Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman had close to 50 bags of heroin in his Manhattan apartment when he died, police investigating his death say.
Hoffman, 46, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose by close friend and playwright David Bar Katz and his assistant Isabella Wing-Davey yesterday while his children waited in a playground a block away with their mother Mimi O’Donnell.
O’Donnell had asked Wing-Davey to check on the actor after he failed to pick up son Cooper, 10, and daughters Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5, from the playground.
A number of discarded syringes, empty bags, and prescription drugs were also found in the apartment when Hoffman was found on the bathroom floor with a syringe in his left arm, reports say.
Police found several empty bags branded “Ace of Hearts” – a street name for heroin – in the apartment, law enforcement sources told CNN.
The Oscar-winning actor was last seen alive at 8pm on Saturday (local time), a police spokesperson said.
It was understood the New York medical examiner’s office would conduct an autopsy today.
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