Illuminatirex:“Heath Ledger rose to fame following his breakout role in 10 Things I Hate About You opposite Julia Stiles. He went on to star in The Patriot, Monster’s Ball and a Knight’s Tale before being recognize by the Hollywood elite for his role in Brokeback Mountain for which he received multiple nominations. The actor went on to play lucrative part in The Dark Knight and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Unfortunately, Ledger never got to see his last two movies. He was found dead in his SoHo apartment after taking a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.

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Phoenix's best actor Oscar win marks the second time an actor has won an Oscar for playing the joker, coming after Heath Ledger won best supporting actor for his role as the joker in The Dark. Poem Ending with a Sentence by Heath Ledger By Frank Bidart About this Poet Frank Bidart’s first books, Golden State and The Book of the Body, both published. But his reputation as a poet of uncompromising originality was made with The Sacrifice, published in 1983. The actor had stayed alone in the hotel for a month in order to prepare for the role in The Dark Knight (2016). During that time, Heath Ledger practiced the voice, laughter, personality and even loneliness of the character. The actor also wrote every idea and emotion of the Joker in his diary as support for filming.

In late 2010, actor Randy Quaid, who had worked with Ledger on Brokeback Mountain, applied for asylum in Canada. Quaid claimed that he was fleeing from a group of Hollywood insiders that he called the Star Whackers. According to Quaid, the group routinely murders actors in order to benefit from related insurance settlements.

Randy Quaid specifically attributed Ledger’s death to the Whackers as well as David Carradine’s in Bangkok. He also said that Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan would be the group’s next targets.

Monarch Theories: The Monarch theorists claim that Heath Ledger was a mind control victim – a Monarch slave. His inability to sleep was due the sleep deprivation method used in his programming. Mary-Kate Olsen’s role in the affair was as a courier between the Illuminati and Ledger.(source)”

“I remember Heath saying, ‘I’ve got a lot to do. I don’t feel like I have much time … I just don’t think I’m going to be around that long,’ ” his longtime friend, hip-hop artist N’fa Forster-Jones, says in Spike TV’s documentary I Am Heath Ledger, this quote appearing inpeople magazine. Now why would a healthy 28 year old feel like they are not going to be around that long? It is almost like he knew he was going to be taken out. Friends and family of his said that his mind was always busy, going at a hundred miles an hour, and like the guy never slept.

Max Spiers: Heath Ledger who played the Joker in Batman died on Jan. 22 2008, which is interesting because the number 22 is in sync with the Joker tarot card, and being a joker and all that. I’m suggesting that the batman movies have some kind of ritual magic involved….

His real father wasn’t the father who was shown to the public. His real father was a famous actor who did a lot of theater in the 50’s and 60’s. Can’t remember his name.

All the ritual murders are planned at the birth of the child anyway. So they already know at birth that this child is going to be murdered at a certain time, on the 19^th birthday this child is going to be taken out. It happened with Eric Clapton and his child Conner Clapton who fell out the window. So there’s a price for fame and power.”

Could Heath Ledgers death be his price for fame, or even his father’s price for fame? Was it planned all along? Part of a ritual sacrifice to the wicked industry of Hollywood dark occultists? The strongest evidence for this comes from the last two movies of Ledger’s career before his death:The Dark Knight Rises(part of the Batman trilogy) and theImaginarium ofDoctor Parnassus.Both movies contain a lot of occult symbolism, some of which connect directly with each other (even though on the surface the two movies are unrelated). For example in the Batman movie he playsthe Jokerwhich is a tarot card (the fool), and in the Imaginarium he playsthe Hangman, another tarot card. Tarot is a huge part of the occult.

If that isn’t enough of a connection, in hisJoker role, there is a scene at the end where he is hanging from a rope by his leg, in the exact same way as theHangmantarot card.

