Bryan Seaver’s alleged hospital confrontation draws new scrutiny from Dolly Parton’s estate

A request for police body-camera footage has brought fresh attention to an alleged encounter involving Bryan Seaver at a Nashville medical center on the day Dolly Parton died. According to court documents cited by Page Six, She’s Alive, LLC, the company overseeing the singer’s estate, asked for footage recorded by officers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center on Aug. 24 and Aug. 25. The estate’s filing says the recordings could document what it described as an “altercation with police personnel.” The request covers body-worn camera video from all officers present at the center on those dates. The filing, as reported by Page Six, does not establish what happened during the encounter. People described as close to Seaver told TMZ that he was not cited by authorities and disputed that there had been an altercation. According to that account, he went to the medical center to help coordinate the arrangements for moving his aunt’s body to a funeral home. The source characterized the exchange with police as a discussion and said officers treated Seaver as though he were a fugitive. Those details have not been independently confirmed in the article. The dispute comes amid wider tensions between Seaver and the estate. The report says the estate dismissed him from his role as head of security less than a month after Parton’s death. A judge later issued a temporary restraining order against Seaver and his security company, directing them to keep away from the singer’s Nashville offices and not interfere with the estate’s business. Seaver is due in court on Dec. 2. The article also says he had sought a delay in a hearing concerning the restraining order. Page Six reported that it had contacted him for comment but had not received a response at the time of publication. The requested footage could help clarify the competing accounts, but the report offers no final finding about whether a confrontation took place.