filed by the company that manages Parton’s business interests<\/a> less than a month after her death.<\/p>\nIt included allegations of threats, intimidation and coercion against Bryan Seaver, the relative who publicly confirmed Parton had died in August. A temporary restraining order was also sought.<\/p>\n
Seaver, who previously served as Parton’s head of security, denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
In a statement to the BBC’s US partner, CBS News, Seaver’s attorneys said he was “grateful to put this misunderstanding behind him so that the family can grieve peacefully”.<\/p>\n
Seaver, the son of Parton’s sister Cassie, owns the security firm Squadron Augmented Protection Services (SAPS).<\/p>\n
It provided security to Parton, who died of cancer aged 80, for the final 20 years of her life.<\/p>\n
Weeks after Seaver confirmed her death, both he and his company were dismissed by She’s Alive, which manages Parton’s estate.<\/p>\n
Danny Nozell, Parton’s longtime manager and the head of She’s Alive, filed for a temporary restraining order against Seaver and his company, which was granted by a judge.<\/p>\n
In court filings, he accused Seaver of “an obscene, deliberate and escalating campaign of threats”, after demanding payment from the estate. <\/p>\n
The documents included messages in which he allegedly threatened to damage Parton’s brand and business interests if his demands were not met.<\/p>\n
The filings also alleged that Seaver used his experience as a military contractor to intimidate employees. <\/p>\n
Seaver denied threatening the estate and in a statement published by TMZ at the time, he said he was a “career soldier and military contractor” but insisted he had simply been “talking frankly in a private way with Danny who I thought was my friend”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The manager of the late country music star Dolly Parton has dropped a lawsuit against her nephew. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-827348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}