Dolly Parton’s Family Estate War Escalates

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Deven (1:10)

Welcome to The TMZ Podcast. Deven here with Courtney.

Courtney (1:13)

Hello. Two days in a row. I know. Look at this. This is great. I know.

SPEAKER_3 (1:16)

Maybe we can do every single day this week.

Deven (1:17)

I know. Yeah, we didn't do Monday. But yeah, I think we'll make it till Friday.

Courtney (1:21)

Yes.

Deven (1:21)

I think things are looking up for us.

A lot of crazy stories broke yesterday and today. At the top, we'll talk about, there is an absolute war going on in Dolly Parton's estate.

SPEAKER_3 (1:35)

So sad.

Deven (1:36)

Between the manager and that nephew who was her security, who announced her death on Instagram. Yup. I have a request.

SPEAKER_3 (1:45)

She wanted him to announce it. So I feel like that's a big part of it. Because she had cleared it to us.

Deven (1:48)

According to Brian.

SPEAKER_3 (1:49)

According to Brian.

Deven (1:50)

According to Brian.

Courtney (1:51)

So we will get into it.

Deven (1:52)

Restraining orders have been filed, fireworks.

After that, the medical examiner in South Carolina released the actual full investigative report they had. Not just the blurb about her cause of death and what was found in her system, but the full report. So a lot more details about...

SPEAKER_3 (2:13)

It was shocking and jarring.

Deven (2:15)

Yeah, circumstances of her death, she had been doing recently a lot more, came out through that report. So we'll talk about that. And then finally, the goth girl.

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You love her.

Deven (2:25)

My girl, she was in LA this week and we got her on Melrose. And she talked about whether or not her and Drake are actually dating.

SPEAKER_3 (2:34)

Oh, can't wait to hear how that goes.

Deven (2:36)

Yeah.

Okay. So the Dolly Parton story. So we talked about, I don't know if we talked about it on the podcast, but we broke a story earlier this week. Ryan Siever, he's the nephew of Dolly Parton. He was the one who, when the Instagram video went up, he was the one actually announcing her death.

SPEAKER_3 (2:52)

Yes.

Deven (2:54)

He had been fired and told to leave the premises of all of her properties in Nashville.

SPEAKER_3 (3:02)

The video that you guys obtained is wild of the new security just like infiltrating the property, like coming in.

Deven (3:08)

He wasn't very happy about being let go, and he was blaming this manager, Danny Nozell, saying he, you know, you knew there was drama coming.

SPEAKER_3 (3:17)

Yes.

Deven (3:18)

And so now we're getting Danny's side. So Danny Nozell is a longtime manager of Dolly Parton overseas, you know, like all our finances, deals, that kind of stuff. He filed a restraining order yesterday in Nashville against Brian Siever, and basically is painting Brian Siever to be this guy with this huge military background, very threatening. He put all these exhibits in the restraining order, showing all these crazy, alleged threats that Brian had made. Basically saying, here, I'm just going to read some of them. So one of the messages or the alleged messages said, her money better be bigger than I can make elsewhere, or I'm going to F everybody. I'm about to become the hand of retribution for my entire family. Another message read, I'm going to set up a podcast dedicated to ruining Dolly's brand partnership and telling the violation these people have done on us. And all I do is warfare. Everyone needs to be worried. And they talk about how this guy was like an international arms dealer, had this extensive military background. I quote from one of the texts says, I'm a killer.