The glamorous 29-year-old died from head injuries after clinging on to the door handle and being dragged along the street at high speed as the car screeched away.
"She suffered serious injuries and died at the scene," said a police spokesman.
Police believe that she was killed in a random carjacking and was not the victim of an attack based on her work for wealthy high-profile Russian clients.
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She was highly respected for her bodyguard skills. "A normal man gets sick and tired of male bodyguards around him all the time," she said.
"In addition, many restaurants now do not allow a guard inside. They can come in and check everything but then they are asked to wait in the lobby.
"In contrast, you can take female bodyguards inside, she will sit down at the table and nobody would guess that she's a weapon herself - and can react appropriately in any dangerous situation."
She spoke of a recent carjacking incident in Moscow.
"I got out, locked the car and at that moment a man ran up and squeezed my hand with keys. I reacted immediately with a Jujitsu move, bending back his hand and hitting his face with my elbow.
"He did not expect such a reaction. The next moment, I took out my handgun but a Honda car passed by and he jumped in."
He also talks about himself in context of going to see football, his accent and his mother. I'm a tit man myself. I would be happy to watch a television network that consists only of shots of breasts. Sometimes I do just this. Sometimes on the internet. Sometimes on pay-per-view. It seems like a woman with breasts in front of a bar would be a surefire way to draw viewers. But somehow, in a dazzling feat of ineptitude, Cody Willard's rambling narcissism (and its compensatory sycophancy) saps our desire to look at tits, an activity for which our passion we heretofore thought could never dimmed. If Fox Business Network can make looking at breasts and talking about them with someone who has them an unenjoyable activity, what can't they do?
Yes, Donaghy thinks about efficiency, like any six sigma GE trooper, but he also knows how to blow cash. Witness the troupe of dancers hired to promote fictional star Tracy Jordan:
Citing quotes from Ledger friends like the one who said, "the definition of substance abuse is really up to one's perspective," DrugMonkey writes, "Now if that isn't a backhanded way of saying 'Yeah, he takes some recreational drugs but not too much', I don't know what it is." He also says the evidence is "not inconsistent" with fatal relapse from a hypnotics addiction and that his buddies were too quick to say he wasn't a drug addict:
Any of you who have actually known, say even an alcoholic, realize that they are really. good. at. hiding. their. drug. intake!
When a 28-yr old guy dies mysteriously in his bedroom there are only so many likely hypotheses to pursue. Congenital defect in heart or brain vasculature leading to cardiac arrest or some sort of intracerebral vascular accident (stroke, etc). Foul play (no evidence apparently). Drug overdose. And there is plenty of evidence for this latter ...
DrugMonkey's full post is here and is actually well argued, at least from the perspective of, uh, a media blogger with no science credential (*cough*).
Then there's a grad student chemist called Kyle Finchsigmate, who writes at his Chem Blog that it's "painfully difficult" to OD on the drugs found with Ledger, so maybe DrugMonkey is just way off base.
Oh, except all bets are off when alcohol is involved. And also Kyle believes Ambien (found with Ledger) to be "horribly dangerous." In fact? This one time? In college?
During undergrad, I had some an awful sunburn and was unable to sleep, so I got a script for Ambien (all legit, I’m sXe and all). The next morning I woke up, face down in my livingroom with my (very nice and expensive) cashmere overcoat lying in a melted pint of ice cream… I did not have a pint of ice cream in my house before I took the Ambien… I’ve never figured out where it came from. Fucked up shit. Bad juju. Avoid at all costs.
Wired, which assembled this brain trust of science bloggers, finds the mainstream media doing the lamest Web story on the topic, "Did Heath Ledger Dream Before He Died?" at Slate. Wired's own science blog post on the topic (prior link) asks the pressing question of "how medical examiners will test the dead actor's bodily fluids for medications and controlled substances. My best guess: they will use Gas or Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry -- which is pretty much the gold standard for toxicology labs."
Nerd!
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