UPDATE:
Two of B.B. King’s daughters, Karen Williams and Patty King, have alleged their father was poisoned by his caregivers. The attorney for King’s estate is calling these claims ‘ridiculous’.
“I believe my father was poisoned and that he was administered foreign substances,” said King and Williams, in separate, but identically worded statements. “I believe my father was murdered.”
Three doctors have determined King was appropriately cared for during his last few weeks, "up until the time that he peacefully passed away in his sleep," attorney Brent Bryson told the AP on Monday.
King's daughters allege family members were prevented from seeing the Blues legend in the days leading to his death and their father's business partner, LaVerne Toney, who worked for King for 39 years, and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, played a part in his death.
"They've been making allegations all along. What's new?" said Toney, who has been named executor of an estate in King's will.
Allegations against Toney and Johnson were happening long before King's death.
A a petition lodged on April 29 claimed that Toney had blocked King's friends from visiting him and had put her family members on King's payroll, with 'large sums of money' disappearing from King's bank accounts, the ABC reported.