Here he is hanging from his neck under a bridge inThe Imaginarium, where his character is first introduced. Notice the strange Satanic markings on his forehead. The most telling is theIlluminati triangle with the eyeinside it.

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According toVigilant Citizen, “The hanging from a bridge scene is inspired by the actual 1982 hanging of Roberto Calvi (dubbed “God’s banker” due to his relations with the Vatican). The hanging took place under the exact same bridge. Although never publicly confirmed, there are strong theories that Roberto Calvi’s death was asymbolic and ritualistic murdercarried out by theblack masonic lodgecalled Propaganda Due.”

Vigilant Citizen also points out another link between the two movies: “At one moment the travelling show is parked in the area of Battersea power station (on the cover of Pink Floyd album ‘Animals’) , which was alsoa location for the film ‘The Dark Knight.’

His character “Tony” is revived from near death but has amnesia upon waking (a nod toMK Ultra split personalitiesperhaps?).

Tony then becomes a helper in Dr. Parnassus’ Imaginarium, a traveling side-show with surprises. People go behind the mirror and are transported to an alternate dimension of pure imagination. Notice theMasonic checkerboard symbolismhere.

Vigilant Citizen: “The numerous references to death during the movie could be interpreted as a tribute to Heath Ledger, but, as (the director/writer) Terry Gilliam states, none of the script was rewritten after the tragedy. Here is an excerpt of the director’s interview with Last Broadcast:

The film is terribly poignant film to watch now because of the loss of Heath.

Yes, it is.

And there are the references to death in the film that seem terribly poignant in the light of what happened. Did you re-emphasise any of that after his death?

The references to death were all in the original script, which people don’t understand. They all thought we had written this stuff after Heath had died and no, we didn’t change any of the words. And that to me is what’s so kind of scary and spooky – why was it so prescient? It seemed to be all about death, it’s so much of it. There are forces at work on this film, don’t get me into my mystical mode … but the film made itself and it was co-directed by Heath Ledger!”

There is an eerie scene that takes place inside the Imaginarium where we see little boats with pictures of othercelebrities who died young: Princess Diana, James Dean, and Rudolph Valentino.

“All these people … they’re all dead.”

Tony replies:

“Yes … but immortal nevertheless. They won’t get old or fat. They won’t get sick or feeble. They are beyond fear because they are … forever young. They’re gods … and you can join them.”

He then adds:

“Your sacrifice must be pure.”

All of this is said byJohnny Depp,the actor who replaced Heath Ledger after his premature death.

Gilliam: “Everyone said he died young, but I think he was about 150 when he died. This was not a kid. There was wisdom there. I didn’t know where it came from – none of us knew – but everybody that was close to him says the same thing.”

VC: “People close to Ledger observed a strange transformation in him during the filming of Batman: The Dark Knight.”

As we know,The Dark Knight Riseswas the movie playing during theAurora shooting massacrewhere James Holmes dressed up as the Joker by dying his hair red. Was Max Spiers right in suggesting that there may be some kind of black magic ritual involved with this movie? In an earlier post I laid out evidence linking the Aurora shooting and Sandy Hook, through a scene in the Batman movie here.

I believe the strange premature death of Heath Ledger is another piece of this puzzle.

Further Reading:

The ‘Star Whackers’ that killed David Carradine and Heath Ledger are after us, we’re out..”

On the cover of Nylon’s January 2008 issue,Mary-Kate Olsen, wrapped in plaid and a Gucci leather biker jacket, appeared next to the text “There’s Something About Mary-Kate.”

At the time of its publication, Olsen was a 21-year old former child star-cum-fashion designer, sometime actress, and full-time gypsy who had spent the better part of her adulthood cultivating an eccentric fashion persona that was equal parts Stevie Nicks, Kurt Cobain and Edie Sedgwick.

She was also, alongside twin sister Ashley, one half of a billion-dollar empire that generated sales from products ranging from affordable cosmetics sold in Walmart to $300 tee shirts stocked at Barney’s New York.

