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Coroner determines cause of death for Brittany Murphy, Casey Johnson

By Claire Noland
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The Los Angeles County coroner’s office issued reports Thursday on the recent deaths of two celebrities.

Actress Brittany Murphy, 32, died Dec. 20 at her Hollywood Hills home of pneumonia complicated by an iron deficiency, anemia and multiple drug intoxication, Times staff writer Richard Winton reports at the LANow blog.

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Casey Johnson, a 30-year-old socialite and heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, was found dead Jan. 4 at her Westside home. According to the coroner, she died of diabetic-related complications, Winton reports on LANow.

-- Claire Noland

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Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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