Priscilla Presley’s Former Partners Still Plan to ‘Vigorously Pursue’ $50 Million Lawsuit After Dropping Claims
In 2025, two of Priscilla Presley’s former business partners, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, filed a $50 million lawsuit against her. This week, the lawsuit was dropped. Despite this, Kruse and Fialko are not giving up on their claims against Presley. The attorney representing them said they still plan to pursue the lawsuit.
Priscilla Presley’s former partners filed a lawsuit against her
In 2024, Presley sued Kruse and Fialko. She claimed they swindled her out of $1 million and accused them of elder abuse. The following year, they responded with a $50 million lawsuit. Per The New York Times, they claimed Presley “pulled the plug” on daughter Lisa Marie Presley in order to regain control of the family trust. They also accused Presley of fraud, breach of contract, and attempting to discredit them.
“Kruse and Fialko invested seven figures into rebuilding Priscilla’s brand, stabilizing her finances, settling her lawsuits, cleaning up numerous private family ordeals and attempting to help Priscilla repair her relationship with her daughter,” their lawyer, Jordan Matthews, said. “Priscilla has, in turn, smeared Kruse and Fialko with false lies and malicious campaigns.”
Presley’s lawyer, Marty Singer, slammed the lawsuit as a “disgusting publicity stunt.”
“This is nothing more than a sad and vicious attempt to falsely tarnish the reputation of an 80-year-old woman in blatant retaliation for bringing a lawsuit to redress the wrongful conduct of Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their co-conspirators,” he said.
Priscilla Presley’s partners will continue to pursue their lawsuit
After a judge dismissed the lawsuit, Matthews noted that Kruse and Fialko are still very much pursuing their litigation.
“The dismissal of merely one of the lawsuits at issue in connection with our clients’ claims against Priscilla Presley was nothing more than a procedural step that the parties agreed to,” he said in a statement. “The parties simply agreed to consolidate certain claims, and our clients are pursuing their cross-claims against Priscilla Presley and various other parties in a matter now proceeding before Judge Epstein. The parties expect a trial date to be set in that matter shortly, and our clients will continue to vigorously pursue their claims.”
The Presley family has continued to push back against the claims made in the lawsuit.
They made claims about Riley Keough
In a Dec. 16 filing, Kruse claimed that Presley’s granddaughter is the biological mother of John Travolta and Kelly Preston’s son. She alleged that Keough received a Jaguar and between $10,000 and $20,000 for her eggs.
Singer slammed the filing as particularly low.
“After losing motion after motion in this case, and unsuccessfully seeking to have Presley’s counsel of record, Marty Singer, disqualified from representing her in this matter, Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their co-conspirators have demonstrated that there is no bar too low, no ethical line that they are unwilling to cross in an effort to cause further pain to Priscilla Presley and her family,” he told Us Weekly.
He added that the allegations about Keough have nothing to do with Kruse and Fialko’s lawsuit against Presley. Despite their differences in the past, Keough and Presley have remained a united front in the face of the lawsuit.
