Thursday, May 23, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
Those who still idolize Elvis Presley, who are not few, make a pilgrimage to Graceland, the mansion that the king of rock and roll built for himself during his years of splendor and decline. There are as many anecdotes there as there are bricks, and for 42 years it has opened its doors as a museum of nostalgia to some 600,000 visitors annually. Ownership passed from Elvis to her daughter Lisa Marie Presley, and from her to her daughter Riley Keough. The singer’s granddaughter, who is now 34 years old, also chose the paths of show business and is an actress. Among her works is a supporting role in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and the protagonist in the series ‘The girlfriend experience’.
Now the house and the nearly two-hectare land are the center of a legal dispute. A lending company, called Naussany Investments, claims it lent 3.5 million euros ($3.8 million) to Lisa Marie, who died last year without returning a single dollar, according to her creditor. The guarantee was Graceland. The investment fund was going to put it up for auction this Thursday, but a judge in Tennessee, United States, stopped the bidding due to the claim of the heiress of the ‘Love me tender’ singer.
Faced with the possible auction, Keough defends himself with the allegation that his mother’s signature was forged and the loan was fraudulent. The suspension is temporary, but the evicted persons assure, through a statement from Elvis Presley Enterprises, that the castle of white rock memories will not be sold, that there is a demand “to stop the fraud” of a “ghost” company and that will remain open. The litigating company has not made public comments on the case.
The king lives
For twenty years, Elvis lived within those walls, since he bought it in 1957. He was 22 years old and paid $102,000 at the time. And he’s still there. Not because he is alive, as some fans say, but because his grave is in a corner of his gardens. Also buried are the remains of Lisa Marie, who died at age 54 of cardiac arrest, and her male grandson, Benjamin Keough, Riley’s brother, who committed suicide at age 27.
In this litigation that began in September 2023, the Graceland heiress has a lifeline. Elvis’ mansion is considered a unique piece of real estate, a kind of local heritage that has been included in a US registry of “historic places” since 1991. Its sale could cause “irreparable damage,” said the judge in Shelby County (where it is located). the farm), JoeDae Jenkins. “The court will prohibit its sale.” Elvis died there in 1977. He is still there.
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