Heath Ledger probe closed, Mary-Kate Olsen doesn’t have to talk
Mary-Kate Olsen is off the hook.
The feds have closed their probe into Heath Ledger’s death and won’t force the TV twin to tell them what she knows about his prescription drug stash, a source told the Daily News.
Prosecutors had kept an April 23 subpoena up their sleeves as they tried to convince Olsen to voluntarily speak with federal drug agents still probing Ledger’s January overdose, the source said.
Olsen had refused to talk without immunity to the Drug Enforcement Administration agents and federal prosecutors looking into the actor’s death in his SoHo flat.
By closing the case, Olsen won’t have to.
“A decision was made to close the case,” said a source familiar with the inquiry.
The U.S. Attorney of the Southern District decided not to serve Olsen with a subpoena, the source said.
Investigators had determined that Ledger, who stars as The Joker in “The Dark Knight,” had prescriptions for the Xanax, Valium and Restoril found in his system but none for the OxyContin or Vicodin.
Agents had wanted to ask Olsen if she knew how Ledger got these two potent drugs, sources said.
“We don’t know where he got the other narcotics. No one interviewed suggested (Olsen) gave him the drugs,” another source said. “But (Olsen) may have known where the drugs came from.”
Olsen, through her Manhattan lawyer Michael Miller, stated she “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.”
Miller, as well as spokespersons for the DEA and federal prosecutors, declined to comment on the status of the probe. Ledger’s two doctors – one in Texas and another in Los Angeles – cooperated with the inquiry.
So did ex-girlfriend Michelle Williams, sources said. Ledger’s masseuse had called Olsen when she found Ledger’s lifeless body in his Manhattan flat.
Instead of immediately dialing 911, the masseuse called Olsen, who called her bodyguards in Manhattan and told them to get to Ledger’s Broome St. apartment. The guards arrived as paramedics rolled up.
“There was no impropriety on the part of the doctors, they had actually examined (Ledger) and legitimately written the prescriptions,” another source said.
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