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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2023 20:55:17 GMT
Lisa Marie Presley isn't Priscilla Presley's only child. More than a decade after her divorce from Elvis Presley, Priscilla welcomed her second child, a son named Navarone Garibaldi Garcia, in 1987 with her then-partner, Marco Garibaldi. In the wake of Lisa Marie's death, Navarone opens up to 'People' about his life and family.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2023 18:50:19 GMT
Priscilla Presley mourns Lisa Marie on what would have been her 55th birthday. In a statement to ET, she offers her wish for the Presley family amid the solemn milestone. This comes after ET learned Priscilla is contesting Lisa Marie's will, which names her granddaughter, Riley Keough, as the sole trustee.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2023 22:11:53 GMT
Riley Keough "is disappointed" that Priscilla Presley is challenging Lisa Marie Presley's trust. A source tells ET that Riley feels that Priscilla's challenge to the late Lisa Marie's will goes against "her mom's wishes."
"Riley wants to keep the family together and keep Lisa Marie's legacy in a positive light, but she feels that her grandmother's actions are pushing the family apart even more," the source says. "It's upsetting to her as she does want to have a relationship with Priscilla, but at this point in time they are not close."
As for Lisa Marie, the source says that she "did not have a healthy or close relationship" with Priscilla prior to her death, adding that things were "very complicated" between them.
"Lisa Marie was struggling, and it definitely put a strain on her relationship with her mother," the source says. "Lisa Marie always felt Priscilla was trying to have control over her."
Given that, the source says that Lisa Marie "always meant for her children to inherit her trust." Lisa Marie was also mom to Benjamin, who died in July 2020.
"Lisa always wanted Riley and Benjamin to be the beneficiaries of the trust and that was no secret," the source says, adding that the late singer's "children meant the world to her, and she would do anything for them."
Following Lisa Marie's death on Jan. 12, her rep confirmed to ET that Graceland, the former home of her father, Elvis Presley, would go to her three daughters: 33-year-old Riley, and 14-year-old twins Harper and Finley.
It later came to light that Riley and Benjamin were named co-trustees of Lisa Marie's trust in 2016. However, Priscilla is contesting "the authenticity and validity" of Riley's appointment, claiming that "there are many issues surrounding" it.
Amid the legal challenge, Joel Weinshanker, a Managing Partner at Elvis Presley Enterprises, spoke out in favor of Riley maintaining her trustee role in the wake of Lisa Marie's death.
"When Elvis passed away, he left everything to his little girl. He did so knowing that she would be the one to keep his legacy going," he said during an appearance on SiriusXM's Elvis Radio. "I can tell you that [Lisa Marie] has, without falter, no matter what else was happening in her life, in her career, always been the one to look at what was best for Elvis... regardless of what somebody else was trying to do, regardless of what another family member [was trying to] do."
"We just want to think about what Lisa would've wanted and that's what's best for Elvis. She never had a doubt in her mind that that's Riley," Joel added. "There's no question on anyone's mind [because] Lisa had spoken [about] it, there's numerous amounts of written information, she had talked to so many of her friends about it. There was never a question, and anybody who's speaking differently isn't looking out for Elvis, isn't looking out for Lisa, certainly isn't looking out for Riley."
In a statement to ET on Friday, Priscilla spoke out about the situation.
"I loved Elvis very much as he loved me. Lisa is a result of our love," Priscilla said. "For anyone to think anything differently would be a travesty of the family legacy and would be disrespectful of what Elvis left behind in his life."
"There is an individual that bought their way into the family enterprise that is trying to speak on behalf of our family. This person is not a representative of Elvis or our family," she added, without sharing whom she was referring to. "Please allow us the time we need to work together and sort this out. Please ignore 'the noise.' As I have always been there for Elvis' legacy, our family and the fans, I will continue to forge a pathway forward with respect, honesty, dignity, integrity and love."
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2023 18:48:06 GMT
Austin Butler chokes back tears over Lisa Marie Presley during an interview on ‘Sunday TODAY With Willie Geist,’ airing Feb. 19 on NBC.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2023 4:39:02 GMT
Elvis Presley’s estate is currently embroiled in a lawsuit between the late King of Rock and Roll’s ex-wife Priscilla and granddaughter Riley Keough.
Jerry Schilling, one of the legendary singer’s closest friends, told People Magazine how he hopes to see the singer’s legacy unfold in the wake of his only child, Lisa Marie Presley’s death.
According to Schilling, preserving Elvis’ Memphis home, Graceland, is key.
“I would like for Graceland itself to stay as it has for the last 45 years, as a piece of history captured in time,” Schilling, 81, said of the tourist attraction that has an estimated net worth of $500 million.
“I’d like to see it as Elvis left it, as he decorated it, for the generations of the Presley children. It’s the White House of rock and roll.
Lisa Marie Presley passed on January 12th, 2023, due to a sudden cardiac arrest, two days after she attended the Golden Globe Awards.
Soon after the funeral, Lisa Marie’s mother Priscilla, 77, filed a lawsuit against her eldest daughter, Riley Keough, 33.
The grandmother filed a petition querying the “authenticity and validity” of a 2016 amendment to the deceased’s living trust that ousted her and Lisa Marie’s former business manager as trustees. Instead, it gave control to her two eldest grandchildren – Riley and Benjamin (Lisa Marie’s son who died in 2020 aged 27).
Talking about Elvis’ legacy, Schilling shared that Elvis “wasn’t that kind of person” to think about the future.
“He didn’t think about longevity, old age,” he said. “He used to always say, ‘Look, I don’t want to hoard up this money. I want to spend it while we’re young.’ And he was known to give a lot of gifts.”
However, what was important to Elvis was his daughter, who “ruled Graceland” when she was just “6,7 years old.” Noting that Elvis spoiled Lisa Marie while Priscilla “had to be the disciplinarian,” he added, “They had a great chemistry. There was a real father/daughter love there.”
When Elvis died in 1977, his estate was only worth $5 million. He left his dad Vernon as his will's executor and Lisa Marie as his heir. But when Vernon died in 1979, Priscilla became the estate’s co-executor. And it was she – who divorced Elvis in 1973 – who turned Graceland into the profitable tourist attraction that it is today, according to People.
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