Priscilla Presley contests validity of Lisa Marie's will

Priscilla Presley, rock'n'roll fable Elvis Presley's ex-wife, has filed a ineligible situation to the validity of their precocious daughter's will.

Lisa Marie Presley, the couple's lone child, died astatine the property of 54 connected 12 January aft a cardiac arrest.

The tribunal petition disputes a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie's volition that ousted Priscilla arsenic the property trustee.

The papers misspelled her mother's sanction and had a signature that appeared unusual, Ms Presley's lawyers argue.

In a filing to the Los Angeles Superior Court, lawyers for the 77-year-old said that she lone became alert of the "purported 2016 amendment" aft Lisa Marie's death.

The amendment successful question removes her parent and her erstwhile concern manager, Barry Siegel, arsenic co-trustees and replaces them with her children Riley, 33, and Benjamin Keough.

Benjamin Keough died successful 2020 astatine the property of 27. Riley Keough is an histrion with credits including 2020 movie The Devil All the Time and the Amazon bid The Terminal List.

According to the ineligible challenge, Ms Presley argues that the amendment was ne'er delivered to her during her daughter's lifetime, arsenic specifically required by the will.

The amendment to Lisa Marie's volition besides "misspells her mother's name" and bears a signature by Lisa Marie that "appears inconsistent with her accustomed and customary signature", says the tribunal filing seen by the BBC.

Her lawyers besides reason that the amendment was neither witnessed nor notarised.

"Based connected the foregoing, the Purported 2016 Amendment should beryllium deemed invalid and the Trust, arsenic amended and wholly restated successful 2010 is the controlling and authoritative papers and its presumption administered," the petition reads.

The ineligible enactment comes little than a week aft the surviving household of Lisa Marie Presley attended a nationalist memorial work for her astatine the family's Graceland property successful Memphis, Tennessee.

At the service, Priscilla work a poem that she said was written by 1 of Lisa Marie's 3 daughters. All 3 of them, including Riley, were contiguous for the service.

Lisa Marie's origin of decease has not yet been revealed by the Los Angeles County coroner.