Everything to Know About Lisa Marie Presley’s Will Legal Drama: Custody Battles, Invalid Claims and More
usmagazine.comWorking things out. Lisa Marie Presley’s death has caused both emotional and legal turmoil for her famous family.Elvis Presley’s only daughter died at the age of 54 on January 12, 2023, after suffering cardiac arrest.
Though her eldest daughter, actress Riley Keough, took ownership of her estate upon her death, Lisa Marie’s mother, Priscilla Presley, contested her daughter’s will a few days after her passing.According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly in January 2023 the Dallas alum claimed that a 2016 amendment made to the will — which removed her and Lisa Marie’s former business manager Barry Siegel as co-trustees and replaced them with Keough and her late brother, Benjamin Keough — was invalid.
The Naked Gun star claimed that her daughter’s signature appeared to be forged and that the amendment was not witnessed or notarized.
The documents also state that Priscilla should have been notified of the change, but never was.Keough has been the sole trustee of her late mother’s estate since her brother Benjamin died by suicide in July 2020 at the age of 27. (Lisa Marie shared her two eldest kids with ex-husband Danny Keough.
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