Carradine’s family horrified by photo published in tabloid newspaper

David Carradine’s family is said to be horrified by the news that a photo has been published in a Thai tabloid newspaper that shows the dead actor hanging from the support bar of a closet.
Family attorney Mark Geragos, who represents Carradine's brother, Keith, told said that the family is "outraged" by the move and will legally go after any publication in the U.S. that publishes the photo.

Carradine was found hanging in his luxury hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand in what was at first called a suicide. However, Thai police have since said that accidental suffocation may be the cause of death after they discovered a rope around Carradine's genitals. These circumstances have led to speculation that the 72-year-old actor may have been engaged in a dangerous form of sex play known as auto-erotic asphyxiation. This involves temporarily cutting off the supply of oxygen to the brain to heighten the effects of a sexual climax.

The shocking photo shows Carradine with his hands tied in front of him and tattoos on the lower half of his nude body can be seen. Discoloration of the skin on the lower extremities would suggest that he had been dead for hours before being found.

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