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Heath Ledger Found Dead

Posted Jan 22, 08 4:06 PM CST in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Actor Heath Ledger was found dead today in his home in downtown Manhattan, the AP reports. The Australian native, an Academy Award nominee for his performance in Brokeback Mountain, was 28. Police said pills were "scattered around the room," WCBS-TV in New York reported, and the death may have been drug-related.

Ledger had an appointment for a massage, and his housekeeper found him dead at 3:26pm. Ledger split last year from actress Michelle Williams, the mother of his daughter, who was born in 2005. He most recently starred in I'm Not There as one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan and was to appear in the next Batman movie as the villain, the Joker.
Source: Associated Press

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Australian actor Heath Ledger arrives for the screening of his latest movie "I'm Not There" in competition at the 64th Venice Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, in this Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007 file photo....   (Associated Press)
Actor Heath Ledger attends a special Cinema Society and Hogan hosted screening of "I'm Not There" at the Chelsea West Cinemas, in this Nov. 13, 2007, file photo in New York. A New York Police Department...   (Associated Press)
This undated promotional photo shows actors Jake Gyllenhaal, left, and Heath Ledger in a scene from "Brokeback Mountain." Ledger was found dead Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 at a downtown Manhattan residence...   (Associated Press)
Ileana Diaz, 16, and Leslie Valette, 18, fans of the deceased actor Heath Ledger, wait with flowers outside the building where his body was found Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in the Soho neighborhood of New...   (Associated Press)
A woman stands with a bouquet of flowers outside a SoHo apartment building where the body of actor Heath Ledger was found Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. Ledger, the talented 28-year-old actor who...   (Associated Press)
Police officers guard the entrance to a SoHo apartment building where the body of actor Heath Ledger was found Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. Ledger, the talented 28-year-old actor who gravitated...   (Associated Press)
Members of the media crowd the entrance to a SoHo apartment building where the body of actor Heath Ledger was found Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. Ledger was found dead Tuesday in a Manhattan apartment,...   (Associated Press)
A flower for the deceased actor Heath Ledger sits on a pipe outside the building where his body was found Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in the Soho neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Gary He)   (Associated Press)
The body of actor Heath Ledger is removed from a Soho apartment by the NYC Medical Examiner team Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008, in New York. Ledger, 28, an Australian-born actor, was found dead in the Manhattan...   (Associated Press)
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Heath Ledger, right, and Michelle Williams arrive for the Australian premier of the movie "Brokeback Mountain" in Melbourne, Australia, in this Tuesday Jan. 10, 2006 file photo. Ledger was found dead...   (Associated Press)
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