Priscilla Presley's former enterprise companions have sensationally accused her of pulling her daughter Lisa Marie Presley's life-support in a bid to get management of her household identify, in keeping with a bombshell new lawsuit.
Lisa Marie, the daughter of Priscilla and late rock and roll legend Elvis Presley, died in Jan. 2023 after she went into cardiac arrest in her California house. She was 54.
Based on paperwork obtained by The Put up, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, the heads of Priscilla Presley Companions, declare the 80-year-old “finally wished to manage” her daughter's belief and Graceland — the enduring Memphis mansion that when belonged to the legendary crooner.
Kruse and Fialko are suing Priscilla, who was married to Elvis from 1967 to 1973, for breach of contract and fraud. They're looking for at the least $50 million.
Priscilla is accused of being conscious that Lisa Marie was getting ready to take away her as the only real head of her belief and “pulled the plug inside hours of Lisa being admitted” to the hospital.
“Priscilla knew that Lisa's loss of life neutralized the specter of Lisa's efforts to have Priscilla eliminated as the only real trustee of Lisa's irrevocable life insurance coverage belief, and Priscilla finally wished to manage the Promenade Belief and Graceland,” the lawsuit alleges.
“At her home the next week, Priscilla allegedly exclaimed, ‘I'm the queen. I'm answerable for Graceland.'”
In response, Priscilla's lawyer, Marty Singer, slammed the submitting as “probably the most shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless” lawsuits he had ever seen.
“That is nothing greater than a tragic and cruel try to falsely tarnish the popularity of an eighty-year-old girl in blatant retaliation for bringing a lawsuit to redress the wrongful conduct of Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their co-conspirators,” Singer instructed The Put up in a press release.
“Accusing a grieving mom of contributing to her daughter's loss of life will not be savvy advocacy; it's malicious character assassination, and needs to be broadly condemned. These fabricated claims have completely no validity and we're assured this case might be dismissed,” Singer added.
Final summer season, Priscilla filed a lawsuit claiming she was a sufferer of monetary abuse — alleging that Kruse, amongst others, took benefit her and stole $1 million.
After Priscilla and the “Hound Canine” crooner parted methods in 1973, the lawsuit claims “she was purported to cease utilizing the surname ‘Presley'” per the divorce settlement.
Years after Elvis' loss of life, Lisa Marie — his solely youngster — got here into her inheritance in 1993. The lawsuit notes that the property was valued at round $100 million on the time.
The swimsuit additional alleges that Priscilla filed a petition to problem a 2016 modification to the belief following Lisa Marie's loss of life.
On the time, the belief had eliminated Priscilla as a trustee and as a substitute listed Lisa Marie's daughter, Riley Keough, and son Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, as co-trustees.
In 2023, following her mom's premature loss of life, the “Daisy Jones and the Six” actress, 36, was granted sole possession of the property following a lengthy legal dispute with Priscilla.
Within the lead-up to her loss of life, Lisa Marie had a “tumultuous and tenuous” relationship together with her mother, with the legendary crooner's daughter even “threatening to sue” Priscilla over the belief dispute, Kruse and Fialko allege of their submitting.
The duo claims that they “labored to maintain the household collectively.”
An official post-mortem report famous that there was “no proof of damage or foul play” in her loss of life, including that the “method of loss of life is deemed pure.”
“The obstruction was within the type of a strangulated small bowel brought on by adhesions that developed after bariatric surgical procedure years in the past,” the LA County health worker mentioned on the time. “This can be a recognized long-term complication of the sort of surgical procedure.”
Kruse and Fialko additional alleged that Priscilla didn't adhere to her daughter's needs of getting her life “extended so long as potential inside the limits of usually accepted well being care requirements.”
Elsewhere within the submitting, the duo mentioned they brokered a cope with Keough on behalf of Priscilla. They mentioned the deal gave Priscilla a $2.4 million payout and “a seven-figure deal for Priscilla's son, Navarone.”
“The proof will set up that the true victims listed here are my shoppers, who invested tens of millions and years of exhausting work into revitalizing Priscilla Presley's model, solely to be betrayed and falsely accused as soon as the cash was on the desk and each private and enterprise problem had been resolved,” Jordan Matthews, an lawyer for Kruse and Fialko, mentioned in a press release.
The 54-year-old solely youngster of Elvis and Priscilla Presley died abruptly on Jan. 12, 2023, hours after she was hospitalized in important situation after reportedly struggling a cardiac arrest at her Calabasas house.
She was in an induced coma and on life help with a brief pacemaker.
Lisa Marie shared her daughter Riley, 36, and her late son Benjamin, with Danny Keough. She was married to Keough from 1988 to 1994.
The late singer shared her 16-year-old twins, Finley and Harper, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood. The pair have been married for a decade after tying the knot in 2006.
