Elvis’ Granddaughter Agrees To Pay Grandmother Massive Sum To Control Lisa Marie’s Trust

Elvis Presley‘s granddaughter Riley Keough agreed to pay his wife Priscilla $1.4 million in exchange for control of the family trust, per a new report.

The 34-year-old Keough has been feuding with her grandmother following the unexpected death of Elvis’ daughter Lisa Marie in January. Lisa Marie suffered multiple cardiac events before passing away at the age of 54.

Keough and Priscilla reached a deal in May, which was originally kept secret, but People obtained a copy of a document filed Monday explaining that Elvis’s granddaughter paid Priscilla $1 million in exchange for control of Lisa Marie’s multi-million dollar estate. Keough also paid $400,000 for her grandmother’s legal fees.

“In settling the claims pending in Priscilla’s Petition, the parties are saving significant legal fees by avoiding litigation, and they are likewise avoiding the spectacle of intra-family litigation that would have been inimical to Lisa’s wishes and not in the best interests of the family,” Keough’s lawyer Justin Gold wrote in part.

Priscilla confirmed in a statement to the New York Post that she never sued Keough.

“My family has resolved all confusion as it relates to our plea to the court and request for document interpretation after my daughter Lisa Marie’s untimely passing,” she told the outlet. “Although the media identified such a plea as a lawsuit, I want to make clear that there was never any lawsuit filed against my beloved granddaughter.”

“As a family, we are pleased that we resolved this together. My family and I hope that everyone will grant us the privacy we have needed to properly grieve Lisa Marie and spend personal time together,” Priscilla continued. “We love and appreciate all of you and the Presley family is stronger than ever.”

A source told People that Keough “doesn’t want any drama with her grandmother” and was happy to reach a mutually agreeable conclusion. Priscilla previously filed a challenge to her daughter’s will just two weeks after her death. 

“Riley is relieved to have settled the dispute over her mom’s estate,” the source added.

“She wants to focus on making memories with her own daughter now. This is her priority,” the insider said of Keough’s future plans. She shares a young daughter with her Australian stuntman husband Ben Smith-Petersen.

The Dangerous Trump Indictment

This week, a Rubicon was crossed: the former president of the United States and current Republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination, Donald Trump, was indicted on 37 federal felony charges relating to mishandling classified information and obstruction of justice. Needless to say, this has never happened before – and the precedent is horrifying. Trump himself campaigned in 2016 promising to “lock up” Hillary Clinton, but he certainly made no moves toward doing so once he entered the White House. But now, Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has done just that. And that means that, turnabout being fair play, future elections will carry the risk that the loser may find him or herself in the dock in retaliation.

The choice to indict Trump is particularly egregious given the fact that in 2016, Clinton wasn’t prosecuted for similar activity. Clinton, it should be remembered, held tens of thousands of emails on a private server, dozens of which were classified; James Comey, then head of the FBI admitted that there was a good shot that foreign sources could have accessed that server; the emails themselves were then destroyed by Clinton’s team, and her hard drive cleansed; nonetheless, months later, copies of those emails showed up on the laptop of moral derelict Anthony Weiner. Suffice it to say, Hillary undoubtedly engaged in both gross negligence in handling classified information and obstruction of justice. But Comey declined to prosecute, rewriting the law in order to reach that decision.

And then there is the Biden family. Allegations surrounding corruption within the Biden family continue to abound – and yet law enforcement seems peculiarly unconcerned with such allegations. According to Republican congresspeople, a whistleblower has now revealed that the Biden family received millions of dollars in exchange for favors done while Joe Biden was vice president. And yet Biden continues to receive not only the benefit of the doubt, but sycophantic treatment in the press. 

Americans remember the Hillary precedent and the Biden apathy as they see Trump in the dock this week. Trump certainly does.

Now, two things can be true at once: the allegations against Trump in the federal indictment are damning, if proved true. The indictment alleges not just that Trump took home classified documents – something done by public figures ranging from Joe Biden to Mike Pence to Hillary Clinton – but that he proceeded to tell his lawyers to attest that he had turned those documents back in, all the while shifting the documents themselves around to avoid his own lawyers knowing about them; that he bragged to journalists about classified documents in his possession while acknowledging that he had not in fact declassified them; that those documents did contain highly important national security information. Had Hillary been indicted in 2016, there would be little doubt about Trump’s indictment.

But she wasn’t. Which means that our justice system seems to be following the famous Latin American saying, “for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” And that double standard will not hold. Which, presumably, is why Trump is already pledging to prosecute the Biden family should he be re-elected.

We’ve entered an ugly new phase in American political history. Trump should have known that his enemies were after him; only epic narcissism and foolishness can explain his behavior in relation to the boxes of documents that have now landed him in court. But such concerns are now secondary. The real question is whether one set of rules will ever again be applied by federal law enforcement – or whether the cycle of tit-for-tat will now enter into full force.

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