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New York, June 6 (ANI): David Carradine, who was found dead in his Bangkok Hotel room with a rope around his genitals, was a fan of “potentially deadly” deviant sex acts, his ex-wife claimed in court papers.

TheSmokingGun.com on Friday uncovered her 2003 filing - which also claimed Carradine and a close relative shared an incestuous relationship, reports The New York Daily News.

The 72-year-old ‘Kill Bill’ star was naked with ropes tied around his neck and genitals when his lifeless body was discovered inside a luxury suite, Thailand authorities confirmed.

The location of the ropes suggested Carradine died while attempting autoerotic asphyxiation - cutting off oxygen to the brain to enhance sexual pleasure.

“If you hang yourself by the neck, you don’t need so much pressure to kill yourself. Those who get highly sexually aroused tend to forget this fact,” said Pornthip Rojanasunand, director of Thailand’s Central Institute of Forensic Science.

Carradine’s ‘eccentric’ sexual side was the focus of a divorce filing by his ex-wife, Marina Anderson, which was made in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The documents revealed that Carradine groped her in public and encouraged her to flash strangers by pulling her top off.

“It was the continuation of abhorant [sic] and deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly,” Anderson’s filing said.

In addition, Carradine’s “deviate behavior includes an incestuous relationship with a very close family member, which permeated our marriage,” she wrote.

Anderson said their four-year marriage left her suffering posttraumatic stress disorder.

“The cause of death is not natural,” said Suporn Pansea, a Bangkok Metropolitan police spokesman.

“We can’t say yet whether he died of a suicide or an accidental suffocation,” the rep added. (ANI)