MINNEAPOLIS (KRON) – The day before Prince died, his team called an eminent opioid addiction specialist in Mill Valley seeking help with “a grave medical emergency,” according to CNN.
A Minneapolis lawyer for the Mill Valley doctor says neither the doctor nor the doctor’s son met or spoke with Prince before the music legend’s death last month.
William Mauzy told reporters Wednesday that representatives of Prince reached out to Dr. Howard Kornfeld the day before Prince died and that Kornfeld sent his son, Andrew Kornfeld, to meet with Prince because the doctor couldn’t immediately fly to Minnesota.
Mauzy said Kornfeld also called a Minnesota doctor to check Prince, and the doctor had cleared his morning schedule for Prince the day of his death. He refused to identify the doctor
The lawyer says Andrew Kornfeld went to Prince’s suburban Minneapolis estate the morning of his death and was one of three people who found Prince’s unresponsive body in an elevator there. He confirmed a Minneapolis Star Tribune report that Andrew Kornfeld was the one who called 911.
“The plan was to quickly evaluate his health and devise a treatment plan,” the Star Tribune quoted Mauzy as saying, adding the elder Kornfeld was “planning on a lifesaving mission.”
Investigators also believe a health scare about a week before Prince’s death, which caused an unscheduled landing of his plane in Illinois, was likely the result of a reaction to the pain medication, a law enforcement source said.
Results of an April 22 autopsy are still pending.This report was compiled from The Associated Press and CNN copy.
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