Simon Monjack Cancels Brittany Murphy Party Due to his Own Illness

Simon Monjack formed what he claimed to be a foundation in the name of his dead wife Brittany Murphy so he could collect money, after he announced he already added $1 million of his own money to the foundation’s coffers:

On Thursday, Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack is hosting a launch party to celebrate the Brittany Murphy Foundation, which is dedicated to arts education for children.

He is suggesting dollar amounts of $1,000 per individual and $10,000 from corporations to attend the event
Says a source, “Everyone thinks it’s very tacky that he is making it so much about money.”

Does anyone believe him? A reader at WWTDD sent in a fake email (above) which pretty much sums up the perception that Monjack is a con-man.

Let’s review some of the facts about Monjack’s history:

• In 2005, warrants were issued for Monjack in Virginia for credit-card fraud and theft.
• Also in 2005 he was evicted from his apartment in New York for owing $7,025 in back rent. This was one of 4 times that he was evicted between 1997 and 2006.
• In 2006, a British bank received a court judgment against him of $470,132.
• In April of 2007, Monjack disappeared for 10 days claiming he had been kidnapped and held for ransom, which Brittany paid, when in fact he was in jail.
• One month later Brittany married him in a secret ceremony after dating for 4 months.
• In November of 2007, his ex-wife, Simone Bienne, sued him for the $63,000 she was awarded in a divorce but he never paid. Another woman he was engaged to said he had given her a cubic zirconia engagement ring but claimed it was a diamond.

Monjack has cancelled the Foundation party due to Monjack’s own illness, or perhaps because less people were going to show up than did at Pamela Anderson’s clothing line launch in Miami.