Michelle Williams and daughter Matilda looked cute as they walked to school in the rain in NYC.

That sweet little Matilda looks a lot like her late father, Heath Ledger.

Matilda turns 4 tomorrow! We wonder what her godfather, Jake Gyllenhaal, will get for her. Maybe his girlfriend Reese Witherspoon will help pick it out!

Spike Jonze sweeps girlfriend Michelle Williams’s 3-year-old daughter Matilda off her feet during a carefree stroll in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Little Matilda is still the spitting image of her dad, Heath Ledger.

Adorable!

When Heath Ledger died earlier this year from an accidental overdose, his will left everything to this parents and three sisters. It was written, of course, before the birth of his daughter Matilda with Michelle Williams. Many believed Michelle would file a claim for the estate, but Heath’s family has given the entire thing over to Matilda.

“There is no claim,” the newspaper quoted Kim Ledger as saying in a report published Sunday. “Our family has gifted everything to Matilda.”
The actor signed the will on April 12, 2003. It lists assets and cash of just $118,000, but the actor’s estate is believed to be worth more than $16.3 million.

Heath Ledger’s life insurance company is ruling his death a suicide to avoid paying $10 million to a trustee for his daughter who has filed a lawsuit:

Sources say lawyers for the insurance company have claimed Ledger’s death was “suspicious” — possibly suicide, which would nullify the policy. The company alleges in its answer to the lawsuit, “ReliaStar is entitled to investigate Plaintiff’s claim to determine if the ‘Suicide’ provision is applicable.” That provision states, “If the Insured commits suicide … we will pay only the amount of premiums paid to us.”
ReliaStar’s lawyers have informed Matilda’s lawyers they intend to take the depositions of Mary-Kate Olsen, as well as the masseuse who was at Ledger’s home when he died, Ledger’s colleagues on his last film, his agents, doctors, psychologists and others. Lawyers for Matilda believe the insurance company is trying to scare and shame them into submission. They believe ReliaStar is trying to drag the process out, for what could be years, to avoid paying the money.

Matilda’s lawyers say ReliaStar is violating California law which does not allow insurance companies to reexamine applications after the death of the policyholder.

Her lawyers believe the company should have already paid and say the company is acting “maliciously, fraudulently and/or oppressively.”

Since officials have stated that Heath’s cause of death was an accidental drug overdose, and not a suicide, shouldn’t they have to pay?! We think so!

 

Heath Ledger’s maniacal twist on the Joker in The Dark Knight in no way resembled his true character off set – that of a proud father to his 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, his costars say.

“Because he died people want a dark story [that] he was so obsessed with the character, he was so contaminated by the Joker and he couldn’t sleep and all of that stuff,” said costar Gary Oldman, who plays Lt. Jim Gordon in the film, adding that wasn’t the case.

“In between takes he would sit on the curbside and a smoke cigarette and laugh and talk about his daughter Matilda (pictured with Ledger above),” added Oldman. “I thought he was just a beautiful kid. I thought he was just wonderful. I had a real affection for him.

Ledger, who died in January, gushed about his daughter with actress Michelle Williams to costars on set.

“Heath showed me pictures of [Matilda] … [he] would come in and say she did this and she did that,” recalled Aaron Eckhart, who plays District Attorney Harvey Dent in the sequel out July 18.

But Ledger’s other love on set was for his character, the Joker. Eckhart added: “He really created his look. That character — Heath loved so much. He really cared about the Joker.”

Director Christopher Nolan said he needed an actor who would be “truly fearless” for the role and Ledger was up for the challenge.

“[For] those who knew him and those who had the privilege of working with him, it’s pretty amazing the disparity between the person he was and the monster that he created for us,” Nolan said. “To see that being created from a this very gentle person is a real testament to his skill as an actor.”

 

Michelle Williams pushes sleepyhead daughter Matilda, 2, through their Brooklyn hometown on a summery day, reportedly on their way to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

So adorable!

Michelle Williams glows with costars Catherine Keener and Samantha Morton at the premiere of Synecdoche, New York Friday in Cannes. Earlier, the actress premiered another film, Wendy and Lisa, at the festival, telling reporters, “It actually does feel kind of special to have two films at the same time.”

Doesn’t Michelle look fantastic?! 

We’re glad to see her again!

Michelle Williams, 27, arrived in the south of France in time to dazzle at the red carpet premiere of her film Wendy and Lucy. On Friday, she began promoting Synecdoche, New York, a Charlie Kaufman film costarring the phenominal Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener.

“It was decided on Monday night that she could come to Cannes, and she got on the next plane to arrive just in time to get dressed and come to our premiere,” said a rep for Wendy and Lucy. “She came in and had a long nap and then came to the screening.”

Michelle was radiant in a vintage Chanel Haute Couture dress. Ah, she looks so beautiful and in such a classic way. She will remain in Cannes at least through Friday night to promote another festival movie in which she appears, Synecdoche, New York, before flying back to the United States to resume filming a Martin Scorsese movie in Boston.

Williams has kept a low profile since Ledger died last January at age 28 of an accidental overdose. After attending his memorial service in Australia, she has spent time with their 2-year-old daughter Matilda in New York and on the set of her new film.

Here are some more photos of Michelle Williams at the Cannes Film Festival.

It’s been almost two months since Heath Ledger’s tragic death and for the first time two of his greatest loves, Michelle Williams and Naomi Watts, are speaking about the late actor and the impact he made on their lives. In the new issue of Interview magazine, Michelle says, “For as long as I’d known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy,” regarding the prescription sleeping pills that were partially to blame for his accidental death. “His mind was turning, turning, turning — always turning. He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump out of bed.”

Naomi laments the loss of her ex-boyfriend on a personal level, and also a professional one. “His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started,” she says in the new issue. Michelle notes that his talent for tapping into the heart of his characters was much more closely tied to his emotions than the public thought.

“I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, his how vulnerable he was,” she says. “You can pick up on it in his performances, but it’s easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That’s who he was.”

Also interviewed in the issue are Ellen DeGeneres, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sean Penn and his I’m Not There director Todd Haynes.

Heath Ledger’s will leaves everything to his parents and three sisters.

The three page document was filed in his native Australia in 2003 — before he was Oscar nominated for Brokeback Mountain, and became engaged to Michelle Williams and had Matilda, 2.

New documents filed in New York City’s Surrogate Court, as reported by the New York Daily News, show the actor had less than $145,000 in assets when he died January 22. These include $100,000 spread across several bank accounts, a $25,000 hybrid Toyota Prius and $20,000 in furniture and fixtures.

The worth of the Brooklyn townhouse he once shared with Williams, trust funds and Australian residences is unknown.

The Daily News says the bulk of Ledger’s estate will be handled in Australia.

When Michelle Williams spoke to Elle magazine in January, she had no idea she’d be faced with the death of her ex, Heath Ledger, only days later on Jan. 22.

At the time, she was still mourning their breakup. “I didn’t know where to go” after their 2007 split, she says in the magazine’s April issue. “I couldn’t imagine any place in the world that was gonna feel good to me.”

Williams, 27, dove into work on several films, because “when I have too much free time, that’s when things start to get a little messy.”

She also naturally focused on Matilda, 2, her daughter with Ledger. “She’s bigger to me than any relationship, bigger than the awards,” Williams says. “She’s what came out of it.”