A former personal aide to BB King is suing three of the late blues legend's daughters in Las Vegas over their allegations the guitarist was poisoned before he died in May.
Myron Johnson's civil lawsuit filed on Thursday in Clark County District Court accuses Karen Williams, Patty King and Rita Washington of seven causes of action including defamation, slander, libel and conspiracy.
Patty King declined to comment on Friday. Williams did not immediately respond to messages.
Washington said she had not seen the lawsuit but she thought it was a product of a dispute between Williams and Johnson, who are half siblings.
"We knew it was just going to be a mess as everything unfolds," Washington said.
Johnson, who isn't BB King's son, was employed by and travelled with the musician and King's longtime business agent, LaVerne Toney.
Johnson was at King's bedside when King died on May 14 in hospice care at home in Las Vegas at age 89.
The Clark County coroner said King died of natural causes attributable to age and a longtime battle with Type 2 diabetes.
Johnson's lawyer in the defamation case is Brent Bryson, who is also the lawyer for King's estate.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages greater than $10,000.
Using King's given name, it cites comments it says were made beginning in late 2014 that Johnson was "physically, emotionally and financially abusing Riley B King ... and murdering Mr. King."
Williams and Patty King made the same allegations against Toney in signed documents distributed by their lawyer, Larissa Drohobyczer, 10 days after BB King'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 what Drohobyczer called affidavits. "I believe my father was murdered."
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