No illegal drugs found in home

NEW YORK - Six different types of prescription drugs were found in Heath Ledger's Manhattan apartment - including antianxiety medications and sleeping pills - though the cause of his death won't be known for several days after a preliminary autopsy Wednesday came back inconclusive, authorities said.

A rolled-up $20 bill was also found on the floor near the Australian actor's bed, but New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said lab tests found nothing to indicate it had been used to snort drugs. Police also said no illegal drugs were found in the apartment.

Among the prescription medications found were pills to treat insomnia and anxiety and an antihistamine, the Associated Press reported, citing two anonymous law enforcement officials.

The Brokeback Mountain star was found dead Tuesday by his housekeeper and a massage therapist, lying naked and facedown on his bed, police said. The pills were found in bottles in Ledger's bedroom and bathroom, and police said the death was caused by a possible drug overdose and appeared to be accidental.

Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, said that the autopsy on the 28-year-old actor was inconclusive and that more would be known in about 10 days, when more tests were completed.

Police said Ledger probably died Tuesday between 1 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. At 1 p.m., housekeeper Teresa Solomon went into his bedroom and heard him snoring.

At 2:45 p.m., massage therapist Diana Wolozin showed up for her appointment with Ledger, who didn't answer when she knocked on his door. She then tried to call him on his cell phone, but again got no response. She went into the bedroom, set up her massage table and again tried to wake Ledger.

Wolozin told police that Ledger was cold to the touch, but that she assumed he was just unconscious. She grabbed his cell phone and called Mary-Kate Olsen, whose number was programmed into the phone. Wolozin knew that the Full House star and Ledger were friends, and she asked Olsen for advice.

Olsen said she would send over her private security. In the ensuing moments, the massage therapist realized that Ledger might be dead, called Olsen again, then called 911. Paramedics - and Olsen's security people - arrived minutes later.

Lee Daniels, who produced the critically acclaimed Monster's Ball, in which Ledger starred, strongly disputed any notion that Ledger had a drug problem.

"The definition of substance abuse is really up to one's perspective," Daniels said. "I didn't see him as a drug addict. I saw him as someone who enjoyed life. I know drug addicts; he was not a drug addict."

Before moving to Manhattan, Ledger lived in Brooklyn with then-girlfriend Michelle Williams. The two had a daughter, the now 2-year-old Matilda. Wednesday evening, Williams and Matilda returned to Brooklyn from Trollhattan, Sweden, where the 27-year-old actor had been shooting the film Mammoth, said Martin Stromberg, a spokesman for film production company Memfis Film.

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