Priscilla Presley fires again at claims she pulled daughter’s life help as she’s sued for $50 million
Priscilla Presley has responded to a lawsuit which has accused her of pulling the plug on her daughter’s life help prematurely.
The ex-actress was slapped with the bombshell $50 million lawsuit, which claimed that she ‘in the end wished to regulate’ Lisa Marie’s belief on the Graceland property in Memphis, Tennessee.
Priscilla, 80, was married to Elvis Presley for six years, with court docket paperwork claiming that she wished energy over the household title, years on from the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s passing.
The authorized declare was filed in a Los Angeles superior court docket by her former enterprise companions in Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, who’re in search of not less than $50million in damages.
Kruse and Fialko head up Priscilla Presley Companions, and are suing on grounds of fraud and breach of contract.
The pair declare that Priscilla knew that her daughter Lisa Marie was the only real inheritor to the property, and that she ‘pulled the plug inside hours of Lisa being admitted’ into hospital following a cardiac arrest in January 2023.
She would describe her daughter as ‘essentially the most passionate robust and loving girl I’ve ever identified’.
The authorized declare although, states that Priscilla mentioned only a week after the loss of life: “I’m the queen. I’m in command of Graceland.”
It additionally detailed that she was imagined to cease utilizing the ‘Presley’ surname following her break up type Elvis in 1973.
Now, Priscilla’s crew have responded to the claims made in opposition to her.
Talking to the Day by day Mail, Priscilla’s legal professional Marty Singer acknowledged: “That is, undoubtedly, one of the shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless lawsuits I’ve seen in my observe.
“That is nothing greater than a tragic and harsh try to falsely tarnish the status of an eighty 12 months outdated girl in blatant retaliation for bringing a lawsuit to redress the wrongful conduct of Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their co-conspirators.
“Kruse and her co-conspirators at the moment are on their fourth totally different set of attorneys on this dispute, and this can be a disgusting publicity stunt by new counsel, as evidenced by the truth that the criticism and press launch had been despatched to the press earlier than the criticism was served,” he claimed.
He known as the lawsuit ‘malicious character assassination’ in relation to the accusation {that a} ‘grieving mom’ would contribute to her daughter’s loss of life.
Singer added: “Our consumer, Priscilla Presley filed a criticism over a 12 months in the past by which she alleges that she was the sufferer of a concerted effort by Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko (amongst others) to isolate her from her trusted advisors and dupe her into signing a collection of agreements by which Kruse contends she gave them a majority curiosity in Presley’s personal title, picture, and likeness, in perpetuity, and that purportedly required Presley to get their permission earlier than even accepting any provide of employment or in any other case.
“In an order on considered one of a collection of motions that Kruse filed (and misplaced, one after the opposite) in a determined effort to keep away from going through duty for her actions, the Courtroom discovered that, “if plaintiff’s allegations are true…it’s basic elder abuse,” he claimed.
Singer then talked about a lot of defeats they confronted in each California and Florida.
“It is not going to work. Additionally it is evident that Kruse, Fialko and her new 4th set of attorneys are usually not pleased with the rulings this previous 12 months by the choose dealing with the present case in opposition to Kruse and Fialko by going discussion board buying to attempt to go earlier than a unique choose,” he mentioned.
The assertion additionally claimed that Riley Keough stands by her grandmother ‘one hundred pc’.
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