{"id":4391,"date":"2011-03-10T22:16:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2011-03-10T22:16:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:16:30","slug":"princes-brother-and-former-head-of-security-dead-at-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4391","title":{"rendered":"Prince&#8217;s Brother and Former Head of Security Dead at 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, <strong>Prince&#8217;s <\/strong>brother, and former head of security, <strong>Duane Nelson<\/strong> has died. While very little information is known regarding <strong>Nelson&#8217;s<\/strong> death,<strong> Prince&#8217;s<\/strong> drummer and longtime collaborator <strong>Sheila E<\/strong>. tweeted to confirm the unfortunate news that <strong>Nelson<\/strong> was found dead in his apartment on Sunday. He was 52.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duane Nelson<\/strong> was <strong>Prince&#8217;s<\/strong> older brother, although he graduated Minneapolis&#8217;s Central High School in 1976 &#8212; the same year as the eccentric singer. Both brothers played on the school&#8217;s basketball team, however<strong> Duane<\/strong> was said to be the more &#8220;athletically enthusiastic&#8221; of the two.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, <strong>Prince<\/strong> changed his name to a symbol, and <strong>Duane<\/strong> was appointed the head of his struggling Paisley Park company, recording studio and label, NPG Records. The cause and circumstances regarding his death are not yet known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Prince&#8217;s brother, and former head of security, Duane Nelson has died. While very little information is known regarding Nelson&#8217;s death, Prince&#8217;s drummer and longtime collaborator Sheila E. tweeted to confirm the unfortunate news that Nelson was found dead in his apartment on Sunday. He was 52. Duane Nelson was Prince&#8217;s older brother, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}