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Priscilla Presley fears dementia over $1 million lawsuit
Friends of Priscilla Presley fears that the 79-year-old’s mental state is deteriorating and that she is an unwitting victim of elder financial abuse, a Graceland insider said RadarOnline.com.
In her 45-page legal complaint, ElvisAging ex – who is worth $50 million – claimed memorabilia auctioneer Brigitte Kruse and her business partners sweet-talked her and then robbed her blind of $1 million.
The civil suit labeled Kruse a “con artist and pathological liar” who allegedly “fraudulently induced” Priscilla to sign contracts that gave Kruse and her helpers 80% of her income.
According to a source, friends are now concerned: “Priscilla has opened herself up to deception and betrayal.”
“They wonder, ‘Did she just have an isolated error in judgment,’ or is this part of a larger problem of cognitive decline?”
Presley’s lawsuit claimed that Kruse and her friends were “prey.”[ed] on an older woman by gaining her trust, isolating her from the most important people in her life, and making her believe that they would take care of her – personally and financially – when their real goal was to get her out of every last cent she had had”.
She also said Kruse forced his way into her life after they met in 2021, sending “several text messages a day… telling her how much she loved and admired her.”
Kruse and her associates allegedly convinced Presley that her former advisers were “deceptive or incompetent” and began concocting reasons for “huge payments they made to themselves from Presley’s bank accounts,” according to the lawsuit.
Priscilla claimed they charged her unnecessary fees, moved her accounts to their banks, and even made her pay the mortgage on a house owned by Kruse’s husband.
In September 2021, Kruse filed a breach of contract suit against the older beauty, claiming she cut off all contact after the group formed Priscilla Presley Partners.
Last February, Kruse sued Priscilla in Florida over the star was almost broken and had nearly $700,000 in unpaid tax debts. She called Presley’s subsequent legal action “retaliatory”.
According to our source: ‘Friends are concerned that Priscilla has admitted herself.’
While Priscilla was devastated and dazed about it 2023 death from her 54 year old daughter, Lisa Marieis accused in the indictment of “manipulating and defrauding them [her] in an attempt to enrich themselves.”
