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Heath Ledger's Family: "Our Hearts Are Broken"; Plus New Police Findings
Heath Ledger by Tim Whitby/WireImage.com
Heath Ledger's family, due in New York City on Friday for a very private funeral service, remembers their lost kin as "the most amazing 'old soul' in a young man's body," in a death notice placed in The West Australian, a newspaper based in Ledger's hometown of Perth. "As a close-knit and very private family we have observed you so determined yet quietly traveling in your self-styled path in life.... Our hearts are broken."
After the viewing which Michelle Williams also will attend Ledger's body will be taken back to Australia.
Meanwhile, new specifics on the series of phone calls made by Ledger's masseuse to Mary-Kate Olsen have surfaced. A new police timeline shows that Diane Lee Wolozin spent nine minutes speed-dialing Olsen not twice but three times before alerting 911. Though paramedics arrived and officially declared Ledger dead 10 minutes after that call, it is believed the actor had passed on well before he was found by the masseuse (who, by the way, is in trouble for not being licensed in New York a felony punishable by four years in prison).
To hear the New York Daily News tell it, police have no plans to interview Olsen, yet PageSix.com says the NYPD does intend to ask Mary-Kate why she sent a team of bodyguards to the apartment. How does MKO rate a space on Ledger's cell-phone speed-dial, anyway? People is reporting that the starlet dated Ledger "casually" after his split from Williams. "They had a bond that was based on partying," a source tells the glossy. "They had that same sensibility."
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Jan 25, 2008 8:51 AM
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Matt, I believe that's "partying" that was the bond. At least, that's what I read elsewhere.
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Jan 25, 2008 9:18 AM
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Yes, partying. Spell-check can be a fickle mistress. - MWM
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Jan 25, 2008 9:27 AM
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A felony for being an unlicensed masseuse? Four years in prison? Unbelievable.
It's my understanding that the bodyguards were CPR trained, and I've heard from people that live in New York City response times for paramedics can be excruciatingly long, so I assume it was thought the bodyguards could get there quicker. Although it would have been prudent to call 911 first. However, I think Mr. Ledger was already deceased before anyone entered that bedroom. It's a sad and tragic event regardless of how it played out.
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Jan 25, 2008 9:42 AM
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Well, that does shed a different light on the matter. My personal take has been that he did the Ambien "sleepwalk" and did something like mix pills that, had he been fully aware, he would not have done.
But now seeing that he parties with the Olsen twins and that bunch, I'm wondering if maybe he was starting to turn into another one of those H'wood out-of-control 20-somethings. I really hope I'm wrong.
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Jan 25, 2008 9:42 AM
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If he had died in the time the masseuse spent dialing Olsen, I would have been pissed off because his life could have been saved.
Someone must be looking out for her because she would have spent the rest of her life dealing with ridicule and possibly hate for failing to save him (if he could have been saved). But I still think she is an idiot, she should have dialed 911 first!
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Jan 25, 2008 9:43 AM
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At first I thought it is like that stupid woman whose car got hit by a train, she was okay but was being pushed down the tracks at a high rate of speed, and calls her mother first to freak out and ask what to do who's like 'you idiot call 911.' A grown woman for pete's sake. In this case I think that masseuse, not being licensed in NY and then doing this Mary Kate thing, she's just of that 'hey this is a famous person, I'm being discreet even if it puts a life at risk.' I mean you call 911 and/or start CPR. She didn't know how long he'd been dead. I bet she didn't check his pulse. Dumb/slight shady.
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Jan 25, 2008 9:47 AM
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When Owen Wilson went through his ordeal, I don't recall anything being mentioned about calls to agents or family first - seems like whoever found him called 911 immediately.
Maybe the masseuse has seen too many movies...
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Jan 25, 2008 11:46 AM
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wasn't the apartment mko's? also, i don't understand the fact that the housekeeper said she changed a light bulb at 1 and she heard him snoring. But, they said he died sometime between 1 and 2:45.They also said he was cold and stiff isn't that to short of a time period.
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Jan 25, 2008 12:04 PM
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1) wasn't the apartment mko's?
No, it was Ledger's ... he had MKO on his cell phone speed dial and apparently the masseuse knew they were friends, so she called her to find out what she should do (keep in mind that I'm sure she had no clue this would turn out to be as bad as it was and that this is apparently what people around celebrities are taught to do (right or wrong its apparently what they're taught) so as to avoid a media circus (which is ironically what this is turning out to be).
2) also, i don't understand the fact that the housekeeper said she changed a light bulb at 1 and she heard him snoring. But, they said he died sometime between 1 and 2:45.They also said he was cold and stiff isn't that to short of a time period.
Possibly, but I don't really know for sure. Of course, if the housekeeper said she went in there and he was snoring then I believe her, because since there was no sign of foul play what reason would she have to lie about that? The only thing I can say is that maybe she heard another noise and thought it was him snoring (I suppose it could be labored breathing ... right before my dad died of cancer his breathing was extremely labored and I suppose that could sound to someone like snoring).
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Jan 25, 2008 12:43 PM
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I truly believe that we pay a high price in this country for ignorance - also known as lack of knowledge or education or common sense.
She is so afraid of covering her own unlicensed butt she wastes valuable time calling around to find out what to do - who in this day and age doesn't know to call 911?! Or to begin CPR?! Valuable time was lost.
If you knew the kinds of calls the 911 Centers throughout this country get for all kinds of things you would cry to think this woman didn't call them when this was the time they should be called!
I would be curious to know the coroners estimated time of death.
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Jan 25, 2008 1:12 PM
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This is beginning to seem more and more shady. First Olsen was involved, and then she wasn't, and now she is again. I still think foul play was involved.
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Jan 25, 2008 1:50 PM
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Hopefully, Heath Ledger's parents will have 100% access to their grandaughter, Matilda, and will have the freedom to bring her to Austalia for extended vists. This is probably what Heath Ledger would have wanted. Ledger and Williams have been split up for over a year, and who knows if bitter feelings existed. If they did, Williams might possibly keep Matilda from his parents. And that would be a sin!
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Jan 25, 2008 2:02 PM
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First, to DaisyRose, it wouldn't have made a difference when (or if) she began CPR, because according to the NYPD, he had probably been deceased since sometime around 1 pm. I know she should've have, but like I said ... it would'nt have made a difference and I'm sure she was probably so freaked out at finding him like he was that she was thinking straight.
Second, to Spiderkeg its never been a question as to whether MKO was involved, its only been a question of how many times the masseuse called her. Also, both the NYPD and the coroner have said straight out that this was NOT foul play. I realize there is such a thing as cover-ups, but honestly what would be the reason for something like that here??
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Jan 25, 2008 2:06 PM
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slhutzell: also, i don't understand the fact that the housekeeper said she changed a light bulb at 1 and she heard him snoring. But, they said he died sometime between 1 and 2:45.
it's simple: They know he was alive at 1pm (due to the lightbulb story), and that he was dead at 2:45pm.
so he had to die somewhere between 1 and 2:45.
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Jan 25, 2008 2:16 PM
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