In Nashville, a sitting judge has issued a restraining order against Bryan Seaver. Dolly Parton’s nephew has been commanded to keep a distance of about a quarter of a mile from any employee of her former management team. The outreach for this protection order came from Danny Nozell, who oversees She’s Alive LLC, the entity established to manage the estate and legacy of the late country icon.
Nozell recently filed a temporary restraining order in Nashville against Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, after discharging him from his role as head of security, accusing him of a campaign of extortion, intimidation and threats in the period following Parton’s death.
The order was granted by Davidson County Chancellor I’Ashea Myles.
The injunction requires Seaver to stay at least 1000 feet (304 metres) away from any employee of She’s Alive and to halt communication with anyone connected to the company, The Tennessean reports.
Seaver, the son of Dolly’s sister Cassie, announced Parton’s death in a social media video. He had been serving as her head of security at the time she passed away.
Variety was the first to publish a set of menacing text messages Seaver allegedly sent amid the dispute with She’s Alive.
"I’m not an entertainment person. I’m a killer," reads one message in the filing. "I sold 27 million $ worth of ammunition and arms to the Haitian Police on day Dolly died. Entertainment is not my game. I have spent my career breaking things and spying on African and Arab leaders. And protecting Dolly."
Additional messages promised a podcast "dedicated to ruining Dolly’s brand partnerships" if he wasn’t paid.
"Her money better be bigger than I can make elsewhere or I’m going to f**k everyone."
In response, Seaver told TMZ that nothing in the lawsuit constituted a threat and that he was merely engaging in "rage talk" on the phone with Nozell.
"I was talking frankly in a private way with Danny, who I thought was my friend, and he fancies himself a gangster," he stated.
