Riley Keough Told Priscilla Presley ‘I Protected You’ from Lisa Marie Presley’s Lawsuit Plans, Amended Lawsuit Reveals https://t.co/UUYXRigNVK
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Priscilla Presley’s former business partners have detailed more of Priscilla’s rift with granddaughter Riley Keough after Priscilla took Riley to court over the late Lisa Marie Presley’s estate in a new lawsuit amendment.
The filing by Priscilla’s former business partners Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko accuses her of fraud, breach of contract, conversion, misappropriation of name and likeness, and intentional interference with contract and prospective economic advantage. It also includes dozens of exhibits, including an email Riley allegedly sent to her grandmother after Lisa Marie’s death in January 2023.
• Riley tells her grandmother in the letter, “I have protected you from lawsuits from my mother, often advocating for you…”
• The lawsuit says Priscilla ignored Riley’s “pleas, manipulating her with claims that she ‘loved’ her and they ‘needed to be a family.’” Riley would later settle the filing by paying off Priscilla and giving monthly payments to both Priscilla and her son Navarone.
• Priscilla’s former business partners call her a calculated sociopath and say she is “like a pit viper willing to prey on her own family.”
Full Riley letter via the TMZ article:
Subject: Nona
Hello,
Unfortunately Nona as you are taking me to court I am being forced to defend my mother’s wishes legally and publicly which would not have been my choice.
It is really hurtful that after years of me trying to resolve your and my mother’s broken relationship and restore our family, you are taking me, of all people to court. I have protected you from lawsuits from my mother, often advocating for you and always tried to keep everyone operating out of love. Even a few weeks before my mother passed she wanted to sue you again and you called me for help. I advised her so strongly against it, which resulted in a fight between me and her. But as you know she chose to listen to me and not sue you. I believed then and now, lawsuits among family members have no place, but here we are.
I must also share with you that I found being called about the will, less than 24 hours after my mother passed and getting emails from lawyers before my mother was even buried incredibly heartbreaking. It was very upsetting that I was forced to find a lawyer to represent me and my sisters and my mother’s wishes within days of her passing. I assume that you are being advised to take these actions by your representatives, but you must know that this chosen path can only further estrange our family which is really sad.
My hope is that you are being poorly advised and this is not actually coming from you. But what I don’t understand is why there is a narrative that this massive falling out between you and my mother in 2016 didn’t occur. My mother very loudly and clearly asserted to many people, including you, that she felt you had financially and personally betrayed her and as a result she was taking you off of the trust and replacing you with my brother and me. If you are trying to remove me from the estate under the guise that you don’t remember the falling out about the promenade trust and her finances, it doesn’t make any sense because you were still estranged from my mother at the time of her death, all as a result of this same falling out. I am now being forced to fight you in court to protect my mother and my mother’s wishes for her estate which you know goes against my nature.
