Two of the daughters of blues legend B.B. King have reportedly accused two of their father's close aides of poisoning him.
The blues legend died on May 14 at age 89. He had announced earlier that month that he was entering hospice care at his Las Vegas home.
King's attorney Brent Bryson told the Associated Press that the musician had died in his sleep.
However, on Monday the AP received documents in which two of King's daughters, Patty King and Karen Williams, claim their father was poisoned.
"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 say.
The women accuse their father's business manager, LaVerne Toney, and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, of killing him. Neither woman would comment on her allegations to the AP.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to the AP on Monday that homicide detectives are looking into King's death.
But on Tuesday, the department told BuzzFeed News "our homicide lieutenant was misquoted Monday by the Associated Press. Until such time as the Clark County Coroner determines Mr. King's death to be from other than natural causes, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is NOT moving forward with any investigation."
Bryson called the claims "ridiculous" and said there was no active homicide investigation.
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 AP on Monday.
And the Clark County coroner, John Fudenberg, on Tuesday told CNN early results found "no evidence to substantiate the allegations." Full results to take six to eight weeks.
Some of King's 15 children had previously complained about Toney's actions regarding their father in his final days.
Toney had power of attorney over King for years, KLAS-TV reported.
One of the musician's children, Shirley King, accused Toney of barring her and some of her siblings from seeing their father before he died.
"Just getting through this day is killing me," she told KLAS-TV. "Why would she not let me see my daddy before he leaves this Earth?"
Some of King's children attempted to get Toney's power of attorney taken away before he died, but their request was tossed out by a judge, according to KLAS-TV.
An autopsy was performed on King's body on Sunday, the AP reported.
Two memorials for the singer are scheduled for this week in Memphis, Tennessee, and Indianola, Mississippi.