that the death is being investigated but could provide no other details, however the BBC reports,
Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and genitals on Thursday morning.
An apparent suicide.
Carradine’s death was “shocking and sad. He was full of life, always wanting to work … a great person,” Binder said, according to People magazine.
Modern audiences may best know him as “Bill” in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” films. He earned a 2005 Golden Globe nomination for his role in the second movie in the two-part saga. iReport: Share memories of David Carradine
His career included more than 100 feature films, two dozen television movies and theater work, according to the Internet Movie Database.
Should we be shocked by the condition he was found… or should we have expected it?
I hate bad news and I really hate reporting about it but as you can guess from the title – Mike Tyson‘s 4 year old daughter, Exodus, has died after her accident with a treadmill.
During the time of the accident Mike was in Las Vegas but went home to Arizona straight away, he was seen entering Phoenix’s St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center first thing in the morning, his daughter Exodus was pronounced dead at 11:45am.
Exodus is of his six children that he has had with different women, the mother of Exodus has not been released. However, Tyson and his family just released this statement:
“We are grateful for the tremendous outpouring of love and prayers from all over the world, there are no words to describe the tragic loss of our beloved Exodus. We ask you now to please respect our need at this very difficult time for privacy to grieve and try to help each other heal.”
In 1999 I made my first webpage on GeoCities. It was so I could trade concert tapes with strangers on the Internet. Now I’m sad to report that GeoCities is finally dead. So let’s reminisce.
If you’re like me, you may be surprised to hear that GeoCities still existed in any form—but it does, apparently, hosting flat HTML pages and dithered GIFs for free just like it’s been doing since ’94, before anyone knew anything about the word blog, or Google, or much of anything.
Yahoo just quietly pulled the plug; no new accounts can be registered, and those with pages still being hosted will receive further instructions on how to save them from the fire this summer.
I was debating on whether or not to show you my original Geocities page, but it’s kind of late, so what the fuck. Here it is. Like my first phone number I still remember its awkward, faux-geography-based URL by heart.
Yes, revel in my hilariously precious high school writings on Magnolia, seeing REM and other bands I worshipped play around the Midwest, and trading concert tapes. Yeah, concert tapes. You kids today may not remember, but back in the old days it took like 45 minutes to download a single 96kbps MP3 on a 28.8 modem over Napster. And Lord knows I couldn’t tie up the phone lines that long. Also note my overuse of the semi-colon; I love it to this day! I must say though I was kind of way ahead of the curve in terms of the mixed-typography-size, minimalist-web-design tip. And boy was I funny.
I’ll miss you GeoCities, you were my first. Now that I’ve shown mine, commenters, show me yours! This will be the first and last time I ever ask anything resembling that question ever.
Marilyn Chambers, star of such golden age classics as Behind the Green Door and Insatiable, was found dead Sunday in the mobile home where she had been living for the past several months.
Chambers, who said she began performing under her real name because she was unashamed of what she did, was nonetheless born Marilyn Ann Briggs, and she made 16 movies during the period 1972 to 1986, mostly for the Mitchell Brothers and Caballero Home Video. It was at Caballero that she created the series Marilyn Chambers’ Private Fantasies.
During this period, she was married to her manager, Chuck Traynor, and though they were divorced in 1985, when Chambers made her comeback film for VCA Pictures, Still Insatiable, in 1998, she requested that Traynor be present for the filming to lend her moral support.
The comeback, however, was short-lived, generating just nine movies, some of which were non-sex roles. Chambers tried her hand at producing as well, creating what was hoped to be a continuing series, Nantucket Housewives, for her own company, Damaged Productions.
x17 report that Paris Hilton was spotted out looking down in the dumps yesterday and now we know why, two of her many dogs were killed by a coyote.
Sources say that Paris “was really upset about it. Some people think she’s eccentric, having so many pets, but she just really, really loves animals and it was devastating for her.”
The attack happened at night, and Paris was at her Hollywood hills mansion the next day when it was discovered that the dogs had been killed. In the more remote areas of the hills, coyotes and other wild animals roam freely, so unfortunately this is something that happens to residents and their pets on a regular basis.
While most people cry themselves to sleep when they are in mourning, not Paris, she hopped on a plane and headed to Milan, hoping a trip to the fashion capital of the world will cheer her up!
source: Paris Is Devastated After Losing Dogs [x17online]
Earlier today it was announced Don LaFontaine had died, now another death has occurred. This time actor and singer Jerry Reed has passed away at age 71.
Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the “Smokey and the Bandit” movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said Tuesday.
Carrie Moore-Reed, who is no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday morning.
Reed was a gifted guitarist who later became a songwriter, singer and actor.
As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, he had a string of hits that included “Amos Moses,” “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot,” “East Bound and Down,” and “The Bird.”
In the mid-1970s, he began acting in movies such as “Smokey and the Bandit” with Burt Reynolds, “Gator” “Hot Stuff” and “High-Ballin’.”
