Editing Brittany Murphy (section)

===Relationships and friendships===
====Kutcher, Kwatinetz and Macaluso====
[[File:Ashton Kutcher by David Shankbone 2010 NYC.jpg|left|thumb|220x220px|Actor [[Ashton Kutcher]] {{small|(photographed in 2010)}} was the actress's partner from 2002 to 2003]]
In late 2002, she began dating [[Ashton Kutcher]], whom she met when they starred in ''[[Just Married]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Samantha |last=Miller |title=Baby, Let's Play Married |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139060,00.html |date=January 20, 2003 |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date=September 1, 2009 |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910020030/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139060,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The director of the production, [[Shawn Levy]], has commented on the relationship saying: "From the minute they met, they were together, they laughed all the time, they made jokes and they looked happy". It was later revealed that they had been engaged, due to both Kutcher and Murphy wearing rings, although it was never officially confirmed.<ref name=":4">
*{{Cite web |url=https://www.heraldousa.com/entretenimiento/2023/2/7/asi-fue-la-relacion-de-ashton-kutcher-con-la-fallecida-actriz-brittany-murphy-33685.html |title=Así fue la relación de Ashton Kutcher con la fallecida actriz Brittany Murphy |access-date=1 March 2023 |last=del Valle |first=Alejandra |date=7 February 2023 |website=Herlaldo Usa |language=spanish |archive-date=October 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001082800/https://www.heraldousa.com/entretenimiento/2023/2/7/asi-fue-la-relacion-de-ashton-kutcher-con-la-fallecida-actriz-brittany-murphy-33685.html |url-status=live }}
*{{Cite web|url=https://mvsnoticias.com/tendencias/viral/2022/11/11/ashton-kutcher-brittany-murphy-una-historia-de-amor-que-traspaso-la-pantalla-571699.html|title=Ashton Kutcher y Brittany Murphy: Una historia de amor que traspasó la pantalla|access-date=1 March 2023|last=Ruiz|first=Jazmín|date=11 November 2022|website=MVS Noticias|language=spanish|archive-date=October 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001085723/https://mvsnoticias.com/tendencias/viral/2022/11/11/ashton-kutcher-brittany-murphy-una-historia-de-amor-que-traspaso-la-pantalla-571699.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She was engaged to talent manager [[Jeff Kwatinetz]], but their relationship only lasted four months. She was subsequently with Joe Macaluso in December 2005, a production assistant she met while working on the film ''[[Little Black Book (film)|Little Black Book]]''.<ref name="people" /> Four months after the filming of ''[[The Ramen Girl]]'', which was in April 2006, they broke up.<ref name="people">{{Cite web|last=Ingrassia|first=Lisa|title=Brittany Murphy, Fiancé End Engagement|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1254881,00.html|date=August 22, 2006|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=September 1, 2009|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193926/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1254881,00.html}}</ref>

====Winona Ryder====
In the early 2000s, she was close friends with American actress [[Winona Ryder]], who worked with her in the drama film ''[[Girl, Interrupted (film)|Girl, Interrupted]]'' (1999).<ref name=":24">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/personajes/inocencia-interrumpida-que-winona-ryder-no-puede-nid2350457/|title=Inocencia, interrumpida: por qué Winona Ryder no puede ver la película y su compleja relación con Angelina Jolie|access-date=2023-12-20|last=Amondaray|first=Milagros|date=2020-04-14|website=La Nación|language=es}}</ref> For the ''Los Angeles Times'' in September 2001, she was more open about her friendship with Ryder, where Murphy revealed that she called Ryder her "definitive mentor".<ref name=":23">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/brittany-murphy-called-winona-ryder-ultimate-mentor.html/|title=Brittany Murphy Once Called Winona Ryder Her 'Ultimate Mentor'|access-date=2023-12-20|last=Kerr|first=Mandi|date=2021-10-18|website=Showbiz Cheat Sheet}}</ref> Murphy said, "Before, I didn't know how actors managed to look so pretty. They have stylists, hair and makeup. I look at old photos of the premiere of ''Clueless'' and I look like a meatball on top of another meatball".<ref name=":23" /> During a television interview, Murphy along with Ryder got into a Mercedes car and kissed mouth to mouth,<ref name=":23" /> which led theories that Murphy was a lesbian, something she rejected.{{Sfn|Shelley|2022|p=77}} For ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' she remarked: "This was my presentation to the media, the cover of the ''[[National Enquirer]]''". She also said that "we just kissed as a joke. I didn't know what to do because [the photographers] were in front of the car and it was either run them over or just stay there. Then I started making faces and suddenly I became Winona Ryder's lesbian lover".<ref name=":23" /> After Murphy's death, Ryder revealed to ''Total Film'' that she finds it difficult to watch the film after this event: "I can't watch the movie now. Her character commits suicide in the movie, I just can't. I was very close to Brittany, even in the moments before her death".<ref name=":24" />

