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Faced with her client's abrupt, simultaneous dumping by ICM and Brillstein-Grey, Brittany Murphy's publicist can offer only a weak, last-resort rebuttal, in the classic, messy-break-up, "No way! She totally dumped them first!" mold. From Page Six:

A rep for Murphy, who has been helping her mother deal with cancer, said, "Brittany is making a transition in her representation and has parted ways amicably with Brillstein-Grey and ICM. Not the other way around. The blind item on E!online is not Brittany."

Having a publicist in her corner who's dedicated and savvy enough to play the mother's cancer card should help Murphy through the always-tricky transition (remember, her choice!) from Up-and-Coming Star With Big Time Reps to Unrepresented Tabloid Pariah. But we must subtract a flack point for responding to the blind item question. Again, tragically small-time. Even Andy Dick's people (assuming, of course, he has "people") wouldn't have touched that one.

UPDATE: Murphy's reps maintain that she was the one who fired ICM and Brillstein-Grey, not the other way around, and point out that Casablanca has stated that Murphy was not the subject of his blind item.