Her innate ability to be both stylistically on the fringe and commercially mainstream helped commodify a bougie bohemian subculture that ran deep from Brooklyn to Beverly Hills.

This was the ‘something’ Nylon certainly meant to highlight, but their cover line took on a new, purely coincidental, meaning when Olsen became entangled in the narrative of Heath Ledger’s death the same month the magazine hit newsstands.

For a handful of tabloid editors, the starlet’s connection to Ledger provided a rare opportunity to exploit the personal life of a fixture who’s tendency to chain smoke and drink Starbucks coffee made up a large percentage of their coverage.

In the immediate hours following Ledger’s death on January 22, 2008, in his SoHo loft, the news media went rabid. They ran stories claiming Ledger had been found dead in an apartment owned by Olsen, a detail erroneously leaked by police, while others speculated that the actor was a substance abuser who committed suicide.

When reports surfaced that Olsen received a series of phone calls around the time Ledger’s body was discovered, a flurry of headlines (“What Does Mary-Kate Know?”) followed. Some crude outlets went so far as to label the multi-hyphenate a murderer.

It was grotesque clickbait, plain and simple. And yet, ten years later the circumstances of Mary-Kate’s relationship to Heath remains somewhat of an enigma.

Here’s the story, as reported by various news media outlets, where facts and sensationalized fiction intersect to form a comprehensive tale of one fallen idol and the elusive nymph who nearly fell with him.

Mary-Kate Olsen and Heath Ledger were first spotted together sometime in the summer of 2006, dining with friends at the Chateau Marmont. The storied hotel — synonymous with secrets and scandal— had become somewhat of a West Coast outpost for Ledger and his then-girlfriend, actress Michelle Williams, during awards season earlier that year.

At the time, Ledger and Williams were red carpet darlings thanks to their brilliant on-screen work in Brokeback Mountain and their off-screen storybook romance.

The pair had met on the set of Mountain, AngLee’s relentlessly hyped homoerotic western, in the summer of 2004; their daughter, Matilda Rose, was born in the fall of 2005; Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award nominations followed shortly thereafter for both.

But there was trouble in paradise.

“They would come out to the [Chateau Marmont] patio early in the evening and sit together. Michelle was very attentive to Matilda and Heath seemed distant. He looked fidgety and just didn’t seem part of the family. It was as if they were in different worlds,” a source would tattle to People about the couple. “[Williams] would go into the room with the baby. Heath would stay in the garden and lobby for hours.”

Ledger’s aimless lobby wandering would eventually lead him to a late night cocaine party at the hotel following the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2006. (A videotape verifying the actor’s attendance at the party would only surface after his passing.)

“I’m going to get serious shit from my girlfriend, we had a baby three months ago,” Ledger utters in the tape, “I shouldn’t be here at all.”

Reportedly fed up with his addiction to cocaine and heroin, Williams drove Ledger to a Malibu rehabilitation center in March of 2006, but he refused treatment. Reps for the actress would label the story a “fabricated” lie. Nevertheless, the couple seemed to rebound the following year.

They nested in a gorgeous, ivy covered, Brooklyn townhouse and were often photographed strolling through the neighborhood with baby Matilda. By spring, Williams was in London filming Incendiary while Ledger prepared to film his career-defining, albeit penultimate, performance as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s Batman sequel The Dark Knight.

Elsewhere, Olsen was in Los Angeles filming a guest role on the Showtime series Weeds. She and Ledger wouldn’t publicly cross paths again until July 18, 2007, when both attended the Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros concert at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.

As fall approached, Ledger and Williams had called it quits. His partying, universally cited as the catalyst.

“Heath partied a lot. He didn’t really stop partying,” a source told People. “He had a lifestyle that really wasn’t compatible with raising a child and continuing in that relationship,” added Senior Editor JD Heyman.

It was around this time that various news outlets suggested Ledger and Olsen, both fond of up-all-night partying, began “casually dating for three months” prior to his untimely death.

