Priscilla Presley Talks Elvis & Lisa Marie; Estate Settlement Revealed & More Presley Family Updates
. @piersmorgan: Tearful Priscilla Presley reveals anguish of losing Elvis, Lisa Marie, mom and grandson, and what she really thinks about Michael Jackson https://t.co/xXUvUpDEe8 pic.twitter.com/IotcA5VXuj
- New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2023
Priscilla Presley sat down with P**rs M*rg*n to talk about her famous family for promotion of the Priscilla movie.
• In the last three years, Priscilla has lost her grandson, mother, and daughter: "It was unbearable...I lost my mother, I lost my grandson, and I lost my daughter. It’s still shocking that we don’t have her. It’s like a large part of your life is taken away."
• On criticism of her relationship with Elvis, which started when she was 14 and he 24: "I understand, but there were always people around, and he never, ever, ever, ever was aggressive, nor did he ever make love to me. I was somehow someone he trusted to talk to and pour his heart out."
• She still misses Elvis: "I miss him very much. I miss his words, I miss his love, I miss his laugh, I miss his energy, I miss the fun times. You don’t really realize the fun times that you are having, until you go back and look at your albums and your pictures and you go, ‘Oh my God, we had so much fun, we did so much.’ It’s still there...I don’t listen to (his) songs very often because I go into another place, but sometimes I am a little surprised at myself that I still get emotional, and love is still there. He is still so present."
• On the last time she saw Lisa Marie at the Golden Globes: "She didn’t look well that night, and I was concerned. She asked Jerry Schilling, one of my best friends, if he could hold her. Her heels were high, but she had worn them before, and I thought, ‘Is she OK?’ She didn’t really look that OK - she looked very frail. Then we watched the show, and we had a few laughs, and we were all excited about Austin Butler and Baz...
We both had our high heels on and both of us tripped on the staircase, and we started laughing and giggling, then we went and sat down, and she said, ‘Mom, I have to go, my stomach really hurts.’ I go, ‘Of course, are you OK?’ She goes, ‘Yes, yes, I just really have to go.’ And I go, ‘OK, we will get the cars now'...Then I hugged her, and she went her way, and I went mine, and that hug was the last hug I gave her."
Lisa's ex-husband Danny (father of Riley and Benjamin), whom she was living with, called Priscilla at the hospital to tell her to come but by the time she got there, Lisa Marie was gone.
• Priscilla cries when discussing Lisa Marie feeling suicidal months before her death: "Losing Ben was the hardest thing for her. He took his own life, and he was the love of her life, that child, she adored him. She would do anything for him, anything. And we were in Memphis, sitting up in the suite, and she said, ‘Mom, I don’t know if I want to be here,’ and I go, ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘You know, my Ben,’ and she would go on about Ben and how she is still grieving, and this was a couple of months before.
[Did she seriously want to take her own life?] I think so. She really, she was almost like, she wanted to go earlier, but the twins were still young, or too young, let’s put it that way."
• On Michael Jackson: "I was honest with her. I remember being in Hawaii and we were walking together on the beach, and she said, ‘Mom, I’m really concerned,’ this is while they were married, and she said, ‘I never see him. He is always gone.’ I go, ‘Where does he go?’ She goes, ‘I don’t know, I don’t know where he goes. He will call me maybe three or four days later.’ I said, ‘Well don’t you ask him where he is going?’ She goes, ‘Just said he has things to do.'
I always felt that Michael Jackson loved Elvis, or respected Elvis, so I always felt that having the name, associated with the name with his daughter, I was concerned. I told her [that was his main motivation]...don’t get me wrong, I thought he was very talented, truly talented, but I never really got to know him.
[Would have preferred him not to marry your daughter?] Yes, just because I felt that he was so intrigued about Elvis.
[Was he with her because she was Lisa or because she was a Presley?] I think more because she was a Presley.”
• On granddaughter Riley, whom she challenged over Lisa Marie's decision to make Riley sole trustee of the estate: "I love her. We have always gotten along. It was a little bit of trying to figure out the will, like you normally do, but Riley and I have always been close. I think Riley will be great, she has asked me a few things about what to do. I want to help her with Graceland. She has a great head on her shoulders. I trust her."
• Will she be buried at Graceland? "Yes."
