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Brittany Murphy's Death: Remembering The 'Clueless' Actress 3 Years Later. It's been three years since Brittany Murphy died, on Dec. 20, 2009, from a fatal combination of prescription drugs, pneumonia and iron deficiency. The actress, who died at 32, had come a long way since her days as a gum-snapping high school student in 1995's Clueless, in which she starred alongside Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd.