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Priscilla Presley's 7-Figure 2024 Income Exposed in Ugly Court Battle | In Touch Weekly

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revealed the staggering amount of money she pulled in from public appearances last year as the fight with her ex-business associate turns ugly, In Touch can exclusively report.

On Thursday, March 20, Priscilla, 79, filed a declaration, obtained by In Touch, as part of her financial elder abuse lawsuit against Brigitte Kruse. Brigitte filed a separate lawsuit against Priscilla in Florida over business deals. She denied all allegations of wrongdoing.

A lawyer for Brigitte and another associate being sued by Priscilla told TMZ, “The [elder abuse lawsuit] filed is a retaliatory lawsuit due to the one filed by Priscilla’s business partners last year. We are confident that the facts will speak for themselves, and justice will prevail.”

Brigitte’s lawyer added, “It saddens all of us who dropped our lives to provide aid to a woman who needed help and she is now attempting to use her celebrity status to ruin the lives of kind, hardworking people.”

In her new declaration, Priscilla revealed she made twelve public appearances in 2023. She said she does not know “how much I actually received in income from” the 2023 appearances, due to her ex-associate controlling her finances.

Elvis’ ex continued, “In 2024, I made 34 paid appearances worldwide, earning total gross revenue of approximately $1,000,000 across 34 appearances.”

Priscilla Presley

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Priscilla, who is fighting Brigitte over what state their legal battle will be heard in, said she had two shows in Florida in 2024, for which she earned approximately $62,000.

She claimed that Brigitte and the other defendants have sent “baseless” cease and desist to her associates.

Priscilla said, “For my income, I rely heavily on my appearances, which are typically done as part of a series of stage discussion I call ‘An Evening With Priscilla.’ Defendants know that this is my primary source of income and how I am able to pay my bills.”

She continued, “Recently, in an effort to directly and improperly interfere with my ability to earn a living, [Brigitte] and [the other associate] (through the companies they created for their benefit) have begun barraging my contractual partners, associates, personal assistants and family members, with a series of baseless cease and desist letters, demanding that everyone in my life stop doing business with me or assisting me earn a living.”

Priscilla ended, “I have had to incur significant fees and costs trying to defend against these baseless threatening letters.”

The judge has yet to rule on whether Priscilla’s case will remain in California.

As In Touch previously reported, in her suit, Priscilla claimed she met Brigitte in 2021 when she was running an auction house selling Elvis’ memorabilia.

Priscilla claimed Brigitte and others conspired together to take control of her finances and “drain every last penny she had.”

She accused her ex-associate of isolating her from her long-time team and having her enter into deals that paid them 80 percent of her income on deals.

In court, Priscilla claimed she was duped and only later learned the extent of damage caused by Brigitte.

Priscilla Presley

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She claimed the ex-associate caused harm to her relationship with director , who made the 2023 film Priscilla based on Priscilla’s early life with Elvis.

She claimed her former team had negotiated the deal where she was to be paid $500,000.

Priscilla said the deal was reached in November 2021, “well before [Brigitte] duped me into giving her authority and control over my finances.”

Priscilla claimed the $500,000 was deposited into her personal account on December 10, 2022.

“Using her authority over the accounts that she and [another associate] set up, and despite the fact that she did absolutely nothing other than negatively interfere with my relationship with Ms. Coppola, [Brigitte] transferred $60,000 of that deposit to herself on December 13, 2022, and another $60,000 to [the other associate] on December 20, 2022.”

Priscilla said Brigitte and the other associate transferred to themselves over $620,000 of her money “in the seven-month period from December 7, 2022, to June 21, 2023.

Priscilla said, “To this day, I am still in the dark about everything that Defendants did to me, what monies they collected from third parties, what personal expenses they charged to the companies they set up, and/or what monies they paid themselves from the accounts of these companies.”

She added, “[Brigitte] attests to her belief about the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars in revenue that she expected the various entities to recognize in the future, but I am entirely unaware of the basis for this belief, given that the only material revenue that was actually received was for transactions that I and/or my prior advisors negotiated (and not Brigitte) before [Brigitte] gained control over my finances and set up the sham entities.”

Priscilla, who accused Brigitte of being a “con artist and pathological liar,” demanded $1 million in damages. Brigitte denied the claims. Both cases are ongoing.

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