LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The body of Hollywood actor Heath Ledger was being flown back to Australia on Sunday following a private Los Angeles service for close family and friends, US media reported.
Ledgers ex-fiance, "Brokeback Mountain" co-star Michelle Williams, and former girlfriend Naomi Watts were among the mourners at the Los Angeles service, which took place at 8pm (0400 GMT) on Saturday.
Ledgers father and other relatives also attended the ceremony at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, reports said.
Ledger, 28, was found dead last week in his New York apartment and initial results of an autopsy were inconclusive. His family insist he would not have taken his own life.
His uncle, Mike Ledger, told Australian media that the actors father planned to bring the stars body back to his native city of Perth.
The family had not yet finalized details for his funeral, although holding it at his former school in Perth, Guildford Grammar, which has offered to host the event, was one possibility, Mike Ledger said.
The actors father Kim and mother Sally would make the decision, he said.
"Kim will be bringing Heath home, but in terms of memorial services, its up to Kim and Sally," Mike Ledger was quoted saying on a website for News Limited newspapers in Australia.
Ledger, who shot to worldwide renown with his sensitive portrayal of a repressed gay cowboy in the Oscar-winning "Brokeback Mountain," was found naked and unresponsive in his Manhattan apartment last Tuesday.
Police said that prescription medications were found in the residence but that a rolled-up 20 dollar bill near the body had tested negative for drug residue.
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