Priscilla Presley has openly shared the heartbreaking story of when she and her family made the difficult decision to remove life support from their daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.
Priscilla Presley, age 80 and former wife of Elvis Presley, made the difficult choice to disconnect life support for her daughter just hours after she experienced a cardiac arrest at her California home in January 2023. This decision came after Priscilla publicly criticized a lawsuit related to the situation.
In her forthcoming memoir, *Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis*, Elvis Presley’s former wife is sharing her memories of the difficult time following their divorce.
An early preview of the new book reveals Priscilla’s heartbreaking words: ‘I instantly knew, the moment I entered Lisa’s hospital room, that she had passed away.’
She was on life support, with a machine helping her breathe and maintaining a heartbeat. However, she showed very little brain activity, and her personality seemed to have faded.
Riley shared that she felt her mother’s presence leave while she was still in the air, but we weren’t willing to lose hope.
She was talking about her granddaughter, Riley Keough-the 36-year-old actress who now owns Graceland, the family’s famous estate.
Priscilla described the heartbreaking experience of being with her daughter in the hospital. Doctors explained that her daughter would have no chance of a meaningful life, which led to the incredibly difficult choice to remove her from life support.
She said it was awful, and she started crying. She doesn’t recall what happened next, only that her cousin, Ivy, caught her before she lost consciousness. After that, her memory is just a blank – she doesn’t remember anything, and doesn’t want to.
Priscilla Presley’s new memoir, *Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis*, will be available next Tuesday, September 23rd.
This news follows a recent, shocking lawsuit alleging that she ordered her daughter Lisa Marie‘s life support to be removed in order to take control of the Presley family estate.
Priscilla Presley strongly refutes the accusations made in a $50 million lawsuit filed by her former business associates, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko. They claim she orchestrated a plan to defraud them and took advantage of her daughter Lisa Marie’s passing.
A recently filed lawsuit alleges that Presley took advantage of Lisa Marie after the death of Elvis, and improperly removed her from life support following a cardiac arrest in January 2023. The suit claims he focused solely on inheriting Elvis’s estate and disregarded Lisa Marie’s previously stated wishes regarding her medical care.
Honestly, it’s just heartbreaking. The lawsuit claims Priscilla was desperate to control Lisa Marie’s trust and even Graceland itself! And can you believe Lisa Marie didn’t *want* to be around her mother? They only showed up together at the Golden Globes to support the Elvis movie – just two days before she passed away. It’s just… devastating to think about.
According to the legal complaint, Priscilla knew Lisa was planning to replace her as the only trustee of Lisa’s life insurance trust and was also threatening legal action.
According to the lawsuit, Kruse and Fialko, who led Priscilla Presley Partners, tried to help the Presley family maintain their relationships, and Elvis and Lisa Marie were later seen together at public events.
Sources say Lisa Marie Presley had been feeling unwell and expressed her health concerns to a friend, reportedly Elvis’s daughter. This friend supposedly didn’t take these concerns seriously and accompanied her for drinks at the Chateau Marmont.
The lawsuit claims Priscilla Presley disregarded her daughter Lisa Marie’s 2010 healthcare instructions, which clearly stated she wanted life-sustaining treatment extended for as long as possible. It alleges Priscilla made the decision to end life support just hours after Lisa Marie was hospitalized, and before her daughter Riley Keough could arrive.
Presley died from a small bowel obstruction caused by previous weight-loss surgery,
According to the lawsuit, Priscilla believed Lisa’s death ended Lisa’s attempts to have Priscilla removed as the sole trustee of Lisa’s life insurance trust. Ultimately, Priscilla desired to control both the Promenade Trust and Graceland.
According to court documents, Priscilla Presley stated at her home the week before Lisa Marie’s funeral, “I am the queen. I’m in charge of Graceland.”
Just two weeks after Lisa Marie Presley passed away, her mother, Priscilla Presley, contested the will, specifically challenging how it granted control of Lisa Marie’s substantial Promenade Trust to her daughter, Riley Keough.
Presley filed a legal challenge regarding a 2016 change to the Promenade Trust. This change removed her and her former manager, Barry Siegel, from their positions as trustees and instead appointed her cousin Keough and her late brother Benjamin as co-trustees.
The matter was settled five months later.
Kruse says she and Fialko worked very hard to secure a $2.4 million settlement for Presley and a multi-million dollar deal for Priscilla’s son, Navarone.
