Investigation Into Prince's Death Reveals Pills Were Hidden Throughout Paisley Park

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Schulenberg had "put the prescription in Kirk Johnson's name for Prince's privacy".

Prince succumbed last April 21 to an accidental overdose of the drug, medical examiners said last June. Oxycodone was not listed as a cause of Prince's death.

Authorities have said neither foul play nor suicide is suspected.

No one yet has been charged for Prince's death, but the mystery of who supplied Prince with drugs and how long had he been taking them continues to vex his fans.

He went to Paisley Park on April 21 - the day Prince was found - to drop off test results, he said. Despite attempts by emergency responders to revive him, he was pronounced dead less than a half-hour later. However, Schulenberg's attorney denied that the doctor had ever written Prince or Prince's friend a prescription of opioids in a statement on Monday. He said his father was unaware that he had brought the medications.

The documents revealed that opioid painkillers were found throughout his Paisley Park estate.

Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg told detectives that he had treated Prince on two occasions - April 7 and 20 of previous year.

Andrew Kornfeld had arrived at the property with Prince's friend and head of security, Kirk Johnson, and Prince's assistant, Meron Bekure, when Prince's body was discovered.

The documents also say some of the drugs in Prince's bedroom were in a suitcase with the name "Peter Bravestrong" on it. Police believe Bravestrong was an alias that Prince used when he traveled. That name was on a luggage tag during his trip to Atlanta to perform in concert the week before his death. An autopsy showed Prince died of an overdose of fentanyl, another drug in the opioid family.

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We now know this because search warrants for his home, released by Minnesota authorities, show the Artist's drug problem was huge.

Prince didn't use a cellphone ... apparently because he was once hacked and didn't trust it. Investigators searched those accounts.

According to search warrants unsealed Monday, authorities searched Paisley Park, cellphone records of Prince's associates, and Prince's emails to try to determine where he got the fentanyl that killed him. He and five others were searching for Prince when Kornfeld said he heard a scream. Hill also told investigators she and the singer were involved in a romantic relationship since the fall of 2014. She said she communicated with Prince through an email account set up under the name of one of Prince's former managers, Julia Ramadan.

Almost a year after Prince died from an accidental drug overdose in his suburban Minneapolis studio and estate, investigators still don't know how he got the fentanyl that killed him.

The documents said Prince did not have any prescriptions, including for fentanyl.

The documents show Prince was struggling with an addiction to prescription opioids.

Some of the bottles were labelled Aleve and Bayer - common over-the-counter medications - but contained pills marked "Watson 853", the opioid painkiller acetaminophen-hydrocodone.

The Star Tribune reported past year that some of those pills later tested for synthetic fentanyl. He was also one of the few people with untrammeled access to Paisley Park, where "there was a sizable amount of narcotic medications located inside Paisley Park ... in various pill containers throughout the residence", one warrant stated.

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