What's Going On With That Strange Lawsuit Against Priscilla Presley (and Weird Allegations About Riley Keough?)

Priscilla Presley has been the focus of a number of weird lawsuits in recent years. Two people in particular have been dragging her through the courts for over a year now, suing her for allegedly breaching their business contracts.

In a $50 million legal complaint (via People), Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko alleged they were not paid for services administered to Presley and that their working relationship was severed by Presley’s son, Navarone Garibaldi Garcia. The suit is, frankly, weird and kind of gross. In it, they claim that Presley and her family “clamored for control of the estate and for pay-outs” after the death of her daughter Lisa Marie. The suit largely seems to be a way for the accusers to try and embarrass Presley by revealing alleged troubles in her family life. The latest accusation, however, is particularly wild.

In an amended complaint that was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on December 16th, Kruse and Fialko claim that Presley’s granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, was the egg donor to John Travolta and Kelly Preston for their youngest son, Ben. Kruse claimed that Lisa Marie’s fourth husband Michael Lockwood told her he had orchestrated a deal for Keough to be the donor in exchange for between $10-20,000 and an old Jaguar car. Lockwood also allegedly said that Travolta and Preston had previously used Lisa Marie as an egg donor. The complaint alleges that Lockwood wanted the pair to use this allegation to “orchestrate a settlement for him and his daughters” (he and Lisa Marie had twin girls.)

Real scumbag stuff there from Lisa Marie’s ex. Just grossness all the way down.

In August 2024, Presley sued the duo for $1 million in damages for alleged financial elder abuse. Her legal team responded to this recent revelation by saying:

“After losing motion after motion in this case, and unsuccessfully seeking to have Presley’s counsel of record, Marty Singer, disqualified from representing her in this matter, Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their co-conspirators have demonstrated that there is no bar too low, no ethical line that they are unwilling to cross in an effort to cause further pain to Priscilla Presley and her family.

Whatever the case, it certainly seems that Kruse and Fialko are playing a dirty game. If their issue with Priscilla was solely business-based then there would be no need to drag Riley or Lisa Marie into this. It’s especially creepy to make these claims about Riley being an egg donor to the Travoltas. Even if that is true, what does it have to do with Priscilla? It’s all about embarrassing an 80-year-old woman into giving them money, in my opinion. Because Scientology might be involved — both the Presleys and the Travoltas are or were at some point in their lives members of the church — this detail feels as though it was added to make Priscilla seem untrustworthy and calculating. Shouldn’t the bigger issue be a 21-year-old being possibly set up as a reproductive donor by a cult for one of their most famous supporters? And, again, this still has nothing to do with Priscilla Presley’s business dealings.

Seeing this lawsuit be picked up by legitimate publications like People only serves to make the case seem more legitimate. It’s deeply unfair for Riley, who has been through hell and back with the deaths of her mother and brother, and who is now the focus of a lot of vultures because of her status as sole owner of Graceland. If ever there was a family that needed peace, it’s the Presley-Keoughs.