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Dolly Parton<\/a>\u2019s sister has shared a statement denying that there is any family \u201cfeud\u201d, following news that the singer\u2019s nephew was fired and hit with a restraining order.<\/p>\n Bryan Seaver is the nephew of the country music icon, who passed away last month, and served as her long-time head of security. He was also the person who made the video announcement confirming her death.<\/p>\n On Tuesday (September 22), the corporation in charge of managing Parton\u2019s business ventures, She\u2019s Alive, filed a restraining order against Seaver. They accused him of launching \u201can obscene, deliberate, and escalating campaign of threats\u201d to extract money from the Parton estate (via The New York Times<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n The court filing also reportedly included text messages, allegedly from Seaver, that were \u201charassing and ominous threats\u201d against Dollywood business partners. He also allegedly told She\u2019s Alive\u2019s manager, Danny Nozell that he would make his own podcast that would be \u201cdedicated to ruining Dolly\u2019s brand partnerships and telling the violations these people have done on us\u201d.<\/p>\n Nozell fired Seaver on September 15, according to Variety<\/a><\/em> and also filed a restraining order. \u201cI was talking frankly in a private way with Danny, who I thought was my friend,\u201d he continued. \u201cA lot of these messages are two guys having rage talk and crying on the phone together while we were grieving.\u201d<\/p>\n He also told ABC News<\/a><\/em> that \u201cthe restraining order is spurious and simply a publicity stunt.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was fired,\u201d he added. \u201cAfter the estate negotiated with me and my company for services in perpetuity and agreed to that service provision from my company. A week later they fired me for these contrived \u2018threats\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, Dolly\u2019s sister Freida has said there is no \u201cfeud\u201d within the family following the legal action between the late singer\u2019s estate and her nephew.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll say this and this only: there is no feud within our family,\u201d she posted on Instagram. \u201cNo-one among the Parton\/Owens family is fighting over Dolly\u2019s estate. We all love Bryan, just as we all love each other. I love you all!!\u201d<\/p>\n A lawyer for She\u2019s Alive has not responded to requests for comment from outlets including Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> at time of writing.<\/p>\n News of Dolly\u2019s death rocked the music world when it emerged last month<\/a>. Though she had previously told fans<\/a> she was dealing with some health issues that she \u201cdidn\u2019t pay attention to\u201d while looking after late husband Carl Dean, the public had no idea of her cancer diagnosis, which her sister later explained was because \u201cshe did not want people sad\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, she posthumously accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Americana Honors & Awards<\/a>, appearing in a pre-recorded video clip at the event.<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n
In a statement to TMZ<\/a><\/em> about the lawsuit, Seaver said that he \u201cstands by\u201d most of the comments he made, and alleged that they have been taken out of context.<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n