Priscilla Presley’s legal team is fighting back.
The 80-year-old’s lawyer Marty Singer is slamming a new lawsuit—filed by her former business partners Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko and obtained by NBC News— that has been brought against Priscilla which alleges she ignored her daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s deteriorating health and removed her from life support against her daughter’s wishes. The suit also says she waged an alleged plot to regain control of Elvis Presley’s estate.
Singer called the lawsuit, in a statement to People, “one of the most shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless lawsuits I have seen in my practice.”
He also alleged it is “nothing more than a sad and vicious attempt to falsely tarnish the reputation of an eighty year old woman.”
Singer went on to address where Priscilla stands with her granddaughter, Riley Keough, after the current lawsuit alleged the matriarch removed Lisa Marie from life support before Keough was able to make it to the hospital.
According to the attorney, Keough “stands behind her grandmother 100% and is equally disgusted with this latest, vicious attempt by Kruse to attempt to ruin her grandmother’s life.”
E! News has reached out to Priscilla’s legal team for comment but has not yet heard back. NBC News reached out for comment from Keough, but a rep could not be immediately reached.
The lawsuit—filed on August 11—addresses Lisa Marie’s 2023 death, alleging that when she and Priscilla attended the Golden Globes on January 10, “Lisa was noticeably ill, complaining to Priscilla about her health,” but that “Priscilla ignored warning signs.”
Then, per the lawsuit, when Lisa Marie experienced cardiac arrest and was taken to the hospital on January 12, “despite Lisa’s clear directive to ‘prolong her life,’ Priscilla pulled the plug within hours of Lisa being admitted, and before her granddaughter, Riley, was able to get to the hospital.”
The suit claims Priscilla then asked Kruse to issue a statement to the media announcing Lisa Marie’s death “so she could control the narrative.”
Kruse and Fialko also allege that they have not received payment for services provided in helping Priscilla manage her finances, including helping her out of debt.
They also accuse her of fraud—among other allegations, including breach of various agreements—for representing “that she owned the right to exploit her name, image and likeness” but that she “specifically failed to ever mention that she previously entered into a purchase and sale agreement” in 2005 “for the right to exploit her name, image and likeness in exchange for a payment of $6.5 million.”
Kruse and Fialko are seeking at least $50 million in damages and demand a jury trial.
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