Nee! Niet mijn Heath

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Heath Ledger, 28, Is Found Dead; Signs Point to Suicide

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in Manhattan inhabited by the actress Mary-Kate Olsen, according to the New York City police. Signs pointed to a suicide, police sources said. Mr. Ledger was 28.

At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building, at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of the bedroom Mr. Ledger was in. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger naked and unconscious on a bed, with pills scattered around his body. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities.

The police said they did not suspect foul play. Officials said they believed Ms. Olsen, 21, was in California and said it was not clear how long or why Mr. Ledger had been in her apartment.

Mr. Ledger, a native of Perth, Australia, won acclaim for his role as a co-star in “Brokeback Mountain” (2005). The film, based on a short story by Annie Proulx about two cowboys who fall in love, won critical acclaim. Reviewing the film in The New York Times, the critic Stephen Holden wrote, “Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn.” Mr. Ledger was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in January 2006.

Mr. Ledger met the actress Michelle Williams while filming ‘’Brokeback Mountain.” The two actors fell into a romance and moved to Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, where their comings and goings were widely noted by the celebrity press. They had a daughter, Matilda Rose, who was born on Oct. 28, 2005. The couple separated last year.

Mr. Ledger’s first Hollywood film was the teenage romantic comedy “10 Things I Hate About You” (1999). He later appeared in romantic-hero roles in films like “A Knight’s Tale” (2001) and “Casanova” (2005).

In an interview in London for an article published in November, Mr. Ledger told The New York Times, ‘’I feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.” He said in the interview that he was not proud of his latest role, in Todd Haynes’s “I’m Not There,” in which Mr. Ledger was one of a half-dozen actors depicting the musician Bob Dylan. ‘’I feel the same way about everything I do. The day I say, ‘It’s good’ is the day I should start doing something else,” said in the interview.

Calls by The Times to Mara Buxbaum, a publicist for Mr. Ledger, and Steve Alexander, the actor’s agent, were not immediately returned this afternoon.

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Op dinsdag 22 januari 2008 23:39 schreef -skippybal- het volgende:
Kut voor 'm, maar nu moet ik zeker nog langer wachten op de nieuwe Terry Gilliam ?

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Op dinsdag 22 januari 2008 23:51 schreef cerror het volgende:
Ik lees het net. Godverdomme
Ben benieuwd of de opnames al zijn afgerond van Dark Knight.

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Earlier this year, Ledger wrapped filming on the Batman film The Dark Knight, in which he played The Joker; the film is currently set for release this summer. Further details of the actor's death were not available at press time. --IMDb staff

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Op dinsdag 22 januari 2008 23:51 schreef cerror het volgende:
Ik lees het net. Godverdomme
Ben benieuwd of de opnames al zijn afgerond van Dark Knight.

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Op dinsdag 22 januari 2008 23:53 schreef Vandaag... het volgende:
shocking! Was hij nog steeds getrouwd met Michelle Williams? En zoja, wat deed hij dan bij eé´n van die smurfen?

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The New York Times also reports that the apartment in which he was found is owned by Mary-Kate Olsen.

A source tells PEOPLE Ledger was subletting the apartment from Olsen. "It was Mary Kate’s apartment. This is bad news. Someone found dead from an overdose in your apartment is very, very bad," the source close to Olsen tells PEOPLE.

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Op dinsdag 22 januari 2008 23:55 schreef Harajuku. het volgende:

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Ze waren vorig jaar al uit elkaar.

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The New York Times also reports that the apartment in which he was found is owned by Mary-Kate Olsen.

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FOX News is reporting that the apartment was not owned by Mary-Kate Olsen. Also, Heath was found nude, face down on a bed with "pills strewn around him."

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Law enforcement sources tell TMZ sleeping pills were strewn around the bed of Heath Ledger.

One law enforcement source told us it is much too early to determine if the death was accidental or suicide.

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Vriend Heath zag zijn dood aankomen

Een goede vriend van Heath vertelt dat hij erg geshockeerd is over zijn dood, maar dat hij het wel zag aankomen..

Kennelijk ging Heath Ledger door een erg diep dal voordat hij stierf. "Heath heeft erg veel moeite gehad om clean te worden. Alles was heel duister voor hem. Zijn enige lichtpunt was zijn tweejarige dochter Matilda . Al het andere was heel zwaar voor hem. Helaas was hij te laat met hulp zoeken.."

Dit meldt US Magazine.

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Op woensdag 23 januari 2008 00:24 schreef Esraa het volgende:

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Helaas was hij te laat met hulp zoeken.

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Op woensdag 23 januari 2008 06:30 schreef Clauw het volgende:
Inderdaad schocking !
Ik wist niet dat hij zo into drugs was

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Industry observers spoke last night of the increasingly 'unhinged' way that Ledger has carried himself professionally and personally in recent months.

"It's easy to think an actor is just dressing bizarrely and acting weird on the red carpet to try to drum up some interest in themselves. But a picture is fast emerging, through discussions with his friends and work associates, that Heath has really been very out of it for months.

"And he's been battling some pretty serious demons. It's just so incredible that it was allowed to gone on unchecked for so long."


Ledger's former fiancée Williams failed to talk sense into her now deceased former partner.


"She cared for him deeply but his life was unmanageable," said the source. "As much as she wanted to stay married, he was a different person these past couple of years.


"The tragic reality was that he lost his grip on life."


As for Ledger's trip to rehab, the source said: "It was during his filming of The Dark Knight. Heath's addiction was really getting in the way of his ability to act. He went to rehab but left fairly quickly, within a number of days.

"Tragically, he never really faced up to his addictions. Had he done so, he would be alive today."

It was at the Venice Film Festival in September of last year that Ledger first started displaying signs of being floored by his split with Williams and at was then that friends noticed a change of behaviour in him.

After behaving oddly during a press junket at the festival on the Venice Lido all day on September 3rd, Ledger went alone to a party thrown by Italian designer Alberta Ferretti on a yacht moored off the main city at 10pm.

Ledger arrived dressed "as if he was homeless", said a source.

"It looked as if he was if he was trying to make some kind of point. He drifted around the party not talking to anyone for half an hour and then just walked off into the night like a lost soul. It was most odd.

"He and Richard Gere were both special guests at the party. But Heath was just like a ghost. It was obvious something awful had happened to him."