Judge Approves Riley Keough and Priscilla Presley's Settlement, Confirming Priscilla's $1M Payment and Burial Near Elvis https://t.co/RyMxwyTjAc
- People (@people) November 1, 2023
The settlement between Riley Keough, Priscilla and father of Riley's twin sisters Michael Lockwood has been approved by a judge with unredacted documents.
Days after Lisa Marie’s funeral in January, Priscilla filed a petition contesting the “authenticity and validity” of a 2016 amendment Lisa Marie had made that removed Presley and her former business manager as co-trustees, and put things in the hands of Lisa Marie’s children instead. The case was settled in July.
• In addition to a $1 million lump sum payment funded by Lisa Marie’s $25 million life insurance to back off, Priscilla will receive $100k annually from Riley for her role as special advisor of the trust related to its shareholder interest in Elvis Presley Enterprises, a non-fiduciary role. The payments, which will be doled out in monthly installments, are guaranteed for 10 years or until Priscilla’s death, regardless of whether Riley ever terminates Priscilla’s role as special advisor.
• Riley will be in charge of the sub-trusts of her 15-year-old half-sisters Harper and Finley Lockwood with their dad, Lisa Marie’s ex-husband Michael Lockwood, signing off on the arrangement on their behalf.
• As beneficiaries, Riley, Harper and Finley will all equally split 8/9s of Lisa Marie’s trust, while Priscilla’s son Navarone Garibaldi will receive the remaining 1/9 (which will be controlled by attorney Martin Singer).
• Priscilla also received a one-time payment of $50,000 when she resigned as co-trustee of Lisa Marie’s irrevocable trust in May.
• Riley will also pay $300,000 to cover Priscilla's legal fees relating to the petition. As part of the deal, Priscilla waives all rights to Lisa Marie's trust.
• The settlement also says Riley “agrees to use her best efforts to ask Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., or any successor therof, not to pursue litigation against Priscilla related to her name, image and likeness.”
• As for Priscilla’s burial plans, the documents indicate that both she and Riley “desire for Priscilla to be buried at Graceland,” and that her burial location in the Meditation Garden will be as close to Elvis as possible without moving any existing gravesite. The settlement says Riley also agrees to include Navarone in the planning of any memorial service, plus anyone Priscilla names as her executor and anyone she names in her will as someone she wants to participate.
• "Conflict among high net-worth family members sometimes begins after the death of a family leader," says probate attorney David A. Esquibias. "In that event, typically the deceased family member's estate plan has become irrevocable due to his or her death. If a post death settlement is reached among the warring family members, it typically involves a change to the deceased person's irrevocable estate plan requiring the approval of the court."
• Everything's now publicly chill between Keough, Presley and Lockwood.
Priscilla's precious son Navarone was on the Growing Up Scientology channel where he barely talked about Scientology and spent his time trashing Lisa Marie.
Click to view• Both Riley and Priscilla are not Scientologists, and are able to get away and still hang out with Scientologists because they haven't confirmed they left and they don't bad mouth the cult [note: former Scientologists have already disputed Priscilla because she apparently wore a Scientology pin recently? Cannot confirm or deny]
• He confirms Lisa Marie and Priscilla were not close.
• He has no good memories of Lisa Marie.
• Riley is an angel and he loves her deeply. He's shocked she ended up so wonderful considering her mother.
• Doesn't say anything about the legal dispute between Priscilla and Riley, nor about receiving money from the estate while trashing his sister.
• Priscilla, like Lisa Marie, does/did not like scientology leader David Miscaviage or Tom Cruise.
• As a teen, Lisa Marie would have her bodyguard trail him so she could tattle to Priscilla (lol).
• Dakota Johnson is a bitch.
• He did not attend Lisa Marie's private funeral a day before the public one.
• He likes twins Harper and Finley but they have to grow up to see what kind of people they are.
• I'm NOT going to bother repeating his trashing and stories of Lisa Marie because she's not here to defend, explain or confirm anything and he's actually lied about a lot over the years. For example, he claims Lisa Marie and his father conspired against Priscilla without giving any further information. What he is omitting is she was seeking information on money Lisa Marie felt was being stolen and his father testified against Priscilla. Priscilla lost the case and had to repay Lisa Marie an undisclosed amount of money.
• He was apparently on Instagram Live after the interview laughing over text message with Michael Lockwood over what he said about Lisa Marie.
And finally, Riley keeps dying her hair from black to red to black again.
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