PROSECUTORS announced yesterday that no criminal charges would be brought in the drug death of music superstar Prince.

Carver County Attorney Mark Metz, from the musician’s home state of Minnesota, said they could not determine who gave him a stash of Vicodin painkillers laced with deadly opioid Fentanyl.

Prince was found dead in a lift at his Paisley Park mansion in April 2016 after overdosing on the powerful drug – which is up to 50 times stronger than heroin.

Dr Michael Todd Schulenberg has agreed to pay £21,000 for prescribing another pain killer – oxycodone – to the star in the name of his bodyguard to protect his “privacy”.

Schulenberg saw him twice before his death – including just 24 hours before he died.

As well as paying the sum to a civil violation case, the doctor has agreed to stricter requirements for logging and reporting his prescriptions of controlled substances for two years.

However, Mr Metz said there was no evidence to suggest that Schulenberg or the bodyguard, Kirk Johnson, had supplied the fake Vicodin pills which cost Prince his life.

The prosecutor said that evidence showed Prince did not realise he was taking Fentanyl and that his management team had tried to free him from his opioid dependency just before he died.

Purple Rain singer Prince was just 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive at his Paisley Park studio compound.

His death sparked an outpouring of grief throughout the world – as well as a two year investigation to try and establish who supplied him with the deadly pills.

An autopsy found Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl.

The US Attorney's Office is still investigating the death.

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