Australian artist-hustler Vincent Fantauzzo has gotten PageSix.com to help raise the value of a just-completed Heath Ledger painting. Fatauzzo persuaded Ledger to pose not long before the 28 year-old actor accidentally died last month. (People sit for paintings these days? What for?) Ledger’s hair is black because that was part of his appearance in Terry Gilliam‘s Dr. Parnassus, but why does he seem to be wearing dark body makeup, like he’s playing a Sicilian gigolo in an early ’60s film?

February 22, 2008by Jeffrey Wells9 Comments