Prince spent his final months in Minnesota battling crippling pain, alarming memory lapses and a spiralling prescription drug problem before his fatal fentanyl overdose in April 2016, according to new claims from members of his inner circle who now question how, and why, the music icon really died.
The official account of Prince's death has never shifted. Investigators in Minnesota ruled that the 57‑year‑old star, found unresponsive in a lift at his Paisley Park estate on 21 April 2016, died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, apparently after taking counterfeit painkillers laced with the powerful synthetic opioid. No criminal charges followed, and authorities concluded he likely did not know how strong the drugs were.
