When they got back to Los Angeles, everything started to go apart at an alarming rate. Murphy had pneumonia after contracting the bug. She passed away six weeks later.
By continuing to live together in the Rising Glen Road home, where they often shared a bed, Sharon and Monjack generated shady suspicions in the months after her death (Sharon strongly refuted the allegations).
There were also questions after an unpleasant TV appearance with Larry King in which they acted more like a mourning spouse than a mother and son-in-law.
Neal maintains that these were just two grieving individuals attempting to live and that nothing inappropriate was happening.
On Good Morning America, Murphy’s father, who had been missing for a long time, expressed his belief that she had been poisoned.
