Dolly Parton’s nephew has been accused by officials of her estate of using evasive measures to avoid going to trial weeks after a temporary restraining order was granted.
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According to Rolling Stone, the estate’s lawyers said yellow tape and barbed wire were placed outside Bryan Seaver’s front door as a “process server repeatedly attempted to serve a lawsuit on him, accusing him of using a ‘threat campaign’ to ‘extract money’ from Parton’s business interests.”
Attorneys for She’s Alive, LLC, which Parton created to protect her properties and business interests, submitted documents to the court on October 5. They filed the documents in an effort to fend off Seaver’s request to delay an upcoming court hearing so he has time to meet with his new legal counsel.
On September 22, SAL filed a lawsuit and filed a temporary restraining order against Seaver and his security company, alleging that the star’s nephew threatened to tarnish his aunt’s legacy and made threats against several employees.
The allegations come more than a month after Seaver, the son of Parton’s sister Cassie, announced his aunt’s death on August 25.
“This video announcement is something she asked me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality,” Seaver said in the video posted to Dolly’s Instagram account. “As head of security for more than two decades – a role my father Larry held before me – I imagined the heaviness of this moment but didn’t really feel it until now.”
He went on to say, “It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But the sadness belongs to us, not to Dolly. Dolly lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely welcomed by (late husband) Carl, her parents and countless others who watched over her and longed for her to meet them in heaven.”
Parton died after a brief battle with cancer, her rep confirmed.
Among the documents filed by SAL on October 5 is a process server affidavit alleging that around 4:35 p.m. on September 24, they attempted to deliver legal documents related to the restraining order, USA Today reported. No one answered the door that day or on Sept. 25, according to the document.
When he returned on the evening of Saturday, September 26, the server wrote: “There were now “no trespassing” signs on the lawn and near the front door. » They would not have been able to access the front door because of the yellow tape and barbed wire “surrounding the front steps.”
A photo included in the filing, according to USA Today and Rolling Stone, showed barbed wire zigzagging over the steps leading to a home. Five pieces of warning tape are tied around the wires.
On October 6, officials agreed to postpone the temporary injunction hearing until the morning of October 20. The temporary restraining order against Seaver is also extended until that date.
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