Brittany Murphy died on December 20 after going into cardiac arrest, and was subject to an autopsy on December 21. Toxicology reports are pending, so there isn’t yet a final word on how this actress died at only 32 years old. These results often take several weeks to determine.

However, official investigations point down some uneasy roads. A survey of Murphy’s bedside cabinet showed a daunting roster of pills. The Boston Herald revealed that she had prescriptions for Klonopin, Ativan, Hydrocodone, Fluoxetine and Carbamazepine , among others – medicines used for anxiety or depression, with one of them designed to treat both diabetes and bipolar disorder.

Other reports, including the Dallas Examiner, have also discussed her use of Vicodin, suggesting she used it regularly to treat pain resulting from plastic surgery. In late 2008, MakeMeHeal.com cited the possibility of Murphy having lip injections and rhinoplasty, since comparison photos showed facial differences. The actress never confirmed the rumors.

But Vicodin, plastic surgery and cardiac arrest were factors in the case file of an even bigger star: Michael Jackson.

“Mixing a number of these drugs could have resulted in her death,” Dr. Bruce Goldberger, a professor and director of toxicology at the University Of Florida College of Medicine told RadarOnline.com about Murphy’s passing. “At the moment, it is pointing toward an overdose – or, at least, that will have to be ruled out by the autopsy or toxicology results.”

And to be sure, those results are still pending; a verdict of death by overdose remains ill-advised. Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack, is well aware of rumors about her drug abuse and has denied them as far as her death is concerned.

“My wife did not take anything on the morning of her death that would have caused her to be sick or ill, let alone die,” he told New York Daily News. “It’s beyond even the sickest speculation.”

At this point, unfortunately, nearly everything about Brittany Murphy’s death is only speculation – be it sick or reasonable. Medical reports of the near future, though, will either put to rest some of these troubling rumors or confirm them.

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A plastic surgery performed by an unqualified civilian has resulted in the death of a woman in the Bronx, New York.

Forty-three-year-old Siordaliza Pichardo, a mother of two, died March 18, following an illegal procedure that was allegedly performed by one of her friends.

The initial autopsy wasn’t conclusive.

But a medical examiner’s office finally declared the case a homicide after Pichardo was shown to have died of a silicone pulmonary embolism.

This was the result of an amount of silicone that caused clotting in her lungs.

Sources say this began shortly after Pichardo received injections of silicone into her thighs in hopes of reshaping her thighs and buttocks.

The friend, Elsa Then, is reportedly a female cosmetologist with no medical license or qualifications.

One few hours after the injection, Pichardo asked family members to take her to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, complaining of dizziness, vomiting and breathing problems.

She later went into cardiac arrest and died within an hour.

Pichardo’s 21-year-old son Kelvin Rodriguez went on record as saying he had opposed his mother’s surgery attempt from the very beginning, since he felt she didn’t need it.

Sources say no arrests have been made, but the case is still under investigation.

This is yet another tragic event that stresses the importance of using a board certified Plastic Surgeon  to perform any cosmetic procedure, no matter how small you think that procedure might be.