Riley Keough opens up about Elvis estate and dispute with Priscilla Presley
nme.comElvis estate and revealed that, although she was briefly pitted against her grandmother, Priscilla Presley, there is now a sense of “clarity” in the family.The conflict arose after the sudden death of Lisa Marie Presley – daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, and mother of Keough – earlier this year, as the inheritance of Elvis Presley’s estate was thrown into question.Lisa Marie became the sole inheritor of Elvis’ estate, following the death of her father.
The site was also managed by Priscilla, who was married to the ‘Suspicious Minds’ singer between 1967 and 1973.When the trust was dissolved in 1993 on Lisa Marie’s 25th birthday, she formed a new trust, which also retained her mother as manager of the estate and co-trustee.
However, earlier this year, Priscilla Presley filed a legal challenge disputing the validity of daughter Lisa Marie‘s will, after it was reportedly altered in 2016 to remove Priscilla and a former business manager, Barry Siegel, as trustees.The “purported” amendment named Lisa Marie’s children Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough as “successor co-trustees of the trust” upon her death.
Benjamin died in 2020, aged 27.However, Priscilla’s lawyers claimed that there were “many issues surrounding the authenticity and validity” of the amendment, including a misspelling of Priscilla’s name and a failure to notify her of the change.
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