Lisa Marie Hinted at John Travolta’s Telling Relationship With the Presleys Before Rumor Riley Keough Is Secretly His Son’s Biological Mother
We’ve heard some wild stuff about celebrities, but every once in a while, a new story comes out that leaves us going “wait, what?” and wondering if you actually read it right. That’s pretty much the general feeling about new reports regarding John Travolta’s son and Lisa Marie Presley.
But what exactly is being reported and why? And how is Riley Keough involved?
Related: Do Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough get along?
What Happened With John Travolta & Riley Keough?
According to a new lawsuit that has absolutely nothing to do with Travolta himself, his youngest son is biologically related to Priscilla Presley. Yes, you read that right. Presley’s former business partner, Brigitte Kruse, is right now suing Priscilla’s son, Navarone Garcia, for breach of contract, and in the documents filed in that lawsuit, Kruse alleges that John and his late wife, Kelly Preston, used Riley Keough‘s eggs to conceive their son, Ben.
It gets even weirder. Kruse alleges that Michael Lockwood, Lisa Marie Presley‘s ex-husband, shared with her that Kelly Preston had been unable to bear her own children. Travolta and Preston had reportedly previously used Lisa Marie Presley’s eggs to get pregnant, but there came a point where they no longer wanted to because they did not want “eggs with heroin” on them.
The legal documents do not indicate if Presley’s eggs ever produced a child, but they do go on to claim that Keough provided the eggs so Kelly Preston could give birth to Ben, who is now 15. According to the documents, Keough was given an old Jaguar and paid between $10,000 – $20,000.
Legal filings include a handwritten note with the words “CA fertility partners,” “Ben Travolta,” and “Kelly Preston carried baby” written on it and a text exchange where it Ben Travolta is seemingly referred to as Priscilla’s “beautiful great-grandson.”
This new reporting has made people look back at Presley’s previous comments on Travolta and Preston, which give a greater sense of the relationship between the two families. In a 2009 blog post, per the Huffington Post, he defended the pair after the “worst possible tragedy a parent could be forced to endure,” the death of their son, calling them “very good friends” and “the sweetest people in the world,” explaining about their son Jett, who passed away at 16.
“[They] were on a… never ending quest to get and provide him with the absolute best care anyone could ever ask for and need, medically, physically, emotionally, medicinally and spiritually,” Presley wrote.
Lisa Marie met Travolta and Preston through her mom, Priscilla, who was a member of Scientology for a long time. It is unclear when Priscilla left the Church of Scientology, but it is known that Lisa was also a member until 2013. “It became my tribe,” Lisa Marie said in her posthumous memoir. She remained friends with Travolta and Preston even after leaving Scientology. Lisa Marie died in 2023 at the age of 54.
Keough has not responded to the recent allegations. She and her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, have two children: daughter Tupelo, 3, and a baby born earlier this year.