Little photographic proof exists of the couple, but the pair was said to “party hard.” Others sources recall the duo’s quieter nights spent watching movies in Ledger’s newly rented SoHo loft and weekends holed up at the Chateau Marmont.

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“[Olsen] said Heath would often talk to her about the joys of fatherhood,” a source told The National Enquirer. “He told [Mary-Kate] being a dad was the best thing he’d ever done.”

Their budding romance would quietly take a backseat in the winter, however, when work obligations sent them in opposite directions. He to London, where his next film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was shooting; She to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her upcoming comedy The Wackness.

Early in the Doctor Parnassus production, it was evident that Ledger had developed early signs of pneumonia. The actor was also battling chronic insomnia that had plagued him for the preceding months.

“Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” he told a New York Times reporter in November 2007. In the same interview Ledger admitted to relying on Ambien to rest, if only for the average run-time of his latest film.

Despite his fragile condition, Ledger pushed through the arduous London shoot.

When a week-long production break commenced, Ledger boarded a flight back to New York City on Sunday, January 20, 2008. With Williams and Matilda in Sweden, where the actress was currently filming, and a business meeting with Steven Spielberg as his only scheduled appointment, Ledger’s trip back home was rather lonely and equally bizarre.

There was a pedestrian grocery shopping trip to Gourmet Garage where he bought fruit and sausages. Then there was his odd night out at Manhattan’s Beatrice Inn where the actor threw back liquor whilst donning a ski mask. Two days later, Ledger would be found dead at 28.

At 12:30 PM on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, housekeeper Teresa Solomon arrived at Ledger’s Broome Street apartment and entered using her own key. Thirty minutes after arriving, Solomon knocked on the actor’s closed bedroom door before entering to change a lightbulb in an adjoining bathroom. She witnessed Ledger lying facedown on his bed, audibly snoring.

By 2:45 PM Solomon had let masseuse Diana Wolozin into the apartment for a scheduled appointment at 3:00 PM. When Ledger still hadn’t emerged from his bedroom by 3:10 PM, Wolozin called his cell phone and knocked on the door to no avail.

Under the assumption that he was merely sleeping, she entered the room and began to set up a massage table beside the actor, who remained facedown on his bed. When Wolozin proceeded to rouse Ledger at 3:17 PM he was, to her horror, unresponsive.

Using the actor’s personal cell phone, Wolozin spent a total of nine minutes making a series of three phone calls to Mary-Kate Olsen, who she knew to be a close friend. The pint-sized mogul, in Beverly Hills at the time, picked up just one of the calls and told the frantic masseuse she would send over members of her New York security team. Within 99 seconds, the conversation was over.

At 3:26 PM Wolozin finally phoned 911. As emergency crews were dispatched to the apartment, Wolozin tried and failed to revive the actor via CPR. Paramedics arrived at 3:33 PM, as did one of Olsen’s private security guards. A minute later, Wolozin made a fourth and final call to Mary-Kate.

Just as police officers and two more of Olsen’s security guards arrived on the scene at 3:36 PM, Ledger was pronounced dead.

In the days that followed, police would release details regarding the actor’s apparent overdose including the presence of six prescription drugs and a rolled up $20 bill found in the apartment. The bill, like Olsen, would become a shiny distraction until investigators ruled it clean.

On January 24, exactly one day after an initial autopsy was performed on Ledger’s body, Mary-Kate was caught sipping martinis and partying with friends at two New York City hotspots. The negligent display resulted in further media speculation that Olsen had something to hide and spurred the star to release a trite statement the following day.

“Heath was a friend. His death is a tragic loss,” she said, “My thoughts are with his family.”

Whether the media bought into the optics or not was debatable, but the NYPD seemed less concerned with the former Full House actress.

