In her own words, Priscilla Presley is sharing new details over what she claims was an “abhorrent” elder abuse scheme that allegedly conned her out of more than $1 million. In a new sworn statement filed on Thursday in Los Angeles, the writer, actress, and ex-wife of Elvis Presley claims Florida-based memorabilia dealer Brigitte Kruse, investor Kevin Fialko, and Florida lawyer Lynn Walker Wright duped her into signing a stack of contracts in January 2023 that gave her only minority shares in several closely-held companies controlling her name, image, and likeness rights. “I now know that Kruse and Fialko engaged in an extensive, far-reaching campaign to isolate me from, and cause me to distrust, my own long-time advisors, to the point where they were able to convince me to replace my advisors with ones hand-picked by them.
This was an essential part of their campaign to control and direct my finances to their own benefit,” Presley, 79, says in the new declaration obtained by Rolling Stone . Regarding the highly disputed Jan. 8, 2023, meeting in Florida, Presley claims she was secluded in a room at Kruse’s house with Wright handing her document after document to sign with a video camera rolling.
She suggests the meeting was a surprise after Kruse and Fialko arranged for her to travel to Florida to attend an auction of Elvis Presley-related items held by Kruse’s company, GWS Auctions. Presley says it was during the trip that she was “informed” she would be meeti.