Apparently some of Brittany Murphy’s colleagues warned her about marrying Simon Monjack. The director of “Factory Girl” tried to persuade her to forgo the marriage.

“The last thing I told Brittany is: “Do you know this guy? I mean do you really know him? Do you know what you are doing by marrying him?” ‘ Hickenlooper wrote in a comment on a Hollywood Eslewhere post about the couple. “At this point, Brittany became angry and told me she knew Monjack better than anyone and then hung up on me. A few months later I tried to phone her to see if she was alright and Monjack would not let me speak to her.”

“Simon Monjack had nothing to do with Factory Girl,” he wrote following Murphy’s death. “He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us. . . making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.”

Other reports about Monjack have portrayed him negatively, referring to him as a “conman.”

Since Murphy’s death, other reports have surfaced about credit card fraud, debts and visa violations surrounding Monjack. The Hollywood Reporter also claimed that Monjack turned up on set of one of Murphy’s recent films drunk. When producers told her to send him away, she reportedly refused and was fired, the trade publication reported.

“I spoke to two other movie producers who came into contact with him on a project in the last couple of years,’ the reporter told the Mail.”They described him as a “conman.” Neither had anything nice to say.

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