They said they were fired just before the agreement was completed and never received payment for the work they did.
Marty Singer, Elvis Presley’s lawyer, strongly condemned the lawsuit in a statement to the Daily Mail, calling it ‘shameful, ridiculous, and completely without merit.’
This is a cruel and unfair effort to damage the reputation of an eighty-year-old woman, clearly done in revenge for her decision to sue Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and those who helped them for their wrongdoing.
Kruse and her associates have gone through four different legal teams in this case, and their current actions appear to be a blatant attempt to gain media attention. This is suggested by the fact that they shared the lawsuit and a press statement with the media before officially filing the lawsuit with the court.
Blaming a mother who is grieving for her daughter’s death is cruel and unacceptable, not effective advocacy. These accusations are false and without merit, and we fully expect this case to be thrown out.
Over a year ago, Priscilla Presley filed a complaint stating that Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, along with others, deliberately tried to separate her from people she trusted and tricked her into signing agreements. Kruse claims these agreements gave them permanent control over Priscilla Presley’s name, image, and likeness, and required her to get their approval before taking any job or pursuing other opportunities.
The court, while ruling against a series of requests made by Kruse to avoid accountability, stated that if the accusations against her were accurate, her behavior would clearly constitute elder abuse.
Following losses in court cases in California and Florida, Kruse and her associates are now clearly trying to deflect attention by aggressively attacking their opponents, rather than defending themselves.
The current approach won’t succeed. Furthermore, it’s clear Kruse, Fialko, and their lawyers are dissatisfied with the judge’s decisions in their case, as they’re attempting to move the case to a different court hoping for a more favorable outcome.
Riley Keough fully supports her grandmother and is appalled by what she sees as another cruel effort by Kruse to harm her grandmother’s reputation.
The lawsuit also alleges that Keya Morgan, Stan Lee’s former manager who was found not guilty of stealing from Lee, was behind the accusations of elder abuse made against Kruse and Fialko by Presley.
Let me tell you, last year things got a little messy for Priscilla Presley. A businesswoman named Kruse actually sued her, claiming she was a real lifesaver back when Priscilla was facing some serious financial difficulties. Apparently, Kruse stepped in to manage both Priscilla’s business and personal life at a time when she was nearly broke and owed close to $700,000 in back taxes. It all boiled down to a disagreement over a contract, and Kruse felt she wasn’t properly compensated for her help.
Presley refuted the accusations and filed a lawsuit in July 2024 alleging ‘financial elder abuse.’ She claimed that Kruse, Fialko, Vahe Sislyan, and Lynn Walker Wright exploited her and stole over $1 million, but their lawyers have denied these claims.
Reports suggest Presley first contacted Kruse and Fialko in 2022 because she was experiencing significant financial difficulties.
According to the lawsuit, Kruse and Fialko helped revamp her finances, handle legal settlements, and significantly boosted her event earnings – from less than $10,000 to up to $50,000 per event.
The plaintiffs allege they created companies with Presley to capitalize on her name, image, and likeness, and they invested significant amounts of money in products, events, and marketing to rebuild her public image.
The lawsuit claims that Presley wrongly stated she owned the rights to her name, image, and likeness (NIL), when she had actually sold the rights to the Presley name and Graceland back in 2005 for $6.5 million.
She was accused of not telling Kruse and Fialko about this, and later said she simply forgot about the agreement.
Morgan is alleged to have become friends with Presley, intimidated Kruse, and convinced Presley to cut off contact with the plaintiffs by falsely claiming elder abuse.
Morgan reportedly reached out to Presley after their legal agreement, offering to help her regain control of her name, image, and likeness from Elvis Presley Enterprises, the company that handles Elvis’s estate and branding.
According to the lawsuit, after reaching a settlement in 2023, Presley ended her business relationship with Priscilla Presley Partners. The suit claims she then damaged their joint projects and started profiting from her own name, image, and likeness (NIL) independently, through events like NBC’s Christmas at Graceland, comic conventions, and promotions, without sharing any of the earnings.
Ms. Presley is alleged to have misused company funds by withdrawing money from bank accounts without permission, closing those accounts, and redirecting payments meant for others to her own use.
According to Jordan Matthews, the lawyer representing Kruse and Fialko, their lawsuit reveals the origin of Priscilla’s claim of elder abuse, as first reported by the Daily Mail.
