Priscilla Presley is calling out suspicious minds amid her lawful struggle for management of Lisa Marie Presley’s belief.
The 77-year-previous, who is the ex-spouse of music legend Elvis Presley, lately submitted a petition questioning the validity of their late daughter’s will. In the court docket filings formerly received by E! Information, Priscilla Presley claimed there were being “difficulties bordering the authenticity and validity” of a 2016 modification to the will that handed her preliminary position of co-trustee to Lisa Marie Presley’s two oldest young ones: Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020.
Now, in a statement to E! Information, Priscilla Presley seemingly touched on the legal drama. “I cherished Elvis extremely a lot as he loved me. Lisa is a end result of our like,” she began. “For any individual to feel anything in a different way would be a travesty of the loved ones legacy and would be disrespectful of what Elvis left behind in his everyday living.”
Urging the general public to “overlook ‘the sound,'” Priscilla Presley additional, “As I have always been there for Elvis’ legacy, our family members and the fans, I will continue to forge a pathway forward with respect, honesty, dignity, integrity and enjoy.”
Lisa Marie Presley—who passed absent on Jan. 15 at the age of 54—inherited Elvis Presley’s estate on her 25th birthday in 1993, just about 16 decades immediately after the death of her father. The rely on included ownership of Graceland, the Memphis, Tenn., property where Elvis Presley and other customers of his family members are buried.
According to Priscilla Presley’s petition, she and previous small business manager Barry Siegel were supplied the title of co-trustees in a dwelling will Lisa Marie Presley wrote in 1993 and amended in 2010. Having said that, upon the singer’s latest loss of life, Priscilla Presley discovered that a 2016 modification to the will experienced been designed, which changed her and Barry Siegel with Riley Keough, 33, and her brother as co-trustees.
Priscilla’s petition contested the validity of the amendment, noting how Lisa Marie “misspells her mother’s name” in the document and that her handwriting “appears inconsistent with her regular and customary signature.” The petition also said Priscilla never ever been given a copy of the 2016 modification when Lisa Marie was nevertheless alive, as it is “demanded by the specific terms of the Have faith in,” and asked for that the document be considered “invalid.”
E! News has arrived at out to Riley Keough and Barry Siegel’s reps for comment but has not read back.
