A month after a judge in Florida decided that Priscilla Presley’s allegations of 2024 had priority over a relative lawsuit of 2023 due to the breach of contract, expanding the former business partners who compete in both cases against Priscilla, Your legal dispute.
Allegation: Interference in life -prolonging measures
On Monday, the memorabilia dealer Brigitte Kruse and the investor Kevin Fialko in Beverly Hills filed a new lawsuit for fraud and breach of contract in the amount of $ 50 million against Presley. This lawsuit again takes up many of the same action points that were recently set up in Orlando. But the new lawsuit goes on. She raises the spectacular accusation that Priscilla accelerated the tragic death of her daughter Lisa Marie Presley in January 2023 for financial motives. Stan Lee’s former manager, Keya Morgan, is also added as a new co -accused. Because he supposedly hindered the partners’ contracts with Priscilla.
With regard to the most shocking new allegation, Lisa Marie’s living will hangs as evidence. In it, Lisa Marie had set her initials and two exclamation marks next to the line, in which she explained that her life should be extended “as long as possible in the context of generally recognized medical standards”. In the new lawsuit, Kruse and Fialko claim that Priscilla had hurried to the West Hills Hospital. And I took control of the treatment of her daughter when Lisa Marie suffered an intestinal obstruction in January 2023 due to a complication after a gastric west operation.
“Despite Lisa’s clear instructions to extend her life, Priscilla pulled the plug within a few hours after delivery. Even before her granddaughter Riley [Keough] The hospital, ”says the lawsuit. After that, Priscilla demanded that Kruse publish a media release about death. According to the lawsuit, Priscilla knew that Lisa’s death knew the efforts of her daughter, Priscilla as the sole trustee of Lisa’s irrevocable life insurance fund, would ultimately destroy. Promenade Trust and Graceland wanted.
Reaction of Priscilla’s lawyer
In a detailed statement on the Rolling Stone, Priscilla’s lawyer Marty Singer described the new lawsuit as “one of the most shameful, ridiculous, most lurid and unfounded complaints that I saw in my career”.
“To accuse a grieving mother that she contributed to the death of her daughter, is not a clever process strategy. It is malignant call to call. And should be convicted. These invented claims do without any basis. We are confident that the case will be rejected,” wrote Singer. He also described the lawsuit as a “sad and malignant attempt to stamulate the reputation of an eighty -year -old woman in obvious retribution for a lawsuit she submitted. Alone to punish the misconduct of Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko and her co -desires”.
Dispute over business relationships and financial agreements
In the trial in Florida and in the new lawsuit in Los Angeles County, Kruse and Fialko claim that Priscilla’s financial situation had improved after Lisa Marie’s death. And then they got out of several jointly founded companies that should market their name, image and image. They say they have invested considerably to protect Priscilla from bankruptcy. And they were later excluded against the agreements.
As Rolling Stone previously reported, Priscilla fought a change from 2016 at the Promenade Trust of her daughter a few weeks after Lisa Marie’s death, which she resigned as a trustee and replaced with Keough. The change withdrew Priscilla the influence on her daughter’s assets. Including the Graceland estate, the archive and Lisa Marie’s 15 percent participation in Elvis Presley Enterprises. The company that manages Elvis’ name, image and image. Priscilla wanted the court to declare the change “invalid”.
Comparison with Riley Keough
In view of an impending legal dispute, Keough achieved a generous agreement with her grandmother within a few months. Priscilla received a one -off payment of $ 1 million from Lisa Marie’s life insurance policy over $ 25 million. Keough also agreed to pay Priscilla $ 50,000. Alone so that she resigns as a co-fidelity of the irrevocable trust fund, the only assets of which was life insurance. In addition, Priscilla was awarded an annual salary of $ 100,000 as the “special consultant” of the Promenade Trust for ten years.
Five months after the agreement with Keough, Priscilla was sued for the first time for breaking the contract in connection with the partnership with Kruse and Fialko. The author, actress and ex-wife of Elvis quickly tried to reject the lawsuit. In the following summer, she submitted her explosive allegations for financial abuse of older people.
Priscillas allegations against Kruse and Fialko
In their complaint from July 2024, Priscilla, Kruse and Fialko claimed “manipulated and cheated” and brought them by more than $ 1 million. The couple put their finances with contracts “in a strangle area”, the Kruse granted a dominant proportion of 51 percent of Priscilla’s intellectual property indefinitely. Another business associated with it has given Priscilla only 20 percent. Priscilla and her lawyers described the agreements as too “outrageous” and “unsustainable” in order to be enforceable.
In the decision of July 9, with which the Priscilla’s lawsuit was suspended in favor of Priscilla’s lawsuit for abuse of older people, the judge in Orlando explained that he put the contract fracture an action on hold. Because there is no sense to “enforce rights from agreements” as long as the “validity” of these agreements is “directly controversial in the California procedure”. This judgment paved the way for Kruse and Fialko to submit their demands on the west coast.
Goal: day in court
“My clients are very determined to get to the point. They want to bring the truth to light. They want to be rehabilitated,” said the lawyer of Kruse and Fialko, Jordan Matthews, the Rolling Stone. “And they want their day to court.”
While Priscilla insists that they were tempted to sign the business contracts with Kruse and Fialko, the former partners say that they understood everything. Video material seen from the Rolling Stone shows how Priscilla signs the contracts in Kruse’s house in the presence of a lawyer.
In a statement sent to the Rolling Stone late Wednesday, Morgan defended his work with Priscilla. “I have known Priscilla Presley and her family for many years. She has a heart of gold. Is an incredible person. And a real legend and American icon that should be protected,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, I’ve read a lot of malicious lies lately. The truth will come to light.”