Lisa Findley sentenced for Graceland foreclosure fraud

A Missouri woman was sentenced Tuesday to four years and nine months in federal prison, plus three years of supervised release, for orchestrating a scheme to defraud the family that controls Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate by attempting to auction off the landmark in a bogus foreclosure. U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. imposed the sentence in Memphis after 54-year-old Lisa Jeanine Findley pleaded guilty in February to mail fraud. An aggravated identity theft charge was dropped under the plea deal.

Prosecutors said Findley, of Kimberling City, Missouri, created a fictitious lender called Naussany Investments and Private Lending and falsely claimed that Lisa Marie Presley had taken a $3.8 million loan in 2018 and pledged Graceland as collateral. Findley allegedly posed as multiple individuals tied to the fake lender, fabricated loan documents and published a foreclosure notice in a Memphis newspaper announcing an auction of the 13-acre estate in May 2024. When Presley’s granddaughter and trustee, actor Riley Keough, filed suit to stop the sale, a judge issued an injunction halting the proposed auction.

In arguing for a longer term, prosecutors described the plot as...