{"id":36055,"date":"2025-12-20T00:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=36055"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:23:20","slug":"riley-keough-donated-her-eggs-to-john-travolta-and-late-wife-kelly-preston-for-their-son-ben-claims-court-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=36055","title":{"rendered":"Riley Keough \u2018donated her eggs\u2019 to John Travolta and late wife Kelly Preston for their son Ben, claims court documents"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new lawsuit has brought a bombshell claim: John Travolta\u2019s youngest son, Benjamin, may not be the biological child of his late wife, Kelly Preston. Instead, actress Riley Keough is alleged to be Benjamin\u2019s mother, and there\u2019s an explanation for this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Travolta and Kelly Preston married in 1992 after he had proposed at the Palace Hotel restaurant in Gstaad, Switzerland, the day before.<\/p>\n

They welcomed three children: Jett, Ella Bleu, and Benjamin. Jett tragically passed away in 2009 at age 16. Kelly Preston was later diagnosed with breast cancer and passed away in July 2020 at age 57.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the morning of July 12, 2020, Kelly Preston, adored wife and mother, passed away following a two-year battle with breast cancer,\u201d a family representative said at the time. \u201cChoosing to keep her fight private, she had been undergoing medical treatment for some time, supported by her closest family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, John Travolta has ensured his late wife\u2019s memory lives on. He has consistently published tributes to her, and, for what would\u2019ve been her birthday earlier this year, he shared a newly recorded song about her.<\/p>\n

Their youngest, Benjamin, was born nearly two years after Jett\u2019s passing. However, a bombshell new lawsuit claims that Kelly was actually not the biological mother of Benjamin, but actress Riley Keough, daughter of Lisa-Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis himself and Priscilla Presley.<\/p>\n

John Travolta fathered Elvis\u2019s great-grandson, lawsuit claims<\/h2>\n

Per\u00a0PageSix<\/a>, Birgitte Kruse, Priscilla Presley\u2019s former business partner, alleges that Riley is the biological mother of Travolta\u2019s youngest son, as she claimed Kelly used Keough\u2019s eggs to conceive the son.<\/p>\n

Kruse claims that Keough received between $10,000 and $20,000, along with an old Jaguar, in the deal, per documents obtained by the news outlet.<\/p>\n

\"Kelly
CANNES, FRANCE \u2013 MAY 15: John Travolta of \u2018Gotti\u2019 and Kelly Preston pose with their children Ella Bleu Travolta (L) and Benjamin Travolta attends the screening of \u2018Solo: A Star Wars Story\u2019 during the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2018 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale \u2013 Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Keough is claimed to have agreed to give up eggs after her mother, the late Lisa Marie Presley, once gave her eggs to Travolta and Preston. However, John and Kelly allegedly didn\u2019t want to use those eggs, as Lisa Marie had a history of drug use.<\/p>\n

The harmful allegations were made in a lawsuit filed by Priscilla\u2019s former associates, which included Kruse and Kevin Fialko.\u00a0The National Enquirer<\/a>\u00a0was first to report on this.<\/p>\n

People Magazine<\/a>\u00a0also obtained court documents, claiming that Riley, Lisa Marie, and Danny Keough\u2019s daughter donated her eggs to Travolta and Kelly Preston, who used them to welcome Benjamin.<\/p>\n

Kelly Preston was \u201cunable to bear her own children,\u201d claims lawsuit<\/h2>\n

The lawsuits, filed against Lisa Marie\u2019s son, Navarone Garcia, state that immediately after Lisa Marie\u2019s death in January 2023, the \u201centire Presley family clamored for control of the estate and for pay-outs, using Plaintiffs Kruse and Fialko as both negotiators and mediators.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Lockwood, Lisa Marie\u2019s ex-husband, and the father of Harper and Finley Lockwood approached Plaintiff Kruse, telling her that John Travolta\u2019s wife, Kelly Preston, had been unable to bear her own children, and Travolta and Presley previously used Lisa Marie\u2019s eggs to get pregnant,\u201d the complaint continued, per People Magazine.<\/p>\n

Lockwood further claimed he and his children were \u201cfinancially destitute\u201d as Kruse and Fialko worked to try to \u201cmanage the constant chaos.\u201d The filing didn\u2019t clarify that the eggs produced a child.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the filing read that Lockwood alleged that Travolta approached the family in 2012, a year after Jett\u2019s tragic death. Per the court documents, Lockwood claimed that John Travolta \u201cneeded to help salvage his career amid claims of sexual assault against other men, which threatened his career as a leading man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attorneys strikes back<\/h2>\n

Per the complaint, \u201cLockwood claimed that Travolta said he no longer wanted to use Lisa Marie\u2019s eggs because they did not want \u2018eggs with heroin\u2019 on them and they orchestrated a deal, where Riley Keough gave her eggs to Travolta, so that Kelly could give birth to their son, Ben Travolta.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, according the documents, as Navarone Garcia heard this news, he \u201cthrew a tantrum, demanding that Plaintiffs keep Riley\u2019s and Travolta\u2019s 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 \u2018king.’\u201d Kruse and the others involved in the lawsuit claimed that Garcia requested a \u201cmillion-dollar settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Riley
NEW YORK, NEW YORK \u2013 DECEMBER 01: Riley Keough attends the 35th Gotham Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on December 01, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a statement made to\u00a0TMZ<\/a>, Priscilla\u2019s attorney\u2019s Marty Singer and Wayne Harman, said, \u201cAfter losing motion after motion in this case, and unsuccessfully seeking to have Presley\u2019s counsel of record, Marty Singer, disqualified from representing her in this matter, Brigitte Kruse, Kevin Fialko, and their 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,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOutrageous allegations\u201d<\/h2>\n

Singer and Harman continued, \u201cIn a completely improper effort to exert undue pressure on Presley to retract her legitimate, truthful claims, Kruse and her co-conspirators have also sued Presley\u2019s son, cousin, and assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese recent outrageous allegations have absolutely nothing to do with the claims in this case. The conduct of Kruse, Fialko, and their new lawyers (they are on their fourth set of attorneys) is shameful, and it absolutely will be addressed in court,\u201d the attorneys conclided.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your take on this? Please share your thoughts in the comment section on Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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