The masseuse who discovered Health Ledger’s body shockingly phoned his latest squeeze, actress
Mary-Kate Olsen, for advice twice before dialing 911 for help, police revealed yesterday.
“Heath is unconscious, I don’t know what to do!” Diane Lee Wolozin screamed into the phone during her first call to
Olsen, which she made on Ledger’s cellphone.
Seconds later, Wolozin called again: “I think he may be dead. I’m calling 911!”
Olsen told her she was sending members of her private security team to Ledger’s $24,000-a-month SoHo apartment, but
never advised her to call 911, police said.
The stranger-than-fiction series of events came to light as Ledger’s ex, actress Michelle Williams, returned to her
Brooklyn apartment with her 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, looking devastated after flying home from a movie shoot in
Sweden .
House keeper Teresa Solomon, who found the body with Wolozin, noticed Ledger snoring less than two hours before the
masseuse arrived and told The Post she was devastated to learn that the hunky actor was dying as she cleaned up.
“I am still shaking. I can’t sleep,” she said in an exclusive interview.
Cops said the race against death began when Wolozin arrived at the three-bedroom apartment – furnished mostly with
skateboards – at 2:45 p.m. for a 3 p.m. appointment.
She calmly chatted with housekeeper Teresa Solomon, 56, and shortly after 3 p.m., when the 28-year-old star of
“Brokeback Mountain” had not come out of his bedroom, she called him on his cellphone. No reply.
Then came a puzzled knock 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 message 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 Mary-Kate – who law enforcement
sources said was dating Ledger – in California.
The diminutive star of “Full House” said she would send her security guards there, police said.
Wolozin hung up and tried to rouse Ledger again. Now, she shuddered. His body was cold to the touch.
Fearing he had died, she called Mary-Kate again and screamed: “I think he’s dead!” police said
Mary-Kate’s nonplussed reply was, “I already have people coming over.”
Wolozin said she would call 911 and at 3:26 p.m., she made the frantic call on Ledger’s cellphone.
An operator told her how to perform CPR.
At 3:33 p.m., paramedics arrived at the Broome Street apartment and moved Ledger from the bed to the floor so as to
make it easier to revive him.
As they tried to save his life, Mary-Kate’s security guards arrived.
At 3:36 p.m., Ledger was pronounced dead. By then, police officers and the two other rent-a-cops had arrived.
Cops found bottles of at least five different prescription pills for anxiety and insomnia in the bedroom. Ledger had
prescriptions issued in Europe for all of them.
They also found a rolled-up $20 bill on the floor near the bed. Rolled-up bills are often used to short coke or other
drugs. 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.
The housekeeper, Solomon, who comes once a week, told cops she arrived at 12:30 p.m. and let herself in with her key.
The bedroom door was closed.
Solomon said it was not unusual for her not to have contact with Ledger while she puttered about the apartment.
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. I didn’t think anything was wrong. I thought he was sleeping,”
she told The Post.
Solomon had only worked for Ledger for a short time doing light cleaning and laundry.
Though cops said they found the generic versions of the anti-anxiety drugs Xanax and Valium, the generic version of
the sleeping pill Lunesta, the sleeping pill Ambien and the antihistamine Donormyl, Solomon said she had never seen
any drugs.
“No, no, nothing. There was nothing there,” she said.
Williams lives in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn. Actress Busy Phillips, who starred with Williams 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 passed the house and left her card with a
cop.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona, Phillip Messing, Todd Venezia, Lorena Mongelli, Austin Fenner and Julia Dahl