The U.S. Attorney's Office won't need Mary-Kate Olsen to testify because it has closed its investigation into how Heath Ledger obtained painkillers which contributed to his death. Rumors swirled about MKO's involvement and how she would only talk if given immunity, leading her lawyer to proclaim, "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" and that......

The NYPD may have closed their probe into Heath Ledger’s fatal overdose, but federal investigators are still looking into the case. Or trying to look in, anyway – the Post reports that Mary-Kate Olsen is refusing to speak with investigators. Olsen, who was the first person called when her masseuse found Ledger’s body last January, is seeking immunity from prosecution in exchange for talking to the feds. DEA investigators are particularly interested in determining the......

America's Next Top Model is back in New York and in its second episode, which airs tonight, things are getting a little bit real. The episode brings the fourteen newest model wannabes to the not always fashionable streets. After the troupe mingles with the tourists at their fashion show in Times Square, it's off to their first photo shoot. For regular watchers of the show you'll know there's always a theme to the shoots, well......

After intense speculation about why the masseuse who discovered Heath Ledger's body last Tuesday called actress Mary-Kate Olsen multiple times, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly spoke to reporters yesterday to clear the air. Kelly said, "We believe that of the three phone calls by the masseuse to Mary-Kate Olsen, only one got through. That call was 99 seconds long." Commissioner Kelly further emphasized, "There is absolutely no indication that investigators were going to speak to Mary-Kate......

Photograph of memorial outside Heath Ledger's NYC apartment Gothamist learned that actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment, cause of death unknown so far (but apparently the masseuse who found him called Mary-Kate Olsen before 911).Bostonist considered sending a link about the Super Bowl, but damn! The New Kids are reuniting!Although Sylvester Stallone is a native of New York City, his Rocky character lets many Philadelphians consider him a native son......

Photograph of the memorial outside 421 Broome Street taken on Friday by vinnie 716 on Flickr Last night, the G'Day USA Australia Ball was held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, concluding Australia Week festivities. But the week held sadness, after Australian actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his Soho apartment on Tuesday. At the ball, Australian Counsel-General John Olsen read an unexpected letter from Ledger's father Kim:"Heath is, and always will be, an......

Photograph of the crowd outside the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home by David Karp/AP Yesterday, over a hundred people - made up of "fans, reporters and photographers" - waited outside the Frank E. Campbell funeral home, where the body of actor Heath Ledger had been kept since ME's autopsy. Ledger had been found dead in a SoHo apartment by his masseuse and housekeeper on Tuesday afternoon. The cause of death is inconclusive, but he......

Okay people, time for your morning update on The Ledge – come on, you know you want it. Even Daniel Day Lewis says there’s nothing else to talk about. (Scroll down.) Sorry we’re late, but there are a lot of new developments this morning. First and foremost, Heath Ledger is, sadly, still dead. Second! Before calling 911, Diana Wolozin, the unlicensed massage therapist who found Ledger’s body, used Ledger’s phone to speed dial Mary-Kate Olsen......

Some more details surrounding Heath Ledger's death have emerged, even though the autopsy is inconclusive for the actor's cause of death. Though CBS 2 initially reported that a rolled up $20 bill in Ledger's SoHo apartment had narcotic residue on it and that cops had found unidentified drug packets, the NYPD now confirms that lab tests found nothing to indicate the bill had been used to snort drugs and that no illegal drugs were......

Actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his downtown Manhattan apartment by the police. Some reports say he died from an overdose. UPDATE 5:00PM :According to the NYPD spokesman, Ledger, who was living in an apartment at Broome street, "had an appointment for a massage...The housekeeper who went to let Ledger know the masseuse was there, and found him dead at 3:26 p.m" with "pills strewn all around him." The housekeeper and masseuse tried......

If you break down the numbers, the MTA pays an average of $2,000 to escort homeless people from the subways; in related news, Camp Laguardia, the biggest shelter to serve NYC, is being closed The Brooklyn Bridge Park could actually cost $300 million - not the $150 million budgeted - to develop Yesterday, a water main broke in Central Park, causing flooding to the whole 96th Street Transverse Queens is great, except when you're......

-- Phillip McKelvey of Riverside Drive was arrested on suspicion of committing a series of rapes in Harlem-- the victims were homeless women. -- Mary Kate Olsen doesn't wash her hands after using the bathroom. Isn't she supposed to be the good one? -- The first lawsuit in the Bartha explosion case has been filed. -- Here's a big pile of kittens. Not cute enough? Check out Pepper! -- Bruno Kirby, the famous character......

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With news that Mary-Kate Olsen has checked herself into a clinic to treat her eating disorder, Gothamist was struck by the unwitting timing of some news stories: First, Governor Pataki has agreed to fund eating disorders centers in New York State - a first, since most people have to go out-of-state for treatment. And then the Daily News has a story about people's, mainly women's, obsession with weighing themselves. One artist, Emily Caigan, has created......

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Variety's caption for this photograph of Snoop Dogg and the Olsen twins, taken at the premiere of Starsky & Hutch: The Olsen twins admire Snoop Dogg's chalice. Gothamist on Starsky & Hutch.......

Vanity Fair becomes Teen People! The Post has pictures of the upcoming Vanity Fair cover with Amanda Bynes, twins Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff, Alexis Bledel, Evan Rachel Wood, Raven Symone and Linsay Lohan on the cover. Gothamist finds it amusing as no way in hell would they put guys as young as 15 on the cover, in seductive poses.......