'Lisa would be pissed!' Lisa Marie Presley's pals fume at mom Priscilla's attempts to pry away estate
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA: Lisa Marie Presley’s death has opened a whole new can of worms, now that her mother Priscilla has made a move to gain control of the Presley family’s Graceland estate. It has now come to light that the wife and daughter of musical legend, Elvis, had not been on good terms for eight years before her death and that they were "estranged." Presley's friends reportedly said, “Lisa would be pissed,” at her mother’s attempts to pry the estate away from her children- actress Riley Keough and teenaged twins, Finley and Harper.
The move to gain control of Elvis' estate comes as Priscilla had questioned a 2016 amendment to Presley's trust, from which she had removed both Priscilla and her former manager Barry Siegel as trustees, only to replace them with her children, daughter Keough and now deceased son, Benjamin. According to RadarOnline, Priscilla reportedly stated that she had been kept in the dark about the change and argued that the signatures may be falsified, stating that the signature in the paperwork was "inconsistent with her usual and customary signature."
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With the public understandably riled up about the tug of war for the property worth millions so soon after Presley's death, the outrage forced Priscilla to issue a statement, asking people to "ignore the noise" and give the family the time they needed to "work together and sort this out."
Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla had a complicated relationship
A friend of Presley reportedly said that Priscilla did not even renew her contract with Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2020. Further, the friend had also revealed that the relationship between the mother and daughter had been so fraught that they did not want be near each other at public events. "Lisa didn’t want to have anything to do with her mom… She was basically estranged from Priscilla for the last seven to eight years. They only talked when there was no option," the friend said, adding, "They were made to sit together by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association … Lisa didn’t even go with Priscilla, Jerry Schilling [a longtime Elvis friend] was her chaperone. The HFP pushed [mother and daughter] together."
Sources reportedly said, "She would be so upset that Priscilla is doing this. Riley is an amazing trustee … and Lisa’s youngest daughters are in the best of hands with her...I know with Lisa and Priscilla that they always had a strange relationship. They were often estranged."