The battle over B.B. King’s affairs continues to get complicated as two of the late blues icon’s children accuse King’s closest aides of poisoning him.
In documents lawyers for Karen Williams and Patty King provided to The Associated Press, the women allege that King’s business manager LaVerne Toney, and her personal assistant, Myron Johnson, killed their father.
In an interview with TheWrap.com the King children’s lawyer Larissa Drohobyczer revealed that the family gave her evidence drafted in affidavits to the court that are sufficient to open an investigation in to the music legend’s death.
Drohobyczer stated that she was elected to speak on behalf of the entire King family in light of the entertainer being survived by “so many living children and grandchildren.”
“[The children] said he was poisoned or his cause of death was attributed to LaVerne Toney’s lack of attention to his medical care,” Drohobyczer told TheWrap.
The King family’s beef with Toney has been going on prior to King’s death as the family lost a court battle to seize control of King’s affairs from Toney, who denies claims made by the family that she stole King’s money and neglected his medical care.
