Heath Ledger's Final Months

One of the more persistent rumors that surrounded Heath Ledger in the months before his death was of a romance with 21 year-old model Gemma Ward. The pair allegedly … spent Christmas together in their shared hometown of Perth, Australia. The New York Post, says they were both in attendance at the Rose Bar when, according to the paper, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein got into a scuffle with a D.J. on November, 10th. [link]

In a November interview with The New York Times, Heath Ledger said that since moving to Manhattan he sometimes enjoyed playing games with (and sometimes beating) the … chess hustlers at Washington Square Park. He spoke of feeling "stressed" on the set of Batman and sleeping only two hours a night despite taking Ambien. [link]

Page Six says Ledger spent Thanksgiving at this West Village Mexican salsa bar "dressed like a homeless guy" and hitting up Heather Graham for her number. Radar and … Perez Hilton, however, placed Ledger with Lindsay Lohan during the holiday. [link]

Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams both appeared in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, which opened in November. Tongues were wagging when Heath showed up to a party … at the Bowery Hotel celebrating the film's release while Michelle stayed away. (Photo) [link]

Throughout the fall, the gossip columns were buzzing with salacious sightings of Heath Ledger at this trendy lounge. In September, New York Magazine said he " … and a buddy tried to get two girls back to his apartment in Soho from the Beatrice Inn." By November, Page Six supposedly had "spies at Beatrice Inn" who claimed that Heath was kissing Kate Hudson inside the bar. Later on in the month New York Magazine had more reports of Ledger "hitting on chicks" at the Beatrice. [link]

Danish actress Helena Christensen was one of Heath's first rumored conquests after his engagement fell apart. The pair was seen dining at this upscale Chinese … restaurant five days before Heath moved out of his home in Brooklyn. [link]

After leaving Brooklyn, Heath Ledger relocated to this Soho apartment. The New York Post reported that he had one of the rooms here remodeled to match his daughter … Matilda's space in their old brownstone so she would feel at home when she visited him. On January, 22 2008, Ledger was found naked, unconscious, and surrounded by sleeping pills in his bedroom here. He was pronounced dead by the police twenty minutes later. [link]

On September 18, 2007, moving trucks showed up to take Heath Ledger from the Boerum Hill brownstone that he had moved into with Michelle Williams in 2005. The couple … split last August much to the dismay of fans and media folk who saw them as an ideal example of domestic bliss in Brooklyn. [link]