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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'franke'

January 29, 2008

A man posing as Heath Ledger's father managed to get free hotel rooms and talk to Tom Cruise and John Travolta after the actor's death last week. The Post reports the "twisted impostor" got Tom Cruise to console him on the phone and almost "got John Travolta to buy him a plane ticket to the United States." Why does this sound like a radio shock jock prank? With Ledger's father Kim (pictured) rumored to arrive......

Continue Reading "Scammer Takes Advantage After Actor's Death"

January 26, 2008

Photograph of the crowd outside the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home by David Karp/AP Yesterday, over a hundred people - made up of "fans, reporters and photographers" - waited outside the Frank E. Campbell funeral home, where the body of actor Heath Ledger had been kept since ME's autopsy. Ledger had been found dead in a SoHo apartment by his masseuse and housekeeper on Tuesday afternoon. The cause of death is inconclusive, but he......

Continue Reading "Ledger's Body Leaves NYC; NY Post Tries to KO MKO"

January 25, 2008

Okay people, time for your morning update on The Ledge – come on, you know you want it. Even Daniel Day Lewis says there’s nothing else to talk about. (Scroll down.) Sorry we’re late, but there are a lot of new developments this morning. First and foremost, Heath Ledger is, sadly, still dead. Second! Before calling 911, Diana Wolozin, the unlicensed massage therapist who found Ledger’s body, used Ledger’s phone to speed dial Mary-Kate Olsen......

Continue Reading "Ledger Update: More Calls to Olsen, More Than Just Friends"

July 30, 2005

New York City lost an important philanthropist Thursday morning in an apparent suicide . Arthur Zankel, 73, a former Citigroup board member and vice chairman of Carnegie Hall, jumped from a ninth-floor stairwell window into an inner courtyard of his Fifth Ave. apartment building. He was discovered later that day and taken to New York-Presbyterian. He had not left a note. Zankel, a trustee at Columbia University’s Teachers College and Skidmore College, had a mind......

Continue Reading "Financier Falls"

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