“There’s absolutely no indication investigators were going to speak to Mary-Kate Olsen. They determined that they had all the info needed from witnesses who were on scene,” stated Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Officials were far more interested in how Ledger obtained the six prescriptions present in his system at the time of death which resulted in “acute intoxication.”

Among the drugs identified by the New York medical examiner were oxycodone and hydrocodone — two powerful narcotics sold under the brand names OxyContin and Vicodin — along with the sedatives alprazolam, diazepam, temazepam. Also present: doxylamine, an antihistamine commonly used to aid with sleep.

As a result of the findings, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) opened an investigation to determine whether any of the medications that resulted in Ledger’s accidental overdose were obtained illegally. Of particular interest to federal agents was the source(s) of the Oxycontin and Vicodin.

Momentarily in the clear, Olsen retreated into work. She and Ashley had been quietly conducting interviews with inspiring artists, models and fashion designers for a glossy coffee table book, Influence, to be released that fall.

The same day she issued her statement on Ledger, Olsen was interviewing Margherita Missoni, heiress to the famed Italian fashion house. A few days later, on January 29, she and Ashley were meeting with photographer Terry Richardson for a feature in the book.

In subsequent months she would attend runway presentations at Paris Fashion Week, walk the Met Gala red carpet, celebrate her 22nd birthday at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and appear on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote The Wackness.

By July, Mary-Kate Olsen had all but been forgotten in the Ledger narrative; until an Elle reporter asked her about his death for a cover story interview.

“I’m not going to comment on that,” Olsen is quoted, “I won’t give you a word about that in the nicest way possible. Let’s move on.”

It was also around this time that The Dark Knight was released. Ledger’s disturbing performance became a cultural talking point and propelled the film’s worldwide box office total to over a billion dollars.

Like many eager moviegoers, Olsen was spotted at a 7:30 PM screening of the movie in New York City’s Battery Park on July 24, but the “somber” star left after just 20 minutes. (Ledger, coincidentally, first appears 23 minutes into the film’s runtime.)

“She wanted to go unnoticed, but people recognized her and started whispering,” a source divulged to Life & Style. “Between dealing with Heath on screen and with everyone around her, she couldn’t take it. So she left.”

One week later, those whispers would become a deafening roar.

On August 4, New York Post reporter Murray Weiss published a damning story claiming Olsen had refused to cooperate with the DEA’s investigation into Ledger’s obtainment of prescription drugs unless she received immunity from future prosecution.

The article’s validity was backed up when ABC News obtained records showing a federal grand jury had issued a subpoena for Olsen back on April 23, although it hadn’t been formally served.

Olsen’s lawyer, Michael Miller, released a lengthy statement on behalf of the actress-designer following the publication of the “incomplete and inaccurate” article.

“Despite tabloid speculation, Mary-Kate Olsen had nothing whatsoever to do with the drugs found in Heath Ledger’s home or his body, and she does not know where he obtained them,” the statement read.

It ended affirming that Olsen had “provided the Government with relevant information including facts in the chronology of events surrounding Mr. Ledger’s death.”

For Mary-Kate, the media frenzy was fortunately short-lived. On August 6, 2008, the U.S. Attorney General of Manhattan formerly closed the inquisition. How Ledger came in the possession of OxyContin and Vicodin remains a mystery, as does his relationship with Olsen.

Perhaps all they shared was a general distaste for the tabloid industry, hellbent on exploiting the lives of so many who are simply misunderstood.

“You look at a story that’s written about you and you’re like ‘Who is that? That’s not me,’” Olsen told Nylon. “The people that know me, my friends, my family, the people I care and respect and the people who respect me — they know who I am.”

Ledger echoed a similar statement during his Times sit-down saying, “People always feel compelled to sum you up, to presume that they have you and can describe you. That’s fine. But there are many stories inside of me and a lot I want to achieve outside of one flat note.”

In any case, ten years later, this is one true, tragic, crime that will not be solved by dinner time.

Let the speculation rest.