This is from the new york post. I don't know how accurate it is, but it "could" explain a whole lot.
January 24, 2008 -- The masseuse who discovered Heath Ledger's body made two frantic calls to his latest squeeze, actress Mary-Kate Olsen, before dialing 911 for help, police revealed yesterday.
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"Heath is unconscious. I don't know what to do!" Diane Lee Wolozin screamed in her first call to Olsen on Tuesday.
"I'm sending my private security there," the actress replied.
Moments later - after finding the body of the "Brokeback Mountain" star cold to the touch - Wolozin, 40, made another panicked call. "I think he may be dead. I'm calling 911!" she said. "I already have people coming over," Olsen replied.
At no time did the star of "Full House" advise Wolozin to call 911, but detectives believe Ledger, 28, was already dead.
They suspect he died about 1 p.m., about two hours earlier. That was soon after housekeeper Teresa Solomon walked into his bedroom and saw him lying on his stomach with the covers up to his shoulders. He was snoring, she said.
"Detectives who saw the body believe he had been dead for some time due to lividity," a police official said, referring to the way blood settles after a person dies. Wolozin's shocking phone calls to Olsen were revealed as Ledger's ex, actress Michelle Williams, returned to her Brooklyn home with their 2-year-old daughter, Matilda - looking crushed after a trans-Atlantic flight from a movie shoot in Sweden. Cops said the race against death began at 12:30 p.m., when Solomon, 56, who came once a week, let herself into the Broome Street apartment - furnished mostly with skateboards - with her key. The bedroom door was closed, but Solomon said it was not unusual for her to have no contact with Ledger while she puttered about. At 1 p.m., she said, she went into the bedroom to change a light bulb in the adjoining bathroom. She heard the actor snoring. "The last time I saw him he was lying down on his face," Solomon told The Post. "I didn't think anything was wrong. I thought he was sleeping." She said she was devastated to learn that the actor could have been dead as she worked. "I am still shaking. I can't sleep," she said in an exclusive interview. There was a note on the refrigerator that said Wolozin would be coming for a 3 p.m. appointment, and at 2:45 p.m., the masseuse arrived.
She and Solomon chatted and, at about 3:10 p.m. - when Ledger had not come out of his bedroom - Wolozin called his cellphone. No reply. Then she knocked on the door. Still no reply. Wolozin went inside and saw the actor face down on the bed, the sheets up to his shoulders, police said.
Not thinking anything was wrong, she set up her massage table and tried to wake him, shaking him and calling, "Heath! Heath!" He didn't move. Using a number programmed into Ledger's cell, a nervous Wolozin called the 21-year-old Olsen - whom law enforcement sources said was dating Ledger - in California. The diminutive star said she would send her security guards there. A law-enforcement source said the masseuse called Mary-Kate because "she didn't want a media circus." She also said, without explaining, that there was a "mutual relationship" between her, Mary-Kate and the Australian-born actor. Wolozin tied to rouse Ledger again. This time, she shuddered. His body was cold. Fearing the worst, she called Mary-Kate again and screamed, "I think he's dead!" police said Wolozin told her she would call 911 and, at 3:26 p.m., she made the call on Ledger's cellphone. An operator told her how to perform CPR.
At 3:33 p.m., paramedics arrived and moved Ledger from the bed to the floor to make it easier to revive him.
As they tried to save his life, Mary-Kate's rent-a-cops showed up. At 3:36 p.m., Ledger was pronounced dead.
Cops found bottles of six different pills - two for anxiety, two for insomnia and two for pain in his bedroom and bathroom. Ledger had prescriptions for all of them, some issued in Europe. Police also found a rolled-up $20 bill on the floor near the bed. Rolled-up bills are often used to snort coke or other drugs, but a toxicology test found no drugs on the bill.
There was no evidence of alcohol use, and no illegal drugs were found. An autopsy conducted yesterday was inconclusive and further tests were ordered. The results will take 10 to 14 days. Williams lives in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn. Actress Busy Philipps, who starred with her in the TV series "Dawson's Creek" and is her daughter's godmother, came by to be with Williams' mother, Carla. Actress Keri Russell, who starred in "Felicity" and lives nearby, walked past the house and left her card with a cop.
I imagine that you would not hear very much about Heath in areas of the world unfamiliar with him/his work -- but those areas do not include the US, that's all.
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