Priscilla Presley has had a lot on her plate lately, and that was apparent as she strolled around her gated Los Angeles community with her beloved little dog Boogie.
Elvis’s 79-year-old ex-wife stepped out with her cherry-tinted hair tied up, in an all-black outfit and a matching black facemask that was pulled down to her chin.
And while Boogie sniffed around, his owner on the other end of the leash had a look that showed she was dealing with her own emotional and legal challenges.
Clutching a coffee cup in her other hand, her face was pensive, possibly due to her ongoing elder abuse lawsuit in which she claims her business partners stole $1million from her.
In the latest move in the case against Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, Vahe Sislyan and Lynn Walker Wright, Priscilla won the right to have the proceedings heard in California rather than Florida
Priscilla’s latest nightmare allegedly began when she met Kruse, who ran a business selling Elvis memorabilia through an auction house, the filing claimed.
Priscilla Presley, 79, was spotted walking her dog Boogie around her gated Los Angeles neighborhood just a few weeks after her most recent filing in her elder abuse case
The ex-wife of superstar singer Elvis appeared pensive as she strolled around holding a coffee cup which could be due to her most recent filing on March 20 where she alleged her former business associates took $1million of her earnings
Priscilla stepped out with her cherry-dyed hair tied up, an all-black outfit and a matching black facemask that was pulled down to her chin
She claimed Kruse convinced her to discard her former financial advisors who they said were ‘deceitful and incompetent’, before allegedly convincing her to sign contracts and form companies under her name.
But under this guise, Priscilla was allegedly signing away 80 percent of her income to Kruse and her associates.
Priscilla claimed the group left her with minority shares in companies they created which profited off her ‘name, image and likeness’. The lawsuit also names Priscilla Presley Partners, LLC.
The lawsuit alleges $500,000 in funds from the 2023 biopic Priscilla, which starred Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny, was also misappropriated and branded Kruse a ‘con artist and pathological liar’.
Priscilla also claimed the group ‘torpedoed’ a deal for the star to get an ownership interest in Cilla cosmetics company, but instead settled for $300,000, which allegedly went straight into their bank accounts.
In the most recent filing, Priscilla revealed the jaw-dropping amount the group is said to have stolen from her – more than $1million from ’34 paid appearances worldwide’ that were collected in just a year.
The nightmare for Priscilla allegedly began when she met Brigitte Kruse in 2021, who ran a business selling Elvis memorabilia through an auction house, the filing claimed
It’s been a tough few weeks for Priscilla who took to Instagram in March to reveal that Elvis’ nurse, who cared for him at the end of his life, Marian Cocke had passed away
Priscilla’s daughter Lisa Marie died suddenly in 2023 due to a bowel obstruction, only three years after her grandson Benjamin Keough committed suicide at age 27
Priscilla, who divorced Elvis in 1973, four years before his death, also alleged that Kruse and her associates had begun a ‘barraging’ campaign against her ‘contractual partners, associates, personal assistants and family members’ with cease and desist letters in an attempt to stop them from doing business with her.
Florida-based Kruse, who auctioned multiple Elvis-owned items including the gun he bought in 1973 after he was attacked onstage, has also taken her own measures against Priscilla with a lawsuit filed in February for breach of contract.
According to the memorabilia dealer, she was Priscilla’s financial savior, swooping in when she was ’60 days away from financial collapse’ and had outstanding tax debts of $700,000.
The new moves in the case come just a month after Priscilla announced that Marian Cocke, who nursed Elvis in his last months had passed away.
It marks a tragic pattern of loss for Priscilla who lost her ex in 1977, her grandson Benjamin Keough from suicide at age 27 in 2020 and then her daughter Lisa Marie Presley in 2023 at the age of 54 following a bowel obstruction.
Priscilla was born in Brooklyn but moved around the country since her stepfather Paul Beaulieu was a US Air Force officer. They eventually moved to Wiesbaden, in what was then West Germany.
When Priscilla moved to Wiesbaden, West Germany, she met 24-year-old Elvis, who was there to serve out his military service, at a party at his villa – she was only 14
The two kept in contact when the singer left the country in 1960 but she eventually moved to Graceland with the permission of her parents
Priscilla married Elvis in 1966 and had their daughter Lisa Marie just nine months after the wedding
It was there she met a 24-year-old Elvis, who was there to serve out his military service, at a party at his villa.
The two kept in contact when the singer left the country in 1960 but she eventually moved to Graceland with the permission of her parents and the two were married in 1966 – having their daughter Lisa Marie just nine months after the wedding.
Their romance captured the eyes of America, captivated by the eye-raising age difference and the concept of a small-town girl being swept off her feet by a superstar.
Its darker parts have even made its way onto the Hollywood big screen with director Sofia Coppola’s 2023 biopic Priscilla, which was inspired by her 1985 memoir Elvis and Me.
Priscilla’s romance with Elvis was riddled with affairs, drugs and competing to monopolize some of his limited time while he toured across the country at the height of his fame.
She had her own extra marital dalliances, starting a secret romance with her karate teacher Mike Stone who she continued to see after until 1975.
Priscilla’s romance with Elvis was riddled with affairs, drugs and competing to monopolize some of his limited time while he toured across the country
Priscilla started a secret romance with her karate teacher Mike Stone who she continued to see after her divorce from Elvis until 1975
Priscilla at a press conference advocating for Memphis music preservation on March 10. The judge on her case recently ruled in her favor that the hearing would be held in California as opposed to Florida which Kruse’s team was gunning for
Not everyone agreed with the depiction of Elvis, especially their daughter Lisa Marie, who emailed Coppola multiple times about what she felt was a ‘shockingly vengeful and contemptuous’ depiction of her father only four months before her death.
Lisa Marie also said the family was still reeling from the devastating death of her son Benjamin Keough who killed himself with a shotgun in 2020 after arguing with his girlfriend Diana Pinto in the backyard of their home.
Her marriage to Elvis wasn’t the only romance that had dark implications. Priscilla’s six-year live-in relationship with model Michael Edwards resulted in Lisa Marie coming forward years later to allege he began sexually abusing her at age 10.
Priscilla had a calmer relationship with Brazilian screenwriter-turned-computer-programmer Marco Antonio Garcia with whom she had her son Navarone Garibaldi.
The pair lived together for 22 years after meeting in 1984.
Other big names Presley was entangled with actor Peter Lawford, photographer Terry O’Neill, and Kim, Khloe and Kourtney’s father Robert Kardashian.
Priscilla had her son Navarone Garibaldi with Brazilian screenwriter-turned-computer-programmer Marco Antonio Garcia, who she live with for 22 years
When Lisa Marie died in 2023, her daughter, actress Riley Keough, who inherited the Graceland estate, became embroiled in a legal battle with Priscilla who challenged the her late daughter’s will
And aside from her current ongoing legal battle, she also battled with her own family after Lisa Marie passed away for the rights to the Graceland estate.
When Lisa Marie pdied, her daughter, actress Riley Keough, became the sole inheritor of the 13.8-acre Tennessee property.
But only days after the funeral, Priscilla challenged her daughter’s will by filing a petition questioning the ‘authenticity and validity’ of an amendment to her daughter’s living trust.
The battle was ended in a settlement and Priscilla went to the media to insist the situation had ended amicably within the family.
