The LAPD have released a statement to OK! confirming the death of Johnson & Johnson heiress Casey Johnson. Officer Sara Faden tells OK! the details so far.

“Earlier today at about 11:51 this morning, our Wilshire area patrol officers responded to an ambulance death investigation in the 900 block of North Orlando Avenue. The L.A fire department also responded and pronounced Miss Casey Johnson dead at the scene. Through a preliminary death investigation it does appear it was a natural death as there was no foul play. And of course the Los Angeles coroners office will conduct their own investigation, which includes a toxicology screening. There is no evidence at this time that there was any foul play.”

According to earlier reports, Casey was found dead in Los Angeles on Monday morning, though no cause of death was given.

After the news broke online, Tila Tweeted:
“Everyone please pray 4 my Wifey Casey Johnson. She has passed away. Thank u for all ur love and support but I will be offline to be w family”

And then:
“This is a very heartbreaking time for me. I just want some pricacy as I deal with the loss of my Fiance Casey Johnson. I’m heart is shredded”

Minutes later, the reality star muddied the waters with these Tweets:
“I just got news that my fiance is not dead but currently in a coma!!! Omg please pray that she will make it! Hang in there my love please!!!”
Followed seconds later by:
“I know u can feel me Casey! Dot let go! I’m almost home baby please hang on! We have a beautiful life planned out for us! I LOVE u! Hang on!”

A short time after news of the confirmation was posted online, Tila Tweeted the following, which seems to imply that she is no longer holding out hope that Casey is still in a coma:
“I’m still in shock! Once again thank U for the outpour of love and support. I just wish to have some privacy at this heartbreaking time.”

Hopefully, the police statement will put the end to speculation and Casey’s loved ones can begin to grieve for their loss.

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Factory Girl director George Hickenlooper and friend of Brittany Murphy said he warned the actress about her husband Simon Monjack and his alleged fraudulent behavior, the NY Daily News reports. George wrote in a Hollywood Elsewhere post, “The last thing I told Brittany is: ‘Do you know this guy? I mean do you really know him? Do you know what you are doing by marrying him?’”

“At this point, Brittany became angry and told me she knew Monjack better than anyone and then hung up on me,” he said in the post. “A few months later I tried to phone her to see if she was alright and Monjack would not let me speak to her.”

George went on to say that the British screenwriter’s IMBD credit for Factory Girl, a film George had considered Brittany for instead of Seinna Miller, is a complete lie.

“Simon Monjack had nothing to do with Factory Girl,” he wrote after Brittany’s death. “He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us. . . making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.”

He also said he had posted those allegations two years ago, but took them down from IMDB after Brittany begged him to.

Simon said he’s never even met George and refuted his claims.

“I wanted to make Factory Girl many years ago,” Simon told a British tabloid. “What is being said is not true. I guess everyone deals with their grief in a different way — his is expressing his anger.”

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Brittany Murphy’s body has arrived at Forest Lawn Memorial Park this afternoon in preparation for her Christmas Eve Funeral, TMZ reports. The Hollywood Hills cemetery is a popular burial spot for celebrities; Liberace, Freddie Prinze Sr., Buster Keaton, John Ritter, and Gene Autry are among the deceased stars who eternally rest at Forest Lawn.

The funeral service is listed as “strictly private.”

Brittany died at age 32 on Sunday morning after collapsing in the bathroom of her L.A. home.

Hospital staff at Cedars Sinai tried to revive her without success. The cause of death is listed as cardiac arrest but the autopsy results won’t be released for the next few weeks.

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A shocking number of strong prescription meds were found on Brittany Murphy’s bedroom nightstand after her sudden Dec. 20 death, but her husband denies she took anything dangerous enough that morning that would have killed her.

“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,” Brit screenwriter Simon Monjack tells the New York Daily News. “It’s beyond even the sickest speculation.”

According to the the coroner investigation notes (obtained by TMZ.com), medications confiscated included Topamax (anti-seizure meds also to prevent migraines), Methylprednisolone (anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (depression med), Klonopin (anxiety med), Carbamazepine (treats Diabetic symptoms and is also a bipolar med), Ativan (anxiety med), Vicoprofen (pain reliever), Propranolol (hypertension, used to prevent heart attacks), Biaxin (antibiotic), Hydrocodone (pain med) and miscellaneous vitamins.

Monjack confirmed that investigators took away a lot of prescription meds, “but nothing else,” and denied rumors that the 32-year-old actress had a drug problem.

“There’s no question that’s rubbish,” Monjack said. “I’m confident it wasn’t an overdose,” he added when asked how she died (toxicology report results won’t be available for about six weeks). “She was not a drug addict.”

He also called reports that Murphy had an eating disorder “heartless.”

“The attacks on me, the attacks on my wife and suggestions that she was anorexic and drug addicted, it’s like, look at the (recent) photographs,” Monjack said.

“Look at that smile,” he went on. “That’s not the smile of an anorexic or drug addict or someone in a bad marriage. That’s someone who was content with her life.”

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The images above are from the program given to all the guests who attended the memorial service for Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein Thursday night at the Palladium nightclub in LA.

The service lasted almost three hours and included speeches from many of AM’s friends. “The one common theme that all the speakers shared was how selfless and generous Adam was and how much he valued his sobriety,” a guest at the service tells Life & Style.

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FROM TMZ:

Law enforcement sources tell us DJ AM — also known as Adam Goldstein — was found dead this afternoon in New York City.

Sources tell us he was found in his apartment at around 5:20 PM. We’re told drug paraphernalia was found at the scene.

Our sources say DJ AM had not been seen or heard from for a few days — one of his friends went to check on him, but got no response after knocking on his apartment door.

We’re told the friend called the police, who broke down the door and then found DJ AM’s body.

Back in September of 2008, DJ AM and Travis Barker survived a plane crash in South Carolina. Four people died in the crash — which was caused when the airplane aborted takeoff and then ran off the runway. DJ AM and Barker were the only survivors.

Sources tell TMZ prescription pill bottles were found by DJ AM’s body this afternoon.

We’re told his body was found at around 5 PM this afternoon at his apartment in New York City.

UPDATE 7:51 PM ET: We’re told his body has not been removed from the apartment.

TV pitchman Bill Mays took cocaine just days before his death, contributing to his fatal heart attack, according to an autopsy.

Mays, 50, the bearded man with the booming voice best known for his ubiquitous OxiClean ads, was found dead June 28 in his Florida home.

“From the presence of metabolites of cocaine and the absence of cocaine itself, it was concluded that Mr. Mays used cocaine in the few days prior to his death but not immediately prior to death,” says a statement from the Hillsborough County, Fla., medical examiner. “Cocaine can raise the arterial blood pressure, directly cause thickening of the wall of the left ventricle of the heart, and accelerate the formation of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries.”

Mays was pronounced dead after his body was found in his bed by wife Deborah Mays. Early speculation focused on a bump to his head during a rough landing of a flight the day before into Tampa. But the coroner had found no sign of head trauma.

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