A brand new submitting in a lawsuit introduced by two of Priscilla Presley’s former enterprise associates, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, features a wild new declare: that Elvis’s granddaughter Riley Keough is allegedly the organic mom of John Travolta’s youngest son.
Tuesday’s submitting, which was obtained by The Reduce, claims that Michael Lockwood — the ex-husband of Priscilla and Elvis Presley’s late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley — informed one of many defendants that Travolta’s spouse, Kelly Preston, “had been unable to bear her personal youngsters” and that the couple approached the Presley household to request an egg donation in 2010. (Preston died of breast most cancers in 2020 at age 57.)
The go well with claims that Travolta and Preston “beforehand used Lisa Marie’s eggs to get pregnant” however didn’t need to use hers once more, “as a result of they didn’t need ‘eggs with heroin.’” (Lisa Marie, who died in 2023, had spoken brazenly about her battle with opioid habit.) As a substitute, the go well with claims, the 2 households “orchestrated a deal” during which Lisa Marie’s daughter, actress Riley Keough, “gave her eggs to Travolta, in order that Kelly might give delivery to their son, Ben Travolta,” who was born in 2010. Keough, who would have been 20 on the time, was purportedly “given an outdated Jaguar and paid between $10,000 –$20,000 for the deal.”
The lawsuit doesn’t make any claims about whether or not both of Travolta and Preston’s different two youngsters, Jett and Ella, had been really conceived utilizing Lisa Marie’s eggs. Lisa Marie was mates with Travolta and Preston for years; in 2009, after the demise of their son, Jett, Lisa Marie defended the couple’s ties to Scientology, describing them as her “superb mates.” (Lisa Marie was an lively Scientologist for many years, having joined after Travolta launched Priscilla to the church within the wake of Elvis’s demise, Priscilla wrote in her memoir.)
Tuesday’s submitting is a part of a way more difficult breach-of-contract lawsuit towards Navarone Garcia, Priscilla’s son and Lisa Marie’s half-brother. For over a 12 months now, Priscilla, who’s 80, has been locked in a bitter authorized battle with Kruse and Fialko over a enterprise dispute; Kruse and Fialko sued her for fraud and breach of contract in 2023, and Priscilla then filed her personal lawsuit, accusing them of monetary elder abuse. Per her web site, Kruse is a “fifth-generation auctioneer” who focuses on movie star memorabilia and has “labored carefully with the Presley household.” Fialko is an entrepreneur and an Elvis-memorabilia collector, in line with earlier authorized filings. It’s unclear precisely why they included the egg-donation declare in what is essentially an unrelated lawsuit, however Kruse and Fialko cited it for instance of the “fixed chaos” they had been apparently attempting to handle within the household.
In an announcement to Us Weekly, Marty Singer, an legal professional for Priscilla, slammed the defendants as “shameful,” saying these “outrageous allegations have completely nothing to do with the claims on this case.” “Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their co-conspirators have demonstrated that there is no such thing as a bar too low, no moral line that they’re unwilling to cross in an effort to trigger additional ache to Priscilla Presley and her household,” he added.
Life & Fashion has reached out to Singer and representatives for Keough and Travolta and can replace this publish if we hear again.
