Missouri Woman Jailed for Plot to Auction Elvis Presley’s Graceland

Elvis Presley’s iconic home, Graceland, nearly became the target of a shocking fraud scheme.

Federal prosecutors say Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, from Missouri, attempted to seize control of the legendary Memphis estate by fabricating loan documents, forging signatures, and inventing a company to claim that Lisa Marie Presley had borrowed $3.8 million using Graceland as collateral.

After Lisa Marie’s death in 2023, her daughter Riley Keough inherited the property, only to face a foreclosure threat claiming that the loan had gone unpaid. Prosecutors say Findley used multiple aliases, filed false claims in courts across California and Tennessee, and even published a fake foreclosure notice in a local newspaper. Her ultimate plan was to force the Presley family into paying $2.85 million to prevent the estate’s sale.

The scam was stopped when Keough challenged the claim in court, with a judge halting the auction and later describing the plot as “highly sophisticated.”

Graceland remains one of America’s most visited cultural landmarks, drawing more than 500,000 visitors each year. Findley pleaded guilty to felony mail fraud earlier this year and was sentenced to more than four years in prison, bringing the bizarre case to a close.