Overview
- Former business partners Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko amended their $50 million complaint to allege Priscilla Presley pushed Elvis toward his death by placing a $494,024.49 lien on Graceland on April 29, 1977, less than four months before he died.
- The plaintiffs say the lien was later used to pressure Elvis’s father, Vernon Presley, into naming Priscilla co‑executor of the estate while he was gravely ill, according to the court filing reported by TMZ and the Daily Caller.
- They also repeat their claim that Priscilla removed Lisa Marie Presley from life support in 2023 despite an advance directive, alleging a bid for control of a life insurance trust and Graceland; the medical examiner has attributed Lisa Marie’s death to complications of a small‑bowel obstruction.
- Rolling Stone reports the amended complaint attaches purported excerpts from Priscilla’s forthcoming memoir describing her account of authorizing withdrawal of life support, and her representatives did not comment on the excerpts.
- Priscilla’s lawyer, Marty Singer, calls the allegations absurd and says Kruse and associates are accused of misappropriating $1 million from Priscilla in a separate elder‑abuse case, which has a hearing next week; the breach‑of‑contract case has a case management conference set for February.