When you enter Graceland you enter a time machine, a postcard from another era, a memory.
Everything, the decoration, the furniture, the sofas, the televisions, the record players, the velvet, the lighting, everything represents a return to the past. All that remains is for him to see himself wandering in the shadow of Elvis Presley, and it is already known that there are conspirators who claim that the king of rock is still alive, partying.
Despite the attraction that this venue has in Memphis, a place of pilgrimage for worshipers of the rock legend and tourists in general, Graceland is in low hours.
Elvis’ historic residence is scheduled to be publicly auctioned this Thursday due to foreclosure. But there could be a turn. An order restraining the sale was issued this Monday, after Riley Keough, granddaughter of the legendary artist who disappeared in August 1977, at the age of 42, filed a lawsuit in Tennessee courts to block the mansion from being auctioned for money. in cash to the highest bidder.
The granddaughter, a successful dramatic actress also known as Danielle Riley Keough, claims that the creditor behind the non-payment claim used forged signatures and that the process itself is a scam.
According to the text of the legal notice, Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis and mother of Keough, signed a deed of trust in 2018 to secure a $3.8 million loan with a Missouri company, using Graceland as collateral. The company, Naussany Investments, maintains that Lisa never returned the money before her death in January 2023.
On the other hand, her daughter responds that her mother never borrowed money from that company. “These documents are fraudulent, this is not a foreclosure sale,” she argues in her 60-page brief. She emphasizes that her mother’s signatures are false and that the company is not a real entity.
He also emphasizes in his document that the notary involved in the deed denies that he attested to Lisa Marie Elvis’ signature or that he met with her.
Elvis Presley, born in Tupelo (Mississippi), became a resident of Memphis when he bought the Graceland mansion in 1957, located in the Whitehaven area, where he lived until his death two decades later.?Lisa Marie inherited it when her father died and opened it as a museum in 1982.
The presence of Elvis, a white artist who brought black American music and his own hip movement to the masses, transformed that place into a sacred temple of secular culture for legions of rock and roll fans.
About 600,000 people visit it annually, based on the organization’s data. There was even a survey in 2023 that named this residence the most popular museum in the United States.
Keough was given virtual control of Graceland and practically the entire Elvis legacy when his mother, the myth’s only daughter, died.
The singer’s heirs, including both Lisa, who always paid the debts, and now Keough, want to maintain ownership of the venue. There the king of rock responds.
