Fake pills in death of Prince?
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INVESTIGATORS looking into pop legend Prince’s death believe that counterfeit pills may have killed him, a report said yesterday.
The Star Tribune, the daily newspaper in Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis, said that authorities turned to the theory after seizing pills from Prince’s Paisley Park estate.
The confiscated pills were marked as hydrocodone, a commonly prescribed drug for moderate pain relief, but in fact contained fentanyl, an intensely powerful painkiller for which Prince had no prescription.
An autopsy earlier found that Prince died on April 21 from an accidental overdose of fentanyl but did not address how he got the drug.
The Star Tribune, which quoted an anonymous source, said that investigators were “leaning toward the theory that he took the pills not knowing they contained the drug.”
Prince was found dead in his Paisley Park estate just as he prepared to discuss treatment with a California expert in painkiller addiction.
The 57-year-old “Purple Rain” star was outwardly a model of health who was known to be conscientious in his food choices and critical of musicians who abused drugs.
But Prince was private about his personal life and was believed to be quietly in pain from a hip operation.
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