Priscilla Presley has filed a authorized problem disputing the validity of daughter Lisa Marie‘s will.

Lisa Marie, singer-songwriter and solely baby of Elvis, died on the age of 54 earlier this month following a cardiac arrest.

Within the court docket court docket submitting, Priscilla disputes an modification to Lisa Marie’s residing belief – a authorized association that enables individuals to resolve how belongings are managed and whereas they’re alive, however distributed after their dying – that ousted Priscilla and a former enterprise supervisor, Barry Siegel, as trustees.

The “purported” modification named Lisa Marie’s kids Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough as “as successor co-trustees of the belief” upon her dying. Benjamin died in 2020, aged 27.

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Priscilla Presley speaks at Lisa Marie Presley’s memorial service. Credit score: Jason Kempin/Getty Photographs for ABA

Priscilla’s legal professionals declare that had been “many points surrounding the authenticity and validity” of the modification, together with a misspelling of Priscilla’s title supposedly signed by her daughter, and a failure to inform her of the change.

The signature by Lisa Marie additionally “seems inconsistent together with her ordinary and customary signature”, based on the court docket submitting (through BBC).

Attorneys additionally stated she solely turned conscious of the 2016 modification after Lisa Marie’s dying.

“Primarily based on the foregoing, the Purported 2016 Modification needs to be deemed invalid and the Belief, as amended and fully restated in 2010 is the controlling and authoritative doc and its phrases administered,” the petition reads.

Earlier this month it was reported that Lisa Marie’s surviving three kids – actor Riley Keough, 33, and twins Harper and Finley Lockwood, 14 – will reportedly inherit her Graceland property.

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The late singer’s public memorial service was held on January 22, the place Alanis Morissette, Billy Corgan and Axl Rose had been amongst these to pay tribute.

The memorial service befell on the entrance garden of the Presley household’s Graceland house and museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

On the ceremony Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough revealed that Lisa Marie had simply develop into a grandmother throughout an emotional memorial tribute.

Priscilla Presley has since taken to Twitter to thank followers for his or her overwhelming help.

“Thanks all in your condolences, you have got touched me along with your phrases. It has been a really tough time however simply realizing your love is on the market makes a distinction,” she wrote.



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