Two months after actress Brittany Murphy‘s death, her widower, Simon Monjack, and mother, Sharon, are leaving Los Angeles and moving to New York together.
“I decided to move back to my apartment in New York as had been my plan with Brittany,” Monjack told E! News. “Sharon said that she always loved New York and L.A. is just too painful for her. So would I mind if she moved too? Of course I don’t.”
“But I should point out we will be maintaining separate residences,” he added.
Sharon recently put the West Hollywood home where Murphy died on the market for $7.25 million, according to E!
Though they will move to Manhattan once it’s sold, Monjack and Sharon plan to jointly purchase a Los Angeles condo in order to make monthly trips back “to visit Brittany.”
Murphy, who starred in “Seven Mile,” “Clueless” and “Girl, Interrupted,” died Dec. 20 at age 32.
Last month, the Los Angeles County coroner cited pneumonia as the actress’ cause of death, and listed secondary factors as iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication.
“We have been to hell and back together, and we will need each other’s support as we continue to grieve,” Monjack said. “I would not want to be in a different city to Sharon. It was just important to me that Sharon would always have stability.”
They’ll also reportedly share custody of the actress’ Maltese, Clara.
The Hero of the Hudson has hung up his wings.
Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who safely landed a powerless US Airways flight in the Hudson River and got everyone out alive, is retiring, US Airways says.
“I have been fortunate to have followed my passion for most of my life, working in a profession I dearly love,” Sullenberger, 59, said in a statement.
Sullenberger also credited his co-pilot in the Jan. 15, 2009, crash, Jeff Skiles, and vowed to continue working for airline safety and for “the airline piloting profession.”
“I will work to remind the entire industry – and those who manage and regulate it – that we have a sacred duty to our passengers to do the very best that we know how to do,” he wrote.
The FAA mandates that pilots retire by 60.
Flight Attendant Doreen Welsh, 59, who helped guide the 150 passengers out onto the jet’s winge after the crash, also quit Wednesday, the airline said.
Sullenberger was a former fighter pilot and flew for US Airways for three decades.
Sullenber and Welsh were based in Charlotte, N.C., which was Sullenberger’s destination when his jet hit several geese after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport.
The geese clogged the engines, knocking out power, but Sullenberger still was able to land Flight 1549 in the river and get everybody off the plane.
If you like to bike in Los Angeles, you better look out.
According to TMZ, Paris Hilton is sharing the bike lane too — in her car.
Paris Hilton reportedly was pulled over on Tuesday, after police said the heiress was trying to pass several cars on Santa Monica Boulevard by using the bike lane.
The socialite was pulled over Tuesday afternoon when L.A. County sheriff’s deputies said they observed Hilton’s black SUV entering the bike lane in an attempt to get around slower cars on the road.
Hilton was cited for “unsafe passing” and sent along.
Playboy founder and Humphrey Bogart fan Hugh Hefner says the classic “Casablanca” left a huge impression on him and led him to open the first Playboy Club. “I wanted to have a place where people came to hang out as they did at Rick’s,” he said.
The Oscar-winning “Casablanca,” which stars Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as former lovers Rick and Ilsa who meet again in wartime Morocco, is Hefner’s favorite movie, the LA Times reports.
“It has everything — not only Bogie’s charismatic character, but lost love, redemption, patriotism, humor — it had a great musical score.”
Hefner will be the presenter of a Bogart series at UCLA. The series, “Here’s Looking at You, Humphrey Bogart,” begins Friday and continues through April 10.
Hefner chose what he considers the five top Bogart films: “Casablanca,” 1941’s “The Maltese Falcon,” 1944’s “To Have and Have Not,” 1946’s “The Big Sleep” and 1948’s “Key Largo.”
Bogart died of cancer in 1957 at age 57.
