Lisa Marie Presley’s ex Michael desires to gain formative years in court docket amid will war
March 11, 2023 |
11: 03am
Lisa Marie Presley’s ex Michael Lockwood is searching for to characterize their twin daughters in an upcoming listening to for the singer’s have confidence.
The guitarist, 61, requested a gain earlier this week to appoint him guardian advert litem over Harper and Finley, giving him the authority to keep up a correspondence on behalf of the 14-one year-olds, in step with court docket documents obtained by Page Six.
The subsequent listening to is scheduled for April 13.
Sooner than Presley’s death in January, she and Lockwood had been at odds since she filed for divorce in 2016 after 10 years of marriage.
The following one year, their daughters ended up in express custody for unknown reasons.
Presley alleged at the time that Lockwood had child pornography on his pc, which his legal professionals denied.
Then, in 2018, Presley requested main custody of Harper and Finley, but after the 2020 suicide of her son, Benjamin Keough, Lockwood requested for custody, fearing that her son’s death would residing off Presley to relapse.
Lisa Marie’s motive at the support of death stays unknown, but sources previously acknowledged she was reportedly taking opioids and weight-loss medication leading up to her passing.
Since she died, her mother, Priscilla Presley, and her oldest daughter, Riley Keough, contain been fighting it out over the gradual singer’s will and property.
Priscilla, 77, is arguing against the validity of her gradual daughter’s will — from which she had been removed — by claiming Lisa Marie’s signature on a 2016 modification appeared “inconsistent.”
A source previously knowledgeable Page Six that Priscilla’s switch was “strictly a cash snatch,” adding that the handiest daughter of rock icon Elvis Presley had “no relationship with Priscilla, [her ex-husband] Michael Lockwood or her half of-brother [Navarone Garibaldi].”
Sources knowledgeable The Post that Priscilla and Lisa Marie had been no longer on perfect terms earlier than her untimely death.
“Lisa didn’t want to contain the leisure to set with her mother,” a friend shut to the “Lights Out” singer alleged. “She was in general estranged from Priscilla for the closing seven to eight years. They handiest talked when there was no possibility.”
Final month, an insider shut to the family knowledgeable Leisure Tonight that Priscilla and Riley, 33, had been additionally no longer on speaking terms amid the court docket war.
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“Riley has been mourning the inability of her mother and is heartbroken to contain to take care of a have confidence dispute with a member of the family,” the source acknowledged.
“Priscilla is adamant that she has a sound case and that she will prevail in court docket. Riley and Priscilla aren’t speaking today, but contain been in verbal exchange by contrivance of legal professionals.”
Whereas Riley would comparatively “settle this dispute privately,” both girls are reportedly “gearing up” for a prolonged war in court docket.
“She is heartbroken that this has was a public topic and knows her mother would never want this,” they continued, noting that Riley is “very pressured” but “searching for to preserve shut a definite angle.”
Lisa Marie tragically died on Jan. 12 after tormented by cardiac arrest. She was 54. She was laid to leisure subsequent to her son, Benjamin, as properly as her gradual father at Graceland.
Following her death, Lockwood mourned the passing of his ex-wife alongside with his attorney Joe Yanny, telling The Post at the time that his “world has been turned on its ear.”
“Michael had been hoping for a handy e-book a rough and entire restoration because her kids wanted her,” Yanny continued. “This would possibly presumably be very unhappy it didn’t flip out that contrivance.”
