Heath Ledger Drug Video: Invasion of Celebrity Privacy Reaches New Low

It’s like something out of some futuristic novel warning of present day trends gone extreme and shocking. According to Page Six.

Entertainment Tonight and The Insider have purchased exclusive rights to tragic video footage of Heath Ledger allegedly snorting cocaine at a party two years ago.

The footage, which PageSix.com hears was bought for $200,000, was shot without Heath’s knowledge, at the Chateau Marmont hotel in L.A. following the SAG awards on January 29, 2006.
In the video, Heath is shown talking while at a private party after sniffing a cocaine-like substance off a table with a rolled up bill in his hand. As he speaks, his face noticeably twitches.

An insider tells PageSix.com that Heath says at one point, “I’m gonna get so much sh*t from my girlfriend. We have a baby together… Matilda, Matilda Rose.”

ET and The Insider planned to show the clip later this week. PageSix.com understands this is now “under review.”

The celebrity news programs have released a joint statement warning a media outlet that they will be subject to lawsuits and fines if they choose to show the video.

Obviously, ET thinks very little of the family and friends of the late Heath Ledger, let alone Heath Ledger himself and the public whom it thinks will want to see the video.

Heath Leger

However, ET thinks a great deal of its exclusive rights to the video, issuing a written warning to Perez Hilton who dared to describe the video:

Perez describes the scene in the video, according to one source that has seen the clip:

The tables at the party are filled with drugs.

Ledger also talks about his drug use and other not so pretty things are seen.

“I used to smoke five joints a day,” Heath reveals.

Update:

Perez has just been issued with a “very stern letter from the lawyers for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, who will be broadcasting the vid.”

“NOTICE OF ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT AND THE INSIDER’S EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS REGARDING PROPRIETARY MATERIALS OF HEATH LEDGER AT THE CHATEAU MARMONT ON APPROXIMATELY JANUARY 29, 2006

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THIS IS TO ADVISE YOU THAT ET AND THE INSIDER HAVE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS IN AND TO PROPRIETARY MATERIALS OF HEATH LEDGER AT THE CHATEAU MARMONT ON APPROXIMATELY JANUARY 29, 2006