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	HOME ALL VIDEO ALL STORIES Departments THE INDUSTRY CELEBRITY CULTURE HARD NEWS MEDIA FRENZY Getting Offline Events and Travel The Hustle Hankie Code Featured Partners Damron Nakedsword.com Kink.com BLTA Unzipped.com Stall Wall FLESHBOT This week's pick for Most Tempting Paysite This week's pick for Most Tempting Paysite Copy goes to Randy Blue in his introduction to...more TOWLEROAD Boy George: Amy Winehouse Reminds Me of Me Boy George, who kicked off his first British tour in 10 years last night, said he relates to Amy Winehouse bec...more GAYVN NEWS GAYVN Noms Take Center Stage at Phoenix Releasing's Relaunched Website The mailorder company's updated online presence features a new look and expanded product selection....more GAY PORN BLOG Sean Cody's Least Convincing Straight Man Sean Cody's never been long in the tooth, but the site going Mac-compatible was about the best news...more FLESHBOT Beautiful Mag Looks Deep Into Your Future (Forecast: Hot Naked Men) It might be too early in the year to call the Most Pretentious Blog-Based...more DEFAMER The Morning After: Heath Ledger Autopsy Inconclusive Let's just get on with this. A round-up of where we are so far with yesterday's shocking death of Heath Ledger...more BUZZ FEED Black Turtleneck Wearing Cult Leaders The most fashionable, sexy cult leaders are all wearing black turtlenecks this season....more WONKETTE Man Had Sex, Drugs, And Other AWFUL Things With Obama, Of Course Barack Obama had… some kind of sex… with this man! ...more TOWLEROAD AIDS Prevention Web Soap and Forum Launched for Gay Men in L.A. In an effort to generate discussion about AIDS prevention and reach gay men online...more THE AWFUL TRUTH Death's Door Heath Ledger's demise did not surprise a close friend, but still, this remains a cautionary tale...more		Exquisite Corpse Heath Ledger, 28, Found Dead in SoHo Apartment Another young beauty has gone down for the Big Sleep. Page Six reports that 28-year-old actor Heath Ledger was found dead today in a Broome Street apartment of an apparent drug overdose. Ledger's film career tended toward independent projects, and his final film appearance may turn out to be the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, in which he stars as The Joker (scary pic after the jump). We've had a crush on Ledger since his first Hollywood performance in 10 Things I Hate About You, and we shared in the collective gay hard-on at what might be the hottest man-on-man kiss ever put to (non-porn) film between him and Jake Gyllenhaal in 2005's Brokeback Mountain. When we heard the news, we first thought Heath might have been dipping into the same extra-special batch of heroin that took the life of Brad Renfro last week. But the housekeeper and masseuse who found him also found a bunch of pills scattered around, and the NY Times blog is already calling it a suicide—we'd recommend not ruling out the possibility of an accidental drug+alcohol interaction (the Times also claimed that he was at an apartment owned by Mary-Kate Olsen but this has since been retracted). No word yet as to whether the masseuse was of the "happy ending" variety. UPDATE: At least one of the pill bottles present in the room was Ambien, and Ledger was quoted in November as saying two Ambien only kept him asleep "for about an hour." Sounds like a PR problem for the Sanofi-Aventis drug company... Heather Ledger Has Died (Page Six) Heather Ledger, 28, Is Found Dead (NY Times) The Last Photograph of Heath Ledger (TMZ) RELATED: Brad Renfro Found Dead at Age 25 Fatal Drug Interactions: A Gay Primer January 22, 2008 11:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments (0) \| TrackBacks (0) Leave a comment Name Email Address URL Remember personal info? Comments (Can use HTML tags) 0 TrackBacks Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Heath Ledger, 28, Found Dead in SoHo Apartment. TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.thesword.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/469

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