Heath Ledger - News Accounts

[myprivatejack]

It's surprising to me the enormous bunch of "secret...whatever" that appears in the life of a famous person when he or she isn't here to deffend themselves.Lovers,siblings,family...several persons whom nobody had heard about in ages,appears as a kind of magic when there's great amounts of money in between.What a coincidence¡ And when the lies,calumnies and wrong news can come from the same family of the died person,it gets a definition that I don't say for respect to all of you.

[j.U.d.E.]

*RGNAAARGHHH*.. 

FFS! What's all that for?? And if they have to fight, don't do it in public!!!

I don't want to be disrespectful, but I think Michelle has wealth of her own and I don't think Matilda will miss out on anything (a part from growing up with her dad ..  ). I would only wish that she gets a few personal things (clothes, private pictures, books, CDs, a jewel or so) that belonged to her father and that will give her the possibility to remember him by and connect with him.

I never knew my grandparents (a part from one) and I tend to crave owning something (a table cloth, a picture, a watch, a letter, a book, a story - whatever) that belonged to them. I don't need half their wealth (which none of them had much of anyway).

I did say something in a previous post about hoping that no woman would come forward claiming to have a child fathered by Heath...  Ah.. whatevva.. I just hope that the feud between the Legder brothers won't escalate..

j. U. d. E.

[SunShadow]

I think Heath would be mortified.  The uncles should just give it a rest.  Even if the father mis-handled a previous estate, that doesn't mean he won't now do right by Michelle and Matilda.  And as for the other purported child, that is neither here nor there if it is just being talked about by the uncles.  I don't think the mother has come forward to ask for anything.

[optom3]

I think Heath would be mortified.  The uncles should just give it a rest.  Even if the father mis-handled a previous estate, that doesn't mean he won't now do right by Michelle and Matilda.  And as for the other purported child, that is neither here nor there if it is just being talked about by the uncles.  I don't think the mother has come forward to ask for anything.

Agrred 100%
For someone as publicity shy as Heath,this would be the last thing he wanted.It never ceases to amaze me what comes crawling out the woodwork when someone dies and there is even a sniff of money.When my mothers adopted mother died,she was as upset about the "long lost" frinds relatives, who packed the church a she was about the death.
I remember going to the funeral,and it was like a flock of vultures.Even at the age of 13 I can still remember being disgusted.Some of them even had the nerve to say to my mum,you probably don't know me but!!!!! Then followed a heated discusion in the church as to whether she had been buried with all her diamonds(she had) and if not who woud get what.This went on in the pew,right behind my mother.
The pain my mother suffred was terrible.She had lost both her real parents in WW2,been in an orphanage and then was finally adopted.Her father died,then her mother.So she lost in effect 2 sets of parents.
In death where money is involved,people are capable of the most despicable behaviour,so I do not think anything would shock me anymore.Who knows what or who else will crawl out.of the sewers.Personally I am just going to ignore it now.
His death is painful enough without all this a well.

[Sandy]

I don't know how reliable this is.....(sorri, I can't cut and paste it for some reason    )


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346008,00.html

[Artiste]

Happy Birthday Heath!

All over the world, we wish you that!

[SunShadow]

I don't know how reliable this is.....(sorri, I can't cut and paste it for some reason    )


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346008,00.html

Here it is:

The woman at the center of the Heath Ledger love-child scandal says there is "no proof" the late Hollywood actor is the father of her 11-year-old daughter.

"You have no proof, there's no background, there's no grounds, there's no nothing," the Australian woman told a Western Australian newspaper, according to the Daily Mail.

The woman, whom the newspaper did not identify to protect her privacy, declined to answer specific questions about her alleged romance with the Australian born actor, which is speculated to have happened after he left his Perth home at the age of 17 to travel to Sydney.

"I'm not going to answer anything or go into anything at all," she said, adding that she's only concerned about her daughter's welfare.

"When you are considering an 11-year-old girl who has to go to school and be a part of society, that is my main concern," she said, according to the Daily Mail.

The woman's current husband, who says he is not the girl's biological father, said he was sure his wife would allow their daughter to take a DNA test.

But, his wife defused the question about their daughter taking the test.

"I'm not answering anything," she told the newspaper. "I think it's very, very rude that I'm being posed all of this. I really do. I can't talk about anything."

Ledger, 28, died in New York on Jan. 22 of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

[SunShadow]

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20188829,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

Friends Remember Heath Ledger on his 29th Birthday

By Brenda Rodriguez

Originally posted Friday April 04, 2008 02:55 PM EDT
Heath Ledger
 
As family and friends continue to try to come to grips with Heath Ledger's death in January, Friday marked what would have been the actor's 29th birthday.

"It was an honor to work with him, and I think that he'll always be in people's thoughts," Ledger's Brokeback Mountain costar Kate Mara, who played his older daughter, told PEOPLE at a Beverly Hills event for the Kenneth Cole Awareness Fund. "I think he affected people that he'd never met before."

In Australia, the Ledger family kept a low profile, and there were no notices in the local papers in memoriam.

"It's just a day-by-day thing," says a family source when asked how the Ledgers would be remembering the actor on his birthday. "That's all a private family matter. It's got nothing to do with anyone else."

A person called Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, where the Ledgers have a family plot, wanting to lay flowers for Heath, but sources there tell PEOPLE that his ashes have not been interred.


Difficult to Grasp

A close friend of Ledger's from his hometown says the actor's death of an accidental overdose is still difficult to grasp. "I haven't come to terms with it," says the friend. "I'm just trying to get through it. It has really affected his friends."

And how is his father, Kim, holding up? "He doesn't want to talk about it," the friend tells PEOPLE. "He's a tough guy but he's a private man as well."

Also keeping a low profile was Michelle Williams and 2-year-old daughter Matilda. Williams has kept busy in Boston, working on the film Shutter Island, based on the book.

Meanwhile, the DEA investigation into how Ledger obtained the powerful and addictive painkillers 0xycontin and Vicodin will likely take several more weeks, a DEA source tells PEOPLE.

"Agents are still conducting interviews and are trying to get the proper documents to interview more of Ledger's doctors," the source says.

• Reporting by MELENIE AMBROSE, MARIANNE BILKEY, SHRUTI DHALWALA and NICOLE WEISENSEE EGAN

[enjaRouxB]

A person called Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, where the Ledgers have a family plot, wanting to lay flowers for Heath, but sources there tell PEOPLE that his ashes have not been interred.

And that person is our very own Meryl 

[Meryl]

A person called Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, where the Ledgers have a family plot, wanting to lay flowers for Heath, but sources there tell PEOPLE that his ashes have not been interred.

And that person is our very own Meryl 

I'd like to think so, even if it was the florist who made the call.  Surely we're not the only ones who wanted to remember him that way?  At any rate, it's the loving thought that counts. 

I wonder if he's sitting on the mantel at home.  My Dad's ashes reposed in a drawer for 10 years til my Mom passed away; then we scattered their ashes together.

Heath, wherever your ashes are, were they even on the grieving plain, we know that's not where YOU are.  All our love goes out to your sweet spirit.