Sinead O’Connor sued for £3.5million over Prince drug dealing claim…as it’s claimed he had powerful Percocet meds in his system
The singer has landed herself in hot water over her latest claims
SINEAD O’Connor is being sued for £3.5 million ($5m) by US comedian Arsenio
Hall after she accused him of supplying Prince with drugs.
The 49-year-old made the shock claims against Arsenio - best known for
co-starring in Eddie Murphy hit Coming To America - in a Facebook rant
earlier this week.
Arsenio – who is well-loved thanks for his late night TV show in the 80’s –
has blasted her allegations as “despicable, fabricated lies”.
He has estimated the damage her claims could cost his career is worth at least
£3.5 million.
The lawsuit, filed in LA yesterday, states: "Desperate, attention seeker
Sinead O'Connor has maliciously published outlandish defamatory lies about
comedian Arsenio Hall, falsely accusing him of supplying illegal 'hard
drugs' 'over the decades' to the recently deceased music artist, Prince, and
of spiking her with drugs once years ago."
In a brutal rant earlier this week Sinead she also claimed the funnyman tried
to spike her drink at a Hollywood party.
She wrote, “Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs
over the decades: Arsenio Hall (AKA Prince’s and Eddie Murphy’s bitch).
"Anyone imagining prince was not a long time hard drug user is living in
cloud cuckoo land.”
Speaking directly to the former US TV host, she said, “Arsenio I’ve reported
you to the Carver County Sheriff’s office. Expect their call.”
At the time Arsenio reached out to US mag People via his representatives, to
deny Sinead’s claims, saying they are “absolutely false, ridiculous and
absurd.”
Meanwhile it has been revealed that the painkiller Percocet was found in
Prince’s system when he died.
The Purple Rain singer's autopsy has reportedly discovered the late
legendary singer had the highly-addictive drug, which contains acetaminophen
and oxycodone, in his body when he was found dead at his Paisley Park estate
in Minnesota on April 21, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune
newspaper.
However, it's not yet known if the drug, which he was believed to be on to
help cope with his chronic hip pain, caused his death.
The claims come just a few hours after it was revealed Prince had tragically
died the day before he was due to meet with a doctor about his addiction to
painkillers.
The 57-year-old musician's representatives called Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a
national authority on opioid addiction treatment, on April 20 and asked him
to go to Prince's home in Minneapolis because they were "dealing with a
grave medical emergency".
While Howard could not travel from California immediately, he sent his son
Andrew to go ahead and speak to Prince about his problem before he flew out
the following day.
However, when Andrew arrived at Prince's estate on April 21, he was nowhere to
be found and he and two of the star's employees eventually found him
unresponsive in an elevator.
Meanwhile, the week before his death, the singer was rushed to hospital in
Moline, Illinois, for a "save shot", which is administered to
counteract the effects of opiates, after being taken seriously ill on his
private jet on the way back from a gig in Atlanta.
The investigation into his death is still ongoing and now the federal
authorities have jumped onboard the case to help determine whether Prince
died from an overdose and, if so, who administered him the drugs in the
first place.