Priscilla Presley has filed a court case to question the validity of her daughter Lisa Marie’s will, which left her niece, actress Riley Keogh, as sole administrator of the Elvis Presley fortune. The king of rock’s widow filed documents in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday (January 26) contesting an “alleged 2016 amendment” to her daughter’s will, which she claims was forged.
Lisa Marie Presley, only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, died on January 12 at the age of 54 after suffering cardiac arrest at her home in the Calabasas region of California (USA). After her daughter’s death, the widow was surprised to find that she did not have control of her daughter’s estate and, by extension, Elvis’ estate.
According to documents obtained by Page Six, Priscilla says the will was amended to leave her grandchildren, Riley Keough and the now-deceased Benjamin Keough, as co-trustees of the estate. When Benjamin committed suicide in 2020, the “Mad Max: Stay of Fury” and “Zola” actress became the sole steward of everything Elvis left behind for her daughter.
In the court filing, Priscilla says that she and her former business manager, Barry Siegel, were named co-trustees of the will on January 29, 1993. However, the new amendment, dated March 11, 2016, replaced her with her grandchildren . For her it is fraud.
The widow argues in the documents that her daughter’s signature on that 2016 amendment “seems inconsistent with her usual customary signature,” further arguing that Lisa Marie’s name was misspelled.
Priscilla also said the document was never notarized and was not given to her in Lisa Marie’s lifetime, as per the terms of a 2010 trust agreement.
In addition to Riley and the late Benjamin Keogh, Lisa Marie has two other daughters, twins Harper and Finley Lockwood, who are currently 14 years old.
Source: Terra
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