The pop icon Prince may have been dead at least six hours before authorities responded to his home and found his body, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The newspaper’s lengthy report said the information came from paramedics on the scene who relayed it to other law enforcement officers.
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Since Prince’s death last month, at the age of 57, a series of reports have detailed his drug use. The report, citing sources, detailed how those around tried to get him help, but ultimately, those efforts failed. For example, Prince’s staff reached out to a physician to help treat him for an addiction to prescription pain mediation, the newspaper reported.
On April 15, on his way back to his Minnesota home following a concert in Atlanta, Prince’s plane made an emergency stop in Illinois. The singer was found unconscious and given a drug used to combat