The claim that Riley Keough donated her eggs so John Travolta and Kelly Preston could conceive their son Benjamin comes from a December 2025 court filing in a Los Angeles business dispute that has nothing to do with Travolta. Keough and her grandmother Priscilla Presley have called the allegation “untrue” and “deeply hurtful” in a joint statement, and Travolta has not publicly responded. The Riley Keough and John Travolta egg donation lawsuit allegation is a third-party claim inserted into a separate fight over Priscilla Presley’s finances, not a case Keough or Travolta filed or was sued in.
What the December 2025 Filing Actually Alleges
The allegation appears in an amended complaint filed on December 16, 2025, in Los Angeles Superior Court by Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, Priscilla Presley’s former business partners. The complaint was filed against Priscilla’s son Navarone Garibaldi Garcia and is part of related litigation between Kruse, Fialko, and the Presleys.1Los Angeles Times. Riley Keough John Travolta Kelly Preston Donated Eggs Lawsuit Claims
According to the filing, the story originated with Michael Lockwood, the ex-husband of Lisa Marie Presley and father of her twin daughters Harper and Finley. Lockwood allegedly told Kruse after Lisa Marie’s death in January 2023 that Travolta and Preston had earlier tried to use Lisa Marie’s eggs because Preston “had been unable to bear her own children.” The filing does not say whether those earlier eggs produced a child.2NBC News. John Travolta Son Elvis Presley Great Grandson Riley Keough Egg Donation3People. Riley Keough Allegedly Donated Eggs to John Travolta Kelly Preston for Son Ben
The complaint then alleges that around 2010, after the January 2009 death of Travolta and Preston’s son Jett, the couple returned to the Presley family but declined to use Lisa Marie’s eggs, reportedly because they did not want “eggs with heroin” on them. Instead, according to the filing, an arrangement was made for Riley Keough, then about 20 years old, to donate her eggs so Preston could carry Benjamin. The complaint says Keough was paid between $10,000 and $20,000 and received “an old Jaguar.”1Los Angeles Times. Riley Keough John Travolta Kelly Preston Donated Eggs Lawsuit Claims4Yahoo Entertainment. Riley Keough Biological Mother John Travolta Lawsuit
Attached to the filing was an image of a handwritten note on hotel stationery that reportedly referenced “Kelly Preston carried baby,” “medical bills paid,” and “old Jaguar 1990s-ish.” The complaint also cited a screenshot of messages allegedly from Priscilla Presley describing Ben Travolta as her “beautiful great-grandson,” and alleged the arrangement required a “sign off” from the Church of Scientology and involved “Priscilla’s oversight.”1Los Angeles Times. Riley Keough John Travolta Kelly Preston Donated Eggs Lawsuit Claims5KTLA. John Travolta Son Is Elvis Great Grandson Lawsuit Alleges
The filing further alleges that Lockwood “demanded” the information be used to negotiate a settlement for himself and his daughters, whom he described as “financially destitute.”1Los Angeles Times. Riley Keough John Travolta Kelly Preston Donated Eggs Lawsuit Claims
How Keough, Presley, and Travolta Have Responded
Riley Keough and Priscilla Presley issued a joint statement to People magazine denying the allegation. “These claims are not only untrue but also deeply hurtful,” it read. “Our family is, and always has been, united in love and respect for one another. We will not allow outside voices to divide us or to diminish the strength of our bond as a family.”6NewsNation. Riley Keough Alleged Eggs John Travolta Kelly Preston Lawsuit
Priscilla Presley’s attorneys, Marty Singer and Wayne Harman, called the allegations “outrageous” and “reprehensibly false.” They said the claims have “absolutely nothing to do with the claims in this case” and represent “a completely improper effort to exert undue pressure on Presley to retract her legitimate, truthful claims,” and pledged the matter “absolutely will be addressed in court.”2NBC News. John Travolta Son Elvis Presley Great Grandson Riley Keough Egg Donation7Yahoo Entertainment. Riley Keough Reportedly Desperate Hold Lawsuit
As of late December 2025, representatives for John Travolta had not responded to requests for comment, and neither had representatives for Keough or Navarone Garcia. No direct public response from Michael Lockwood, identified in the filing as the source of the story, has been reported.2NBC News. John Travolta Son Elvis Presley Great Grandson Riley Keough Egg Donation
