A Missouri lady has been charged with making an attempt to defraud Elvis Presley’s household out of tens of millions of {dollars} and steal the household’s possession curiosity in Graceland, the American singing legend’s former dwelling.
Lisa Jeanine Findley, who used numerous aliases, was arrested for allegedly orchestrating the fraudulent sale of a Graceland dwelling in Memphis, Tennessee.
Ms. Findley, 53, is charged with federal mail fraud and aggravated identification theft and is predicted to seem in court docket on Friday. If convicted, she might withstand 20 years in jail.
The Presley household has not publicly commented on the allegations.
The U.S. Division of Justice alleges that Ms. Findley impersonated three totally different people related to a fictitious personal lender known as Naussany Investments & Non-public Lending LLC (Naussany Investments).
The US Division of Justice accuses her of falsely claiming that Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley, who died in January 2023, borrowed $3.8m (£3m) from Naussany Investments , and promised Graceland as collateral for the mortgage, however didn’t repay the debt.
Ms Findlay is allegedly in search of $2.85 million (£2.2 million) from Presley’s household to settle the alleged debt, in accordance with the US Division of Justice.
The fraud she is accused of consists of forging mortgage paperwork, forging the signature of Elvis Presley’s daughter and publishing a fraudulent foreclosures discover in a Memphis day by day saying Nosani’s deliberate Might 23 public sale Graceland.
The Justice Division stated Ms. Findlay additionally allegedly filed false court docket paperwork when the Presley household sued Naussany Investments in an try to dam the sale of Graceland.
The sale of Graceland attracted worldwide consideration earlier this 12 months after actress Riley Keough, Presley’s granddaughter, claimed the mortgage paperwork have been fraudulent. She stated her mom’s signature was solid.
Ms Keogh inherited Graceland, which has lengthy been a public museum devoted to Mr Presley, after her mom, Lisa Marie Presley, died final 12 months Inherited a lot of Presley’s property.
She filed authorized motion to cease the deliberate public sale, and a Tennessee choose agreed.
On the time, Graceland and the Elvis Presley Enterprises issued an announcement to the BBC: “Because the courts have now made clear, these claims haven’t any validity.”
Ives purchased the Graceland mansion in 1957 and lived there till his loss of life 20 years later.
The 14-acre property opened to the general public within the early Eighties as a music historical past park. It’s now formally a Nationwide Historic Landmark and attracts roughly 600,000 guests yearly, in accordance with the venue.
Ives died and is buried at Graceland, as are his dad and mom, daughter Lisa Marie Presley and her son Benjamin Keogh.
Makes an attempt by the BBC to contact a lawyer for Ms Findlay have been unsuccessful.
She made a short court docket look Friday and was booked into the Greene County, Missouri, jail.
