Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough fights Graceland sale

Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, is making an attempt to halt the proposed sale of Graceland, the late singer’s residence in Memphis, Tennessee.

Keough inherited the mansion and far of Presley’s property after her mom, Lisa Marie Presley, died final yr.

Nonetheless, Graceland is now on the centre of a dispute with an organization that claims the compound was used as collateral in a $3.8m (£3m) mortgage that was taken out by Lisa Marie however by no means paid again.

Keough alleges that the paperwork on the mortgage is fraudulent and that her mom’s signature was cast.

The 34-year-old actress, who’s finest identified for starring in Amazon’s Daisy Jones & the Six, has filed a authorized motion to cease a deliberate public sale from going down on Thursday.

Naussany Investments, the corporate that claims it supplied the mortgage, has not but publicly commented.

Elvis Presley Enterprises, which runs Graceland and the property of the Elvis Presley Belief, alleges that the mortgage by no means befell and that Lisa Marie by no means gave her signature.

In a press release, the group stated: “Elvis Presley Enterprises can verify that these claims are fraudulent. There is no such thing as a foreclosures sale. Merely put, the counter lawsuit has been filed is to cease the fraud.”

Keough’s declare says the proposed sale can be “non-judicial” and primarily based on paperwork that violates Tennessee regulation.

A listening to is scheduled to happen on Wednesday, in accordance with court docket paperwork.

Elvis purchased Graceland Mansion in 1957 and lived there till he died twenty years later.

Within the early Nineteen Eighties, the 14-acre compound was opened to the general public as a music historical past theme park. Immediately it attracts roughly 600,000 guests a yr, in accordance with the venue.