Priscilla Presley Former business partners have filed a lawsuit in which more than 50 million dollars have been sought for damages that have submitted fraud and breach of contract.
Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko submitted the lawsuit before the Supreme Court of Los Angeles on Monday. Under many other allegations, they say that Presley used them to take advantage of their names, their image and their similarity, and hid the fact that they had sold these rights decades ago.
The lawsuit is a little more than a year after Presley, the 80-year-old former wife of Elvis PresleySmoked Kruse and Fialko, who claimed that they had older abuse in an “meticulously planned and hideous scheme” to arrange for an older woman by gaining her trust, isolating her from the most important people in her life and causing her to take care that she (personally and financially) took care of her. “
In a statement on Wednesday, Kruse and Fialko's lawyer Jordan Matthews said that the real victims here are my customers who have invested millions of work in the revival of Priscilla Presley for years, only to be cheated and incorrectly accused when the money was on the table and that every personal and business problem was incorrectly dissolved. “
An e -mail that was looking for a comment from Presley's lawyer was not answered immediately.
According to Kruse and Fialko's lawsuit, Kruse is a well -known auctioneer and Fialko, a successful entrepreneur who was both treated in Elvis Presley Memorabilia. The duo previously sued Priscilla Presley in Florida.
They say that in 2021 they have turned to her to seek help to save her from financial ruins where you worked for thousands of hours.
“Kruse and Fialko used IP, know-how and creative marketing to improve Priscilla's brand,” said the lawsuit and formed several companies to take advantage of their names, image and their resemblance.
But they say how this happened, Presley hid that she had sold the rights to licensing her name as part of a 6.5 million dollar contract with Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2005.
The lawsuit states that Presley, when she was confronted with the previous agreement, repeated it, and later said she forgot her when she was confronted with evidence.
The lawsuit also claims that Presley has tried to take advantage of the death of her daughter and Elvis Presley's legacy of 2023. Lisa Marie PresleyTo get worse and a share in the property of Elvis.
Priscilla and Elvis Presley were married from 1967 to 1973 and divorced the Rock'n'roll legend four years before the death.
Say Kruse and Fialko Riley KeoughPriscilla Presley 2.4 million US dollars.
In the lawsuit, however, it is said that shortly afterwards she concluded it due to violations of contracts, smeared them publicly and later sued them.
Priscilla Presley's lawsuit says that Kruse and Fialko were fraudulently convinced that they were of essential importance for them for their financial recovery and that their former trustworthy consultants had cheated on them.
It was said that they had forced them to participate in false companies, to have lost control of their names, their image and their resemblance, and forced them to form a form of an indication of the Individual Services.
“As the accused isolated them and immersed them in every aspect of their lives, they were able to arrange Presley fraudulently to give them the power of the lawyer, the control of their family and their personal trusts and control over their bank accounts,” the lawsuit said.
Priscilla became a great public personality when she was a teenager because she is related to one of the most famous men in the world.
She has never left the public eye, but it has decreased in recent years due to a special meaning BAZ Luhrmanns 2022 film “Elvis” And Sofia Coppolas 2023 film “Priscilla”, “ Based on their memoirs.
She is also an actor who played the main role in the original “Naked weapon” Franchise in the 1980s and 1990s and she had a cameo in the new restart.