Bombshell new legal filings in £37 million lawsuit allege Grease star John Travolta’s youngest son was conceived using an egg donated by Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, Riley Keough
Elvis Presley may have an unacknowledged great-grandchild amid allegations that John Travolta’s youngest son was conceived using an egg donated by the King’s granddaughter, Riley Keough. The bombshell claims emerged in a legal filing lodged in Los Angeles.
The allegations centred on the parentage of the Grease star’s youngest son, Ben, appear in a $50 million (£37 million) breach-of-contract lawsuit brought by Priscilla Presley ’s former business associates, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, against her son, Navarone Garibaldi Garcia. The filing, lodged on 16 December, alleges that Lisa Marie Presley donated eggs so actor Travolta and his late wife Kelly Preston could “get pregnant”.
Further claims are that her daughter, actress Riley Keough, is the biological mother of the couple’s son Ben, now 15. The claims remain entirely unproven and are presented solely within the plaintiffs’ lawsuit.
According to the complaint, family tensions intensified immediately after Lisa Marie’s death in 2023. It states that “the entire Presley family clamoured for control of the estate and for pay-outs, using plaintiffs Kruse and Fialko as both negotiators and mediators”, with Lisa Marie’s ex-husband, Michael Lockwood, among those involved. Lockwood, 61, is alleged to have told Kruse “that John Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, had been unable to bear her own children, and Travolta and Presley previously used Lisa Marie’s eggs to get pregnant”.
The filing does not assert that Lisa Marie’s eggs produced a child. The complaint further claims that Lockwood said the Travoltas approached the Presley family again in 2010, one year after their son Jett died following a seizure.
It continues: “Lockwood claimed that Travolta needed to help salvage his career amid claims of sexual assault against other men, which threatened his career as a leading man.” The document adds: “Lockwood claimed that Travolta said he no longer wanted to use Lisa Marie’s eggs because they did not want ‘eggs with heroin’ on them,” referring to her opioid addiction, “and they orchestrated a deal, where Riley Keough gave her eggs to Travolta, so that Kelly could give birth to their son, Ben Travolta.”
Ben was born in November 2010. Preston died in 2020 after a long battle with breast cancer. The filing alleges that Riley Keough was paid modestly for the alleged arrangement. Lockwood is said to have claimed she “was given an old Jaguar and paid between $10,000 – $20,000 for the deal.”
The complaint also states that the agreement “required a ‘sign off’ from the Church of Scientology, which heavily involved Priscilla’s oversight.” According to the plaintiffs, Lockwood wanted them to use the allegations “to orchestrate a settlement for him and his daughters.”
But when Garcia allegedly learned the information might be used, the filing claims he “threw a tantrum, demanding that Plaintiffs keep Riley’s and Travolta’s son out of the press, since Priscilla promised him that he would be the only male musician in the family and would now be the ‘king.’” The document further claims he “demanded a multi-million-dollar settlement.”
The Travolta family is based in Ocala, Florida. Priscilla Presley, who is countersuing Kruse and Fialko for fraud and elder abuse, has denied all allegations against her.
Her lawyer, Marty Singer, said that the “shameful, ridiculous, salacious and meritless” claims are “nothing more than a sad and vicious attempt to falsely tarnish the reputation of an 80-year-old woman.” Ben Travolta’s name now appears in the newly amended complaint. In a statement issued by Kruse and Fialko’s lawyer, Jordan Matthews, he defended the filing, saying: “Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko are heartbroken that they have been forced to file their most recent amended complaint.
