
“However, we do know the Los Angeles Coroner did extensive tests and found that she died of natural causes. “We will never know for sure,” she concluded. He has made outrageous statements over the past few years, culminating in his latest madness: that my darling daughter was murdered.” “Angelo Bertolotti has relocated to California in his old age to claim he is here for Brittany, as he never was in life. “I have no choice now but to come forward in the face of inexcusable efforts to smear my daughter’s memory by a man who may be her biological father but was never a real father to her in her lifetime,” she wrote in a letter published by The Hollywood Reporter. Sharon did not appreciate her ex’s theories, though. County Coroner’s office had no plans to reopen the case. Bruce Goldberger, the director of forensic medicine at the University of Florida and president of the American Board of Forensic Toxicology, said someone couldn’t determine if someone was poisoned just by testing a single strand of hair. In 2013, the results came back, and Angelo claimed there were traces of “heavy metals.” CNN obtained the report, which stated, “If we were to eliminate the possibility of a simultaneous accidental heavy metals exposure to the sample donor then the only logical explanation would be an exposure to these metals (toxins) administered by a third party perpetrator with likely criminal intent.”Īngelo felt like his daughter “was poisoned,” he told HLN in November 2013. Months later, a judge dismissed the suit, but Angelo worked with an independent lab, where they tested pieces of Brittany’s hair. Department of Coroner for its findings and wanted to have samples of his daughter’s remains tested for heavy metals or other contaminations. In January 2012, Brittany’s father, Angelo Bertolotti, sued the L.A. Sharon said she had “never been personally asked by the Coroner or anyone from the Health Department to come and inspect my home for mold.” In August 2010, there were reports the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health was looking into toxic mold in their home. But Sharon wanted people to “stop the reckless innuendos that my daughter and son-in-law misused any kind of prescription medications,” she said in a statement.


Simon’s publicist, Roger Neal, said he had a heart condition and was going to get bypass surgery. Had they taken her to a doctor or hospital, it would have been treatable.”įive months after she passed, Simon died at 40 years old in the same West Hollywood home where Brittany was found and of the same causes. Los Angeles Country Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said the blonde beauty’s death was “accidental but preventable.” He added, “She had been sick for at least two weeks.

Her death was officially ruled an accident. One month later, the Los Angeles County coroner revealed her cause of death was pneumonia, anemia and “multiple drug intoxication” from prescription and over-the-counter medications, People magazine reported at the time.
