Court documents unsealed on Monday in the investigation into Prince's death suggest a doctor and a close friend helped him improperly obtain prescription opioid painkillers, but they shed no new light on how the pop superstar got the fentanyl that killed him.
The warrants, which were unsealed today and are from last spring and summer, were carried out by police after Prince's death nearly a year ago, on April 21, 2016. Schulenberg has an active medical license and is now practicing family medicine in Minnesota. Some were in prescription bottles for Johnson.
Lyrics for the song, "U Got the Look", were also found in that suitcase, written in Prince's handwriting.
A search of Prince's home yielded numerous pills in various containers.
Prince was 57 at the time of his death. The documents state he would use this email, under his former manager's name, as his own, so people didn't know it was him - in case it was hacked. First responders revived him with two doses of a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
August 2016: Pills marked as hydrocodone that were seized from Paisley Park after Prince's death are found to contain fentanyl, indicating that they were counterfeits, a source with knowledge of the investigation tells the Star Tribune.
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The documents, which were released on Monday (April 17), revealed that investigators found several white pills labeled "Watson 853" (hydrocodone-acetaminophen) in various bottles inside the Purple One's home. Meanwhile, Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg, a family practitioner who is treating Prince to help him withdraw from his opioid addiction, sees him on this date, according to a search warrant.
Investigators spoke with one of Prince's previous bodyguards who said the singer was very untrusting of cell phones, after his cell phone was hacked and his personal information was stolen. Schulenberg was named in previous warrants and was present when Prince's body was discovered. Kornfeld rushed his son to bring buprenorphine, an opioid addiction treatment, to Paisley Park, with the approval of an unidentified doctor. Andrew Kornfeld was the person who called 911, Mauzy said.
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.
The search warrants also indicate that investigators believe the music super star had a history of going through withdrawal symptoms as a result of prescription medication abuse.
The documents 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.
Investigators have said little publicly about the case over the previous year, other than it is active. Doug Glass contributed from Minneapolis.
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