The Presley family’s long and complicated battles over money, legacy, and control have taken yet another dramatic turn. More than two years after Riley Keough and her grandmother Priscilla Presley settled a highly publicized dispute over control of the family trust,

Priscilla Presley ’s lawyer is denying allegations in a new $50 million civil lawsuit filed against her that accuses her of leading her only daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, to an early death in an alleged plot to regain control of the Elvis Presley estate.

Presley's attorney called the lawsuit "a sad and vicious attempt to falsely tarnish the reputation of an eighty-year-old woman."