Priscilla Presley The former business partners accused them of withdrawing their daughter Lisa Marie Presley's life -saving medication in order to obtain control of the family name, according to a bomb shell action.
The 80-year-old former wife of Elvis Presley wanted to “ultimately” control “the trust and Graceland of her daughter of the lawsuit, which was received by the lawsuit The independent. Priscilla Presley's lawyer described the complaint as a “malignant character murder”.
Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, the head of Priscilla Presley Partners, sue them for breach of contract and fraud. You are looking for at least $ 50 million.
Lisa Marie Presley was hospitalized in 2023 after a cardiac arrest. She died in January 2023 at the age of 54.
Her mother was aware that she was preparing to remove her as the only head of her trust and “pulled the plug into the hospital within a few hours after the inclusion of Lisa,” the lawsuit said.
Priscilla Presley is sued by her former business partners, the Elvis' ex-wife accused of taking over the life preservation of her daughter in order to get control of the family name and the estate in a lawsuit of $ 50 million
“Priscilla knew that Lisa's death has neutralized the risk of Lisa's efforts to remove Priscilla as the sole trustee of the irrevocable life insurance crossing of Lisa, and Priscilla ultimately wanted to control the promenade -trust and Graceeland,” it says in the registration. “Priscilla exclaimed in her house the following week: 'I am the queen. I am responsible for Graceland.'”
Marty Singer, Presley's lawyer, incorporated the lawsuit as “without merit”.
“This is undoubtedly one of the most shameful, ridiculous, complainful and merit -free complaints that I have seen in my practice. This is nothing more than a sad and malignant attempt to mistakenly cloud the reputation of an eighty -year -old woman in a blurry retribution in order to mistake the illegal behavior of Brigitten, Kruse, Kruse, Kruse, Kebuse, Kevin Co-co-co-co-co-counte, and the co-co-co-co-counte crown, kevin-favin-and-ihre co-co-co-co-lspirators.
“To accuse a grieving mother of having contributed to the death of her daughter is not an accomplished attorney. It is a malicious murder of characters and should be largely convicted. These invented claims are absolutely no validity and we are confident that this is rejected,” continued Singer.
Priscilla and Elvis divorce in 1973. The lawsuit claim that the divorce agreement determines that it should stop the surname 'Presley' and was not mentioned in the will of the deceased singer.
When Lisa Marie came to her inheritance in 1993, Elvis' estate had a value of around 100 million US dollars, the submission said.
Lisa Marie was the only legacy of her father's Memphis. After her death, Priscilla filed a petition that questioned a change in the 2016 Trust, which she had removed as a trustee and instead two children listened by Lisa Marie's children, actress, actress, and Benjamin Keough, who, in 2020, as co-trauwes Starb-Als Cotrautea, the lawsuit said.
Riley Keough, the star of Daisy Jones and the six, has been acted as the sole trustee of the estate since August 2023.
The mother and daughter had a “turbulent and weak” relationship, which was shown by Lisa Marie, who refused to go on the red carpet or sit on the Golden Globes with her mother to celebrate the nominations for the film “Elvis” in 2022. At that time, Lisa Marie “threatened to sue Priscilla because of the confidence dispute.
Kruse and Fialko “worked together with Priscilla's publicists to hold the family together, and sat together, the couple sat together during the award ceremony, who only occurred for two days, Lisa Marie died, the suit says.
Priscilla Presley (R) and her daughter Lisa Marie Presley (L). Lisa Marie died in 2023 after cardiac arrest (AFP via Getty Images)
The authorities did not claim misconduct in Lisa Marie's death. The La County Medical Examiner's autopsy report found that she had died of complications from the operation.
“The obstruction was in the form of a strangled small intestine caused by adhesions that developed after years ago after years ago after a bariatric operation,” says the autopsy report. “This is a well -known long -term complication of this type of operation.”
Lisa Maries Advanced Care Directive instructions said that she wanted her life to be “extended as long as possible within the borders of generally recognized health standards” – but Priscilla did not stick to her wishes, the submission said.
Riley Keough was then appointed sole trustee. Priscilla then questioned the change that she had removed as a trustee in a later matter.
In the name of Presley, Kruse and Fialko recorded a contract with Keough, which gave the grandmother a payout of $ 2.4 million and “a seven-digit deal for Priscilla's son Navarone”, the complaint says.
“The evidence will prove that the real victims are my customers here, who have invested millions and hard work in the revival of the Priscilla Presley brand, just to betray and be incorrectly accused as soon as the money was on the table, and every personal and business problem has been solved,” said Jordan Matthews, a lawyer for Kruse and Fialko, said in one explanation.
The complaint this week marks the latest in an ongoing legal dispute between the former business partners.
In a lawsuit from 2023, Kruse claimed that Priscilla suddenly “broke off all communication” after Kruse had helped Priscilla Advertising board.
In July in July, Priscilla Kruse, Fialko and two other business partners sued them and accused the older abuse and fraud. The group “carefully planned” a program to “let it down from every last penny”, claimed her lawyer at that time.
From family feuds to “fraudulent” claims for damages, the future of Graceland has been a point of dispute for years (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press.
The future of Graceland has been a point of dispute for years.
The King of Rock 'N Roll bought the Memphis Estate in 1957. More than six decades later, the fate of the estate is fighting.
Almost a year after the legal dispute between Priscilla and her granddaughter, there was a foreclosure auction on the estate.
In a public announcement for a foreclosure sale of the 13-hectare estate in Memphis, which was published in May 2024, the Trust owed $ 3.8 million after a loan from 2018 was not paid back. Keough then submitted a lawsuit in which he claimedThe enforcement was “fraudulent” And submitted a lawsuit to stop it. A judge blocked the efforts to advance the enforcement sale later this month.
In August 2024, the federal authorities Lisa Jeanine Findley commissioned a program to defraud the Presley family.
She mistakenly claimed that Lisa Marie had “promised the historical landmark as security for a loan that she could not repay before her death,” said the deputy attorney in General Nicole M. Argentieri in a statement at that time. “As part of the brazen program, we claim that the defendant created numerous false documents and tried to blackmail the Presley family. Now it is being exposed to federal fees.”