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A new filing in a lawsuit brought by two of Priscilla Presley<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s former business associates, Brigitte Kruse<\/strong> and Kevin Fialko<\/strong>, includes a wild new claim: that Elvis<\/strong>\u2019s granddaughter Riley Keough<\/strong><\/a> is allegedly the biological mother of John Travolta<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s youngest son.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s filing, which was obtained by The Cut, claims that Michael Lockwood<\/strong> \u2014 the ex-husband of Priscilla and Elvis Presley\u2019s late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley<\/strong> \u2014 told one of the defendants that Travolta\u2019s wife, Kelly Preston, \u201chad been unable to bear her own children\u201d and that the couple approached the Presley family to request an egg donation in 2010. (Preston died of breast cancer in 2020 at age 57.)<\/p>\n The suit claims that Travolta and Preston \u201cpreviously used Lisa Marie\u2019s eggs to get pregnant\u201d but did not want to use hers again, \u201cbecause they did not want \u2018eggs with heroin.\u2019\u201d (Lisa Marie, who died in 2023, had spoken openly about her struggle with opioid addiction.) Instead, the suit claims, the two families \u201corchestrated a deal\u201d in which Lisa Marie\u2019s daughter, actress Riley Keough, \u201cgave her eggs to Travolta, so that Kelly could give birth to their son, Ben Travolta,\u201d who was born in 2010. Keough, who would have been 20 at the time, was purportedly \u201cgiven an old Jaguar and paid between $10,000 \u2013$20,000 for the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawsuit does not make any claims about whether either of Travolta and Preston\u2019s other two children, Jett and Ella, were actually conceived using Lisa Marie\u2019s eggs. Lisa Marie was friends with Travolta and Preston for years; in 2009, after the death of their son, Jett, Lisa Marie defended the couple\u2019s ties to Scientology, describing them as her \u201cvery good friends.\u201d (Lisa Marie was an active Scientologist for decades, having joined after Travolta introduced Priscilla to the church in the wake of Elvis\u2019s death, Priscilla wrote in her memoir.)<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s filing is part of a much more complicated breach-of-contract lawsuit against Navarone Garcia<\/strong>, Priscilla\u2019s son and Lisa Marie\u2019s half-brother. For over a year now, Priscilla, who\u2019s 80, has been locked in a bitter legal battle with Kruse and Fialko over a business dispute; Kruse and Fialko sued her for fraud and breach of contract in 2023, and Priscilla then filed her own lawsuit, accusing them of financial elder abuse. Per her website, Kruse is a \u201cfifth-generation auctioneer\u201d who specializes in celebrity memorabilia and has \u201cworked closely with the Presley family.\u201d Fialko is an entrepreneur and an Elvis-memorabilia collector, according to previous legal filings. It\u2019s unclear exactly why they included the egg-donation claim in what is largely an unrelated lawsuit, but Kruse and Fialko cited it as an example of the \u201cconstant chaos\u201d they were apparently trying to manage in the family.<\/p>\n In a statement to Us Weekly, Marty Singer, an attorney for Priscilla, slammed the defendants as \u201cshameful,\u201d saying these \u201coutrageous allegations have absolutely nothing to do with the claims in this case.\u201d \u201cBrigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their co-conspirators have demonstrated that there is no bar too low, no ethical line that they are unwilling to cross in an effort to cause further pain to Priscilla Presley and her family,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n