George Hickenlooper, the director of Factory Girl, a biopic about Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick, said he had tried to warn Miss Murphy off her relationship with the Briton after the two men fell out over Mr Monjack's claim to have written an earlier script for the film.Brittany Murphy’s 2009 death was one of the most shocking celebrity losses of the 2000s. Not all friends of the actress shared her joy. He's flown around the world to make sure we spend every single night together." The easiest decision I ever had in my life was getting married. We checked in with each other throughout the years and remained friends. Miss Murphy said in a magazine interview: "We first met when I was 17 years old. While the project ultimately foundered, romance blossomed between the putative director and his leading lady, who he first met when she was a teenager.Īmid claims, fiercely contested by Mr Monjack, that he was facing deportation from America because of visa irregularities, the couple married after an unannounced engagement in May 2007 at a private Jewish ceremony in their home. In 2006 he appeared to be on the threshold of a major breakthrough, announcing that he had secured funding to make The White Hotel, an adaptation of the acclaimed novel by DM Thomas about an opera singer in post-World War One Vienna who seeks the help of Sigmund Freud.Īfter initially offering the lead role to Nicola Kidman, Meryl Streep and Barbara Streisand, the film's backers announced they had secured the services of another star – Brittany Murphy. He directed an advert for Nike's shoe range featuring the basketball player Michael Jordan. He owned a single "pill" painting which was sold soon after it was purchased. A representative of Mr Hirst told The Independent that Mr Monjack had put some money into an early show, In and Out of Love, but never met the artist. He boasted that the subsequent collection was worth at least £200m. He also displayed a talent for inflating his success, telling friends that he was one of the founders of the BritArt movement, was a close friend of Damien Hirst and had bought "150 to 200" paintings after funding the artist's first major show. Mr Monjack, who lost his father at the age of 15, began his subsequent career in the arts claiming a fortune based his own dabbling in currency and derivatives markets.
His mother ran her own interior design business and his father, William, worked in the City before dying from a brain tumour. Raised in the north London suburb of Hillingdon and then the salubrious Home Counties village of Bourne End, Mr Monjack hailed from the upper echelons of the English middle class. Nor do they like the fact that she married someone who was not famous. My problem is that I do not look like Ashton Kutcher. But there has been so much rubbish written about me and Brittany. Speaking after his wife's death, he said: "I know I have been called a conman. Mr Monjack answered the allegations against him with the classic weapons of the wronged rogue – candid admission and a claim that he was the victim of a shadowy elite. He was interested in photography, so he would tell people he had taken pictures for Vogue." But he was chaotic and he liked to make the most of anything he had done.
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His nickname came from a series of financial scrapes, including the filing of credit card fraud charges against him in Virginia in 2005 his eviction from four homes a lawsuit by Coutts, the Queen's bank, successfully suing him for $470,000 (£326,000) and a divorce settlement dating back to 2001 that was only settled in 2009.Ī former business acquaintance of his said yesterday: "Simon is someone who I suspect went through life with genuine intentions of making his various schemes work and then being reluctant to shoulder the blame when they didn't.
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