Police officers were pictured at Freddie Starr's home hours after he was found dead by his carer.
The comic, who died aged 76, had lived as a recluse in his last days, ignoring his neighbours and only being seen by his carer.
Yesterday evening, as his body was removed from the Costa del Sol residential complex, police were pictured at his small townhouse.
An autopsy is expected to take place later today at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Malaga to rule out the possibility it was the result of a crime.
The former I’m A Celebrity star sold up and left the UK after losing a £1 million libel case against Karin Ward, then 57.
She claimed he had put his hand up her skirt when she was a teenager, before callously dismissing her as a “a**less wonder.’
He sued her for libel after she gave interviews saying she was “horribly, horribly humiliated” by the fallen comic.
A High Court judge ruled Miss Ward was telling the truth and dismissed the case in July 2015.
Freddie owed thousand of pounds in unpaid water bills and community fees when he died, it has been claimed.
The fallen comic was being threatened with lawyers after refusing to pay a four-figure debt to community managers looking after the Costa del Sol residential complex he lived on.
Neighbours have told how he lived as a recluse and stopped talking to them after the president of the 280-property complex tried to get him to pay up.
Spanish lawyers acting for the residential management company are now expected to put in a claim against Starr's estate to try to recover the debt.
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One of his neighbours at his two-bed £170,000 townhouse in the hills above the resort of Mijas Costa revealed how he had turned into a virtual recluse in the months leading up to his death.
He said Starr would “look the other way” on the rare occasions he saw him because of the debt feud.
