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Overview
- Dolly Parton died in August and the team that manages her commercial enterprises, She’s Alive LLC, has moved to block her nephew Bryan Seaver from the estate’s operations.
- She’s Alive filed court papers saying Seaver sent threatening messages and tried to leverage the brand and partnerships for payments or control.
- A Nashville judge granted a temporary restraining order that bars Seaver from contacting estate employees and from coming within roughly 300 meters of them.
- Seaver, who was removed last week as head of security, says the messages were taken out of context, calls some language affectionate, and says he is conducting his own inquiry into estate management.
- A court hearing is scheduled for October 7 to consider longer-term remedies, a decision that could determine who runs Parton’s roughly $450 million business empire including Dollywood.