Actor heath Ledger named in Los Angeles criminal drug lawsuit
According to an article reported by Peta Hellard of Los Angeles,
the deceased Australian actor Heath Ledger was described as a “drug addict” and “a known drug user” in a major lawsuit in Los Angeles.
The hunky motion picture star, who sadly passed away this last January from an overdose of prescription drugs, is named in the lawsuit about a scandalous video where he was filmed snorting coke and even discussing his criminal narcotics habits as part of a controversial sting by paparazzi.
This particular legal action was launched by a US-based media reporter who along with attorneys is suing the large Los Angeles based paparazzi agency ‘Splash News’ over the sting in question, which was filmed in the lady’s room at the Hollywood hotel Chateau Marmont on the same night that the actor won an award for his performance as a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain.
In that particular film footage, a guilt-ridden Health stated that he was a compulsive narcotics user while gf Michelle Williams and their young daughter Matilda, now 2 years of age, slept in an upstairs hotel room. By the way if you are in southern California and you are in need of a solid los angeles criminal defense attorney then by all means take a look at the
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All in all, the reporter in question is suing owners Gary Morgan and Kevin Smith plus 2 of the agency’s employees - Darren Banks and Eric Munn - for damages to her career as well as emotional distress.
A thirty-four page document that was filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court and secured by News Limited stated that Munn, a videographer, plus Banks, a paparazzo photographer, befriended Ledger in the hotel’s lobby late at night before inviting him to the lady’s hotel room.
In addition, this filing alleges the pair secretly set up a camera on the balcony outside of the said hotel room prior to plying the actor with various narcotics and filming part of the 7-hour criminal coke binge through the open window there.