He was declared dead at 10:04 a.m. on April 21, 2016. After Prince’s reps made their urgent plea for help on April 20, Howard Kornfeld couldn’t immediately clear his schedule to fly to Minnesota on this “live-saving” mission.
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Working with his father but not actually a doctor by profession, Andrew Kornfeld arrived at the rock star’s Paisley Park home but was told that Prince had gone missing. “The doctor was planning on a lifesaving mission”. Mauzy did not detail the “grave medical emergency”. Andrew Kornfeld described as a pre-med student was among the first to discover Prince unresponsive on April 21 and he called 911.
Since the singer’s death, law enforcement officials in Minnesota have been looking at three possible areas of abuse: multiple doctors who over-prescribed medicine to the singer, aliases the singer and his doctors may have used, and multiple pharmacies that filled the prescriptions, TMZ reported.
Unfamiliar with Paisley Park, Andrew Kornfeld simply told the dispatcher, “We’re at Prince’s house”.
Neither Kornfeld was talking on Wednesday.
Though final results of an autopsy are still pending, a source familiar with the investigation reportedly told the local paper that it was unclear if the opioid contributed to Prince’s death. Kornfeld would have then arrived to help the following day.
Attorney Mauzy further said that the plan was to stabilize Prince in Minnesota before flying him to California for treatment. Instead he sent his son Andrew, who works with him in recovery at Without Walls clinic.
Developments are emerging along two tracks: cause of death and what to do with his vast estate.
Before we draw any conclusions from these new developments, it’s important to know that Prince’s cause of death is still debatable as the official reports aren’t out yet. “The hope was to get him [Prince] stabilised in Minnesota and convince him to come to Recovery Without Walls in Mill Valley”.
Howard Kornfeld spoke to The San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday but declined to discuss anything related to the singer.
Andrew Kornfeld is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studied neuroscience and psychology.
As KQED explains, the elder Kornfeld’s practice has been widely known for the use of buprenorphine as a replacement drug for those addicted to other opiates, because it is less risky and less possible to result in overdose.
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Buprenorphine is a long-acting opioid similar to methadone that is among “the most commonly prescribed medications for the treatment of opioid use disorders in the USA”, said Dr. Joshua Lee of New York University School of Medicine.
