The legal battle between Priscilla Presley and two of her former business advisers has taken another dramatic turn, with new filings in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging fresh details about the final hours of Lisa Marie Presley’s life.

The amended complaint, filed this week by advisers Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, attaches what they claim are excerpts from Priscilla’s forthcoming memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, set to be published on September 23. The passages describe Priscilla’s account of her daughter’s death in a San Fernando Valley hospital in January 2023, when Lisa Marie died at 54 following complications from a prior bariatric surgery.

According to the manuscript pages filed as exhibits, Priscilla recalls being at her daughter’s bedside as doctors attempted to revive her. She allegedly writes that after Lisa Marie suffered cardiac arrest, physicians managed to restart her heart but warned that she had “little brain activity.” Priscilla reportedly asked about her daughter’s prognosis and was told there would be “no quality of life at all.”

The excerpts suggest Priscilla then instructed doctors to discontinue life support. “Take her off the machine, Doctor,” she is quoted as saying, before collapsing in grief. The memoir pages portray the decision as unbearable, with Priscilla describing herself breaking down and losing consciousness after issuing the directive.

Kruse and Fialko argue that this account undermines Lisa Marie’s written wishes. They claim Priscilla violated her daughter’s advance health care directive, which specified that her life should be prolonged “as long as possible within the limits of generally accepted health care standards.” In their lawsuit, they accuse Priscilla of prematurely ending life support for financial reasons, pointing to Lisa Marie’s plans to remove her mother as trustee of a multimillion-dollar life insurance trust.

Priscilla’s representatives declined to comment on the book excerpts. Her attorneys, Marty Singer and Wayne Harman, previously dismissed the lawsuit as “shameful” and “meritless.” On Friday, they reiterated that position, ridiculing new claims in the amended filing that alleged Priscilla’s divorce negotiations in the 1970s hastened Elvis Presley’s death.

“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,” Singer and Harman said in a sharply worded statement, accusing the advisers of exploiting the Presley family for their own gain.

The advisers’ attorney, Jordan Matthews, countered by insisting the evidence is on their side. “The documents are in black and white and speak volumes,” Matthews said. “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 lawsuits come against the backdrop of an already bitter family dispute. In the weeks after Lisa Marie’s death, Priscilla contested a 2016 amendment to her daughter’s Promenade Trust that had removed her as co-trustee in favor of Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, Lisa Marie’s late son. The Promenade Trust controls marquee Presley assets, including Graceland and Elvis Presley Enterprises.

That clash ended in a settlement. Under the agreement, Riley Keough retained control of the trust, while Priscilla secured a $1 million payout from Lisa Marie’s life insurance policy, an annual advisory role worth $100,000 for a decade, and a one-time $50,000 payment to resign as co-trustee of another Presley trust.

But the battle with Kruse and Fialko is far from over. In a separate elder abuse lawsuit filed last year, Priscilla accused the two advisers of tricking her into signing contracts that gave them majority control over companies built on her name and likeness. Kruse and Fialko deny wrongdoing and argue that Presley knowingly entered into the agreements.

The next hearing in the elder abuse case is scheduled for next week, while the first case management conference in the breach-of-contract suit is set for February. With accusations of financial manipulation, elder abuse, and family betrayal now intertwined with newly revealed claims about Lisa Marie’s final hours, the Presley estate remains mired in controversy more than a year after her death.