The family of Michael Clark Duncan told TMZ the actor's grave has been desecrated with racist cartoons, and a vandalism report has already been filed.
"A family friend stopped by Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills to deliver flowers to the spot where [Michael] was interred in Sept. 2012...when she noticed a figure of a cartoonish black face had been attached to the center of [Clark's] tomb."
The Los Angeles Police Department is currently looking into it, and may be classifying the complaint as a hate crime. The figure that was drawn is believed to depict Sambo.
Rooted in the Latin American Spanish word "zambo," Sambo refers to Sambo's grave - the burial site of a young dark-skinned cabin boy or slave in Sunderland Point, England, a port known historically to have received sugar, and slave ships from other parts of the world.
Another known reference to the name can be found in a number of literary works featuring African-American characters that have been servants or slaves named Sambo, giving it a negative connotation in current pop culture.
Duncan was best known for his role as John Coffey in 1999 movie "The Green Mile", for which we received a Golden Globe and Academy Award. He starred in other movies such as "Daredevil" and "Armageddon".
Duncan died in 2012 at the age of 54 after suffering a heart attack.
He was the boyfriend to Omarosa Manigault, TV personality and regular on the hit TV series "Apprentice" and "Celebrity Apprentice".
Earlier this year the gossip site reported Duncan's family wanted Manigault investigated after stating that the TV star may have unlawfully influenced Duncan into re-writing his will to include her just months before dying.
The suspicious behavior caused Judy Duncan, Michael's sister, to hire a lawyer and dig around, as she believed the actor was not of sound mind to make the decision claiming he was "slurring words and stumbling around" at the time.
Watch this "Access Hollywood" interview where Michael talks about how he and Manigault met:
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