Production Company Takes No Responsibility For David Carradine's Bizarre Death
May 28 2018, Updated 10:12 a.m. ET
By Amber Goodhand - Breaking Celebrity News Staff Reporter
Actor David Carradine’s widow claims the production company behind his last film is at fault for the late actor’s bizarre death, but they are claiming no responsibility.
In legal papers exclusively obtained by Breaking Celebrity News, French production company MK2 filed a motion with the Los Angeles Superior Court demanding the case does not go to trial.
Carradine, 72, had been working on MK2’s Stretch for just one week before he was found dead in the closet of his Thai hotel suite on June 4, 2009.
The Kill Bill star’s wife Annie Bierman claimed her husband was murdered, but it was ruled that he actually died from suffocation while engaging in the sexual act of autoerotic asphyxiation.
Bierman filed a lawsuit last year against MK2 claiming the assistant hired by the production company failed to pick Carradine up for dinner with the director.
But in MK2’s June 8 response filing, which they call an “unfortunate lawsuit,” they claim nobody was required to look after the actor 24 hours a day.
“Mr. Carradine died in the early morning hours of June 4, 2009, while he was off duty and doing something unrelated to his acting contract with MK2,” the production company’s documents state.
“There is no logical connection between not getting taken out to dinner one day and accidentally suffocating yourself while engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation the next.”
Attorneys for MK2 detail the hours that led up to discovering Carradine’s body,