Priscilla Presley Tells Followers To ‘Ignore The Noise’ Amid Lisa Marie Belief Battle!

Priscilla Presley desires suspicious minds to “ignore” all of the chatter surrounding her authorized battle over Lisa Marie Presley’s belief!

As you’ve probably heard, the 77-year-old actress challenged her late daughter’s will shortly after Lisa’s demise final month. Priscilla questioned the “authenticity and validity” of a 2016 modification that eliminated her and former enterprise supervisor Barry Siegel from their positions as co-trustees and as a substitute named the 54-year-old musician’s two oldest children: Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020. This implies the Daisy Jones & The Six star will inherit her mom’s property, which incorporates roughly $31 million left behind from Lisa’s life insurance coverage insurance policies. Nonetheless, Priscilla isn’t too blissful about that and is now preventing to make the modifications invalid.

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A supply near Lisa later got here ahead to Web page Six to insist the Dallas alum’s submitting was nothing greater than a “cash seize,” noting that the pair had “no relationship” when the singer-songwriter died. As for the way Riley feels in regards to the state of affairs? One other insider stated to ET she is “disenchanted” and feels Priscilla goes in opposition to “her mother’s needs,” including:

“Riley desires to maintain the household collectively and preserve Lisa Marie’s legacy in a constructive gentle, however she feels that her grandmother’s actions are pushing the household aside much more. It’s upsetting to her as she does wish to have a relationship with Priscilla, however at this time limit they aren’t shut.”

It’s a messy and tense state of affairs, to say the least. Whereas Riley has remained quiet, her grandmother has now determined to deal with the behind-the-scenes drama for the primary time. In a press release to Web page Six on Friday, Priscilla requested followers to “please ignore the noise” surrounding the authorized battle, claiming somebody is talking out who’s “not a consultant” of her household:

“I liked Elvis very a lot as he liked me. Lisa is a results of our love. For anybody to assume something in another way could be a travesty of the household legacy and could be disrespectful of what Elvis left behind in his life. There’s a person that purchased their means into the household enterprise that’s making an attempt to talk on behalf of our household. This particular person shouldn’t be a consultant of Elvis or our household.”

The previous spouse of Elvis Presley then pleaded with the general public to permit her and everybody concerned “the time” they want “to work collectively and kind this out” and forge “a pathway ahead with respect, honesty, dignity, integrity and love.”

Though Priscilla didn’t determine the particular person talking for the household, this assertion got here after Joel Weinshanker – a managing associate at Elvis Presley Enterprises – opened up in regards to the drama on Sirius XM’s Elvis Radio. He claimed Lisa Marie was “fairly sure” and “very direct” when it got here to who she wished in management over her belongings:

“We mentioned this many, many occasions [before] she handed, and [it] was at all times Riley and Ben. There was by no means a query in her thoughts that they’d be the stewards, that they’d have a look at it the very same means that she did. And clearly, when Ben handed, it actually sat with Riley.”

May Priscilla have been speaking about him??? It looks like a powerful risk!

That is such an advanced state of affairs, particularly because the authorized matter is coming proper when the Presley’s are nonetheless grappling with Lisa’s demise. Reactions to Priscilla’s assertion, Perezcious readers? Tell us within the feedback under.

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