Entertainment:Prince death: Addiction specialist was called by singer's team

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Prince's team requested emergency support from a leading

addiction specialist just a day before the singer died, the

doctor's lawyer has revealed.

The specialist, Dr Howard Kornfeld, was unable to make it

from California to Minnesota immediately but sent his son.

In a strange turn of events, it was his son, Andrew Kornfeld,

who called police after joining Prince's staff to search for

the missing singer.

The Kornfelds' lawyer said neither had met Prince before his

death.

William Mauzy told reporters on Wednesday that Prince's

team contacted Dr Howard Kornfeld on 20 April, the day

before Prince died.Unable to make it to Minnesota, the doctor dispatched his

son and called a local doctor, who cleared his morning

schedule but never saw the singer.

Emergency call

When Andrew Kornfeld, who works with his father but is not

a doctor, arrived at Prince's Paisley Park home, he was told

that the singer was missing. He joined members of staff to

search the property and made the emergency call when

Prince's unresponsive body was found.

Mr Mauzy said the plan was to stabilise him in Minnesota,

before flying him to California to seek treatment at Dr

Kornfeld's Recovery Without Walls rehab centre in Mill

Valley.

The lawyer confirmed that Andrew Kornfeld had been

interviewed by police, but was protected by Minnesota's

Good Samaritan law. The law offers some legal protections

to those who make emergency calls, to encourage them to

do so.

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No details have been released from Prince's autopsy exam,

but investigators are looking into whether he died from an

overdose and if a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the

weeks before his death.

They are also trying to establish whether a doctor was on

the singer's plane when it made an emergency landing less

than a week before he died.

The musician was found unconscious on the plane after it

stopped in Moline, Illinois, on 15 April. Detectives

investigating his death have asked to see fire and

ambulance records related to the emergency landing.

It emerged on Wednesday that emergency calls were made

from the Paisley Park complex 46 times in the past five

years.

A log released by Minnesota authorities showed the 911

calls related to everything from medical emergencies to

false fire alarms.

It included one call in 2011 in which an unidentified woman

said she was concerned about Prince's cocaine use, but no

police action was taken.

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