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Priscilla Presley filed new court documents in her ongoing elder abuse lawsuit.
In new court documents, Presley, 79, claimed that a former business partner came between her relationship with her granddaughter. Riley Keough and the director Sofia Coppola in submission obtained My Weekly. (In contact was the first to bring the news.)
Presley accused the defendant Brigitte Kruse and her alleged cohorts, who made a “concerted effort to gain my trust and isolate me from my key advisers.”
“They expanded the scope of their interests in my affairs and sought to penetrate all areas of my life,” the filing states. “Under the guise of ‘helping’ me with my financial affairs, which the defendants allege were mismanaged by my long-time advisors, the defendants tricked me into giving them control of my finances and access to my funds.”
According to Presley, Kruse isolated her from family, friends and counselors to “assert more and more control over my life.”
Sofia Coppola and Priscilla Presley Dominique Charriau/WireImage/Getty Images
“She tried to insert herself into every business deal I had at the time and personal disputes that had nothing to do with her,” Presley claimed in the documents, adding that Kruse allegedly tried to interfere with her relationship with Coppola, 53. . (Creator directed Priscilla in 2023 approx Priscilla’s previous marriage to late Elvis Presley.)
Priscilla further claimed that Kruse “strained” her relationship with Coppola after he tried to “insert himself into the deal” she had decided on. an adaptation of her memoir for the big screen.
“(She sent) several messages to the film’s director in Los Angeles, Sofia Coppola, in an attempt to get the authority of the picture and to try to get an invitation to the premiere of the film,” the documents claimed, alleging that Kruse did the same to Priscilla’s family.
“(She went out of her way to intervene in a family problem I was having when my daughter, Lisa Mariehe died unexpectedly in January 2023,” Priscilla continued. “Including (but not limited to) making several unsolicited trips to California for them to meet with me, interfering with legal negotiations and the resulting settlement agreement and causing a dispute between me and my granddaughter (Riley).
Lisa Marie, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla, inherited her father’s Graceland estate and others when he died in 1977. After she died in 2023, ownership has been transferred Keough, 35. (Riley is the oldest child of Lisa Marie and ex Danny Keough. Their son Benjamin died in 2020 at the age of 27.)
Riley Keough Taylor Hill/Getty Images
After constantly fighting over Lisa Marie’s will, Riley and Priscilla eventually settled out of court. (In November 2023, Priscilla said on Piers Morgan uncensored that she trusted Riley to manage the estate “good.”)
“Things will be happy with Grandma,” Riley he said Vanity Fair in a profile published late last year. “They were never happy. … There was a bit of an upheaval (after my mom died), but now everything will be the way it was. (Priscilla is) a beautiful woman and she was a big part of creating my grandfather’s legacy and Graceland. It is very important to her. He was the love of her life.”
Regarding Priscilla’s ongoing lawsuit, My Weekly confirmed in July 2024 sued four of her former business associates for $1 million after she was accused of elder abuse. In her legal motion, the actress alleged that Kruse and other associates conspired to take advantage of her finances, calling Kruse a “fraudster and pathological liar.” According to Priscilla, the two women met in 2021 when Kruse began selling Elvis memorabilia before slowly taking control of Priscilla’s finances.
In an initial filing, Priscilla’s attorneys wrote: “This action stems from a carefully planned and nefarious scheme by the defendants in this action to prey on an elderly woman by gaining her trust, isolating her from the most important people in her life, and deceiving her. to make her believe that they would take care of her (personally and financially), when their real goal was to drain her of every last penny she had.”
In the statement to OurKruse said: “Any statements I have to make will be in my court documents. However, I decided to write a book about my treatment and experiences with this family. it’s getting close. One could never fathom what these people did to me and my children, let alone to each other. The whole truth is coming out and I’ll see to it.”