The masseuse who found actor Heath Ledger’s body was so intent on contacting Mary-Kate Olsen before phoning authorities that she kept trying to call her even after initially failing to get through, it was revealed yesterday.
Diane Lee Wolozin called Olsen three times – but apparently reached her only once – before finally calling 911 to say Ledger needed medical assistance, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told The Post.
“We believe that of the three phone calls by the masseuse to Mary-Kate Olsen, only one got through,” Kelly said. “That call was 99 seconds long.”
The successful call from Ledger’s own cellphone was made between the two other brief calls from Wolozin to Olsen that didn’t go through.
In all, about 10 minutes elapsed between the first time Wolozin tried to reach the petite “Full House” star and the call she finally made to emergency workers, who found opened packages of prescription pills next to the 28-year-old Ledger.
Kelly’s account of the masseuse’s phone calls, based on detectives’ examination of phone logs, contradicts initial claims that Wolozin spoke to Olsen twice Tuesday after finding the Aussie actor unresponsive in bed in his apartment on Broome Street and before calling 911.
It still leaves questions about why Olsen told Wolozin she was sending her private security guards to Ledger’s apartment, instead of telling the masseuse to call 911.
It also is unclear why Wolozin repeatedly called Ledger’s purported paramour, Olsen, who was in California at the time, before phoning 911.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday said Olsen will not be questioned about Ledger’s death because “we feel we have everything we needed, and everyone was cooperative.”
The Post reported yesterday that Emergency Medical Service workers found Ledger’s torso still warm when they arrived. But they quickly ruled that he was beyond help.
Toxicology tests on Ledger have not yet been completed by the medical examiner. Police found six kinds of prescription sleeping and anti-anxiety pills in his apartment.
Additional reporting by Austin Fenner andMatthew Nestel