Heath Ledger was found dead in a downtown Manhattan apartment (Broome St.) that belonged to Mary Kate Olsen, the NYPD said Tuesday afternoon. Pills were found scattered around him. He was found by his housekeeper. Suicide or drug overdose is suspected. He was the former husband of Michelle Williams, who currently lives in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.
He was found by his housekeeper when she was alerting him of a massage appointment around 3:30 on Tuesday, January 22nd.
Ledger’s publicist of ID-PR has her work cut out for her this week.
Ledger is set to appear as The Joker in the upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight, alongside Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The film is currently in post-production and expected to be released July 18th, 2008. His untimely death will no doubt bring a somber mood to this highly anticipated movie.
Other current projects included Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was still filming and now faces obvious difficulties in completion.
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