Prosecutors called it a “brazen scheme” to steal a “national treasure”. On May 19, a 460-word notice appeared in Memphis ’ daily newspaper announcing Elvis Presley ’s legendary Graceland estate was being foreclosed on - and that four days later, the National Historical Landmark visited by more than 20 million tourists would be sold in front of the county courthouse. Presley’s granddaughter, actress Riley Keough , successfully petitioned a judge to stop the sale, accusing the would-be seller - a moneylending company from Missouri - of trying to swindle her out of her birthright .
Nearly three months later, prosecutors are alleging a Missouri woman hatched a “brazen scheme” to try to steal Graceland from the King of Rock and Roll’s heirs and threatened to sell it if they didn’t pay millions of dollars. The prosecutors allege Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, of Kimberling City, Missouri, posed as multiple employees at a fictitious private moneylender claiming that Elvis’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley , had borrowed millions of dollars before she died and put up as collateral her father’s iconic 13.8-acre property in Memphis.
On Friday, Findley was charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in the US District Court for Western Missouri. If convicted on both charges, she faces two to 22 years in prison..