Dolly Parton's Manager Seeks Restraining Order Against Ex-Security Chief Nephew

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Sep 22, 2026 8:04pm PT

Dolly Parton’s Manager Files for Restraining Order Against Fired Nephew, Alleging Ex-Security Head Sent ‘Terrorizing’ Texts and Threatened to ‘Destroy the Entire Brand’

Bryan Seaver has maintained the language quoted in Danny Nozell's appeal to a Tennessee court was just 'rage talk' among grieving men and did not constitute actual threats.

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Dolly Parton ‘s longtime manager has filed for a restraining order against her nephew, who until being fired a week ago was her head of security, alleging that the family member is engaged in a campaign of coercion, extortion and violent threats that has terrified employees and associates of her management company and trust to the point that they require their own personal security.

The manager, Danny Nozell, representing She’s Alive, LLC (SAL), dismissed Bryan Seaver, who runs Squadron Augmented Protection Services, LLC (SAPS), on Sept. 15, about three weeks after the country superstar’s Aug. 25 death. It was Seaver who announced his aunt’s death to the world in an Instagram video. But an extensive fiiing made by the trust to a Tennessee court late Tuesday afternoon paint a different portrait of Seaver than the reverent one seen in the death announcement video. The legal paperwork alleges that in colorful and sometimes disturbing language, Seaver referred to himself as a mercenary and “killer” and threatened to interfere with Parton’s businesses, including Dollywood, if he did not receive proper payment, in texts sent both before and after her death.

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