Priscilla Presley’s son defends crowdfunding his pizza business

Priscilla Presley’s son Navarone Garibaldi has launched a GoFundMe to get a new venture off the ground.

The 39-year-old nepo baby has taken to social media to defend crowdfunding to launch what he’s called an ‘affordable organic pizza’ business.

‘Haters gonna hate,’ he wrote in a recent Instagram post after his followers criticized him for begging for money, rather than asking his 81-year-old mother for the capital. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Presley is worth $10 million.

‘I’m sure I’ll have to explain this many more times to ignorant people who think I should “ask my mom” or that I have money… YEAH, I also have a lot of bills, I also have a budget,’ he noted. 

Garibaldi, whose father is screenwriter Marco Garibaldi, 71, has so far raised $3,718 out of his $5,500 goal.

A description on his GoFundMe states: ‘I have found a large industrial pizza oven and negotiated it from $14,000 down to $8,500. I have 3,000 saved up for this.’

Priscilla Presley’s son Navarone Garibaldi has launched a GoFundMe to get a new venture off the ground; pictured in October 2023

The 39-year-old nepo baby has taken to social media to defend crowdfunding to launch what he’s called an ‘affordable organic pizza’ business

Garibaldi stated on Instagram that he donates to homelessness and other unnamed causes.

He explained to his nearly 50,000 followers: ‘If I just went all in every time I thought I had a great idea… I’d be broke in 2 days.’

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‘I’m not asking [anyone] to donate that can’t afford to,’ he clarified. ‘I’m offering free pizza to people that donate.’

The star reiterated, ‘I’m putting in a lot of my own money to buy this oven. Just asking for help on the remaining bit that’s out of my budget. That’s all.’

He signed off, ‘Love and Peace, Kindness and pizza.’

Recent donations have ranged in generosity from $13-1,000.

Via the crowdfunding site, Garibaldi shared, ‘I have always wanted to start my own business, but marketing and advertising always get in my way.

‘The pizza dough and sauces [are] already sourced. It’s just buying the oven that I need to get me started.’

‘Haters gonna hate,’ he wrote in a recent Instagram post after his followers criticized him for begging for money, rather than asking his 81-year-old mother for the capital. Garibaldi said he’s invested $3,000 of his personal money into the business

Garibaldi, whose father is screenwriter Marco Garibaldi, 71, has so far raised $3,718 out of his $5,500 goal

In addition to Garibaldi, Presley was also mom to the late Lisa Marie Presley, who died in 2023; pictured in 2011

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In addition to Garibaldi, Presley was also mom to the late Lisa Marie Presley, who died in 2023 at age 54. 

She shared Lisa Marie with iconic music artist Elvis Presley, to whom she was wed from 1967-1973. 

Lisa Marie left behind daughters Harper and Finley Lockwood, 18, whom she shared with ex-husband Michael Lockwood, 65, as well as 37-year-old daughter Riley Keough, whom she had with ex-husband Danny Keough, 61.

Lisa Marie and Danny’s son, Benjamin Keough, died by suicide at age 27 in July 2020.

Both Presley and Garibaldi memorialized him by sharing his pH๏τo on their respective Instagram pages on Sunday, the six-year anniversary of his death.

In May, Presley and Garibaldi attended a speaking event in Las Vegas, where the grieving mother said her daughter’s death created a fissure within the family.

‘It’s kind of separated us in a way,’ she said in an audio clip obtained by the Daily Mail, adding that before Lisa Marie’s pᴀssing the family would ‘get together and have meals and, of course, you know, have family.’