Brittany Murphy dumped by her management

[muchlove]

Brittany Murphy Abandoned By Her People


Late yesterday, when we were mercifully free of our online shackles, news that Brittany Murphy had been dumped by both agency ICM and management company Brillstein-Grey hit our inbox. (How many more hours of waterboarding will it take for us to finally learn to never, ever leave the computer?) Radar Online has the story, hearing from a source that she was dumped for the vague-but-foreboding “personal reasons”

Why the blue-chip firms set the 28-year-old actress adrift so suddenly—even though she was recently named the face of Jordache and has a number of projects in the works, including a Sin City sequel—remains unclear. According to a source close to Murphy, the skinny Uptown Girls starlet was kicked to the curb for unspecified “personal” reasons. […]

Called for comment, a staffer at [former B-G manager Joanne] Colonna’s office confirmed that Murphy is no longer a client, saying only, “We wish her much love and success in her new endeavor.” Neither Berg nor Murphy’s sole remaining handler, BWR publicist Holly Shakoor, returned calls or e-mails by press time.


The Radar piece also makes a reference to Murphy’s recent Blind Item Guessing Game win but our official stance on the matter has long been that she’s never even seen cocaine.

These “personal reasons” notwithstanding, our hearts go out to Murphy in this difficult time; having one’s “people” reduced to a single flack is truly devastating. Telling that producer who corners you at a cocktail party with big ideas for Uptown Girls 2 to call your “person” makes an actress sound tragically small-time.

from: Defamer

[SVZ]

ohh zing!

[KristiB]

This was posted on Radar magazine's site today:

In a double-barreled dose of Hollywood bitchslappery, actress Brittany Murphy was dropped on Tuesday by both her agent, ICM’s Jeff Berg, and manager, Brillstein-Grey’s Joanne Colonna, West Coast sources confirm.

“She was a client at Brillstein-Grey for 12 years, and she’s no longer a client there or at ICM, either,” says a high-level industry insider. “They decided to let her go.”

Why the blue-chip firms set the 28-year-old actress adrift so suddenly—even though she was recently named the face of Jordache and has a number of projects in the works, including a Sin City sequel—remains unclear. According to a source close to Murphy, the skinny Uptown Girls starlet was kicked to the curb for unspecified “personal” reasons. It couldn’t have helped that the last time her name was brought up was in connection to a jaw-dropping, vein-popping not-so-blind item in Ted Casablancas’s E!Online column. (Jordache Junky?)

Called for comment, a staffer at Colonna’s office confirmed that Murphy is no longer a client, saying only, “We wish her much love and success in her new endeavor.” Neither Berg nor Murphy’s sole remaining handler, BWR publicist Holly Shakoor, returned calls or e-mails by press time.

[miss_perfect]

Wow. I hope this gives her incentive to clean up her act. Then again, bad news like this could send her on a bender.

[buttmunch]

Actress Brittany Murphy gets dropped by her manager at Brillstein-Grey and her agent at ICM, perhaps because she enjoys getting smack-happy and humping the help. [Page Six]

If anyone is signed up at Page Six, could you post the article? Now, I'm wondering if this means Brittney is a smack-head and has been fucking those lower on the celeb scale than her. Interesting...I never would have pegged her for a druggie.

[ourmaninBusan]

Actually, there are some blind-item suspicions that Brittany
was the "Jordache Junky" because she recently bagged
the Jordache perfume ad...wherein she posed on a horse...
horse with an H...and H stands for heroin!

Blind Item - Heroin Chic? *revealed*

[miss_perfect]

Been here! Brittany Murphy dumped by her management.

[beauty_lies8]

this is very very odd. I really like her. I hope that if it was because of drugs that she gets better.