Priscilla Presley attends the ‘Agent Elvis’ photocall in Los Angeles on March 7, 2023. Earl Gibson III/Shutterstock
Stepping again into the highlight. Priscilla Presley made her first pink carpet look following the loss of life of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.
The one daughter of Priscilla, 77, and Elvis Presley died on January 12 on the age of 54 after struggling cardiac arrest. It was solely becoming that Elvis — who died in 1977 on the age of 42 — was the explanation behind Priscilla’s pink carpet return, as she attended the premiere for the Netflix animated collection Agent Elvis on Tuesday, March 7.
The collection — which Priscilla co-created with John Eddie — follows a fictionalized model of the King of Rock and Roll as he’s recruited by the U.S. authorities to develop into an undercover spy. Matthew McConaughey voices the legendary singer and stars alongside a stacked forged, that includes Kaitlin Olson, Don Cheadle, Johnny Knoxville, Niecy Nash, Tom Kenny, in addition to Priscilla herself.
Matthew McConaughey as Elvis and Priscilla Presley as Priscilla Presley in ‘Agent Elvis.’ Courtesy of Netflix
On the Los Angeles premiere, the Dallas alum — who additionally shares son Navarone, 36, with ex Marco Garibaldi — said that she hopes the present will assist introduce Elvis to “the youth in the present day, questioning why he was so well-known and to see him as a hero,” in response to The Hollywood Reporter.
She continued: “I do know that it is a dream come true for Elvis as a result of that is actually what he needed to do. He needed to be a federal agent, and for me, I’ve all the time needed to present Elvis what he needed and by no means actually fairly made it. He was a ravishing human being and a really gifted human being, and I need youngsters to see who he actually was on this as a result of he actually was, he needed to be an agent. And now he’s.”
Priscilla’s look on the premiere comes amid household drama over Lisa Marie’s will. Us Weekly confirmed that she contested her late daughter’s will on January 27, as she and Lisa Marie’s former enterprise supervisor, Barry Siegel, have been changed as co-trustees within the doc in favor of her youngsters Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, the latter of whom died by suicide in July 2020.
In response to Priscilla’s courtroom submitting, obtained by Us, she claims she was by no means alerted of the trustee change. The New York native additionally believes that her daughter’s signature on the trustee change is unacceptable, because it allegedly didn’t match the singer’s writing model. Priscilla is arguing that the change was an “invalid modification,” because it was allegedly finished with out witnesses and was not notarized.
Riley, 33, is presently the only real trustee of her mom’s property. Lisa Marie additionally shared twin daughters, Finely and Harper, 14, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.
Priscilla Presley attends the ‘Agent Elvis’ photocall in Los Angeles on March 7, 2023. Earl Gibson III/Shutterstock
On March 8, a supply completely instructed Us that the Daisy Jones & The Six star usually acted as a mediator between her Lisa Marie and Priscilla. “Riley knew there was competition together with her mother and grandmother and has all the time tried to be a bridge between them,” the insider shared. “She’s nonetheless doing this even after her mom’s loss of life, however nonetheless honoring her mom’s needs.”
Addressing the desire drama, the supply continued, “Riley knew she can be the trustee for her mom, in order that was no shock. She’s been speaking together with her dad and sisters.”
Regardless of the drama, Priscilla said that honoring Elvis and Lisa Marie’s reminiscences is her high precedence. “I liked Elvis very a lot as he liked me. Lisa is a results of our love,” she instructed E! Information in a press release on February 3. “For anybody to suppose something completely different can be a travesty of the household legacy and can be disrespectful of what Elvis left behind in his life.”