Our evidence clearly shows the original idea came from Keya Morgan, now a co-defendant in this case. We believe his actions are akin to a comic book villain, and we intend to prove this case is a real-life story of devastation caused by one woman’s desperate and greedy behavior.
He stated that recordings and communications clearly show no evidence of wrongdoing, such as manipulation, force, or abuse of an older person. He confirmed it was simply a proper business agreement with full documentation.
The evidence will show my clients are the true victims in this case. They invested significant money and effort into rebuilding Priscilla Presley’s brand, but were then betrayed and falsely accused after they had successfully addressed all business and personal matters and secured funding.
We’re claiming that Priscilla began targeting Kruse and Fialko immediately, when she was struggling financially. She was dealing with significant debt to the IRS and several lawsuits, including ones filed by family members.
The lawsuit claims Priscilla had a broken relationship with her daughter for many years, well before Kruse and Fialko became involved. Kruse and Fialko invested a significant amount of money – seven figures – to revive Priscilla’s public image, fix her financial problems, resolve legal issues, and address personal family difficulties, all while trying to help her reconnect with her daughter. Despite this, Priscilla has responded by spreading false and damaging information about Kruse and Fialko.
The people suing are asking for over $50 million in compensation, including extra money meant to punish the defendant, and a court order preventing Presley from using their name, image, or identity in any way not specifically approved by their business agreement.
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Keya Morgan for comment and has yet to hear back.
According to documents filed in court in September 2023, Kruse stated that Presley was on the verge of running out of money – just about two months away from financial ruin – when Kruse stepped in to help manage her finances.
Kruse said that she and the actress began a company Priscilla Presley Partners in 2022.
Kruse testified that she invested considerable time and money into projects intended to benefit Priscilla Presley through publicity from the Sofia Coppola film *Priscilla*, which came out in October 2023.
In 2024, Priscilla Presley’s lawyer, Singer, stated that she stopped working with Kruse after discovering Kruse and a colleague were trying to steal her money and were involved in other improper activities.
In July 2024, Presley filed a lawsuit alleging that Kruse, Fialko, Sislyan, and Walker Wright financially exploited her and essentially forced her to work for them against her will as part of a carefully constructed and deeply disturbing plan.
Presley first encountered Kruse in 2021 when he was selling Elvis collectibles through an auction.
On August 27, 2021, Kruse shared a photo with Presley on Instagram, promoting a luncheon she was hosting in Beverly Hills, California, on September 4, 2021.
The lawsuit alleges that Kruse led Presley to believe her previous financial advisors were either dishonest or ineffective. Then, Kruse supposedly tricked her into signing agreements and establishing businesses that gave Kruse and her colleagues 80% of Presley’s earnings, leaving Presley with only 20% of the profits from her own company.
Presley alleges the group gave her only a small ownership stake in the businesses they formed, which then earned money using her public image and identity. The lawsuit also named Priscilla Presley Partners, LLC.
The lawsuit claims money from the 2023 movie *Priscilla*, featuring Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny, was also taken illegally, and it accuses Kruse of being a dishonest and compulsive liar.
Presley alleges that her former business partners sabotaged a potential agreement that would have given her a stake in a cosmetics company. Instead, she received a $300,000 payment, which she claims they kept for themselves.
The lawsuit alleged that these individuals opened new bank accounts for themselves, damaging Presley’s long-standing relationships with her banks. They also added themselves to her existing accounts, moved money around-including to their own personal accounts-and made unauthorized transactions that benefited them personally.
The lawsuit further alleges that Kruse and her colleagues improperly withdrew $40,000 from an account belonging to Navarone Garibaldi, attempted to negotiate deals concerning Lisa Marie Presley’s estate, and falsely billed Presley for moving and storage costs.
Presley filed a lawsuit against Kruse, seeking over $1 million in compensation and requesting that the contracts she signed with Kruse and others be cancelled.
Okay, so here’s the deal: I’ve been following this case, and the lawyers for Kruse and Fialko have explained to the Daily Mail that the lawsuit against them is actually a response to a suit Priscilla’s business partners filed first, last year. Essentially, they’re claiming it’s a case of getting back at them.
We believe the truth will come out and ultimately, justice will be served. It’s deeply upsetting to those of us who dedicated our time and resources to help someone in need, only to have them now try to harm the reputations of good, dedicated people.
Entrepreneur and Director of Operations for Kruse GWS Auctions, Kruse has a significant online presence with over 356,000 followers on Instagram.
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