Priscilla Presley is taking her ex-associates to court, citing financial elder abuse.
According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Priscilla Presley is suing her former business associates for damages of over $1 million. Presley’s attorney, Marty Singer, has filed the lawsuit, alleging that a women named Brigitte Kruse and several others who worked alongside Presley exploited her, resulting in financial elder abuse.
In the legal filings, submitted on Thursday, July 18, Presley describes Kruse as a “con artist and pathological liar.” She says that over the time of working together, Kruse manipulated her finances and coerced her into a “form of indentured servitude.”
Presley and Kruse first crossed paths in 2021 when Kruse was running a business selling Elvis memorabilia through an auction house.
Presley alleges that her relationship with Kruse provided her with the opportunity to manipulate her. According to the lawsuit, Kruse convinced Presley that her previous financial advisors were either “deceitful or incompetent,” leading her to sign contracts and establish companies that permitted Kruse and her associates to claim 80% of her income. As a result, Presley states that she ended up with only a small share in businesses associated with her name, including the 2023 box office hit Priscilla from A24.
Presley also alleges that her former business partners intentionally sabotaged a deal that would have granted her a share in a cosmetics company. Instead, they accepted a $300,000 upfront payment, which Presley claims they deposited into bank accounts that were exclusively under their control.
This isn’t the first legal dispute between Presley and Kruse. Kruse had previously sued Presley for breach of contract, claiming that she had helped Presley avoid bankruptcy in 2022 but was abruptly cut off last year.
This conflict follows a recent issue involving Graceland, which was entangled in a foreclosure scam.
In May, there were concerns about the potential foreclosure of the former home of Elvis Presley. A legal notice claimed that Lisa Marie Presley had used Graceland as collateral to secure a $3.8 million loan from a Missouri company called Naussany Investments and Private Lending. The company alleged that Lisa Marie had not repaid the loan before her death, leading to the threat of foreclosure on the mansion.
Riley Keough, Elvis’ granddaughter and current owner of the estate, along with her legal team, swiftly responded to the notice, asserting that the claims were fraudulent. Eventually, it was revealed that the scam was orchestrated by an unnamed individual from Nigeria.