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Post by respect77 on Aug 11, 2018 5:15:23 GMT
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Post by ghost on Aug 11, 2018 18:49:39 GMT
Nice to see her doing better. I would love to see another album from LMP. Storm & Grace was a beautiful record.
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Post by respect77 on Aug 12, 2018 5:23:02 GMT
Nice to see her doing better. I would love to see another album from LMP. Storm & Grace was a beautiful record. I agree, it is a good album. It would have deserved more attention than it received. I like some of her older songs too (several of them are probably about MJ too).
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Post by Liberian Girl on Aug 12, 2018 11:42:15 GMT
I love Lisa Marie. A very underrated artist in her own right.
I'm at work right now, so can't watch the video. I known there were reports of money problems a while back.
Does she have her kids back now? I know Priscilla was looking after them for a while as she was having issues with addiction.
And what happened to her husband? Are they divorced now?
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Post by respect77 on Aug 12, 2018 14:01:22 GMT
I love Lisa Marie. A very underrated artist in her own right. I'm at work right now, so can't watch the video. I known there were reports of money problems a while back. Does she have her kids back now? I know Priscilla was looking after them for a while as she was having issues with addiction. She has her kids back, yes. They are with her now in Graceland too. They are in an ugly divorce battle now with Lockwood trying to get a share of her money. They did sign a post-nup but only after a year of them being married and now Lockwood argues that it is not valid. He also wants spousal support from her. He sounds like a gold digger to me. Celebs are surrounded by those, apparently. MJ was right about it when he said he needed to marry a girl who had a similar status financially to know that she loves him for himself and not his money. LMP was perfect from that aspect, but unfortunately it didn't work for other reasons. I think regarding the post-nup and spousal support there is a trial set for next week. Then there is the custody issue. I am not sure if it is finalized by now or it is just temporary that the girls are with her. There was a court doc which showed that there was an allegation by LMP about Lockwood allegedly having inappropriate photos of the girls on his computer. But I don't know where that case is. I guess everything relating to that is sealed due to the sensitive nature of it. Lockwood also seems to regularly leak documents to Radar Online and every time he is with the girls paparazzi somehow happen to take photos of them. Like here where he even gladly points out the cameras.
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Post by Russg on Aug 13, 2018 18:39:54 GMT
I find it hard to have sympathy for her when she has squandered so much wealth and so many opportunities. The reality is, when you've never had to do a hard days work in your life, what else is there to do but get an addiction? Lifestyles of the rich and famous....
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Post by respect77 on Aug 13, 2018 19:40:05 GMT
I find it hard to have sympathy for her when she has squandered so much wealth and so many opportunities. The reality is, when you've never had to do a hard days work in your life, what else is there to do but get an addiction? Lifestyles of the rich and famous.... That's only if you think money is the only thing that one needs in life to be happy. I think she would have given all her money to not lose her father the way she did, for one. Then instead of being sent to therapy she was put into a Scientology school. Her relationship with her mother growing up wasn't the best either, to say the least. And so on and so forth. I'm always amazed at this idea that rich people don't have the right to be unhappy or depressed or aren't deserving of empathy. When you have money what else do you need in life, right?
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Post by respect77 on Aug 14, 2018 4:14:15 GMT
Lisa Marie Presley reveals she 'still speaks to late father Elvis'14 Aug, 2018 12:04pm Lisa Marie Presley admitted she "occasionally" asks her late father Elvis Presley for help in a candid interview on ITV's Lorraine this week. The 50-year-old singer-songwriter doesn't often talk to her famous dad - who died of Myocardial infarction in 1977 - but she will reach out to him when she feels like she needs some guidance because she feels "very connected" to him. Speaking on the daytime show, Lisa said of their duet Where No One Stands Alone: "I just felt really emotional. It's never pleasant to sing and cry. I had to keep my composure, but I felt very connected to him and to the song." The singer explained: "I wouldn't say I talk to [him], I just remember everything and I can just sort of pull out of the files whatever memory I have and stuff like that and occasionally ask for help... which was the case with this record. I felt like a hand came down to me." Lisa has always felt a strong bond with her father but she has admitted her belief was reinstated when she saw a quote from him during a new family exhibit, the Daily Mail reports. She admitted: "There was a quote on the wall as I was leaving the exhibit it said something like, 'Becoming a father is the best thing that's ever happened to me'. "I'd never see it before. It kind of reinstates what I felt was the truth, which is that. I felt like I was the most important thing to him. He would protect me. That's the protection I had and ever had, especially recently, that he'd absolutely protect me." Lisa is planning to write an autobiography in the near future, which will document her childhood and her relationship with Elvis, but she's busy doing fiction at the moment.
