Priscilla Presley, Riley Keough, Sofia Coppola Kevin Mazur/Getty Images; ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images; Taylor Hill/WireImage/Getty Images
Priscilla Presley filed new court documents in his ongoing elder abuse case.
In new court documents, Presley, 79, claims a former business partner interfered with her relationship with her granddaughter Riley Keough and director Sofia Coppola in the documentation received from Us Weekly. (In connection was the first to report the news.)
Presley Defendant Defendant Brigitte Cruz and her alleged cohorts for making a “concerted effort to win my trust and isolate me from my key advisers.”
“They expanded the scope of their interests in my affairs, trying to inject themselves into every area of my life,” the document reads. “Under the guise of ‘helping’ me with my financial affairs, which the defendants allege were mismanaged by my long-time advisors, the defendants tricked me into giving them control of my finances and access to my funds.”
Priscilla Presley is suing multiple business partners over 12 different complaints, including financial abuse of the elderly, Us Weekly can confirm. Celebrity attorney Marty Singer filed a lawsuit against four of Presley’s 79-year-old business partners on Thursday, July 18, alleging they plan to “bleed her out of every penny she has.” (TMZ was the first to report the (…)
According to Presley, Cruz isolated her from family, friends and counselors to “assert more and more control over my life.”
Sofia Coppola and Priscilla Presley Dominique Charriau/WireImage/Getty Images
“She made an effort to interfere in every business transaction I had at the time and personal disputes that had nothing to do with her,” Presley claims in the filing, adding that Cruz tried to interfere in her relationship with 53 -year-old Coppola. (The director of the film Priscilla in 2023 approx Priscilla’s past marriage until late Elvis Presley.)
Priscilla also claims that Cruise “strained” her relationship with Coppola after he tried to “inject himself into the deal” she made for adapted her memoir for the big screen.
“(She sent) numerous messages to the film’s director in Los Angeles, Sofia Coppola, trying to get credit for the picture and try to get invited to the film’s premiere,” the documents state, alleging that Cruise did the same to Priscilla family.
“(She) went out of her way to inject herself into a family problem that I had when my daughter, Lisa Mariepassed away unexpectedly in January 2023,” Priscilla added. “Including (but not limited to) making numerous unsolicited trips to California to meet with me, interfering with legal negotiations and the resulting settlement agreement, and causing discord between me and my granddaughter (Riley).”
Priscilla Presley’s former business partner, Brigitte Cruz, has responded to her allegations of financial abuse of the elderly. Kruse issued a statement to Us Weekly on Monday, Jan. 22, dismissing the claims as “retaliation” in the lawsuit filed by Presley’s attorney, Marty Singer, four days earlier. “We are confident that the facts will speak for themselves and (…)
Lisa Marie, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla, inherited her father’s Graceland estate and much more when he died in 1977. After she died in 2023, ownership is transferred of Keough, 35. (Riley is the oldest child of Lisa Marie and ex Danny Keough. Their son, Benjamin, died in 2020. aged 27.)
Riley Keough Taylor Hill/Getty Images
After a back-and-forth battle over Lisa Marie’s will, Riley and Priscilla eventually settled out of court. (In November 2023 Priscilla said Piers Morgan Uncensored that she trusted Riley to run the mansion “good.”)
“Grandma stuff will be happy,” Riley said Vanity Fair in a profile published late last year. “They were never happy. … There was a bit of an upheaval (after my mother’s death), but now everything will be as it was. (Priscilla) is a beautiful woman and she was a huge part of creating my grandfather’s legacy and Graceland. It’s very important to her. He was the love of her life.”
Making things. Lisa Marie Presley’s death has caused both emotional and legal turmoil for her famous family. The only daughter of Elvis Presley died at the age of 54 on January 12, 2023. after cardiac arrest. Although her eldest daughter, actress Riley Keough, took ownership of her estate after her death, Lisa Marie’s mother, Priscilla (…)
Regarding Priscilla’s ongoing case, Us Weekly confirmed in July 2024 that she is suing four of her former business partners for $1 million after she was accused of elder abuse. The actress claims in her lawsuit that Cruise and other associates conspired to take advantage of her finances, calling Cruise a “fraudster and pathological liar.” According to Priscilla, the two women met in 2021 when Cruz began selling Elvis memorabilia before slowly taking control of Priscilla’s finances.
Priscilla’s attorneys wrote in the original filing, “This action stems from a meticulously planned and despicable scheme by the defendants in this case to prey on an elderly woman by gaining her trust, isolating her from the most important people in her life, and tricking her into led her to believe that they would take care of her (personally and financially), when their real goal was to drain her of every last penny she had.’
In a statement to usCruz said, “Any statements I have to make will be in my court documents. However, I decided to write a book about my treatment and experience with this family. It’s coming. One could never fathom what these people did to me and my children, let alone each other. The whole truth is coming out and I will see to it.”
