Search warrants unsealed Monday by investigators looking into Prince's overdose death almost a year ago said that Dr. Michael Schulenberg prescribed opioids to Prince but put them in the name of Prince confidante Kirk Johnson. When pressed in a recent CBS interview to talk about Prince's final days, Johnson pointed to his head and said: "Kirk has a vault".
Johnson told authorities that he was unaware that Prince had an addiction to painkillers, but according to the search warrant, investigators were told by witnesses that the singer "recently had a history of going through withdrawals which are believed to be the result of abuse of prescription medication".
One affidavit reveals that Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg told authorities he prescribed oxycodone to Kirk Johnson, Prince's longtime friend and estate manager, "for Prince's privacy".
An autopsy found Prince died of fentanyl.
No one has been charged in connection with Prince's death, but authorities said that it's still an open and active investigation. On Friday (April 21), it will be the one-year anniversary of Prince's untimely death.
Prince did not have a cellphone, and authorities searched multiple email accounts that belonged to him, as they tried to determine who he was communicating with and where he got the drugs that killed him, according to the search warrants.
A search warrant filed in the investigation of pop superstar Prince's death says the singer routinely got vitamin B12 injections so he could "feel better" before performances. However, the medications were not prescribed to the musician under his own name. Some were in prescription bottles for Johnson.
The revelation gives more insight into what may have caused Prince's overdose.
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Prescription medications written to Johnson and dated April 7, 2016 were found in a suitcase with the name tag of "Peter Bravestrong, ' which singer and friend Judith Hill confirmed to investigators was an alias Prince would use while traveling".
Prince was found unresponsive in a lift at his complex.
They don't reveal answers, but do shed light on Prince's struggle with addiction to prescription opioids in the days before he died. Some pills in other bottles were marked "Watson 853", a label used for a drug that is a mix of acetaminophen and hydrocodone, another opioid painkiller.
Authorities said Prince's laptop was not taken during an initial warrant but it became clear later in the investigation that items on it would be significant when they discovered he did not communicate by cell phone, but instead used email and the hard phone line at Paisley Park, extensively.
Another revelation from the paperwork is the sheer amount of opioids Prince was taking at the time.
She also writes of the couple's devastation after their first child died soon after birth and recounts noticing that her "Vicodin kept disappearing".
And the former attorney for two of Prince's dead siblings says they had revealed Prince had an addiction to Percocet decades ago.
Check this out. In a side note, it was also discovered that, because he was once hacked and didn't trust them, Prince didn't use a cellphone.
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