She said: "I will absolutely do one. I just don't know when.
"I haven't had time to think about that. I'm still in the middle of a psychological thriller right now, when it's over maybe I can write it." The brunette beauty's 29-year-old daughter Riley Keough - her child with Danny Keough - has followed in her grandfather's footsteps and carved out a career in showbiz but Lisa would have never let her pursue it if she wasn't intelligent. She said of Riley: "I felt like Riley had a really good head on her shoulders. If I had a child that did not, and didn't seem to be strong in themselves, I wouldn't allow it. "Riley was absolutely like, 'I'm going to model for money and then I'm going to act, and then I'm going to be a director'. "She had a plan and did everything she said she was going to do. I wouldn't do that though if I felt there was uncertainty or vulnerability or a weakness, I'd have them home until 18." www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12106741
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Post by respect77 on Aug 14, 2018 5:03:35 GMT
I find it hard to have sympathy for her when she has squandered so much wealth and so many opportunities. The reality is, when you've never had to do a hard days work in your life, what else is there to do but get an addiction? Lifestyles of the rich and famous.... That's only if you think money is the only thing that one needs in life to be happy. I think she would have given all her money to not lose her father the way she did, for one. Then instead of being sent to therapy she was put into a Scientology school. Her relationship with her mother growing up wasn't the best either, to say the least. And so on and so forth. I'm always amazed at this idea that rich people don't have the right to be unhappy or depressed or aren't deserving of empathy. When you have money what else do you need in life, right? She has a song about it.
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Post by respect77 on Aug 14, 2018 7:32:53 GMT
Her trial with Lockwood started yesterday.
Lisa Marie Presley’s estranged husband says he didn’t read prenup before signing it
LOS ANGELES — Lisa Marie Presley’s estranged husband testified Monday that he never understood when he signed two versions of a postnuptial agreement she presented him in 2007 that he was giving up any chance of getting spousal support if they divorced.
Michael Lockwood said that although he penned his signature on the documents in July and November 2007, he did not read them before doing so.
“Had I read this, I wouldn’t have signed it,” Lockwood said while glancing at one of the documents during questioning by Presley’s attorney, Gary Fishbein. “I think it’s unfair.”
Asked by Fishbein if he typically signed contracts without reading them first, Lockwood — a musician, producer and writer — replied, “For what I do for a living, this isn’t something I can wrap my head around. I don’t understand how you understand it.”
“You’re not interested in knowing what’s in an agreement that can affect your marital relationships?” Fishbein asked.
“Correct,” Lockwood answered.
Presley, 50, listened to Lockwood’s testimony without showing any emotion. She and Lockwood, her fourth husband and the father of her 9-year-old twin daughters, met in 2003 when she hired him as musical director for her band and for her first record and they married in Japan in 2006.
She paid him $3,500 weekly and continued to do so even when he wasn’t performing any tasks for her so he would not work for anyone else, Lockwood said.
Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court in June 2016.
A non-jury trial of the issues is taking place before Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman.
Asked by Fisbhein if he knew the extent of Presley’s finances, Lockwood replied, “I knew she had some wealth, I didn’t know how much.”
Questioned about the same issue later by his lawyer, Jeff Sturman, Lockwood answered, “I knew she had a house, I knew who her father was, that she could support her career and pay for her band.”
Lockwood said he also didn’t read or understand a prenuptial agreement he signed before the couple’s marriage. When Presley raised the issue of a postnuptial agreement in January 2007 after they had been married for less than a year, she didn’t explain what the document meant, he said.
