The house in Los Angeles where actress Brittany Murphy died was just put on the market for $18 million. It has been the subject of crazy conspiracy theories and scary tales.
Murphy, who played Claire in “Clueless,” died in the house six years after she moved in. She was 32 years old. After five months, her husband Simon Monjack also died on the farm.
pneumonia, anemia, and taking too many prescription drugs were named as the causes of Murphy’s death. Almost the same things were found to have caused her husband’s death.
However, their deaths caused a lot of people to become morbidly interested in the property. Some said the couple had died because of black mold in the house, which the Los Angeles County assistant chief coroner quickly shot down, while others even said the house might have been haunted.
Murphy, who was in big movies like “Uptown Girls” and “Girl, Interrupted,” bought the house from Britney Spears in 2003 for $3.85 million. It was already fully furnished.
In the time that Spears owned the house, her former beauty artist Julianne Kaye says she had a supernatural experience that scared her so much that she left the house and wouldn’t come back.
In 2021, Kaye said on the podcast “We Need to Talk About Britney” that her ex-client had left the house because she thought “bad spirits” were trying to “push her down the stairs.”
“This is really strange,” Kaye began. “[Spears] had that place up on Sunset Plaza.” “She calls me…” I asked a friend to help her with reiki. I guess she needed to chill out after a wild weekend of parties.
“…he left, and she swears to God that he opened a spirit portal and these bad spirits came in and tried to push her down the stairs or something.”
“She left because it was so bad.” She stayed at the Casa Del Mar hotel and never came back to the house. “I know you’ll think I’m crazy,” she says. I’m not crazy. “I know what I saw and how I felt.”
Most people think that Spears never stayed in the house again after selling it to Murphy. Her late husband said that Murphy also had some bad feelings about the house.
In 2011, The Hollywood Reporter wrote an article about Murphy’s “final difficult days.” In it, Munjack said that his wife thought the house on Rising Glen Road was “unlucky” and had planned to move to New York before she died.
Before he died, Munjack told the news source, “She hated the Rising Glen house so much.” “Brit would ask to stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel every time we drove up Sunset,” “Honey, you need to be realistic,” I’d tell her. We’re going to stay in our 10,000-square-foot house.
Soon after Spears and Murphy said things about the house, more people said that it was “cursed” in some way, which made it almost impossible to sell.
The property was finally sold by Murphy’s mother, Sharon, for $2.7 million, which was more than $1 million less than what her daughter had paid for it eight years before.
A new, ultramodern six-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom mansion was built in place of the old house where Murphy and Munjack died in 2013. This house was first listed in 2013 and sold for $14.53 million in March 2017. It was then put on the market again in 2019 with a price tag of $17.99 million.
In the end, it sold for a lowered price of $12.2 million in December 2020. That was the last time it changed hands.
But the owners are now ready to sell the house. They put it on the market in July for the ridiculously high price of $18.99 million, but then took it off the market. The price is now back on the market, this time at $17.99 million.
The house has “reborn” since it was last bought, according to its listing, which calls the makeover a “complete metamorphosis.”
“As you approach the property, the newly redesigned exterior greets you with its elegant stone and tile finish, giving you a taste of the life-changing journey that lies within,” the description says.
The house recently got a whole new chef’s kitchen and butler’s pantry. The listing also says that the home has many indoor and outdoor entertaining areas, making it perfect for anyone who likes to have people over.
The main suite, on the other hand, has two bathrooms, multiple walk-in closets, and a terrace that goes all the way around. It was “recently enhanced” with a vanity room.
