Priscilla Presley Claims Former Lawyer Helped Brigitte Kruse 'Control’ Her Life in Declaration Filing in Elder Abuse Case

• Priscilla Presley responded to her former attorney Lynn Walker Wright's recent request to quash the summons issued to her and be dismissed from the ongoing elder abuse case that lists her as a defendant
• Presley filed a July 2024 lawsuit alleging that her ex-business partner Brigitte Kruse, among others including Walker Wright, took advantage of Presley and stole $1 million from her
• Walker Wright requested the court to dismiss her from the case on Sept. 5, and Presley's legal team responded on Thursday, Nov. 7 by opposing Walker Wright's latest filing

Priscilla Presley's lawyers have responded to her former attorney Lynn Walker Wright’s attempts to be dismissed as a defendant from the ongoing elder abuse case against Walker Wright and Presley's ex-business partner, Brigitte Kruse. 

PEOPLE obtained a new Thursday, Nov. 7, filing in which Presley's attorneys, Martin D. Anger, T. Wayne Harman, and Max D. Fabricant, declare opposition to Walker Wright's Sept. 5 motion to quash service of summons and to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, or forum non conveniens, meaning an allowance for the court to dismiss a case if there is another more appropriate court to handle it.

The ongoing financial elder abuse lawsuit began on July 18, when Presley, 79, alleged Kruse, Kevin Fialko, Vahe Sislyan, Walker Wright and Priscilla Presley Partners took advantage of her and stole $1 million. Presley alleged Kruse, the founder of Kruse GWS Auctions, controlled Presley's finances. She claimed that Kruse forced Presley into a "form of indentured servitude" by "gaining her trust, isolating her from the most important people in her life, and duping her into believing that they would take care of her (personally and financially)."

Then, on July 22, Kruse’s attorneys claimed in a statement to PEOPLE that the suit is "retaliatory." But on July 24, Presley’s attorney Marty Singer, shared a statement with PEOPLE and rejected Kruse's claim. 

In September, Walker Wright, a practicing attorney in Florida, formally requested that she be dismissed from Presley’s case. Walker Wright "vehemently denies" the elder abuse (financial), conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty and legal malpractice allegations.

Walker Wright also alleges in her filing that the Superior Court of the State Of California for the County of Los Angeles "does not have jurisdiction to hear this dispute." She claims as a licensed Florida attorney whose practice is located there, she "prepared certain legal documents signed by Presley in Florida, whose jurisdictions and venue clause(s) require any and all actions arising therefrom to be filed in Orange County, Florida, and subject to the jurisdiction of the Orange County, Florida."

"In the alternative, this Court should dismiss this case against Walker Wright based upon the principle of forum non conveniens," read the filing.

On Nov. 7, Presley’s attorneys filed the motion to quash service of summons and to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. In their filing, they claim that Kruse and Fialko introduced Presley to Walker Wright. 

“Though they hid it from me at the time, I now know that Kruse and Fialko engaged in an extensive, far-reaching campaign to isolate me from, and cause me to distrust, my own long-time advisors, to the point where they were able to convince me to replace my advisors with ones hand-picked by them,” the filing alleges.

Presley’s team claims that “this was an essential part” of Kruse and Fialko’s effort “to control and direct [Presley’s] finances for their own benefit.”

The filing claimed that after Presley met with Walker Wright on Jan. 8, 2023, Walker Wright conducted “extensive communications” with Presley’s San Diego attorneys on Presley’s behalf. Walker Wright then allegedly conducted “approximately three dozen separate calls, meetings, and/or communications” with Presley’s San Diego attorneys “regarding [her] affairs,” including power of attorney or healthcare directive and Presley’s move to Florida, which she states she did not plan to do.

“I am informed and believe that it was Kruse who instructed Walker Wright to prepare those documents and that this was done to facilitate the defendants' control over my life,” read the filing.

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Walker Wright did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Friday.