Yeah, so The Brittany Murphy Charity set up by Simon Monjack and her mother to benefit arts education for Children? Yeah, as it turns out, they never actually applied to become an actual charity with the IRS and the state of California. So it's not so much a charity as it is a way of using Brittany Murphy to scam you out of your goddamn money.

The California Secretary of State's office told TMZ there are no records for The Brittany Murphy Foundation. The state Attorney General's office also has no record of the organization as a nonprofit group -- and the IRS says the foundation has not filed for a non-profit license.

[...] On Friday afternoon, the Brittany Murphy foundation website did not have any such disclosure. The site was taken "down for maintenance" one hour after TMZ called the foundation for comment. (Source)

The "Foundation" returned all donations given with a fake-ass apology you can read here. Say what you will about TMZ, but damn it all if they didn't seriously catch this one in time. Normally, this is where we squeeze in one last joke about whatever the hell we just wrote about, but I can't really do that, mostly because there really isn't anything funny about setting up a fake charity for kids by exploiting your loved one's memory so that you can scam people out of their money.