A lawsuit filed on Friday against a Hollywood photo agency and two of its paparazzi, alleges that late actor Heath Ledger was supplied with cocaine at a party two years ago and then secretly taped and photographed by the two photographers.

Filed by an ex-girlfriend of one of the two photographers, the complaint says footage of Ledger snorting cocaine in a hotel room, portions of which aired briefly on two U.S. television shows just days after his death sparking a turmoil Hollywood, was sold to various media outlets around the world generating more than $1 million in revenues.

Calling herself Jane Doe out of fear for possible consequences if her real identity was revealed, the plaintiff, who was a freelance reporter for People at that time, is suing Splash News, managing partner Gary Morgan, and paparazzo Eric Munn and Darren Banks, for fraud, intrusion, infliction of emotional distress and privacy violations, claiming the Ledger video was shot in her room at the Chateau Marmot Hotel on January 29 2006 without her consent.   

"She doesn't intend with this lawsuit to seek publicity," Douglas L. Johnson, the woman's lawyer, told The Associated Press on Friday. "If anything, she's seeking damages for the invasion of her privacy."

According to the suit, Munn gave Ledger cocaine while the actor already had some of his own, before he left the hotel room. He then secretly recorded what was going on from the balcony. Doe, who also appears in the video, claims she had no idea she was being videotaped. Once Ledger spotted the camera, he demanded the tape be destroyed and the photographers agreed.

The woman is suing for unspecified damages and profits from the sale of the Ledger tape since the defendants took control of her hotel room for which she paid, used the mini bar and filmed her without her permission. She also claims her reputation has been damaged as a result of being featured in the footage, which she wants destroyed.

"She was deceived and doesn't feel too good about it," Johnson told the AP. "She tried to physically throw them out of the room."

People magazine confirmed that the woman behind the suit was a freelancer for the magazine at the time but has not been associated with the publication since last year.

"We heard about an alleged encounter with Ledger, but there were too many questions surrounding the circumstances for us to write about it," People spokeswoman Sandi Shurgin Werfel said.

A rep for Ledger, 28, who died on January 22 in his New York apartment from an accidental drug overdose, claims the grainy video doesn't actually show the actor using cocaine although he mentions previous marijuana use.