Update: The autopsy did not yield a definite cause of death. The lab tests are negative on the rolled-up 20-dollar bill found nearby. Medical examiners have said that it will take at least ten days to complete toxicology reports.
Clearly, it is too early to make an exact determination as to cause of death. Paparazzi, people, and MSM press from all over the world are camped outside Ledger's apartment building. They watched and snapped as he was rolled out in a black plastic body bag on a stretcher before being loaded into a waiting emergency medical transport vehicle.
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Article comments
1 - handyguy
What a sad, painful loss. Ledger's performance in Brokeback Mountain was one of the finest of the last several years, by anybody: just heartbreaking and so utterly convincing. But of course more people will see him in the new Batman movie [the title is spelled The Dark Knight, by the way] than in anything else he ever did.
2 - Heloise
I knew that. I edited this and missed it somehow.
3 - kate shaw
beautiful observations.
heaths last 2 choice of roles are painfully poignant now.im tired of this film industry sadism-right across the board.but the show must go on,right!he was crying out for a rest this last shoot.but of course shooting costs come first.The imaginarium film makers and heaths agent , couldnt they of helped organise an intervention for heath,to talk him into rehab.or a retreat?i hate the film industries treatment of actors.what happened to the 8 hours max work a day?-the union rules?-they prefer to work a fractured actor to death for their egos?
Also in aust.with celebrity accidents or deaths they have portable screens or tarps held up blocking the body bag parade from view when theres hordes of press around.shame on new york policy.condolonces to family bigtime,frm kate (melb.aust.)
p.s robert downey was another actor nearly eaten by the film industry.
4 - chris wolf
What the film industry expects of it's youngest and finest actors these days defys common sense let alone accountability. When making a film why must actors fly off sometimes to 3 different countries to do scenes. Most of these young actors are caught unaware by how stressful this can be and find themselves like Heath Ledger did in a personal nightmare which they may not be able to handle. Alfred Hitchcock made some of the best movies ever and yet the pace of his films are even paced and organized. It is also said that he cared about the actors he worked with. This sense of responsibility needs to come back to movietown before we see even more Heath Ledger tragedies.