{"id":2007315,"date":"2025-09-08T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2007315"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:06:16","slug":"lawsuit-accuses-priscilla-presley-of-extortion-greed-claims-her-first-victim-was-elvis-exclusive-globe-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lawsuit-accuses-priscilla-presley-of-extortion-greed-claims-her-first-victim-was-elvis-exclusive-globe-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Accuses Priscilla Presley of Extortion, Greed, Claims Her \u2018First Victim Was Elvis\u2019 (Exclusive) \u2013 Globe Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stefano Costantino \/ MEGA; Beitia Archives \/ Digital Press Photos\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Priscilla Presley<\/strong><\/a> \u201chas a history of manipulating those closest to her for her own personal gain,\u201d her former partners claim, according to legal documents obtained by Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPriscilla\u2019s first victim was Elvis<\/strong>,\u201d reads an amended complaint to Brigitte Kruse<\/strong> and Kevin Fialko<\/strong>\u2019s bombshell<\/a> $50 million lawsuit against her, which was filed on Wednesday, September 30.<\/p>\n

Kruse and Fialko allege that a year after their 1972 divorce, Priscilla, 80, \u201cforced\u201d Elvis to renegotiate the terms of their marital dissolution agreement \u201cout of pure greed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In addition to \u201cenriching herself and extorting millions of dollars\u201d from the King of Rock and Roll, his \u201cruthless and cunning\u201d ex-wife then \u201cplaced a lien on Graceland on or around April 29, 1977, in the amount of $494,024.49.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her actions, they claim, added \u201cpressure to Elvis less than four months before he died on August 16, 1977, from a heart attack and drug complications. Priscilla exerted undue pressure on Elvis, pushing him to his death.\u201d<\/p>\n

The music icon, who was just 42 when he passed, did not mention Priscilla \u2014 to whom he was married for only six years \u2014 in his will. Their daughter, Lisa Marie<\/strong> was his sole heir, and his father, Vernon<\/strong>, was named as trustee.<\/p>\n

\u201cPriscilla knew she was entitled to inherit nothing from Elvis,\u201d Kruse and Fialko allege, so she \u201cused the lien she placed on Graceland, strong-arming Vernon, who was on his death bed in 1979, and was otherwise weak and unable to defend the estate, into making Priscilla the co-executor of the estate, taking over management of the trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, which calls the Naked Gun<\/em> actress a \u201ccalculated sociopath and master of deception,\u201d accuses her of similarly manipulating her daughter.<\/p>\n

When Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital in 2023, Kruse and Fialko allege, Priscilla \u201cpulling<\/a>\u201d her daughter, 54, off life support in an attempt to regain control of the estate.<\/p>\n

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As Globe<\/em> previously reported<\/a>, Priscilla then launched a legal challenge, contesting the \u201cauthenticity and validity\u201d of a 2016 amendment Lisa Marie made to remove her and appointed Riley Keough<\/strong> and her late brother, Ben<\/strong>, trustees instead.<\/p>\n

Keough and her grandmother eventually reached a settlement<\/a>, with Priscilla getting a $1 million lump sum, as well as $100,000 a year to be a special advisor to Keough. (Priscilla\u2019s son, Navarone Garcia<\/strong>, also allegedly got a \u201cseven-figure\u201d piece of the trust, despite not being related to Elvis.)<\/p>\n

In a statement regarding claims made in the lawsuit, Priscilla\u2019s lawyer, Martin D. Singer<\/strong>, previously told Globe<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cPriscilla did not have anything to do with the assassination of JFK, she did not cover up Area 51, she did not fake the moon landing, and she is not secretly keeping Bigfoot locked in a cabin in Canada. Take off the aluminum foil hat and face reality. This lawsuit concerns Ms. Presley\u2019s claims against Ms. Kruse (and her co-conspirators) in which she alleges that Ms. Kruse engaged in a relentless and calculated campaign of elder abuse and fraud in order to take control of Ms. Presley\u2019s finances for her own benefit. Ms. Kruse\u2019s allegations are absurd and despicable, but unfortunately, are not surprising. Ms. Presley looks forward to holding Ms. Kruse and her co-conspirators liable for their wrongful acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stefano Costantino \/ MEGA; Beitia Archives \/ Digital Press Photos\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency Priscilla Presley \u201chas a history of manipulating those closest to her for her own personal gain,\u201d her former partners claim, according to legal documents obtained by Globe. \u201cPriscilla\u2019s first victim was Elvis,\u201d reads an amended complaint to Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko\u2019s bombshell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2007316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lawsuit-Accuses-Priscilla-Presley-of-Extortion-Greed-Claims-Her-\u2018First.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}