====Eminem====
During the filming of ''[[8 Mile (film)|8 Mile]]'' (2002) she met the American rapper, singer-songwriter and actor [[Eminem]]. After the release of the film, rumors about a possible love relationship between the two of them spread.<ref name=":em">{{Cite web|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/1353419/lose-yourself-in-these-secrets-about-8-mile|title=Lose Yourself in These Secrets About ''8 Mile''|access-date=2023-06-01|last=Finn|first=Natalie|date=2022-11-08|website=E! Online}}</ref> When she was asked on the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' if they had dated, she responded: "Yes, of course" and, laughing, added: "Well, it went. It came and went".<ref name=":em" /> Beyond speculation, it was later confirmed that the two had no relationship.<ref name=":em" /> In another interview with ''[[The Morning Call]]'', she revealed that she was a big fan of Eminem: "I'm a fan of him... I think that he's very misunderstood." "He's brilliant...he's a brilliant guy," she continued. When the interviewer asked if the rapper was nervous during recordings with her, she jokingly replied, "You'd have to ask him. I don't want to appear in some song or something like that. I'm being careful."<ref name=":20">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nickiswift.com/371130/inside-brittany-murphy-and-eminems-relationship/|title=Inside Brittany Murphy And Eminem's Relationship|access-date=2023-06-01|last=Bombay|first=Brandon|date=2021-03-31|website=Nicki Swift}}</ref> On another occasion, when asked if they had "something off screen," she responded: "I'll never tell."{{efn|She took this phrase as a reference when she said it in the [[Suspense|suspense film]] ''[[Don't Say a Word]]'' (2001).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thethings.com/was-brittany-murphy-ever-really-eminems-girlfriend/|title=Was Brittany Murphy Ever Really Eminem's Girlfriend?|access-date=1 June 2023|last=Vasquez|first=Lane|date=11 September 2021|website=The Things}}</ref>|group=upper-alpha}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtv.com/news/s1sro5/ashton-kutcher-brittany-murphy-talk-about-being-married|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004074705/https://www.mtv.com/news/s1sro5/ashton-kutcher-brittany-murphy-talk-about-being-married|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 4, 2022|title=Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy Talk About Being 'Married'|access-date=2023-06-01|date=11 July 2002|website=MTV}}</ref>

Eminem later revealed on ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]'' that the actress' death affected him greatly and that he was terrified of dying under similar circumstances.<ref name=":21"/> He also said that Murphy's death "was crazy. It's crazy because for a while we were close and she was a very good person. It's crazy when you see these cases, not just hers, but all the cases that have happened in Hollywood with people in music, in acting. Famous people. Famous people dying of overdoses at alarming rates and this almost sounds like advertising."<ref name=":21">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtv.com/news/3graar/eminem-remembers-8-mile-co-star-brittany-murphy-in-vibe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714184211/https://www.mtv.com/news/3graar/eminem-remembers-8-mile-co-star-brittany-murphy-in-vibe|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 14, 2023|title=Eminem Remembers ''8 Mile'' Co-Star Brittany Murphy In ''Vibe''|access-date=2023-07-14|last=Rodriguez|first=Jayson|date=2 August 2010|website=MTV}}</ref>

====Simon Monjack====
{{blockquote|"[[Simon Monjack]] was a liar, a cheat, a thief, a sociopath, a con-artist and a  narcissist, all wrapped up in one ball of dysfunction".|[[Mark Ebner]] in the 2023 documentary ''Gone Before Her Time: Brittany Murphy''{{sfn|Gone Before Her Time: Brittany Murphy|2023|loc=38:14-38:33}}}}

