Per TMZ, the team running Dolly Parton's estate fired her niece Rebecca Seaver Thursday from her job as executive director of the Life of Many Colors Museum, and let her entire staff go with her, three weeks after the museum opened inside her Nashville SongTeller Hotel.
The estate now operates on a production schedule. September: fire Bryan Seaver, the nephew who ran Dolly's security for two decades. Late October: fire the museum's executive director and her whole staff, three weeks after the ribbon cutting. The collection is big enough, per sources, to "fill a Nordstrom," and it is now being run by lawyers.
Then this morning the nephew who is suing the estate, the one under a restraining order, the one from the "legal violence" emails, posted on Facebook: "There is no feud between us. I love them both with all my heart." Per TMZ, the man who told his lawyers he would "destroy the entire brand" is now a press release. "No feud" is what you say when the feud is the news cycle and you need a line in the bio that is not a deposition.
Dolly built a career turning pain into a gift bag. Now the archive is a docket and the family is a "dynamo." The most merchandised legacy in country music is watching the merchandise get litigated.
YOUR TURN: the estate says no feud, the nephew says no feud, and there is a restraining order in a drawer. Which one of those is the press release?
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