Elvis Presley and Priscilla have previously unknown grandchild in Florida, lawsuit claims
On February 14, over at The Daily Beast we got to break a strange and startling story: Priscilla Presley was being sued by Priscilla Presley, the company.
Brigitte Kruse, an auctioneer, had filed the lawsuit, alleging that she had helped Priscilla through some very difficult financial times during which they had become very close personally. But just when things were beginning to turn around for the former wife of Elvis Presley, and a Sofia Coppola-directed film about her was about to come out, Priscilla suddenly locked Kruse out and went back on their business arrangements.
Kruse is suing for breach of contract and related matters, and Priscilla retaliated by having famous entertainment attorney Marty Singer garner a round of publicity by announcing an elder abuse lawsuit in July against Kruse in Los Angeles.
That retaliatory move hasn’t stopped Kruse, and her lawsuit has an evidentiary hearing scheduled for November 13 in Orlando to hash out some jurisdictional issues: Priscilla lives in Los Angeles and says she has nothing to do with Florida, where Kruse and the companies they formed — Priscilla Presley Partners LLC, for example — were located. (Priscilla has filed a request with the court to attend the hearing remotely.)
On Thursday afternoon, Kruse filed a new motion, asking for the court's permission to file a new amended complaint in the case.
Kruse’s attorneys acknowledge that their deadline to file another amended complaint passed on March 7. But they say the emergence of new facts justifies this new version of the lawsuit. (For one thing, Brigitte Kruse herself is being added as a plaintiff, rather than simply the companies she formed with Priscilla.)
They claim that Priscilla and her team are not opposing this move by Kruse to update the lawsuit, which is interesting. And if the new version of the lawsuit is accepted, they say that the evidentiary hearing scheduled for November 13 will not be needed.
Now that they know Priscilla is fighting the lawsuit by saying she has no ties to Florida, the new version of the complaint attacks this directly, and with a bombshell:
Presley has deep personal ties to Florida. Her late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, lived in Florida, in addition to a grandchild (the grandchild of Elvis and Presley), who still resides in Florida as of today.
The sentence doesn’t name the grandchild, but it very carefully delineates that it is a grandchild of Elvis Presley and Priscilla, whose only child was Lisa Marie.
We know that Lisa’s daughter Riley Keough lives in California, not Florida, and that her son Ben died in 2020. The lawsuit does mention Riley a couple of times, but it is clear that the grandchild in Florida they are referring to is not Riley. Lisa’s younger twin daughters, Harper and Finley, live with their father Michael Lockwood in California.
The lawsuit, in other words, is implying that Lisa had another, previously unknown, child who lives today in Florida, and that this existing grandchild is part of the reason that Priscilla has definite ties to the state.
The new complaint goes on to point out that in January 2023 Priscilla signed a five-year lease on a home in Palm Beach, further cementing those ties, and that she has traveled to Florida frequently.
"On January 7, 2023, she traveled to Palm Beach to meet former President Donald Trump at his residence there," it points out.
The proposed complaint also reiterates the history of the forming of several companies between Kruse and Priscilla, and the ways that Kruse says Priscilla breached those contracts.
But as far as hitting back at Marty Singer’s attack in July, Kruse could not have come back with a bigger revelation.
We assume what will follow is a tabloid feeding frenzy as attempts are made to figure out who this grandchild of Elvis Presley is, and who his or her father is.
Less than two weeks ago, Lisa’s memoir From Here to the Great Unknown — finished and edited by Riley — was released, and in it she discusses living in Clearwater, Florida for quite a few years. The book is less forthcoming that the reason Priscilla and Lisa were there was because they were both heavily involved in Scientology, which has its “spiritual mecca,” the Flag Land Base, in Clearwater.
Lisa told us in 2015 that in October 2014, she had made a final break with Scientology after pulling away from it for years. After attempting to have a showdown with church leader David Miscavige at the Flag Land Base in October 2014 (a meeting he skipped, sending his two sisters in his stead), Lisa said she announced to her family that she was finally out for good.
She also told us that at the time of our conversations in 2015, she had brought both Priscilla and Riley out with her. Since then, we have seen signs that Priscilla is likely back in the church, and the Riley may also be back in, something we tend to believe especially after seeing the memoir.
And now, someone who was previously very close personally to Priscilla is saying in a lawsuit that Priscilla has a secret grandkid in Florida.
Let the feeding frenzy begin.
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Pricilla Presley is a classic example of those attracted to Scientology. Unable to hold their own POV they are tossed around by manipulators like a leaf in the wind. The fact that she left Scientology due to Lisa Marie leaving and then appears to have gone back tells me she never made the effort to handle the personal issues that Scientology never corrected. Hubbards “Tech” is full of inconsistencies and ineffective science fiction rabbit holes. My experience is that my life became more stable and fulfilling as I deprogrammed and then dealt with the issues of why I joined Scientology in the first place. In other words tackling my earlier traumas and issues as a child up through young adulthood. It’s never too late to get help. Pricilla needs that now.
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