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Celebrity
Autopsy Reports
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Murphy, Brittany: (November
10, 1977 - December 20, 2009)
Brittany
was an outstanding actress and
singer who starred in many top
films, including Clueless, 8 Mile,
Sin City, and
soon to be released film, Abandoned. Brittany was also the
voice of that wild and crazy Luanne
Platter in King of the Hill.
Brittany also join Paul Oakenfold in
singing and performing the club hit
song "Faster Kill Pussycat."
Brittany private life included
dating talented star, Ashton Kutcher;
and engagements to several of her
managers which later ended. In May
2007, she married British
screenwriter Simon Monjack. On
December 20, 2009, paramedics
responded to a 9-1-1 call at her
residence where they found
unresponsive in her bathroom. She
supposedly collapsed. Firefighters
attempted to resuscitate Murphy on
the scene. She was subsequently
transported to
Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center, where she
was pronounced dead. An autopsy was
performed on December 21, 2009, with
results being deferred until
toxicology results are finalized.
View the Death Certificate. Brittany
is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial
Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los
Angeles, California.
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Perry, Matthew:
(August 19, 1969 -
October 28, 2023):
Review the autopsy report of actor
Matthew Perry. Perry was known
for his role as Chandler Bing on
the NBC television sitcom Friends
from 1994 to 2004. On October 28,
2023, Perry was found unresponsive
in the hot tub at his residence and
was later declared dead at 4:17 PM
that day. Autopsy report
revealed that Perry died from "acute
effects of Ketamine" with secondary
causes of drowning, coronary artery
disease and
buprenorphine
(Ketamine) effect.
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Plato, Dana:
(November 7, 1964 - May 8, 1999)
Dana Plato was a talented actress
who gained fame by playing the
daughter, Kim Drummond, in the
sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. She
began her TV and movie career at a
very young age appearing in
different television commercials
including those for companies such
as Kentucky Fried Chicken and Dole
Foods. Dana played the part in Diff'rent Strokes until 1984
when she became pregnant and the
show's producers felt her pregnancy
did not fit in with the wholesome
image portrayed by the show. After
she was let go by the show, she
started to transition into a
different individual. She got breast
implants and posed nude in
Playboy, and then starred in a
soft-core pornographic film,
Different
Strokes: The Story of Jack and
Jill...and Jill.
As her career spiraled downward out
of control, she ended up out of work
and eventually robbed a video store
at gunpoint. She started to abuse
prescription drugs, such as Valium,
more and more. On May 7, 1999, Dana
appeared on The Howard Stern Show,
telling the audience of her
financial problems and how she was a
recovering alcoholic and drug
addict. She announced that she was
engaged to her manager, Robert
Menchaca, and that she and her
fiancé were living out of the back
of a recreational vehicle. On May 8,
1999, the couple stopped off at her
fiancé's mother's place for a break,
Plato decided to lie down inside her
recreational vehicle parked outside
the house and subsequently died of
an overdose from Soma and Vicodin. Dana Plato was cremated
following her death.
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Richardson,
Jiles (J.P.): (October
24, 1930 - February 3, 1959)
Jiles P. Richardson, known to his
fans as "The Big Bopper" was an
outstanding young disc jockey,
singer and songwriter and talented
rock and roll star. The Big Bopper
had taken time off from his disc
jockey position to join Ritchie
Valens, Buddy Holly, and Dion and
the Belmonts for the "Winter Party
Party." On the morning of February
3, 1959 around 1 AM, The Big Bopper,
along with Ritchie Valens, and Buddy
Holly perished in an airplane crash
as it was taking off from the Mason
City, Iowa airport. The plane took
off
in a blinding
snowstorm with the light
plane crashing shortly after lifting
off, killing everyone aboard.
Ironically, the group's bus had
previously broken down and Buddy
Holly
chartered a Beechcraft Bonanza plane
to fly the group to their next
destination taking Richardson and
Valens with him.
Richardson was ill that evening
suffering from the flu, so Waylon
Jennings had offered his airplane
seat to Richardson so he didn't have
to ride on the bus. JP
Richardson is buried in the
Forest
Lawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home
in Beaumont, Texas. A formal autopsy
was not done at the time; however,
the cause of his death is listed as
massive head and internal injuries
as the result of the plane crash. In
January 2007, The Big Bopper's son,
Jay, had his body exhumed and
autopsied by forensic
anthropologist, Dr. Bill Bass, to
lay to rest the controversy that his
dad was able to survive the airplane
crash and was shot instead. These
rumors were unfounded as Dr. Bass
stated that "There are fractures
from head to toe. Massive fractures.
... (Richardson) died immediately.
He didn't crawl away. He didn't walk
away from the plane."
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Sedgwick
Post, Edie:
( April 20, 1943 - November 16,
1971)
Sedgwick was an American
heiress, socialite, actress, and
fashion model. She is best known
for being one of Andy Warhol's
socialite. Sedgwick was known as "The Girl of the Year: in 1965.
On November 15, 1971, after attending a fashion show at the
Santa Barbara Museum, Sedgwick was picked up by her husband
Michael Post after she was confronted by a drunken guest who was
insulting her. Once home, Sedgwick's husband gave her her
prescribed medications of barbiturates and went to bed. In the
morning, Sedgwick was dead. The coroner ruled her death
"undetermined/accident/suicide" due to the result of "probable
acute barbiturate intoxication" due to ethanol intoxication.
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Smith, Anna
Nicole: (November
28, 1967 - February 8, 2007)
Vickie Lynn
Marshall, also known as Anna Nicole
Smith, was a prominent model and
actress, who had a life surrounded
by fame, glamour, and controversy,
died unexpectedly of acute drug
combination intoxification of
Chloral Hydrate, Benadryl, and
several benzodiazepines, including
clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam, and
oxazepam.
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Smith,
Steven Paul "Elliot":
(August 6, 1969 -
October 21, 2003)
"Elliot" Smith was a former musician of the rock
band, Heatmiser.
Smith began his solo career in
1994. In 1997 he signed a
contract with DreamWorks
Records, for which he recorded
two albums. Smith rose to
mainstream prominence when his
song "Miss Misery, "which was
included in the soundtrack for
the film Good Will Hunting,
was nominated for an Oscar
in the Best Original Song
category in 1998.
Smith suffered from depression,
alcoholism, and drug addiction
and on October 21, 2003, after
an argument, Smith was found by
his girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba,
with a knife in his chest.
His cause of death is listed as
"stab wounds to the chest,"
which are thought to be
self-inflicted.
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Taylor, Sean:
(April 1, 1983 - November
27, 2007)
Sean Taylor was a young and
outstanding athlete and professional
football player who was a free
safety for the Washington Redskins.
His death was ruled a homicide after
he was shot during a home invasion.
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White,
Reggie:
(December
19, 1961 - December 26, 2004)
Reggie White was a
former NFL defensive back, who played for several teams
including the United State Football League, Memphis Showboats;
and the National Football League Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia
Eagles, and Carolina Panthers. On December 26, 2004, Reggie was
rushed to a local North Carolina hospital where he was
pronounced dead. He suffered a fatal cardiac arrhythmia. The
official cause of death was listed
as cardiac and pulmonary sarcoidosis.
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Wilkeson,
Leon:
(April 2, 1952 - July 27, 2001)
Leon Wilkeson was the
former bassist for the Southern rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Leon was found dead in his hotel room with the official cause of
death listed as an accident caused by "complications of
emphysema associated with positional asphyxia" with contributing
factors of drug intoxication and liver cirrhosis.
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