Priscilla Presley Slams ‘Noise’ amid Lisa Marie Belief Battle, Says She’s Animated Ahead with ‘Integrity and Love’

Amid the fair correct-searching fight for management of her leisurely daughter’s trust, Priscilla Presley is taking a look toward the long depart with “integrity and esteem.”

The actress, 77, shared a assertion with PEOPLE on Friday that alluded to the drama in the relieve of the scenes of daughter Lisa Marie Presley‘s trust, and explicitly referred to as out “a particular person” with whom she is frustrated for “trying to talk on behalf of our household.”

“I loved Elvis very noteworthy as he loved me. Lisa is a result of our esteem,” Priscilla’s assertion started. “For anybody to imagine the rest in any other case would be a travesty of the household legacy and would be disrespectful of what Elvis left in the relieve of in his existence.”

Though she did not title names, Priscilla then made reference to “a particular person that bought their procedure into the household endeavor that is trying to talk on behalf of our household.”

“This particular person just just isn’t a manual of Elvis or our household. Please allow us the time now we beget to work together and kind this out,” she concluded her assertion. “Please ignore ‘the noise.’ As I even beget frequently been there for Elvis’ legacy, our household and the followers, I will continue to forge a pathway forward with admire, honesty, dignity, integrity and esteem.”

Whereas it remains unclear as to whom Priscilla is referring, Joel Weinshanker, managing companion at Elvis Presley Enterprises, as we tell made an appearance on Sirius XM’s Elvis Radio and weighed in on the star’s most modern makes an strive to remain co-trustee of Lisa Marie’s trust, despite a 2016 amendment made by Lisa Marie that attach daughter Riley Keough responsible.

“Everyone knew that when Elvis passed away, he left all the pieces to his puny girl. He did so realizing that she would be the one to abet his legacy going,” Weinshanker acknowledged. “We obtained alongside so correctly on myth of we were each and every trying to enact what used to be finest for Elvis, regardless of what anyone else used to be trying to enact, regardless of what a household member would enact.”

Weinshanker acknowledged friend Lisa Marie — who died on Jan. 12 at age 54 — “couldn’t be bought,” and that she used to be “quite sure” and “very utter” about who she wanted to preserve on her household legacy.

“We talked about this many persistently [before] she passed, and that used to be frequently Riley and Ben,” he acknowledged of her younger of us Riley Keough and the leisurely Benjamin Keough, whom she shared with ex-husband Danny Keough. “There used to be by no ability a search data from in her thoughts that they’d be the stewards, that they’d peruse at it the exact identical procedure that she did. And clearly when Ben passed, it indubitably sat with Riley.”

Weinshanker also insisted that although Riley has a thriving acting and directing profession, she “frequently had an interest” and “knew that in some unspecified time in the future she would be responsible” of her mom’s trust.

The weeks following Lisa Marie’s death beget been fraught with tension within her instantaneous household as Priscilla makes an strive to wrangle management of the leisurely star’s trust from Riley.

Attorneys for Priscilla filed a petition in Los Angeles in January questioning the “authenticity and validity” of a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie’s trust, which eliminated Priscilla as a co-trustee and fix Keough responsible.

The petition claimed assorted components — alongside side a title misspelling and the incontrovertible truth that Lisa Marie did not bid the modifications to Priscilla as required by the terms of the trust — voided the amendment.

It remains unclear ethical how long the fair correct-searching fight forward lies for the household, although a listening to for the topic is decided for April 13.