(CNN) — Priscilla Presley challenges the validity of her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s will.
In court documents obtained by CNN, Priscilla Presley’s lawyers filed a petition challenging a 2016 amendment to her daughter’s will. The petition claims that Lisa Marie Presley removed her mother and her former business manager, Barry Siegel, from co-appointment. Trustees and he was replaced by his sons Riley and Benjamin Keough. Benjamin Keough later passed away in 2020.
The petition argued that, among other issues related to the amendment, Priscilla Presley did not receive the change while her daughter was alive, as was required by her will, and that Priscilla’s name was misspelled in the document. spelling is The petition also states that the amendment was not witnessed or notarized, and questions the authenticity of Lisa Marie’s signature in this regard.
The document says, “(The signature) appears inconsistent with (Lisa Marie Presley’s) usual and customary signature.”
CNN has contacted representatives for Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley for comment.
The petition was filed days after Elvis Presley’s only daughter was buried at his former residence, Graceland.
Lisa Marie Presley died on January 12 at her Los Angeles home after being hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest. He was 54 years old.
His cause of death is being investigated by the Los Angeles County Coroner.
