In a court filing, a private and deeply personal claim has been pushed into the spotlight. It alleges Riley Keough donated eggs that were used by John Travolta and Kelly Preston to conceive their son, Benjamin Travolta.
The filings are dated December 16, 2025, and Ben Travolta was born in November 2010.
It’s important to note that the document in question does not include verified DNA proof. This claim also sits in a much larger ugly legal fight.
In reports from People Magazine, the above allegation is set out in an amended complaint filed by Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, who are described as Priscilla Presley’s former business associates. The filing is against Navarone Garcia.
The legal fight behind the headline
The legal fight has nothing to do with John Travolta or Riley Keough being sued over parentage. Entertainment Weekly reports that the claim in the filings only includes their names as part of the broader narrative in the breach-of-contract dispute. In the dispute Brigitte Kruse describes herself, and Kevin Fialko, as mediators after Lisa Marie Presley’s death.
In September 2025, People Magazine published a joint statement from Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough, a response to allegations tied to the same legal fight. They stated the claims were deeply hurtful and insisted the family remained united.
The detail that made everyone stop scrolling
In the reports mentioned above, there is a phrase that’s quite shocking. “Eggs with heroin,” is how Lisa Marie Preseley’s eggs are allegedly described in the filings.
Both People Magazine and EW attribute this statement to what Michael Lockwood supposedly told Kruse. In the same claims, it’s written that Travolta and Preston had previously used Lisa Marie’s eggs, then decided against using them previously.
The filing also claims that in 2010, Keough, who was then about 20, donated eggs, and that she was compensated with an “old Jaguar” and $10,000 to $20,000.
A messy motive
TMZ broke the news that the amended documents also paint a messy motive for why this got raised at all. The complaint claims Lockwood was financially desperate and wanted the information used as leverage for a settlement involving himself and his daughters. It also references a text exchange that appears to call Ben Travolta a “great-grandson,” which is exactly the kind of thing that gets repeated endlessly online, whether it’s verified or not.
A separate detail in the same reporting says the complaint alleges Navarone Garcia reacted angrily to the possibility of the story becoming public and demanded it stay out of the press.
Even if you don’t buy every part of the filing, you can see the through-line, everyone involved is trying to control what gets said, and the court record is doing the opposite.
Denials, distance, and what’s actually provable
In a report by E! News, Priscilla Presley, via her legal team, rejected the allegations. Slamming it as “shameful,” and framing it as an attempt to cause pain and apply pressure in the legal dispute.
The truth is that this whole claim is presented as an allegation inside civil litigation, without verified DNA evidence. Neither Travolta or Keough are named as defendants in this matter, even though their names are the ones now being dragged across the news landscape. Not every part of celebrity culture is dark, but stories like this make the darker parts hard to ignore.