# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000812797
**File Stem:** 0000812797-25-000130
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
**Character Count:** 4011
**Document Hash:** c655d6e61981000692b9f4fd0de1fedb
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000812797-25-000130.hdr.sgml**: 20250919

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000812797-25-000130

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497VPU

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250919

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250919

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20250919

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE CO VARIABLE LIFE SEPARATE ACCOUNT
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000812797

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497VPU
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-234718
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251325406

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** THE PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP
- **STREET 2:** 711 HIGH STREET
- **CITY:** DES MOINES
- **STATE:** IA
- **ZIP:** 50392
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 515-247-5461

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** THE PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP
- **STREET 2:** 711 HIGH STREET
- **CITY:** DES MOINES
- **STATE:** IA
- **ZIP:** 50392

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE CO VARIABLE LIFE SEP ACCOUNT
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20011016

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** PRINCIPAL MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO VARIABLE LIFE SEP ACCOUNT
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** PRINCIPAL NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO VARIABLE LIFE SEP ACCT
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19871221

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE CO VARIABLE LIFE SEP ACCOUNT (Series ID: S000001609)

| Class ID   | Class Name                                                 | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000217559 | Principal Executive Variable Universal Life III (EVUL III) |  |

**Principal Life Insurance Company**

**Principal Life Insurance Company Variable Life Separate Account**

**Supplement dated September 19, 2025**

**to the Summary Prospectus for Existing Investors dated May 1, 2025 for**

**Principal**<sup>®</sup> **Executive Variable Universal Life III**

**(as previously supplemented)**

This supplement updates information contained in the Updating Summary Prospectus for Existing Investors for the variable annuity contract referenced above. Please retain this supplement for future reference.

*Add the following section immediately prior to the section titled "UPDATED INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR POLICY":*

**SPECIAL TERMS**

The terms defined below are used throughout this prospectus.

Data Pages - the pages of the policy which contain information specific to you, the Insured, and the Policy. Current or revised Data Pages will only be sent to you when a change is made to your Policy.

Division – a part of the Separate Account which invests in shares of a corresponding mutual fund. The value of an investment in a Division is variable and is not guaranteed. The "Money Market Division" refers to the Fidelity VIP Government Money Market Division.

Fixed Account – the portion of the Policy Value that is held in our General Account.

General Account – assets of the Company other than those allocated to any of our Separate Accounts.

Insured – the person named as the "insured" on the Data Pages. The Insured may or may not be the Owner.

Owner – the party which owns all the rights and privileges of this Policy.

Policy Year – the one-year period beginning on the Policy Date and ending one day before the policy anniversary and each subsequent one year period beginning on a policy anniversary.

Example: If the Policy Date is September 5, 2020, the first Policy Year ends on September 4, 2021. The first policy anniversary falls on September 5, 2021.

Separate Account – the Principal Life Insurance Company Variable Life Separate Account, an account established by us which has Divisions to which Net Premiums may be allocated under the Policy.

Underlying Fund – a registered open-end investment company, or a separate investment account or portfolio thereof, in which a Division invests.

you, your – the Owner of the Policy.