B.B. King's family alleges he was poisoned; police deny murder investigation

Las Vegas police are disputing claims by family members of blues legend BB King that they have launched a homicide investigation into his death.

Two B.B. King heirs accused his two closest aides of poisoning him, but the attorney for King's estate called the claims ridiculous.

Three doctors determined that King was appropriately cared-for, and King received 24-hour care and monitoring by medical professionals "up until the time that he peacefully passed away in his sleep," attorney Brent Bryson told the Associated Press.

Daughters Karen Williams and Patty King alleged that family members were prevented from visiting while King's business manager, LaVerne Toney, and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, hastened their father's death.

"I believe my father was poisoned and that he was administered foreign substances," Patty King and Williams say in identically worded sections of affidavits provided to The Associated Press by their lawyer, Larissa Drohobyczer.

"I believe my father was murdered," they said.