has sued multiple business associates for 12 different complaints, including financial elder abuse, Us Weekly can confirm.
Celebrity attorney Marty Singer filed the suit against four business associates of Presley, 79, on Thursday, July 18, claiming they planned to “drain her of every last penny she had.” (TMZ was first to report the news.)
Court documents obtained by Us alleged that Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, Vahe Sislyan and Lynn Walker Wright “meticulously planned” a scheme against “an older woman by gaining her trust, isolating her from the most important people in her life, and duping her into believing that they would take care of her” both personally and financially.
Singer further alleged that the defendants planned to gain control of Presley’s finances “forcing her into a form of indentured servitude” where she would work, and they would “receive the lion’s share of any revenue that she was able to earn in the future.”
The documents referred to Kruse specifically as a “con artist and pathological liar” who, along with Fialko, “misappropriated, [embezzled] and converted” more than $1 million from Presley. Further allegations stated that they “fraudulently” had Presley “sign contracts” to receive 80 percent her income.
The documents explain that Presley and Kruse met in 2021; Kruse ran a business selling Elvis Presley memorabilia.
Presley, of course, is the co-founder and former chairperson of Elvis Presley Enterprises, and has helped run the multi-million dollar business empire related to the estate of late ex-husband, Elvis.
Over a two-year period, the four defendants allegedly “established a personal relationship with Presley that enabled them to gain her complete trust and isolate her from her long-time business and financial advisors,” the documents also read.
Singer claimed that they also fraudulently gained “power of attorney, control over her family and personal trusts, and control over her bank accounts” in the suit. Presley’s lawsuit on Thursday comes months after Kruse and Fialko sued her for breach of contract in February. (Singer denied the claims on Presley’s behalf at the time.)