In his opening statement, Fishbein said Lockwood contradicted himself by saying he didn’t read the postnuptial documents or understand them. The lawyer said the only way Lockwood would know if he didn’t comprehend the agreement was if he tried to read it.
“What he wants is money from Ms. Presley, that’s the bottom line,” Fishbein said.
But Sturman told the judge that Presley is trying to get an unfair advantage over her estranged spouse and leave him financially strapped.
“She wants him in the streets. She’s fine if he has nothing,” Sturman said.
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Post by respect77 on Aug 14, 2018 7:33:45 GMT
You gotta love the "I am a poor idiot" argument every time a freeloader around a celebrity wants money from them. Wade with his "I didn't know I was sexually abused until 2012" nonsense and now Lockwood with this "I don't read contracts that I sign" nonsense.
He was a grown man when he signed it. How is it anyone else's fault if he didn't read an agreement that he signed? He even had a lawyer. So why didn't he have the lawyer explain it to him? In court papers he said his lawyer allegedly told him the agreement was unfair. But he still signed it, no questions asked, not wanting to know how and why it was unfair? Whose fault is it then? The lawyer in question is dead since, so it's very convenient for Lockwood that he can claim anything about that meeting.
I can't see how "I didn't read it" is a good argument. By that, anyone can claim that whenever a contract or agreement becomes uncomfortable for them and make it null and void. Would be a bad precedent IMO. We are talking about a healthy adult man, not someone who is mentally challenged.
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Post by ghost on Aug 14, 2018 8:15:50 GMT
You gotta love the "I am a poor idiot" argument every time a freeloader around a celebrity wants money from them. Wade with his "I didn't know I was sexually abused until 2012" nonsense and now Lockwood with this "I don't read contracts that I sign" nonsense. He was a grown man when he signed it. How is it anyone else's fault if he didn't read an agreement that he signed? He even had a lawyer. So why didn't he have the lawyer explain it to him? In court papers he said his lawyer allegedly told him the agreement was unfair. But he still signed it, no questions asked, not wanting to know how and why it was unfair? Whose fault is it then? The lawyer in question is dead since, so it's very convenient for Lockwood that he can claim anything about that meeting. I can't see how "I didn't read it" is a good argument. By that, anyone can claim that whenever a contract or agreement becomes uncomfortable for them and make it null and void. Would be a bad precedent IMO. We are talking about a healthy adult man, not someone who is mentally challenged.
Surely the "Had I read this, I wouldn't have signed it" argument wouldn't hold any weight in a court of law? In my country there's an old adage which the courts abide by, which says "ignorance of the law is no excuse."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 9:17:32 GMT
Good stuff Lisa! Great to hear she's on the mend.
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Post by respect77 on Aug 14, 2018 15:47:34 GMT
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Post by Russg on Aug 14, 2018 18:29:05 GMT
I find it hard to have sympathy for her when she has squandered so much wealth and so many opportunities. The reality is, when you've never had to do a hard days work in your life, what else is there to do but get an addiction? Lifestyles of the rich and famous.... That's only if you think money is the only thing that one needs in life to be happy. I think she would have given all her money to not lose her father the way she did, for one. Then instead of being sent to therapy she was put into a Scientology school. Her relationship with her mother growing up wasn't the best either, to say the least. And so on and so forth. I'm always amazed at this idea that rich people don't have the right to be unhappy or depressed or aren't deserving of empathy. When you have money what else do you need in life, right? I never said that money is all you need to bring you happiness. But she has squandered an obscene amount of money that she inherited and didn't even have to work for. The trouble is with someone like LMP or probably MJ's kids, is that none of them will ever be made to do anything they don't want to do, for the sake of money. As human beings, we think we know what we want, but often what we think we want is not actually what is good for us. Sometimes being made to do something you don't want to do (which most of the working population experiences) is actually good for us and builds strength of character and resilience.
I wouldn't trade my life for LMP's or PPB's, despite all their money and opportunities. But it is hard to feel sympathy for anybody in a privileged position who just pisses it all away, especially when there are kids in this world who don't have enough to eat.
JMO.
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