Priscilla Presley contested the will of her late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, and asked the Los Angeles County Superior Court to determine the validity of the document.
Priscilla Presley filed a petition Thursday challenging the “authenticity and validity” of Lisa Marie Presley’s will. Reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the filing challenges a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie Presley’s will that allegedly stripped her former business executive Barry Siegel and Priscilla Presley as trustees and replaced them with her eldest children, Riley Keough, 33, and Benjamin Keough, 33. — who died in 2020 at the age of 27.
Priscilla Presley, along with Siegel, is currently one of the trustees of Lisa Marie Presley’s estate and intends to keep it that way, despite a 2016 amendment that purportedly names Riley and Benjamin Keough as sole trustees in the event of death their mother. Lisa Marie Presley died earlier this month after going into cardiac arrest at a home near Calabasas. The singer and the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was 54 years old.
The petition alleges that the amendment “purportedly signed by Lisa Marie Presley” misspelled her mother’s name and contains a signature that “appears inconsistent with [Lisa Marie Presley’s] ordinary and usual signature”. Priscilla Presley also claims that the 2016 amendment was never delivered to her during her daughter’s lifetime “as the express terms of the trust require,” and that the document was never witnessed or notarized.
In addition, the filings state that Priscilla Presley believes that Siegel “will or will soon resign as trustee” — in which case Riley Keough would be appointed as a trustee along with Priscilla Presley.
“Based on the foregoing, the purported 2016 amendment must be invalidated and the Trust as amended and fully restated in 2010 is the controlling and authoritative document and its terms apply,” the petition states.
Priscilla Presley’s plea comes less than a week after she and her family gathered at Graceland for a public funeral service in honor of Lisa Marie Presley. During a ceremony at Elvis Presley’s mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, Priscilla Presley read a poem written by one of Lisa Marie Presley’s daughters. (Lisa Marie Presley is survived by three daughters: Riley Keough, Harper Lockwood, 14, and Finley Lockwood, 14.)
“Thank you all for being here,” Priscilla Presley said at the service. “Our hearts are broken, Lisa. We all love you.”
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