Sylvester Stallone has hired Hollywood private detective Scott Ross to look into the death of his son Sage Moonblood.
Ross has worked on high profile entertainment cases before — including the Michael Jackson molestation case, and Chris Brown-Rihanna battery case — according to TMZ. The site reports that Ross met Tuesday at Stallone’s home with the “Expendables” star, his brother Frank and an official from the L.A. County Coroner’s Office.
Sage Stallone was found in his Studio City apartment Friday, and toxicology reports are pending following an autopsy.
Page Six exclusively reported today that sources close to the case say Sage’s apartment was found strewn with more than 50 bottles of a generic form of Vicodin, which could hold 500 pills each, as well as packets of white powder. But that the bottles were mysteriously mostly empty.
A source close to the investigation further told Page Six of the bottles at Sage’s home, “These were the kind of bottles a pharmacy gets… They don’t know how he had so many bottles of it. They were various strengths of hydrocodone. The strange thing is that, for the most part, the bottles were empty.”
Sources tell TMZ that Stallone, his family, and private eye Ross, met to discuss the status of the investigation. The Web site says that the “Rocky” star wants to know about Sage’s final weeks, and “whether he was using drugs or consuming alcohol.”