Hollywood star Brittany Murphy may have been MURDERED after being poisoned, a new toxicology report has concluded.

The body of the Clueless actress was found at her Los Angeles home in December 2009 by her mother with the coroner originally attributing her death to acute pneumonia and anaemia.

However according to an independent report ordered by her father, Angelo Bertolotti, the 32-year-old did not die from natural causes.

It found the actress had ten heavy metals in her system which were several times higher than World Health Organisation high levels at the time of her death.

The compounds are found in most rodenticides and insecticides leading her family and their experts to believe she may have been given rat poisoning.

Brittany’s father fought for years to secure samples of her hair, blood and tissue, which he later submitted for independent testing.

Mr Bertolotti previously said: “I will not rest until the truth about these tragic events is told. “There will be justice for Brittany.”

He told the Guardian: "Vicious rumors, spread by tabloids, unfairly smeared Brittany's reputation. My daughter was neither anorexic nor a drug junkie, as they repeatedly implied."

Just five months after her death her husband, British film director Simon Monjack, was found dead also from pneumonia and anaemia.

The 40-year-old was buried at the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills next to Murphy.

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