Devoted dad John Travolta’s 15-year-old son, Ben, is the biological offspring of Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough, according to a bombshell lawsuit. But sources tell the National Enquirer that wasn’t the first time the Saturday Night Fever stud allegedly relied on the Presley clan’s eggs to produce one of his beloved children.
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The late Lisa Marie Presley purportedly donated her eggs to help Travolta, 71, and his now deceased wife, Kelly Preston, conceive son Jett, sources tell the Enquirer. Jett, who was born on April 13, 1992, tragically died in January 2009 at age 16 after suffering a seizure and hitting his head on a bathtub during a family vacation in the Bahamas.
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“Lisa Marie was very close to John, and she wanted to help him and Kelly, who couldn’t bear children,” a source tells the Enquirer. “Think about it: They named him Jett — Elvis Presley loved jets.”
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Years later, Lisa Marie again wanted to help John and Kelly, according to the lawsuit. Michael Lockwood, who was married to Lisa Marie from 2006 to 2021, allegedly claimed the proposed baby deal went south as Travolta “no longer wanted to use Lisa Marie’s eggs” because the grieving couple “did not want ‘eggs with heroin’ on them,” the complaint states, referring to the troubled scion’s opioid addiction. (Lockwood denies the allegations lobbed in the lawsuit, telling Daily Mail, “That just sounds crazy. I have not heard anything about it.”)
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Apparently, that’s when Travolta and Preston turned to Keough to have Ben. The document charges that the parties “orchestrated a deal where Riley gave her eggs to Travolta, so that Kelly could give birth to their son Ben Travolta,” in November 2010 in exchange for an “old Jaguar” and a payout between $10,000 and $20,000.
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Included in the lawsuit exhibits are a handwritten note on hotel stationery detailing the alleged deal with Keough, now 36, and a screen shot of a text message photograph showing Travolta, daughter Ella and Ben with a caption addressed to Priscilla Presley — who allegedly brokered the whole deal — stating, “There’s your beautiful great-grandson, his stunningly talented sister and your buddy John.” (Also in the exhibits: Navarone Garcia’s apparent attack on his half sister Lisa Marie.)
According to the source, Ben was said to be named after Lisa Marie’s son and Riley’s brother, Benjamin Keough, who would die by suicide in 2020 at age 27.
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Priscilla’s pitbull lawyers Marty Singer and Wayne Harman refute the bombshell claims in the lawsuit, stating to TMZ, “Brigitte [Kruse] and her co-conspirators have demonstrated that there is no bar too low, no ethical line that they are unwilling to cross in an effort to cause further pain to Priscilla Presley and her family.”
Kruse and Kevin Fialko — who are Priscilla’s former business partners and behind the lawsuit — aren’t backing down. Their high-powered attorney Jordan Matthews says his clients are “heartbroken that they have been forced to file their most recent amended complaint,” adding, “We will let the facts and the truth speak for itself.”
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As the Enquirer previously reported, the bare-knuckle legal brawl between Priscilla and her former colleagues erupted in July 2024 when she filed an elder abuse lawsuit against Kruse and Fialko in California, alleging that she was duped into forming a business that would “drain her of every last penny.”
In response, Kruse and Fialko — who denied the accusations — slammed her with a 211-page countersuit claiming Priscilla will “exploit” anyone to satisfy her “thirst for money,” including quickly pulling 54-year-old Lisa Marie off life support on Jan. 12, 2023, in an alleged bid to collect on a $25 million insurance policy.
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Priscilla’s lawyer Singer vehemently denied the allegations, calling the legal action “one of the most shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless lawsuits I have seen.”
The court battle, says the source, “is just getting wilder and wilder. What will Kruse and Fialko allege next? The latest claims that Lisa Marie and Riley gave their eggs to the Travoltas are truly explosive — and the repercussions will be felt for a long time to come.”
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