The lawyer in charge of the heritage of B.B. King called the accusations ridiculous two heirs of blues legend who said his father was poisoned, while police said there was a homicide investigation.
Doctors determined that King received appropriate care and was under 24-hour monitoring by medical professionals “to the time when he died peacefully in his sleep,” said attorney Brent Bryson Monday.
Daughters B.B. King Karen Williams and Patty King claim that several of his relatives were not allowed to see King while the manager, LaVerne Toney, and King’s personal assistant, Myron Johnson, precipitated the death of his father.
Toney was named executor in the will of King and, according to documents filed in court by lawyers for some of their heirs, the estate of the musician could amount to tens of millions of dollars.
Johnson was next to B.B. King when the blues died on May 14 while receiving palliative care in his home in Las Vegas. He was 89 at the time and no family around.
“I think my father was poisoned and he was given foreign substances,” said Patty King and Williams in identical statements provided by his lawyer, Larissa Drohobyczer.
“I think I killed my father,” they say.
Sunday was performed an autopsy on King. The results take up to eight weeks and would not be affected by the fact that King was embalmed, the coroner of Clark County, John Fudenberg said.
Fudenberg issued a statement Monday saying that so far there was no evidence supporting the murder charges and police Lt. Ray Steiber Las Vegas told the AP that has not opened a homicide investigation.
Toney and Johnson declined to comment on the accusations.
“I’ve always made statements. What it is the news?” Toney, who worked 39 years for King and had power of attorney over matters artist said.
A week before the death of King in Las Vegas judge rejected a request for Williams to take the guardianship of King.
There are scheduled for Wednesday and a funeral procession in Memphis, Tennessee, followed by a farewell on Friday and Saturday burial in his hometown, Indianola, Mississippi. Fudenberg said Monday that the investigation conducted by his office not delay those plans.
Bryson found that the allegations of the daughters are “extremely disrespectful” to King.
“I did not want aggressive medical procedures,” said the lawyer. “He took the decision to return home for treatment terminals instead of staying in the hospital. These unfounded allegations made that conduct an autopsy on Mr. King, not exactly what I wanted.”
Drohobyczer representing said Williams, Patty King and most of the nine surviving children of King and his heirs.
“The family is united … to remove Mrs. Toney for his illegal conduct, conflicts of interest and actions to be promoted,” he said. Toney said Drohobyczer precipitated the death of King for his “incorrect or not giving the necessary medical care behavior.”
A statement by Patty King, who used to live in the house of King, said that he saw Johnson King orally administered two drops of an unknown substance for several months before his death and that Toney never told what was that substance.
Bryson said Drohobyczer accusations are ridiculous.
“I hope they have real evidence to show its defamatory and slanderous accusations,” he said.
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