Priscilla Presley Denies Allegations of Being Responsible for Late Husband Elvis’ Death

Priscilla Presley, the former wife of Elvis, is now being accused of “pushing him to his death” by two disgruntled former business partners.

Those former partners, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, have filed a new version of a 2023 lawsuit, where they went after her for damages, fraud and breach of contract. The two previously alleged that she took her daughter, the late musician Lisa Marie Presley, off life support earlier that year, which the 80-year-old denied.

In their amended version of the suit, Kruse and Fialko have alleged that Priscilla was responsible for the 1977 death of her late husband, Elvis, who she was married to from 1967 to 1973.

In the amended complaint, viewed by Complex, Kruse and Fialko called Priscilla a “calculated sociopath and master of deception” who “does anything to control her image with the public.” The two reiterated their allegation of Priscilla taking her daughter off life support, and accused her of having a “history of manipulating those closest to her.”

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One of the people they accuse her of manipulating was Elvis. Kruse and Fialko claim that at the end of her marriage to the rock and roll icon, Priscilla “waived the right to inherit anything from Elvis’ estate” in exchange for a low-six-figure cash payment, several vehicles, and the promise of child and spousal support.

Kruse and Fialko go on to claim that the agreement wasn’t “good enough” for Priscilla to “live on,” so she alleged that her former husband defrauded her, restarting the negotiation process. The agreement, Kruse and Fialko go on to explain, was modified, with Elvis being forced to pay her over a million dollars in total, in addition to fifty percent of proceeds from the sale of his Los Angeles home and significant spousal support.

The final nail in the coffin was alleged to be a lien placed in 1977 on Elvis’ Graceland mansion for nearly five hundred million dollars (almost $2.3 billion today), “adding pressure to Elvis less than four months before he died on August 16, 1977, from a heart attack and drug complications.” That undue pressure, the suit claims, “push[ed] him to his death.”

In a statement to TMZ, Priscilla’s lawyer, Marty Singer, called the claims “absurd and ridiculous.”

“We expect her next amendment to claim that Priscilla is responsible for the death of JFK,” the attorney continued.

Currently running Lisa Marie’s estate is her daughter, actress Riley Keough of Daisy Jones & the Six fame, who was also embroiled in a legal battle with Priscilla over the estate. A settlement was reached in May 2023.

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