Heath Ledger Was Framed?

A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles yesterday by an unidentified freelance reporter from People magazine claims Heath Ledger was plied with cocaine and secretly filmed by a pair of undercover paparazzi.

It is claimed photographers Eric Munn and Darren Banks, back in January 2006, tricked Heath into thinking they were guests at the Chateau Marmont Hotel. Once they’d gained his trust, the three men went into the room of an unnamed People magazine reporter, where Eric gave Heath a ‘packet’ of cocaine.

Now you, dear hecklerspray reader, are no doubt like us, your dear hecklerspray team, in as much as you wouldn’t know a packet of cocaine if it was shoved up your arse by some dishevelled local upon a family outing to Botoga.

After getting over the initial shock of discovering the packet in your excrement, you’d probably wipe it clean, bake a cake for your mother and spend the next few hours listening to her dull, overly detailed descriptions of her life from birth up until the present, and simply blame the whole dull debacle on the menopause.

But not so Heath, according to the suit, which notes that The Brothers Grimm star had some cocaine of his own.

Munn then left the room, leaving Ledger and Banks alone to inhale the illegal powder into the body via the nose, while he began to secretly film the scene. So not only is Eric Munn a drug pusher, he’s also one hell of a prick. Allegedly.

The suit says:

“Mr. Ledger became aware that he was being videotaped and became very upset. He realized the two men he had been befriending all evening were paparazzi.”

The photographers, who worked for the Splash news agency, insisted the video would be destroyed. It was later sold to “Entertainment Tonight” for $200,000 (£100,000), but was not aired after several powerful industry fat-cat types pressured the programme into submission.

However, a section of the video was briefly aired on two U.S. television shows just days after his death in January and, according to the lawsuit, has been sold to media outlets around the world, generating more than $1 million in revenue that should be forfeited under a California state law that requires paparazzi to disgorge any profits obtained through illegal activity.

The unnamed People magazine reporter is seeking unspecified damages for fraud, intrusion and privacy violations.

It really is a very unspecific situation right here indeed, and so to make you feel better we’d like to offer you a piece of ultra specific information to balance the specifics out: If Eric Munn offers you drugs - just say no.

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