{"id":916,"date":"2026-09-23T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:52:32","slug":"dolly-partons-nephew-confirms-firing-calls-move-for-a-restraining-order-a-publicity-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton’s nephew confirms firing, calls move for a restraining order a ‘publicity stunt’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dolly Parton performs at the Glastonbury Festival on June 29, 2014, in Glastonbury, England. (Ian Gavan\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The nephew<\/span> of late music star Dolly Parton<\/span> who served as her longtime head of security confirms he was fired after her death, and said a restraining order has been requested against him by the corporation that runs Parton’s entertainment empire.<\/p>\n

“The restraining order is spurious and simply a publicity stunt,” Bryan Seaver said in a statement to ABC News Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Seaver was the family member who officially announced<\/span> Parton’s death in a video message released after the 80-year-old singer died<\/span>\u00a0on Aug. 25 after a brief battle with cancer.<\/p>\n

He told ABC News he was fired last week after serving as Parton’s head of security for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n

Seaver, a son of one of Parton’s 11 siblings, said he was terminated over what he calls “contrived threats.”<\/p>\n

“I was fired. After the estate negotiated with me and my company for services in perpetuity and agreed to that service provision from my company,” Seaver said in a statement. “A week later they fired me for these contrived ‘threats.'”<\/p>\n

Parton, who became known for her entrepreneurial skills in addition to her music prowess, left behind a multimillion dollar estate, including the Dollywood amusement park. She and her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean<\/span>, who died<\/span> last year, had no children.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, She’s Alive, the company overseeing Parton’s multiple businesses, filed for a restraining order against Seaver, accusing him of \u201can obscene, deliberate and escalating campaign of threats\u201d against Parton’s estate, according to a request for a temporary restraining order filed Tuesday in Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville.<\/p>\n

The document also alleges Seaver threatened attorneys, business partners and employees and at one point allegedly warned he could “destroy the entire brand” unless he was paid.<\/p>\n

Seaver is also alleged to have told a member of Parton’s legal team, “I’m not an entertainment person. I’m a killer,” according to the court document.<\/p>\n

Seaver denies the allegations in the court filing, telling ABC News that his late aunt jokingly called him “her killer.”<\/p>\n

“Dolly called me her killer. It was a joke we used around her camp,” Seaver said. “I was her ‘baby boy ninja’ and Danny Nozell took that text out of context to somehow imagine that I was threatening him. He\u2019s always called me The Killer.”<\/p>\n

He added, “I’ve never threatened anyone … They are my friends and my brothers and colleagues.”<\/p>\n

Nozell, Parton’s longtime manager who oversees She’s Alive, has not replied to ABC News’ request for comment.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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