Jordan Matthews, the attorney for Kruse and Fialko, said his clients “will let the facts and the truth speak for itself.”1Los Angeles Times. Riley Keough John Travolta Kelly Preston Donated Eggs Lawsuit Claims
Why This Claim Is in a Lawsuit About Priscilla Presley
Neither Travolta nor Keough is a party to the case where the allegation appears. The suit is one piece of a wider battle between Priscilla Presley and her former business partners, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, that began after their 2021 partnership collapsed in the wake of Lisa Marie Presley’s January 2023 death.8Action News 5. Priscilla Presley’s Ex-Business Partners Sue Her More Than $50 Million Alleging Fraud
Presley sued Kruse and Fialko in July 2024, alleging financial elder abuse and a “meticulously planned and abhorrent scheme” that gave them 80% of her income and control over her power of attorney, bank accounts, and trusts. She says they swindled her out of at least $1 million.9WBAL-TV. Priscilla Presley Lawsuit Fraud Breach Contract10Variety. Priscilla Presley Fraud Breach of Contract Lawsuit Lisa Marie
Kruse and Fialko filed an amended complaint in August 2025 seeking over $50 million, alleging Presley defrauded them by concealing a 2005 deal in which she sold rights to license her name, image, and likeness to Elvis Presley Enterprises for $6.5 million. That complaint also accused Presley of using “false accusations of elder abuse” to damage them, and made further incendiary claims about her role in Elvis Presley’s final year and in Lisa Marie’s death.10Variety. Priscilla Presley Fraud Breach of Contract Lawsuit Lisa Marie11People. Priscilla Presley Riley Keough Slam Deeply Hurtful Lawsuit Allegations in Rare Joint Statement Priscilla’s counsel has described that pleading as “shameful, ridiculous, salacious, and meritless.”
The egg donation allegation was folded into a related action against Priscilla’s son Navarone Garcia. Presley’s attorneys have argued the claim was added to pressure her into abandoning her elder abuse case.2NBC News. John Travolta Son Elvis Presley Great Grandson Riley Keough Egg Donation
What Is Publicly Known About Benjamin Travolta’s Birth
Benjamin Hunter Kaleo Travolta was born in November 2010.12Page Six. John Travolta Kelly Preston Kids Travolta and Preston announced the pregnancy in May 2010, when Preston was 47 and three months along, roughly a year and a half after their 16-year-old son Jett died following a seizure in the Bahamas in January 2009.13ABC News. John Travolta Kelly Preston Pregnant Son
In a 2011 Today interview, Preston said it had taken three years to conceive Benjamin. She was 48 when he was born, and when asked about the risks of pregnancy at that age said: “I didn’t (consider the risks). I just considered that it was difficult.”14Today. Kelly Preston Mom at 48 I Didn’t Consider Risks No prior public record of Preston using assisted reproduction has been reported outside the allegations in this lawsuit. Preston died in July 2020 after a battle with breast cancer.12Page Six. John Travolta Kelly Preston Kids
Where the Case Stands
The combined litigation remains active in Los Angeles Superior Court before Judge Mark H. Epstein. Priscilla Presley’s elder abuse suit and the $50 million counterclaim by Kruse and Fialko are proceeding at the same time. In April 2025, the judge denied a motion by Kruse and Fialko to stay the California proceedings in favor of an earlier Florida breach-of-contract case. A separate lawsuit involving an alleged $25 million jewelry collection was dismissed without prejudice in February 2026 and folded into the main Los Angeles proceedings. No trial date has been set.15Lawfold. Priscilla Presley Faces $50 Million Lawsuit From Former Business Partners
The court has upheld Presley’s fraud claims against Fialko and dismissed a conspiracy claim. Claims against the attorney who was present at the January 2023 contract signing were dismissed with prejudice.16Rolling Stone. Priscilla Presley Video Brigitte Kruse Lawsuit
The egg donation allegation has not been tested in court, and no independent verification of the handwritten note, the messages, or the underlying arrangement has been reported. Whether the claim will survive as part of the pleadings, or be stricken as Presley’s lawyers have said they will seek, remains to be decided.