Distressed celebrity masseuse Diane Lee Wolozin who found
Hollywood actor Heath Ledger dead in his New York apartment made
two calls to actress Mary-Kate Olsen before calling the emergency
services, media reports said Friday.
Diana Wolozin told police she first called Olsen, a friend of
Ledger's whose number was in his mobile phone, for advice when she
thought the 28-year-old actor was unconscious. But when she
realized he may be dead she called Olsen again, and then called for
an ambulance.
Ledger, star of Brokeback Mountain and the upcoming
Dark Knight, had six different types of drugs, including
sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication, inside his apartment
but post-mortem results have so far proved inconclusive,
authorities said.
Actor Heath Ledger is
pictured in a scene from Brokeback Mountain in this
undated publicity photograph. (file photo:
Xinhua/Reuters)
Police said the Australian actor probably died between 1 p.m.
and 2.45 p.m. on Tuesday.
At 1 p.m., housekeeper Teresa Solomon went into his bedroom to
change a light bulb, saw him sleeping and heard him snoring.
At 2.45 p.m., Wolozin, the massage therapist, arrived for
Ledger's appointment, knocked on his door and got no answer. She
tried to call him on his mobile phone, but again got no response.
She went into the bedroom, set up her massage table and again tried
to wake Ledger.
Wolozin told police that Ledger was cold to the touch, but that
she assumed he was just unconscious. She used his mobile phone to
call Olsen, whose number was programmed into the phone, because she
knew they were friends.
New York Police Department commissioner Ray Kelly said a
rolled-up 20 dollar note was also found near Ledger's body, but no
illegal drugs were discovered in the apartment.
Ledger was filming in London last weekend and police sources
said three of the six drugs, which included sleeping pills,
anti-anxiety tablets and an anti-histamine, were prescribed in
Europe.
(Agencies via Xinhua January 25, 2008)?
