Daughter and Ex Fiancée – ‘Absolute Priority’ for Ledger’s Family
Two months after Heath Ledger’s death, the New York Daily News reveals that he drafted a will in April 2003 in his native Australia, just before his Oscar nominated role in “Brokeback Mountain,” leaving everything to his parents and three sisters.

This means the will does not mention anything about his ex fiancée, actress Michelle Williams, whom Ledger met on the set of “Brokeback” and had a child with her, a two-year-old girl daughter, Matilda Rose.

According to the three-page will, Ledger had around $145,000 in New York assets at the time of his death, including a $25,000 Toyota Prius, $100,000 shared in various bank accounts and about $20,000 in furniture and fixtures.

The real size of his total wealth is not known, nor is the value of his Brooklyn house, that he used to share with Michelle Williams and their child. It is also uncertain whether there will be any provisions for the actor’s former wife and his daughter.

However, Kim Ledger, Heath’s father wanted to underline the fact that Matilda “is our absolute priority and Michelle is an integral part of our family. They will be taken care of and that’s how Heath would want it to be,” he said in a statement for People Magazine.

The same thing was also sustained by Ledger’s rep. “The story is getting taken out of context and media is speculating that this means Matilda and Michelle will not be taken care of. I want to make it very clear nothing could be farther from the truth.”

Ledger’s lawyer, Harvey Corn, asked a judge to seal the documents, in order to protect the family’s privacy, while Mara Buxbaum, Ledger’s spokesperson, refused to comment.

Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment on January 22 and, according to an investigation, six different prescription drugs were found there at the time of his death including Oxycontin, Vicodin, Xanax, Valium, the antianxiety and sleeping aid temazenam and the sleeping aid doxylamine.

Another investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Agency is meant to determine whether there were valid medical conditions attached to each of the prescriptions.