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Actor Jim Carrey isn’t playing the role of grieving ex very well — sending private investigators to “dig up dirt” on the family of his late former girlfriend Cathriona White after they filed wrongful death suits against him.

“Within the last 48 hours, two private investigators working for Carrey have been doing everything they can to come up with information for Carrey to use,” White’s family’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, said in a statement.

Private investigators Larry Broadhurst and Ed Guttierez were specifically asking “questions designed to get [White’s friends] to speak badly about the grieving family,” the attorney added.

Upset at the intrusion, friends of the late makeup artist — who OD’d on pills prescribed to Carrey’s alias Arthur King in September 2015 — reached out to Avenatti to alert him.

The muckraking comes a day after White’s mom, Brigid Sweetman, said she’d drop her wrongful death suit against the “pure evil” funnyman if he shared his STD tests and they showed he was clean.

Carrey has vehemently denied giving the Irish beauty any sexual infections, as the family alleges he in fact gave her three: oral and genital herpes, and chlamydia.

“How dare Carrey and his Hollywood lawyers try and malign the family and intimidate them,” Avenatti said. “Sending private investigators out to dig up dirt on a grieving mother is disgusting. These people have no bounds.”

White’s estranged husband, Mark Burton, also has a wrongful death suit pending against the actor.

Neither Broadhurst, Guttierez nor Carrey’s attorney returned messages.