The feud between Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough is getting messier.
As we’ve been reporting, the Daisy Jones & The Six star has been clashing together with her grandmother since her mother Lisa Marie Presley’s tragic demise in January. The two members of the family are preventing over the late musician’s belief, which incorporates the profitable rights to Elvis Presley Enterprises and Graceland. Priscilla filed a petition difficult her daughter’s needs after studying of a 2016 resolution to take away her and her ex-supervisor Barry Siegal as trustees, changed with Riley (and her late brother Benjamin Keough). This has been a serious supply of friction between the pair – to the purpose the place they’re not even talking to one another proper now.
But apparently, their bitter feud runs loads deeper than simply the problems over the belief. In truth, it goes again to when Lisa Marie was in a nasty authorized battle together with her ex-husband Michael Lockwood. After breaking apart with the 61-12 months-outdated in 2016, the singer went to court docket with him for years to struggle over the custody of their twin daughter, Finley and Harper. During their authorized dispute, Lisa Marie shockingly accused Michael of getting “disturbing” pictures and movies of kid pornography on his laptop. He denied every thing on the time.
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Despite the intense allegations towards him, Priscilla sided with Michael — one thing which can have led to Lisa Marie’s resolution to take away her mother as a trustee within the first place! Not solely did this really feel like a betrayal to Lisa, it additionally bothered Riley — who “was always on her mom’s side when it came to Michael.”
Ultimately the worst of the allegations had been dropped, and Michael and Lisa Marie’s battle ended with them getting shared custody of their daughters. But with the demise of the singer-songwriter, the custody subject was delivered to court docket — and it appears like Priscilla has gone towards her household but once more!
According to DailyMail.com, the producer was granted full custody of his and Lisa Marie’s 14-12 months-outdated youngsters throughout a short household court docket listening to in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Judicial assistant Gus Morales defined to the outlet that the court docket acknowledged the dad has “de facto” full custody of Harper and Finley. California regulation states that when one father or mother passes away, the opposite receives full custody except the court docket determines they’re an unfit father or mother. Since Priscilla by no means objected, nor did some other member of the family file paperwork claiming he was an unfit father or mother, Michael acquired custody of the ladies.
As you may anticipate, Riley wasn’t too completely satisfied in regards to the resolution, or her grandma’s half in it. The outlet reported the 33-12 months-outdated actress is livid over “losing” her sisters to Michael, who is taken into account an “outsider” within the household. Given the horrifying allegations towards the guitarist, nobody might blame her for worrying and angered over how the authorized case performed out. It additionally will need to have felt like an enormous betrayal from Priscilla for siding with Michael — once more!
On high of getting full custody, Michael filed paperwork to change into the twins’ guardian advert litem to characterize them within the belief battle — and he’s, after all, on crew Priscilla. This means he might go towards Riley when the household goes to court docket over the difficulty on April 13, on behalf of his youngsters. So no surprise the actress is upset proper now! (And no surprise Priscilla is on his aspect, should you imagine the worst about her…)
It’s such a sophisticated scenario, and it looks like the feud will solely worsen as Riley and Priscilla get nearer to their listening to. We’ll have to attend and see how issues end up. Reactions to the newest, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback beneath.
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