Months after her relationship with Macaluso, she met [[Simon Monjack]], a British screenwriter.{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 1|loc=48:34-48:46}}<ref name="Bucks">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/8181538.Bucks_husband_of_tragic_Hollywood_star_found_dead/ |title=Simon Monjack, Buckinghamshire husband of tragic Hollywood star Brittany Murphy found dead |access-date=1 March 2023 |last=Dunhill |first=Lawrence |date=24 May 2010 |website=This is Local}}</ref> They met during the filming of ''The White Hotel'', where Murphy played the role of actress and Monjack as director, however, the film was not released and its production was paused.{{Sfn|Gone Before Her Time: Brittany Murphy|2023|loc=46:41-47:00}}<ref name="E!" /> In the 2021 documentary ''What Happened, Brittany Murphy?,'' several of Monjack's colleagues and friends accused him of being responsible for Murphy's physical changes and also of not letting her connect with her family.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://spoiler.bolavip.com/celebrities/El-misterio-de-Brittany-Murphy-estas-son-las-teorias-sobre-su-muerte-segun-el-documental-de-HBO-Max-20211021-0025.html |title=El misterio de Brittany Murphy: estas son las teorías sobre su muerte |access-date=2022-03-13 |last=Sirimarco |first=Rocío |date=23 October 2021 |website=Bolavip Spoiler|language=es}}</ref> According to the testimony of his ex-fiancée, Elizabeth Ragsdale, Monjack "was a disturbed individual who was used to scamming people and Brittany was one of his last victims".{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 2|loc=35:25-41:00}} In the two-part miniseries, Ragsdale explained that Monjack told her that he suffered from spinal cancer and needed shark cartilage treatments to recover.{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 2|loc=35:25-41:00}} It was not until he abandoned her while Ragsdale was pregnant that she contacted Monjack's mother, Linda Monjack, and realized that the story was fake.{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 2|loc=35:25-41:00}} Linda, who was interviewed, defended her son in this regard, saying he had developed extreme paranoia after the death of his own father, William Monjack, from cancer: "I certainly don't think he went out and told people he had cancer. I think he believed it."{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 2|loc=31:00-31:49}} Before Monjack met Murphy, he was with filmmaker Allison Burnett at a public dinner, where he told the assembled guests that he was a multimillionaire, had dated [[Elle Macpherson]] and [[Madonna]], had a collection of Ferraris and was dying of brain cancer until he purchased a treatment derived from shark fins that saved his life; however, these theories were revealed to be lies.{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 2|loc=0:13-2:40}} As a result of this the media suspected that she had been deceived by a cheat.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=https://celebrity.land/que-paso-brittany-murphy-ofrece-nuevos-y-escalofriantes-detalles/ |title=¿Qué pasó, Brittany Murphy? ofrece nuevos y escalofriantes detalles |access-date=2022-03-10 |date=11 October 2021 |website=Celebrity Land |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408092857/https://celebrity.land/que-paso-brittany-murphy-ofrece-nuevos-y-escalofriantes-detalles/ |archive-date=8 April 2022|language=es}}</ref> Actress [[Kathy Najimy]], recalled: "[People] were scared. Like, 'Who is this guy and what was happening?'",{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 1|loc=50:52-51:00}} "She wanted to marry him, and I said, 'Honey, it hasn't been enough'."{{sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 1|loc=49:58-50:09}} Another reporter said that her friends and family tried to split her with Monjack at one point, but her intervention failed.{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 2|loc=24:32-25:02}} After that it was as if she "disappeared", according to her friend [[Lisa Rieffel]]:{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 2|loc=25:47-26:04}} "Simon took her away. He made sure no one could get to her."{{Sfn|What Happened, Brittany Murphy?|Episode 2|loc=25:47-26:04}} The couple did not announce their engagement beforehand and rarely appeared together in public before their marriage.<ref name="E!">{{Cite web |url=http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b55090_Brittany_Murphy_Made_a_Missus.html |title=Brittany Murphy Made a Missus |access-date=22 December 2009 |last=Serpe |first=Gina |date=8 May 2007 |website=[[E!]] }}</ref> In May 2007, they married in a private Jewish ceremony in Los Angeles.{{Sfn|Shelley|2022|p=120}}<ref>{{Cite web|first=Mike|last=Fleeman|url=https://people.com/celebrity/brittany-murphy-marries-writer-director/|title=Brittany Murphy Marries Writer-Director|date=August 5, 2007|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=May 10, 2007|archive-date=August 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823010158/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20037875,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During the last three and a half years of her life, she, her mother, and Monjack moved in together in the same mansion that Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake had lived in, and she kept much of her old furniture.<ref name="imdb" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Benet |first=Lorenzo |title=Brittany Murphy's husband mourns |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/12/22/brittany.murphy.husband.destroyed/ |date=22 December 2009 |website=CNN Entertainment |access-date=5 March 2010}}</ref>