Does Elvis Presley have a secret grandchild as lawsuit claims?

A lawsuit filed against Priscilla Presley recently claimed that there is a secret Presley grandchild living in Florida. Could this actually be true, and if so, what is the identity of the grandchild? 

Be prepared for a mind-blowing story!

It all started in September 2023 when a lawsuit was filed in Florida against Priscilla by her ex business partner, Brigitte Kruse. Kruse had formed a company with Priscilla called Priscilla Presley Enterprises LLC, in 2022 to help Priscilla get out of debt, she claims. 

According to the legal documents filed by Priscilla Presley Enterprises, started by Kruse and Kevin Fialko, Priscilla was close to filing bankruptcy before they started working with her.

The company was granted authority to market Priscilla’s name and likeness and claims it helped Priscilla secure the deal for her film, Priscilla, as well as other business deals. 

However, Kruse claims she was abruptly cut off from all communication and payment from Priscilla in August 2023. As a result, Kruse is “suing for breach of contract and seeking unspecified damages.”

But the claim about a secret grandchild did not come out in this initial lawsuit. There’s a lot more to the story. 

On July 18, 2024, Priscilla filed a countersuit in Los Angeles claiming elder abuse from all the people involved in Priscilla Presley Enterprises. Priscilla said Kruse took advantage of her by taking over her financial accounts and convincing her to sign contracts where they received 80 percent of Priscilla’s income. Priscilla is suing for more than $1 million in damages and wants the contracts she signed with Kruse to be voided. 

[Note: A related side story is that Priscilla worked with Kruse in 2022 and 2023 to sell Elvis memorabilia through Kruse’s company, GWS Auctions. However, Joel Weinshanker of Elvis Presley Enterprises stated in an interview in July 2024 that he had concerns about the authenticity of several of the items that Priscilla was vouching for. However, he said he didn’t think Priscilla tried to intentionally deceive buyers.]

Priscilla also asked for Kruse’s case against her to be dropped. Priscilla claims that Kruse’s lawsuit, which was filed in Florida, is not legitimate since Priscilla lives in California. Priscilla says she has no ties to Florida.

As a result, in October, Kruse made an amendment to her lawsuit to prove that Priscilla does indeed have ties to Florida. Kruse’s lawsuit states:

“Presley has deep personal ties to Florida. Her late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, lived in Florida, in addition to a grandchild (the grandchild of Elvis and Presley), who still resides in Florida as of today.”

Priscilla and her attorneys were then granted a certain amount of time to respond to this updated lawsuit. On November 19, Priscilla’s response to the claim of the unnamed grandchild was shocking! Instead of addressing if she has a grandchild residing in Florida, the lawsuit states, “It is simply irrelevant whether Presley has relatives who live or own homes in Florida…”

As reported by Tony Ortega of The Underground Bunker, Priscilla is not denying that she has a grandchild living in Florida. Instead, she is claiming that it is irrelevant in her request that she should not be sued in Florida. 

Since Priscilla did not deny the allegation that she has a grandchild living in Florida, this leaves the question wide open – who is the grandchild? We know that Elvis’ three granddaughters, Riley Keough, and twins Harper and Finley Lockwood, all live in California. 

Writer Tony Ortega who has been following this story closely says he does not want to speculate who the grandchild might be. 

However, there is one person, a former scientologist, who claims to know who the grandchild is. 

At this point, we have no evidence that this is true, but Aaron Smith-Levin who runs a very popular YouTube channel called Growing Up In Scientology, declared in a video on October 20, 2024 that it isn’t a grandchild, but a secret great-grandchild of Elvis and Priscilla that lives in Florida. 

Aaron says that it’s been well known in the Scientology community for years that John Travolta’s son is Elvis and Priscilla’s great-grandson (see video below). But how would that be possible?

He explains that Lisa Marie was very close friends with John Travolta. It is well known that John Travolta was the one who encouraged Priscilla to join Scientology in the late 1970s. Apparently over the years, Lisa Marie had grown very close with Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston. 

“People don’t actually understand just how close John Travolta and Lisa Marie Presley were,” Aaron explained. [Note: Aaron also did an interview with Priscilla’s son, Navarone, in 2023 about the family’s connection with Scientology.]

When John Travolta’s son, Jett, died suddenly in January 2009 at the age of 16 from a seizure, John and Kelly were, of course, devastated. According to Aaron, Lisa Marie offered to help John and Kelly have another baby. 

Kelly Preston was 48 at the time. Since it is very hard to get pregnant at that age, Aaron says that Lisa’s daughter, Riley, who was 21 at the time, allegedly donated her egg to the Travoltas so they could have another child. 

Kelly carried the baby to term and gave birth in November 2010 to their son, Ben. So allegedly the son of John Travolta, who is turning 14 years old in November 2024, is the biological child of Riley Keough, Elvis’ oldest granddaughter, and John Travolta. 

“To do that for a friend is just so touching,” Aaron declared.

What if this is true? What an ironic play of events in the universe. John Travolta basically channeled Elvis’ spirit in the hit movie, Grease, which came out in 1978. Although Elvis did not live to see the film, there’s no doubt his 50s rock and roll image inspired Travolta’s performance. 

Through a twist of fate, 22 years of later, his DNA may have been merged with Elvis Presley’s DNA if Riley really was the egg donor for John and Kelly’s son, Ben (pictured on right).

Of course, at this time there is no evidence to prove if a secret grandchild or great-grandchild of Elvis Presley exists. In fact, we may never know if this is true.

But if it is true, it would truly be an unbelievable turn of events in the history of Elvis Presley and his family tree of future descendants. 

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