A Missouri woman has been sentenced for her role in a scheme to sell Elvis Presley's Graceland estate in Memphis.

A Missouri woman has been sentenced for her role in a scheme to defraud Elvis Presley's family of millions of dollars and sell the Graceland estate in Memphis.

On Tuesday, Sept. 23, Lisa Jeanine Findley was sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release by Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. of the U.S. District Court of Western Tennessee.

Additionally, Findley will be unable to open any new credit lines without approval from probation officers and will be ordered to undergo mental health counseling and behavior therapy during her supervised release.

Fowlkes cited Findley's criminal history as a factor in the sentencing, including her multiple violations of probation and supervised release.

Findley had pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in the case in February. She faced a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. During the Sept. 23 sentencing in Memphis, the court offered Findley an opportunity to comment; however, she declined.

Findley was arrested in Missouri in August 2024 and charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. The charges were in connection with an attempted fraudulent scheme and orchestrating fake aliases, court filings and business entities in an attempt to foreclose on the Graceland estate.

According to court documents, Findley falsely claimed Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, had pledged the Memphis estate as collateral for a loan she failed to repay before her 2023 death. Findley then threatened to foreclose on Graceland and auction it if Elvis' family did not pay or settle the claim.

In May 2024, Graceland nearly went to public auction after a public notice for a foreclosure sale was posted in The Commercial Appeal.

Later that month, Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins blocked the pending foreclosure sale from Naussany Investments (a fraudulent entity authorities said Findley created). The Shelby County Chancery Court ruling came about after Riley Keough filed a lawsuit, claiming the sale was fraudulent and included forged documents.

Keough, Elvis Presley's granddaughter, inherited the Graceland estate via The Promenade Trust in May 2023, following the death of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley.

This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Missouri woman sentenced in scheme to defraud Elvis Presley's family, sell Graceland

Reporting by Neil Strebig, Memphis Commercial Appeal / Memphis Commercial Appeal

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