New
York
(ANI):
Doubts
are
growing
about
the
coroner's
belief
that
Brittany
Murphy
died
of
natural
causes.
"When
you
have
a
32-year-old
person
dying
suddenly,
and
especially
a
celebrity
in
Los
Angeles,
you
can
place
your
bet
down
that
it's
going
to
prove
to
be
a
case
of
acute
combined
drug
toxicity," Dr.
Cyril
Wecht,
a
forensic
pathologist
who
has
investigated
other
celebrity
deaths,
told
CBS'
Early
Show.
"And
I
bet
you
that
this
young
lady
tragically
died
in
the
same
way
that
Michael
Jackson
did,
and
Anna
Nicole
Smith,
and
her
son,
Daniel
Smith,
and
Heath
Ledger
--
a
combination
of
drugs
that
had
been
prescribed
for
her,
prescribed
for
her
husband,
for
her
mother,
in
some
fictitious
names,
probably
by
doctors
who
are
very,
very
quick
to
make
available
anything
that
celebrities
want,
sometimes
using
knowingly
fictitious
names,"
Wecht
added.
According
the
New
York
Post,
paramedics
who
reached
Murphy's
house
Sunday
discovered
a
nightstand
covered
with
pills.
"A
check
of
the
nightstands
revealed
large
amounts
of
prescription
medication
in
the
decedent's
name,"
the
coroner's
notes
said,
according
to
TMZ.com.
They
added:
"Also
noted
were
numerous
empty
prescription
medication
bottles
in
the
decedent's
husband's
name,
the
decedent's
mother's
name
and
unidentified
third
party
names."
Dr.
Steve
Nissen,
chairman
of
the
department
of
Cardiovascular
Medicine
at
the
Cleveland
Clinic
Foundation,
told
ABC
News
it's
"exceedingly
uncommon"
for
a
woman
Murphy's
age
to
drop
dead
of
cardiac
arrest.