Before he says goodbye to his son in their native Australia, Kim Ledger visited the place Heath had called home for the last few months.
The grieving father spent about an hour Tuesday at the rented Manhattan loft where Ledger died on Jan. 22.
Per the New York Daily News, Kim arrived at the Broome Street building in SoHo at 10 a.m. in a black SUV. Several security guards escorted him in through a back entrance.
The elder Ledger, a mining engineer by trade who named his son Heathcliff after the brooding Wuthering Heights character, returned to his vehicle about 11 a.m. He did not speak to any of the fans still gathered outside the apartment house to lay flowers and other mementos at a makeshift shrine to the 28-year-old Brokeback Mountain star.
Kim Ledger flew in from Los Angeles on Monday, two days after a small service at Westwood Village Memorial Park attended by immediate family and friends of the late actor, including Michelle Williams and their two-year-old daughter, Matilda Rose, and ex-girlfriend Naomi Watts.
Producers on Williams' latest movie, Blue Valentine, have confirmed that filming has been postponed so the 27-year-old actress can take time to mourn.
The outpouring of grief from the Hollywood community has been nonstop. The latest to speak out was Ledger's Four Feathers costar Wes Bentley, who turned down the prison guard role in Monster's Ball that eventually went to the young Aussie.
"Heath was an essential part of my life," the 29-year-old Bentley wrote in a statement released Tuesday."At one point we were as close as two people could get without being blood. That closeness came from sharing a similar, life-altering experience at a young age where very few could relate and those who could often were preoccupied with competition. It would have been isolating, not to mention boring, without him.
"While most of us forget we're alive and are dead on our feet, Heath woke up every day excited about what was out there to enjoy. He lived in a way that spread so much spark to so many people every day he had. Heath not only lived for himself, if he could've, he would lived for all of us as well. That was his way."
Ledger's body is expected to be buried sometime this week in his hometown of Perth. The Bowra & O'Dea Funeral Home in nearby Midland is said to be handling arrangements for the private funeral.
But while Kim Ledger's whereabouts are accounted for during this difficult time, police are reportedly searching for a man who has allegedly tried to capitalize on the family's tragedy by impersonating Kim in conversations with celebrities, medical authorities and the funeral home that handled Heath's body following the Jan. 23 autopsy.
The still unidentified imposter somehow got in touch with John Travolta and Tom Cruise, both of whom talked to the man briefly before realizing he was a con man.
Sources told the New York Post the guy also managed to get the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home to arrange for rooms at the nearby Carlyle Hotel, under the guise that the mortuary was taking care of Kim Ledger and his family.
The suspect, who apparently is based overseas, also tried to finagle a plane ticket to the U.S. from Travolta and the phone numbers of fellow celebrities from another unidentified A-lister, a source said.
"John spoke with the guy briefly, before he realized he was an impostor," Travolta's publicist, Samantha Mast, told the Post. "He did not make arrangements to buy him a plane ticket."
Another source said the impostor had more than one conversation with Cruise, during which he asked for "emotional support."
New York police confirmed that officers were dispatched to the funeral home during a private wake for Ledger on Friday with hopes of catching the man, who's facing fraud and larceny charges if he's found to be behind the scam.