Heath Ledger is dead of what initially appears to be a drug overdose, though that’s by no means the final word.
NEW YORK — Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger has been found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence, police said Tuesday, in what might be a drug-related death.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the SoHo apartment that is believed to be his home. A housekeeper went to let Ledger know the masseuse was there, and found him dead at 3:26 p.m, Browne said.
Ledger was found with a bottle of pills next to him, according to an NYPD spokesman.
I don’t really have much comment. He was too young to have thrown his life away, if that is indeed what happened. I enjoyed most of the movies in which he appeared and I’m looking forward to the new Batman movie. I don’t know much about him as a person except he seemed to be as generally aimless in his off-screen life as plenty of others. I wish he had managed to find some sort of fulfillment that could have turned him away from death.
