Priscilla Presley may have become famous from her marriage to late husband Elvis Presley, but she started making real bank after their 1973 divorce. Fans are curious about the star’s net worth amid a lawsuit with her former business partners.
What Is Priscilla Presley’s Net Worth?
As of 2025, Priscilla’s fortune was estimated to be $10 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
How Much Money Did Priscilla Presley Get in Her Divorce From Elvis Presley?
After her 1973 divorce from Elvis, Priscilla received a one-time payment of $725,000 and five percent of Elvis’ royalties. She also received spousal support and child support for their late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.
How Does Priscilla Presley Make Money?
After her divorce from Elvis, Priscilla pursued an acting career. Her most memorable role was on the iconic CBS series Dallas, where she played Jenna Wade in 144 episodes of the show from 1983 through 1988. The Brooklyn, New York, native also had a hit movie career thanks to the Naked Gun franchise.
Priscila is a published author, as her 1985 book, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N’ Roll, was a New York Times bestseller. It was adapted into a two-part miniseries in 1988.
The book was turned into a 2023 feature film by director Sofia Coppola called Priscilla. The movie’s namesake served as an executive producer.
Priscilla has also served as an executive producer on other Elvis-related projects including Agent Elvis, Elvis Presley: the Searcher and Finding Graceland.
Priscilla Presley Turned Elvis Presley’s Graceland Into a Tourist Attraction
Following the King of Rock and Roll’s death in 1977, Priscilla became the executor of his estate, as daughter Lisa Marie was his heir. It was Priscilla’s vision that Elvis’ beloved Memphis, Tennessee, mansion known as Graceland was turned into a museum and tourist attraction for his fans. It brings in an estimated $10 million a year in revenue to his estate. Lisa Marie inherited Graceland in 1993 when she turned 25.
“Sharing Graceland with the world was her idea from the start,” Priscilla’s granddaughter, Riley Keough, told Vanity Fair in an August 2023 interview. “She’s a beautiful woman, and she was a huge part of creating my grandfather’s legacy and Graceland. It’s very important to her.”
Following Lisa Marie’s death in January 2023 due to complications from a prior bariatric surgery, Riley became the sole trustee of Graceland. Her half sisters, Harper Lockwood and Finley Lockwood, whom Lisa Marie shared with ex-husband Michael Lockwood, received 15 percent ownership in Graceland’s entities.
That included the mansion proper as well as the 13-acre estate, as well as Elvis’ personal effects including costume, cars and more.
Priscilla Presley Sued Her Former Business Associates for $1 Million
The Wedding at Graceland star filed aa $1 million lawsuit against former business associates in July 2024, claiming elder abuse and that they were trying to scam her out of her fortune.
In paperwork obtained by In Touch, Priscilla claimed $1 million was the amount stolen from her.
Priscilla claimed a woman named Brigitte Kruse befriended her and introduced her to Kevin Fialko, and the pair were able to convince the Elvis by the Presleys star replace her financial advisors with ones handpicked by them.
She alleged that under the duo’s advice, she set up companies where her associates received 80 percent of her income “that they fraudulently induced her into giving up.”
In her lawsuit, Pricilla claimed to have lost a total of $1 million in funds to the pair, as they “diverted all of her revenue to bank accounts that they set up and controlled, and drained those accounts of their funds.”
“The suit filed is a retaliatory lawsuit due to the one filed by Priscilla’s business partners last year,” Brigitte’s rep told Us Weekly in a statement on July 22, 2024. “We are confident that the facts will speak for themselves and justice will prevail.”
