A woman has been accused of allegedly trying to scam the Presley family out of several million dollars and Graceland by organising an elaborate scheme in which she forged signatures and documents, fabricated a loan company and pretended to be various individuals who do not exist.
Lisa Jeanine Findley, a 53-year-old woman from Missouri, has been arrested and charged with identity theft and mail fraud. She allegedly created a fake company called Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC (Naussany Investments) to try to get the Presley family to cough up $2.85 million.
According to the US Justice Department, Findley claimed that Lisa Marie Presley, the late daughter of Elvis Presley, owed Naussany Investments several million dollars and had used Graceland as collateral. She claimed that Presley had not repaid the loan before she passed away in January 2023.
Findley supposedly fabricated a foreclosure notice that was published in a local newspaper in Memphis warning that Graceland was going to be sold. She even allegedly posed as a Nigerian scammer, sending emails written in Luganda to The New York Times explaining that ‘he’ was part of a criminal enterprise responsible for the crime.
The email said, “We figure out how to steal. That’s what we do. I had fun figuring this one out and it didn’t succeed very well.”
Earlier this year, Naussany Investments was sued by the Presley family due to the threat of Graceland being sold, with actor Riley Keough, Lisa-Marie Presley’s daughter, claiming that her mother’s signature had been forged. She ensured that the house was not put up for auction.
Keough, who is known for starring in the likes of Daisy Jones and the Six and Mad Max: Fury Road, came into the possession of Graceland when her mother died. The mansion was purchased by The King of Rock and Roll in 1957, and he spent a large amount of time at the house before passing away in one of its rooms in 1977. He, alongside several other members of the Presley family, are buried there. Fans can visit the home, too, with visitors regularly touring the house and grounds.
The Presley family hasn’t commented on the situation publicly yet. Findley is currently looking at 20 years in prison if she is convicted.