Pale, gaunt and 'antsy' Prince is seen in his doctor's office a day before his death and his assistant is seen on multiple trips to Walgreens to collect pills in new videos of the pop legend's tragic final hours
- Prince was found dead inside his home on April 21 after overdosing on fentanyl
- Prosecutors said Thursday that no one would face charges over singer's death
- Don't know who supplied fentanyl pills, which were disguised as fake medication
- Also found no evidence Prince or entourage knew pills he had taken were fake
The footage was released on Thursday, the same day an official said no county, state or federal prosecutors had been able to determine who supplied the fentanyl pills - disguised under the brand name Vicodin - that caused the star's fatal overdose.
Carver County Attorney Mark Metz also said prosecutors had failed to find evidence Prince or his entourage knew the pills were counterfeits, or that anyone had conspired to kill him.
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This footage shows Prince visiting the office of Dr Michael Todd Schulenberg on April 20, one day before he died
Metz’s announcement came just hours after the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that a doctor who was accused of illegally prescribing an opioid for Prince agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a civil violation of a federal drug law.
Dr Michael Todd Schulenberg allegedly wrote a prescription for oxycodone in the name of Prince’s bodyguard, intending for the potent painkiller to go Prince.
That prescription took place a week before Prince’s death on April 21, 2016, and was not linked to it in any way, investigators.
Prince was seen on video entering Dr Schulenberg's clinic on April 20 where he complained of feeling 'antsy', before suggesting this was because he had stopped taking the non-opioid painkiller Tylenol that morning.
The video shows Prince looking gaunt and withdrawn as he follows an unidentified man down the hallway of the surgery.
The singer is dressed all in black, including a hooded top, and is accompanied by his assistant, who is assumed to be Kirk Johnson.
None of the three men appear to be talking as they walk through two plate-glass doors before disappearing down the corridor.
During his examination with Dr Schulenberg, Prince had a urine test which revealed there were opiates in his system, according to medical records seen by Dailymail.com. This led the doctor to suggest he could be suffering from opiate withdrawal.
The Carver County Sheriff's Department also released video taken at a nearby Walgreens, also on April 20, that shows Prince's assistant filling two prescriptions within hours
The Walgreens video, meanwhile, shows the singer's assistant entering the store at 5.45pm and 7pm and taking away medicines.
Prince, 57, is thought to have taken out prescriptions at several Walgreens stores a total of four times in the week leading up to his death.
Family members also claimed that on April 20 he passed at least eight other pharmacies before entering Walgreens, leading to suggestions he could have picked up multiple prescriptions and tried to hide the paper trail, TMZ reported.
Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio compound on April 21, 2016. His death sparked a national outpouring of grief and prompted a joint investigation by Carver County and federal authorities.
An autopsy found he died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin.
Images taken from inside his home by DEA investigators trying to find evidence of federal drug crimes showed the interior strewn with bottles containing various pills
It is not clear where Prince obtained the Fentanyl-laced pills that killed him. Pictured is a photo released by the medical examiner showing a pouch with the word 'opium' written on it
Images from inside Prince's Paisley Park estate showed how it was left after the singer's overdose
Dr Schulenberg (right) who prescribed Prince (left) opioid painkillers just before his death will pay a $30,000 fine
Metz said several pills were found at the Paisley Park complex after Prince died, and many of them were not in their original pharmaceutical containers.
Some of those pills were later determined to be counterfeit, and state and federal authorities have been investigating the source of the fentanyl for nearly two years.
Images taken by investigators and released on Thursday showed the interior strewn with bottles containing various pills.
Two dozen pills were contained within two bottles of CVS-branded Vitamin C tables inside a black suitcase.
One plastic bag contained three bottles, which were all marked with the Walgreens brand name.
Two of the bottles contained medicines that can be used to counter the symptoms of opiate withdrawal - hydroxyzine and clonidine.
These containers of pills were also found on the singer's vast estate where he died on April 21. They bore the name of Kirk Johnson, his assistant
One work surface was seen strewn with a white powder next to a spoon with a cherry balanced on the top
A bottle with a label reading 'Aspiring Regimen Bayer, safety coated' which was found inside Prince's house
Prince's body was recovered from outside the entrance to the elevator (pictured). Much of Prince's decor reflects his flair for the artistic - such as this yellow sun pattern, on a blue carpet
Officials also found a blue pencil case with the word 'opium' scrawled on the side in black marker pen.
One work surface was seen strewn with a white powder next to a spoon with a cherry balanced on the top.
Other photos show a bottle containing 10 pills with 'TV150' stamped on one side and '3' on another - suggesting it was an acetaminophen/codeine mixture.
But search warrants suggest these pills were actually from an unused prescription written for Johnson by a Minnesota dentist.
Johnson is not facing any charges over Prince's death. His attorney, F. Clayton Tyler, said he strongly denies any responsibility for the death of his friend.
Two dozen pills were contained within two bottles of CVS-branded Vitamin C tables inside a black suitcase
A plastic bag containing two unmarked blister packs of pills, and an assortment of other unidenitifed medication
Multiple medicine bottles found on a granite work surface in Prince's house, next to a bundle of dollar notes.
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