Dolly Parton’s Estate Files for Restraining Order Against Her Nephew Bryan SeaverDolly Parton’s nephew Bryan Seaver is clearing the air amid drama with her estate.
“The restraining order is spurious and simply a publicity stunt,” Seaver told ABC News in a Sept. 23 statement, denying Nozell’s allegations that he threated him and his associates. “I was fired.”
“After the estate negotiated with me and my company for services in perpetuity and agreed to that service provision from my company,” he continued. “A week later they fired me for these contrived ‘threats.'”
In court documents obtained by E! News, Nozell alleged Seaver “began invoking his self-proclaimed military-contractor experience, access to weapons, and capacity for violence to extort” Parton’s estate for money shortly before the Grammy winner’s Aug. 25 death.
“Those threats continued after her passing,” Nozell continued in his filing, saying that Parton’s estate “was forced to terminate Mr. Seaver” when his conduct allegedly “became threatening, destabilizing, and incompatible with any safe working environment.”
