A judge in Nashville has granted a restraining order against Bryan Seaver.
Dolly Parton’s nephew has been ordered to remain nearly a quarter of a mile away from any employee of her former manager.
The order was requested by Danny Nozell, manager of She’s Alive LLC, a company created to oversee the late country icon’s estate and legacy.
He recently filed a temporary restraining order in Nashville against Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, after firing him as head of security, alleging a campaign of extortion, intimidation and threats following Parton’s death.
The order was granted by Davidson County Chancellor I’Ashea Myles.
Seaver needs to stay 1000 feet (304 metres) from any employee of She’s Alive and cease 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 was her head of security at the time she died.
Variety was first to publish a series of menacing text messages Seaver allegedly sent in connection with the ensuing dispute between him and 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 nothing in the lawsuit was a threat and that he was only having “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.
