Priscilla Presley made strikes in court docket to get her palms on financial institution data she believes may show her monetary elder abuse allegations, Us Weekly can completely report.
On Wednesday, September 24, a listening to was held in Presley's lawsuit towards her former affiliate, Brigitte Kruse, and several other different third events.
The choose accepted Presley's request to subject a subpoena to a Missouri-based firm known as Clevenger Accounting.
The actress believes Kruse and others used Clevenger Accounting's service to “preserve and function the financial institution accounts utilized by defendants to gather and withhold important quantities of monies because of [Presley].”
Presley's attorneys said that the accounting agency had paperwork and data related to the claims within the pending lawsuit. She requested for all communications associated to her and any data about her belongings.
Priscilla Presley Michael Buckner/Selection through Getty Photographs
In her movement, Presley, 80, stated the data will doubtless help her claims of elder abuse, breach of contract, conversion and varied different claims.
Kruse's lawyer, Jordan Matthews, tells Us, “Our shoppers already offered these data beforehand and have been very clear. Beneath no circumstance did our shoppers withhold cash because of Presley. As an alternative, Presley had entry to the accounts and cash was distributed between every enterprise companion primarily based on agreements Presley knowingly entered into with an legal professional after months of negotiations.”
He added, “The court docket solely signed an order, issuing a fee for an out-of-state subpoena, which Presley's group wanted so as to get hold of data from an out-of-state third get together. That is an administrative activity, nothing extra, and the court docket signed the order, considerably as a result of we didn't oppose this administrative activity.”
As Us beforehand reported, Presley filed her lawsuit on July 1 in Los Angeles Superior Court docket. She requested the court docket to award her in extra of $1 million in damages towards Kruse, who she labeled a “con artist and pathological liar.”
Presley met Kruse, who was operating an public sale home promoting memorabilia associated to Presley's late husband, Elvis Presley, in 2021.
Priscilla Presley's former enterprise companions declare that she withdrew medical care from Lisa Marie Presley earlier than her daughter's loss of life. On Monday, August 11, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket alleging that Priscilla, 80, “pulled the plug inside hours of Lisa being admitted” to the hospital after struggling […]
In court docket paperwork, Presley claimed Kruse and others labored collectively to achieve management of her funds in an try to “drain each final penny she had.”
Her lawyer claimed the defendants remoted Presley from her longtime group and took 80 p.c of her earnings on sure offers. She accused Kruse of inflicting hurt to her relationship with necessary individuals like director Sofia Coppola, who directed the 2023 Priscilla primarily based on Presley's relationship with Elvis. As well as, Presley claimed Kruse and others took $120,000 of the $500,000 she was paid for the movie.
Presley claimed the associates transferred over $600,000 between late 2022 and mid-2023.
Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, Riley Keough, and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
As Us beforehand reported, Kruse denied all allegations of wrongdoing within the lawsuit. She claimed the lawsuit was in retaliation she introduced towards Presley in Florida over alleged cash owed.
“We're assured that the details will communicate for themselves and justice will prevail,” Kruse stated. “It saddens all of us who dropped our lives to supply help to a lady who wanted assist and he or she is now making an attempt to make use of her superstar standing to break the lives of variety, hardworking individuals. Thanks to all of our supporters who've stood by us throughout this troublesome time. We are going to proceed to deal with our enterprise and sit up for our day in court docket. The reality will come out by the use of proof and never rumors. There shall be no additional remark right now as we respect the judicial course of.”
Priscilla Presley obtained emotional after watching the biographical movie Priscilla, primarily based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me that she cowrote with Sandra Harmon. Presley, 78, was within the viewers in the course of the film's premiere displaying on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant premiere on Monday, September 4. Though not initially a part of the movie competition's press […]
In a declaration, Presley stated, “To today, I'm nonetheless at nighttime about the whole lot that Defendants did to me, what monies they collected from third events, what private bills they charged to the businesses they arrange, and/or what monies they paid themselves from the accounts of those corporations.”
“[Kruse] attests to her perception concerning the lots of of hundreds (if not thousands and thousands) of {dollars} in income that she anticipated the assorted entities to acknowledge sooner or later, however I'm fully unaware of the premise for this perception, provided that the one materials income that was really acquired was for transactions that I and/or my prior advisors negotiated (and never Kruse) earlier than [Kruse] gained management over my funds and arrange the sham entities,” Presley added.
Priscilla, who accused Kruse of being a “con artist and pathological liar,” demanded $1 million in damages. Kruse denied the claims. Each instances are ongoing.
