Priscilla Presley Claims Former Lawyer Helped Brigitte Kruse 'Control’ Her Life in Declaration Filing in Elder Abuse Case

Mar. 15, 2025

Dame Brigitte Kruse and Priscilla Presley on January 05, 2023 in Orlando, Florida.Photo:Gerardo Mora/Getty

Gerardo Mora/Getty

Priscilla Presley’s lawyers have responded to her former attorney Lynn Walker Wright’s attempts to be dismissed as a defendant from the ongoing elder abuse case against Walker Wright and Presley’s ex-business partner, Brigitte Kruse.

PEOPLE obtained a new Thursday, Nov. 7, filing in which Presley’s attorneys, Martin D. Anger, T. Wayne Harman, and Max D. Fabricant, declare opposition to Walker Wright’s Sept. 5 motion to quash service of summons and to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, or forum non conveniens, meaning an allowance for the court to dismiss a case if there is another more appropriate court to handle it.

Then, on July 22, Kruse’s attorneys claimed in a statement to PEOPLE that the suit is"retaliatory.“But on July 24, Presley’s attorney Marty Singer, shared astatement with PEOPLE and rejected Kruse’s claim.

Priscilla Presley in Venice, Italy on September 4th, 2023.Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty

Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty

In September, Walker Wright, a practicing attorney in Florida, formally requested that she be dismissed from Presley’s case. Walker Wright “vehemently denies” the elder abuse (financial), conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty and legal malpractice allegations.

“In the alternative, this Court should dismiss this case against Walker Wright based upon the principle of forum non conveniens,” read the filing.

Priscilla Presley on May 04, 2019 in Hollywood, California.Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic

Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic

On Nov. 7, Presley’s attorneys filed the motion to quash service of summons and to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. In their filing, they claim that Kruse and Fialko introduced Presley to Walker Wright.

Presley’s team claims that “this was an essential part” of Kruse and Fialko’s effort “to control and direct [Presley’s] finances for their own benefit.”

Priscilla Presley on September 19, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Jon Kopaloff/WireImage

Jon Kopaloff/WireImage

The filing claimed that after Presley met with Walker Wright on Jan. 8, 2023, Walker Wright conducted “extensive communications” with Presley’s San Diego attorneys on Presley’s behalf. Walker Wright then allegedly conducted “approximately three dozen separate calls, meetings, and/or communications” with Presley’s San Diego attorneys “regarding [her] affairs,” including power of attorney or healthcare directive and Presley’s move to Florida, which she states she did not plan to do.

“I am informed and believe that it was Kruse who instructed Walker Wright to prepare those documents and that this was done to facilitate the defendants' control over my life,” read the filing.

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Walker Wright did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Friday.

source: people.com