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A Las Vegas coroner has determined that B.B. King died of natural causes and showed no signs of poisoning at the time of his death on May 14. Rolling Stone reports that Clark Country coroner John Fudenberg told the publication that Alzheimer’s disease “was the ‘primary contributing factor’ in the musician’s death, with type 2 diabetes, coronary artery atherosclerosis, congestive heart failure, hypertension and cerebral vascular disease acting as ‘significant contributing factors.’”

In the days after King’s death, two of the blues legend’s daughters alleged that their father’s manager LaVerne Torey and longtime assistant Myron Johnson were giving King him an unknown substance in the weeks before he died. The pair—Patty King and Karen Williams—said in court documents, “I believe my father was poisoned and that he was administered foreign substances. I believe my father was murdered.” The coroner’s findings contradict those claims.

While lawyers for King’s daughters have not yet commented on the situation, Brent Bryson, lawyer for the B.B. King estate, released a statements that reads, ““As expected, the autopsy report confirms that Mr. King died as a result of natural causes, and not as the result of poisoning or other wrongful conduct by Louise LaVerne Toney, Myron Johnson or anyone else. Both Ms. Toney and Mr. Johnson are happy that the spurious and disparaging allegations made by certain of Mr. King’s children against them, have been dispelled. Perhaps we can now focus on the body of musical work Mr. King left the world and stop the ‘witch hunt’ so that Mr. King may now finally rest in peace.”