A new filing in a lawsuit brought by two of Priscilla Presley’s former business associates, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, includes a wild new claim: that Elvis’s granddaughter Riley Keough is allegedly the biological mother of John Travolta’s youngest son.
Tuesday’s filing, which was obtained by The Cut, claims that Michael Lockwood — the ex-husband of Priscilla and Elvis Presley’s late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley — told one of the defendants that Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, “had been unable to bear her own children” and that the couple approached the Presley family to request an egg donation in 2010. (Preston died of breast cancer in 2020 at age 57.)
The suit claims that Travolta and Preston “previously used Lisa Marie’s eggs to get pregnant” but did not want to use hers again, “because they did not want ‘eggs with heroin.’” (Lisa Marie, who died in 2023, had spoken openly about her struggle with opioid addiction.) Instead, the suit claims, the two families “orchestrated a deal” in which Lisa Marie’s daughter, actress Riley Keough, “gave her eggs to Travolta, so that Kelly could give birth to their son, Ben Travolta,” who was born in 2010. Keough, who would have been 20 at the time, was purportedly “given an old Jaguar and paid between $10,000 –$20,000 for the deal.”
The lawsuit does not make any claims about whether either of Travolta and Preston’s other two children, Jett and Ella, were actually conceived using Lisa Marie’s eggs. Lisa Marie was friends with Travolta and Preston for years; in 2009, after the death of their son, Jett, Lisa Marie defended the couple’s ties to Scientology, describing them as her “very good friends.” (Lisa Marie was an active Scientologist for decades, having joined after Travolta introduced Priscilla to the church in the wake of Elvis’s death, Priscilla wrote in her memoir.)
Tuesday’s filing is part of a much more complicated breach-of-contract lawsuit against Navarone Garcia, Priscilla’s son and Lisa Marie’s half-brother. For over a year now, Priscilla, who’s 80, has been locked in a bitter legal battle with Kruse and Fialko over a business dispute; Kruse and Fialko sued her for fraud and breach of contract in 2023, and Priscilla then filed her own lawsuit, accusing them of financial elder abuse. Per her website, Kruse is a “fifth-generation auctioneer” who specializes in celebrity memorabilia and has “worked closely with the Presley family.” Fialko is an entrepreneur and an Elvis-memorabilia collector, according to previous legal filings. It’s unclear exactly why they included the egg-donation claim in what is largely an unrelated lawsuit, but Kruse and Fialko cited it as an example of the “constant chaos” they were apparently trying to manage in the family.
In a statement to Us Weekly, Marty Singer, an attorney for Priscilla, slammed the defendants as “shameful,” saying these “outrageous allegations have absolutely nothing to do with the claims in this case.” “Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their co-conspirators have demonstrated that there is no bar too low, no ethical line that they are unwilling to cross in an effort to cause further pain to Priscilla Presley and her family,” he added.
Life & Style has reached out to Singer and representatives for Keough and Travolta and will update this post if we hear back.
