{"id":43800,"date":"2025-08-14T01:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/priscilla-presley-sued-for-50-million-by-ex-partners\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:56:44","slug":"priscilla-presley-sued-for-50-million-by-ex-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/priscilla-presley-sued-for-50-million-by-ex-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley Sued for $50 Million by Ex-Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tA month after a Florida judge said Priscilla Presley<\/a>\u2019s 2024 financial elder abuse claims<\/a> would take the lead over a related 2023 lawsuit accusing her of breach of contract, the former business partners facing off against Priscilla in both cases are expanding their legal war.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, memorabilia dealer Brigitte Kruse and investor Kevin Fialko filed a new $50 million fraud and breach of contract lawsuit against Presley in Beverly Hills that re-ups many of the same causes of action recently placed on the back burner in Orlando. But the new complaint doesn\u2019t stop there. It also escalates the acrimony with the eye-popping claim that Priscilla hastened her daughter Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s tragic death in January 2023<\/a> for financial gain. And it adds Stan Lee\u2019s ex-manager, Keya Morgan, as a new co-defendant tied to claims that he interfered with the partners\u2019 contracts with Priscilla.<\/p>\n

\n\tRegarding its most shocking new claim, the complaint attaches Lisa Marie\u2019s advanced health care directive as an exhibit. On the document, Lisa Marie wrote her initials and two exclamation points next to the line that said she wanted her life to be \u201cprolonged as long as possible within the limits of generally accepted healthcare standards.\u201d In the new lawsuit, Kruse and Fialko allege that Priscilla rushed to West Hills Hospital and took control of her daughter\u2019s care when Lisa Marie suffered a small bowel obstruction in January 2023 as a complication from weight loss surgery.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDespite Lisa\u2019s clear directive to \u2018prolong her life,\u2019 Priscilla pulled the plug within hours of Lisa being admitted, and before her granddaughter, Riley [Keough] was able to get to the hospital,\u201d the new lawsuit alleges. The complaint says Priscilla then demanded that Kruse issue a media statement announcing the death. According to the complaint, \u201cPriscilla knew that Lisa\u2019s death neutralized the threat of Lisa\u2019s efforts to have Priscilla removed as the sole trustee of Lisa\u2019s irrevocable life insurance trust, and Priscilla ultimately wanted to control the Promenade Trust and Graceland.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a lengthy statement sent to Rolling Stone<\/em>, Priscilla\u2019s lawyer, Marty Singer, blasted the new lawsuit as \u201cone of the most shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless lawsuits I have seen in my practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAccusing a grieving mother of contributing to her daughter\u2019s death is not savvy advocacy; it is malicious character assassination and should be broadly condemned. These fabricated claims have absolutely no validity and we are confident this case will be dismissed,\u201d Singer wrote in his statement. He went on to slam the lawsuit as a \u201csad and vicious attempt to falsely tarnish the reputation of an eighty-year-old woman in blatant retaliation for bringing a lawsuit to redress the wrongful conduct of Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their coconspirators.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to both the Florida case and the new Los Angeles County-based complaint, Kruse and Fialko allege that after Lisa Marie\u2019s death, Priscilla\u2019s fortunes changed, and she subsequently walked out on a series of companies they had formed to exploit her name, image, and likeness. They allege they invested heavily to pull Priscilla back from the brink of insolvency and were later shunned, in violation of their agreements.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Rolling Stone<\/em> previously reported, a few weeks after Lisa Marie\u2019s death, Priscilla challenged a 2016 amendment to her daughter\u2019s Promenade Trust<\/a>\u00a0that removed Priscilla as a trustee and replaced her with Keough. The change meant Priscilla lost influence over her daughter\u2019s assets, including Graceland mansion, its archives, and Lisa Marie\u2019s 15 percent interest in Elvis<\/a> Presley Enterprises, the company that owns and manages Elvis\u2019 name, image, and likeness. Priscilla wanted the court to declare the amendment \u201cinvalid.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith a potential legal war looming, Keough reached a generous settlement with her grandmother in a matter of months.\u00a0Under the deal, Priscilla received a $1 million lump-sum payment<\/a>\u00a0off the top of Lisa Marie\u2019s $25 million life insurance policy. Keough also agreed to pay Priscilla $50,000 to resign as co-trustee of the irrevocable trust whose sole asset was the life insurance policy. And Priscilla was awarded an annual salary of $100,000 for 10 years for her new role as a \u201cspecial advisor\u201d to the Promenade Trust.<\/p>\n

\n\tFive months after she settled with Keough, Priscilla was hit with the first breach of contract lawsuit<\/a> over the Kruse and Fialko partnership. The author, actress, and ex-wife of Elvis quickly sought to dismiss the complaint. Then last summer, she filed her bombshell claims of financial elder abuse.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her July 2024 complaint, Priscilla claimed Kruse and Fialko \u201cmanipulated and defrauded\u201d her out of more than $1 million. She said the pair placed a \u201cstranglehold\u201d on her finances with contracts that gave Kruse a controlling 51 percent interest in Priscilla\u2019s intellectual property in perpetuity. She said another related venture gave Priscilla only a 20 percent share. Priscilla and her lawyers called the deals too \u201cegregious\u201d and \u201cunconscionable\u201d to be enforceable. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the July 9 ruling that stayed the Florida litigation in favor of Priscilla\u2019s elder abuse lawsuit, the Orlando-based judge said he was placing the breach of contract case in a holding pattern because it didn\u2019t make sense to \u201cenforce rights under agreements\u201d when the \u201cvalidity\u201d of the agreements remained \u201csquarely in dispute in the California case.\u201d That ruling set the stage for Kruse and Fialko to file their claims on the West Coast.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy clients are very adamant they want to get to the merits of the case. They want the truth out, and they want to be vindicated,\u201d Kruse and Fialko\u2019s lawyer, Jordan Matthews, tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cThey want their day in court.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile Priscilla maintains she was duped into signing the business contracts with Kruse and Fialko, the former partners say she understood everything. Video unearthed by Rolling Stone<\/em> shows Priscilla signing the contracts<\/a> at Kruse\u2019s house with a lawyer present.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement sent to Rolling Stone<\/em> late Wednesday, Morgan defended his work with Priscilla. \u201cI\u2019ve known Priscilla Presley and her family for many years, and she has a heart of gold, is an incredible human being, and a true legend and American icon [who] should be protected,\u201d he wrote. \u201cUnfortunately, I\u2019ve read a lot of malicious lies recently which are not true, and the truth will ultimately prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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