Many of you lotto players out there may be familiar with the name Abraham Shakespeare. He won $30 million in the Florida Lottery in 2006. To most people that would be a life changing experience in a great way, however, for Abraham it was quite the opposite.
“Nine months ago, he vanished. Friends and family hoped he was on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean.” Reports the AP. Sadly that was not the case at all! On Friday January 29, 2010 Abraham Shakespeare’s body was found buried under a concrete slab in the back yard of a new found friend’s boyfriends house. No one has been charged with Shakespeare’s murder yet, nor do they have a cause of death. They do however believe that this woman who befriended Shakespeare a year after winning the lotto may know something about his death.
Robert Brown, Shakespeare’s brother, has stated that his brother often wished that he never bought the winning lottery ticket. His brother told the AP that Shakespeare believed he would ‘have been better off broke.’
You can read more detailed information on the very few facts known about Shakespeare’s death on MSNBC.MSN.COM.
According to Brittany Murphy’s mother and husband on the “Today” show, Brittany Murphy’s death is being ruled as natural causes. When they were asked if she used drugs, either prescription or recreational, they firmly denied there even being a chance! Her mother stated that Brittany was diagnosed with a heart murmur as a young teenager, which made Brittany have a very big fear of dying because of it.
There were many different kinds of prescription drugs found in Simon Monjack and Brittany Murphy’s house. Simon is openly saying that these drugs were his, since he suffers from many different kinds of illnesses including seizures.
During the interview Simon also had quite a few things to say about the rumors that Brittany Murphy was fired from a movie right before her death. He said that it was a mutual decision for her to leave the film. Brittany Murphy’s husband definitely seemed as though he feels there is someone to blame for his wife’s young death. He says that he believes that Hollywood broke her down and put her into a bad spot because they kept crushing her dreams.
Both Brittany’s mother and husband said that Brittany also refused to drink even caffeine because of her heart murmur. I too have a heart murmur and I can easily agree that anyone who cares about their health at all will avoid alcohol, drugs, and caffeine when you have a heart murmur. It is very scary to think that she was very careful and followed the rules of what to avoid and still died of natural causes at such a young age!
So while watching the latest episode of DJ AM’s show “Gone Too Far” I realized that his death occurred while he was still filming this show. This was something that was never really clarified before. It was mentioned that they believed the relapse that caused his death was due in part to the show, but I did not realize that while filming in the middle of helping one pregnant girl get sober before the birth of her second child he passed away.
As I mentioned before it was reported that DJ AM was having a hard time dealing with some aspects of doing this show. It was reported that DJ AM began to struggle quite a bit when he purchased drugs to try to prove to one family how easy it was for their daughter to get her desired drugs. This was never shown on any episode of his show, “Gone Too Far” which airs on MTV. In the last episode that has aired for his show there was a young girl named Megan who he was trying to convince to get help for her meth addiction because she was 7 months pregnant. He seemed to be in a great mindset while filming this show. He used his experiences to prove to Megan that she could get help, and that there was hope of a great life. He also said many times that she must be at her rock bottom because she is doing drugs while pregnant, his many comments on this issue really made me believe that he was still very strong in his convictions against drugs. I was very shocked while watching the show when suddenly Megan says her adviser in rehab told her that DJ AM died.
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