Heartbreaking new details of Lisa Marie Presley’s death have been revealed.
The intimate information was included in a legal complaint filed by Priscilla Presley’s former business partners in Los Angeles — their exhibits reportedly include two pages said to be from her yet-to-be-released memoir, “Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis.”
According to the alleged excerpts, Elvis’ ex-wife writes that she rushed to her daughter’s side at a San Fernando Valley hospital after Lisa suffered from complications surrounding a small bowel obstruction linked to a prior bariatric surgery.
As Priscilla waited for Lisa Marie’s daughter Riley Keough to arrive, a “code blue” went off, indicating that the singer’s heart had stopped, the pages read.
“The next thing I remember is the doctor talking to me,” the pages further read. “He asked me what I wanted him to do. They had restarted Lisa’s heart, but there was no guarantee it would keep beating.”
She writes in the alleged pages, “I asked the doctor, ‘What kind of life will she have if we keep her on that machine?’ He looked at me with compassion and shook his head. ‘No quality of life at all.’”
Priscilla also allegedly writes that Lisa Marie, whom she shared with the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, had “little brain activity.” Their daughter, whom she describes as “always so vital” simply “wasn’t there” anymore.
“I thought about my girl, my wild, rebellious, passionate girl, lying in a vegetative state for the rest of her life,” she allegedly adds.
Priscilla, 80, purportedly recalls saying, “‘Take her off the machine, Doctor,’” in a voice “barely above a whisper” before collapsing and blacking out.
“It was unbearable,” she allegedly writes. “I began to sob. I don’t remember falling. After that, everything went dark. … I don’t want to remember.”
A rep for Priscilla did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
The amended complaint was filed by former business advisers Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, who alleged in their original $50 million fraud and breach-of-contract lawsuit that Priscilla prematurely “pulled the plug” on Lisa Marie for financial reasons — thus violating the singer’s advanced healthcare directive.
Priscilla’s attorneys Wayne Harman and Marty singer told the magazine previously that the lawsuit — which had also accused Priscilla of “exert[ing] undue pressure” on her ex-husband and “pushing him to his death” — was “shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless.”
On Friday, they lambasted Kruse and Fialko in a scathing new statement, per Rolling Stone. “Priscilla did not have anything to do with the assassination of JFK, she did not cover up Area 51, she did not fake the moon landing, and she is not secretly keeping Bigfoot locked in a cabin in Canada,” they wrote in the screed.
“Take off the aluminum foil hat and face reality.” They added that Kruse had allegedly waged a “relentless and calculated campaign of elder abuse and fraud in order to take control of Ms. Presley’s finances for her own benefit.”
Priscilla countersued in 2024 with a financial elder abuse lawsuit of her own, which Kruse and Fialko’s lawyer Jordan Matthews said contained “nonsense hyperbolic statements that have no substance.”
“To date, Ms. Presley has presented zero evidence in support of her salacious claims, and we intend to hold her accountable for her reckless behavior,” the attorney said, according to the outlet. Elvis’ only child, a mother of four, died at the age of 54 on Jan. 12, 2023 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
She was preceded in death by her son Benjamin, who took his own life in 2020 at the age of 27.