Priscilla Presley has had her settlement with granddaughter Riley Keough, regarding her daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s property, accepted by the courts.

The settlement states that Priscilla can now be buried as near her ex-husband Elvis Presley as attainable on the Graceland property when she dies, and that her son Navarone Garibaldi can take part within the memorial ceremony.

“Riley agrees to permit Priscilla to be buried upon her demise within the Meditation Backyard of Graceland. The burial location can be on the location closest to Elvis Presley with out shifting any current gravesite,” reads the official settlement.

As reported by Rolling Stone, the settlement has been confirmed in a probate courtroom in Los Angeles County, and signed off by a decide, thereby avoiding a probably lengthy and expensive authorized battle.

As well as, Priscilla is about to obtain a $1 million (£810,000) fee from Lisa-Marie’s $25 million (£20.2 million) life insurance coverage belief, in addition to $100,000 a 12 months for the subsequent ten years for her providers as “particular advisor” to Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.

The settlement additional states that Keough “agrees to make use of her greatest efforts to ask Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., or any successor thereof, to not pursue litigation in opposition to Priscilla associated to her identify, picture and likeness.”

The battle between Priscilla and actor Keough arose round the sudden demise of Lisa Marie Presley in January this 12 months, which threw the inheritance of the Presley property into query. Lisa Marie, as the one youngster, had develop into the only heir following Elvis’ demise, though the location was additionally managed by Priscilla.

When the belief was dissolved in 1993 on Lisa Marie’s twenty fifth birthday, she fashioned a brand new belief, which additionally retained her mom as supervisor of the property and co-trustee. Nevertheless, earlier this 12 months, Priscilla Presley filed a authorized problem disputing the validity of daughter Lisa Marie‘s will, after it was reportedly altered in 2016 to take away Priscilla and a former enterprise supervisor, Barry Siegel, as trustees.

Priscilla Presley’s life has been dramatised within the new movie Priscilla, directed by Sofia Coppola. The movie will obtain its UK cinema launch on January 1.

It was reported this week that Lisa Marie Presley had despatched two emails to Coppola asking her to revise the script for the movie earlier than she died. Elvis’ solely daughter had claimed that the movie portrayed her father as “a predator and manipulative”, describing the script as “shockingly vengeful and contemptuous”.

Elvis was 24 when he started his relationship with Priscilla, who was 14. Nevertheless, in September, Priscilla said that she “by no means had intercourse” with the singer at that age.

Talking on the Venice Movie Pageant, she mentioned: “Regardless that I used to be 14, I used to be truly just a little bit older in life – not in numbers. That was the attraction. Folks suppose, ‘Oh, it was intercourse.’ No, it wasn’t. I by no means had intercourse with him. He was very variety, very mushy, very loving, however he additionally revered the actual fact I used to be solely 14 years previous. We had been extra in line in thought, and that was our relationship.”

In a four-star evaluate of Priscilla, NME wrote: “It’s fascinating to observe the story unfold from Priscilla’s perspective, since Elvis has largely been portrayed in a optimistic gentle on display screen till now, and there are elements of their relationship which can be prone to shock anybody not beforehand accustomed to her life story.”