Priscilla Presley desires suspicious minds to “ignore” all of the chatter surrounding her authorized battle over Lisa Marie Presley’s belief!
As you’ve most definitely heard, the 77-year-old actress challenged her late daughter’s will shortly after Lisa’s loss of life final month. Priscilla questioned the “authenticity and validity” of a 2016 modification that eliminated her and former enterprise supervisor Barry Siegel from their positions as co-trustees and as an alternative named the 54-year-old musician’s two oldest children: Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020. This means the Daisy Jones & The Six star will inherit her mom’s property, which incorporates roughly $31 million left behind from Lisa’s life insurance coverage insurance policies. However, Priscilla isn’t too completely happy about that and is now combating to make the modifications invalid.
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A supply near Lisa later got here ahead to Page Six to insist the Dallas alum’s submitting was nothing greater than a “money grab,” noting that the pair had “no relationship” when the singer-songwriter died. As for the way Riley feels in regards to the scenario? Another insider mentioned to ET she is “disappointed” and feels Priscilla goes in opposition to “her mom’s wishes,” including:
“Riley wants to keep the family together and keep Lisa Marie’s legacy in a positive light, but she feels that her grandmother’s actions are pushing the family apart even more. It’s upsetting to her as she does want to have a relationship with Priscilla, but at this point in time they are not close.”
It’s a messy and tense scenario, to say the least. While Riley has remained quiet, her grandmother has now determined to deal with the behind-the-scenes drama for the primary time. In a press release to Page Six on Friday, Priscilla requested followers to “please ignore the noise” surrounding the authorized battle, claiming somebody is talking out who’s “not a representative” of her household:
“I loved Elvis very much as he loved me. Lisa is a result of our love. For anyone to think anything differently would be a travesty of the family legacy and would be disrespectful of what Elvis left behind in his life. There is an individual that bought their way into the family enterprise that is trying to speak on behalf of our family. This person is not a representative of Elvis or our family.”
The former spouse of Elvis Presley then pleaded with the general public to permit her and everybody concerned “the time” they want “to work together and sort this out” and forge “a pathway forward with respect, honesty, dignity, integrity and love.”
Although Priscilla didn’t determine the particular person talking for the household, this assertion got here after Joel Weinshanker – a managing companion at Elvis Presley Enterprises – opened up in regards to the drama on Sirius XM’s Elvis Radio. He claimed Lisa Marie was “quite certain” and “very direct” when it got here to who she needed in management over her belongings:
“We discussed this many, many times [before] she passed, and [it] was always Riley and Ben. There was never a question in her mind that they would be the stewards, that they would look at it the exact same way that she did. And obviously, when Ben passed, it really sat with Riley.”
Could Priscilla have been speaking about him??? It looks as if a robust chance!
This is such an advanced scenario, particularly because the authorized matter is coming proper when the Presley’s are nonetheless grappling with Lisa’s loss of life. Reactions to Priscilla’s assertion, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback beneath.
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