Lisa Marie Presley reportedly wanted her children to have access to her trust and wanted her oldest daughter Riley Keough to manage it, a close friend claims.'Lisa's intent was very clear,' the friend said while speaking to People on Monday. 'Lisa really didn't feel that [mother] Priscilla Presley was doing anything in her best interest.'The latest claim comes as Lisa's mother Priscilla, 77, is challenging a 2016 revision to her will that removed her and Lisa's former business manager Barry Siegel as mangers of her trust and replacing them with Riley, 33.The family controversy follows Presley's tragic death on January 12 at age 54, after she went into cardiac arrest at home and had to be rushed to a hospital after CPR was performed.
Speaking up: A friend of Lisa Marie Presley claimed to People on Monday that she intended her daughter Riley Keough, 33, to take over her trust after she had a falling out with her mother Priscilla Presley; Lisa and Riley seen in 2017DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Riley Keough and Priscilla Presley.
According to Priscilla's petition, obtained by People, Lisa had a living will dating back to 1993, which was amended in 2010 to make Priscilla and Siegel co-trustees.But following Lisa's death, her mother learned of an initial amendment from 2016 that removed her and Siegel and trustees and replaced them with Riley and her brother Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020.
Lisa's wishes for trustees don't appear to have been updated following her son's death.In Priscilla's petition, she claims there are 'many issues surrounding the authenticity and validity' of the 2016 will amendment.
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