Bryan Seaver, Dolly Parton’s nephew and former head of security, sent an email filled with profanity on August 21, four days before the singer's death. According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Seaver directed harsh language at unnamed recipients in the email chain, including phrases like "f–king s–tbag" and "worthless skinny fat nerd," amid a dispute over security services for Parton’s Nashville properties. The email also threatened legal action against unspecified parties involved with managing Parton's professional interests.
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In court documents obtained by Page Six, Dolly Parton's nephew and former head of security, Bryan Seaver, was alleged to have sent an expletive-laden email just days before the singer's death on August 25. The contentious email chain involved Parton’s team members, including her longtime manager Danny Nozell, and employees from both Parton’s office and Seaver’s security company, Squadron Augmented Protection Services. Seaver reportedly wrote: "If you think my harsh language is too much for you or your failing vendors to digest, just wait until my lawyers start f–king you up the ass." The emails also included other lewd phrases like “Let's play ball you f–king s–tbag loser” and accusations of incompetence. These communications came amid a legal dispute over Seaver’s actions, with She’s Alive, LLC asking for an injunction against him just days after Parton’s death.
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Dolly Parton’s nephew and former head of security, Bryan Seaver, allegedly went on an expletive-filled rant in an email chain titled “Fwd: Letter from Dolly” just days before the singer’s death.
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nephew → go → death
According to court documents obtained by Page Six, the heavily redacted email chain was forwarded among members of the country music icon’s team before Seaver fired off a profanity-laced response.
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Seaver → accord → response
Message received.
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Message → receive → ?
If you think my harsh language is too much for you or your failing vendors to digest, just wait until my lawyers start f–king you up the ass,” Seaver allegedly wrote in an email, which was sent on August 21 — four days before Parton’s passing.
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which → think → passing
It wasn’t immediately clear who Billy is, though the email chain does include Parton’s longtime manager, Danny Nozell, as well as some of Parton’s employees and employees of Seaver’s Squadron Augmented Protection Services.
Seaver allegedly included several other lewd phrases in the email.
“Let’s play ball you f–king s–tbag loser,” the email stated.
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email → include → ball
“Why is your side of this project continually f–ked up and behind the curve?”
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side → f → curve
He allegedly added elsewhere, “Please by all means with sugar on top, let’s do legal violence you f–king worthless skinny fat nerd.”
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’s → add → violence
Seaver allegedly concluded the email by writing, “Go f–k yourself you f–k.”
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Seaver → conclude → email
Page Six is unable to confirm if Seaver was responding directly to a letter sent from the “9 to 5” artist, as the email has been heavily redacted.
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email → confirm → artist
The conversation appears to be a dispute over the security at Parton’s Nashville properties.
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conversation → appear → properties
In another email to “Bill,” Seaver allegedly wrote, “Your contract security company (Titan) you’ve hired in spite of me and Dolly’s request for service at the hotel has completely f–ked up and let an employee be assaulted.”
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employee → write → hotel
Per the lawsuit, Seaver allegedly targeted employees of Parton’s Dollywood business partner, She’s Alive, LLC, the entity managing the songwriter’s professional property and business interests, at Parton’s SongTeller Hotel and Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum in downtown Nashville.
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Seaver → target → Nashville
The lawsuit also accused Seaver of allegedly texting Nozell about “interfering with the operations of Dollywood” just six days before Parton’s death.
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lawsuit → accuse → death
Nozell, who managed Parton for more than 20 years, expressed fears over Seaver’s alleged threatening text messages, which allegedly prompted employees of his management company to stop going into the office.
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which → manage → office
Seaver is accused of “invoking his self-proclaimed military-contractor experience, access to weapons, and capacity for violence” to demand money.
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Seaver → accuse → money
He is also accused of sending allegedly threatening text messages, including a note like, “I’m going to go to Billboard Magazine with my s–t.
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I → accuse → –
I’m going to ratf–k every [Dollywood business partner] entity I can possibly conjure.”
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I → go → entity
The management team described Seaver’s actions as a “direct threat to sabotage a core business relationship and to use public exposure as a weapon against SAL and its partners.”
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team → describe → SAL
However, in Tuesday’s filing, She’s Alive, LLC asked the judge not to give Seaver more time and instead to turn the temporary restraining order against him and his security company into a longer-lasting temporary injunction.
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LLC → ask → injunction
Seaver previously called his firing “unexpected” and “unexplained.”
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Seaver → call → firing
“Nothing in this lawsuit were threats and most of the comments I stand by,” he previously told TMZ.
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he → stand → TMZ
He added, “I was talking frankly in a private way with Danny who I thought was my friend and he fancies himself a gangster.
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himself → add → Danny
A lot of these messages are two guys having rage talk and crying on the phone together while we were grieving.”
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we → have → phone
Seaver notably announced Parton’s death to the world after the Imagination Library founder died on August 25.
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founder → announce → August
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