Us has details on a shocking lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging that two photographers set up Heath Ledger at a 2006 SAG after-party, first plying him with cocaine and then secretly videotaping him.

Heath Ledger Framed In Cocaine Video?

In the suit the plaintiff, Jane Doe (a pseudonym), who was working as a freelance reporter for People magazine at the time, recounts events that took place at place Chateau Marmont hotel.

Doe alleges that she and her boyfriend at the time, Darren Banks, one of the Splash News photographers named in the lawsuit, met Ledger on the grounds of
the hotel and brought him, along with another Splash photographer, Eric Munn, to a room Doe had booked for the evening assignment. According to the suit Munn gave Ledger cocaine and the actor already had some of his own. Munn then left the room.

From the balcony, Munn secretly recorded what was going on. Doe claims she didn't know that she was being videotaped. Once Ledger spotted the camera, he demanded the tape be destroyed and the photographers agreed.

Doe seeks unspecified damages for fraud, distress and privacy violations.

By Fabien Montique posted time [ 9:58 AM]