Mary-Kate Olsen will not speak to federal investigators about actor Heath Ledger's death unless she is granted exemption from prosecution, a constabulary enforcement seed says.
Olsen, 22, was a friend of Ledger and the first person called by his masseuse, wHO found the 28-year-old Australian dead in his New York apartment in January from an accidental prescription drug overdose.
Olsen, best known for her role in TV series Full House, summoned private security guards, who arrived at Ledger's apartment in Manhattan's SoHo district at the same time as emergency services workers.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating the source of Ledger's drugs and medicines.
"We have asked to question her (twice) and it has not happened," the law enforcement source said.
The source aforesaid that investigators are in negotiations with Olsen's lawyers and the prosecutor's office.
Olsen lawyer Michael Miller aforesaid that, at her request, he had provided investigators with relevant information, including a chronology of the events surrounding Ledger's death.
"Mary-Kate Olsen had nothing whatever to do with the drugs found in Heath Ledger's home or his body, and she does not know where he obtained them," Miller aforesaid in a statement.
Ledger was nominated for an Oscar for his role as a queer cowboy in 2005's Brokeback Mountain.
His concluding role as the Joker in the Batman sequel The Dark Knight, released last month, is existence critically hailed with internet buzz touting him as an Oscar candidate in 2009.
Ledger has a two year old daughter, Matilda, with his Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams.
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