Actress Brittany Murphy dead: report (Reuters)
December 20th, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Brittany Murphy, who starred in such films as "Just Married" and "Uptown Girls" but saw her fortunes fade in recent years, died on Sunday after going into cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles Times reported.
She was 32.
The paper said the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to "a medical request" at Murphy's home in West Hollywood, and took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center near Beverly Hills, where she was pronounced dead.
The death was first reported by online gossip site TMZ.
(Reporting by Dean Goodman; Editing by Doina Chiacu)