Just weeks after the sudden death of Lisa Marie Presley, news emerged that her daughter and mother had become embroiled in a dispute over her estate. According to Yahoo! News, Priscilla Presley had questioned the validity of an amendment from 2016 which appointed Riley and Benjamin Keough as co-trustees and removed Barry Siegel, her ex-business manager, from the same position.
This change meant that Priscilla had no input into her late daughter’s financial matters, which included a stake of 15 percent in Elvis Presley Enterprises and the famous Graceland residence, and due to the suicide of Benjamin in 2020, also left Riley as the sole trustee. Apparently, the widow of Elvis Presley was also unaware about this development until after Lisa Marie had died.
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The fact that this was brought up while the family were still grieving was said to have further incurred the wrath of Riley: a petition was filed just four days after Lisa Marie’s memorial. But when asked about the apparent war in April 2023, Priscilla insisted, slightly unconvincingly, that everything was all hunky dory and that her granddaughter was “great.” A month later, she and Riley’s lawyers came to an agreement, with unveiled documents revealing that Priscilla would be given a $1 million payment plus $400,000 in legal fees.
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