A self-described lender behind a foreclosures declare on Elvis Presley’s iconic Graceland used cast signatures on a nonexistent mortgage, the singer’s granddaughter has alleged in her try to halt the sale of the Memphis, Tennessee, compound.
Riley Keough, a profitable dramatic actor often known as Danielle Riley Keough, has filed a declare in Tennessee civil courtroom that alleges the creditor behind the foreclosures declare used cast signatures.
Keough, who was granted digital management of Graceland Mansion and far of Elvis’ property after her mom, Lisa Marie Presley, died final 12 months, alleges within the go well with that the creditor’s paperwork on a $3.8 million mortgage to Graceland trustees, with a deed of belief on the compound pledged as collateral, is fraudulent.
In an announcement, Elvis Presley Enterprises — the entity that runs Graceland and the belongings of the Elvis Presley Belief — urged the introduced sale is a scheme.
“Elvis Presley Enterprises can affirm that these claims are fraudulent. There isn’t any foreclosures sale. Merely put, the counter lawsuit has been filed is to cease the fraud,” it stated.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Shelby County Chancery Court docket, alleges that the mortgage by no means occurred, that Lisa Marie Presley by no means gave it her signature, that the creditor — recognized in a public discover of sale as Naussany Investments and Non-public Lending LLC — does not exist and that the mortgage’s notary public by no means notarized it.
The go well with alleges the foreclosures sale, which had been scheduled for Thursday, would thus be “non-judicial” and primarily based on lien paperwork that violates Tennessee regulation.
Naussany Investments didn’t reply to a request for remark Monday. Kurt Naussany, named as a defendant as a result of the go well with claims he represented Naussany Investments, stated by e-mail that he left the agency in 2015 and shouldn’t be named within the submitting.
A listening to on Keough’s declare was scheduled for Wednesday, in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
A consultant for Morton & Germany, the agency representing Keough, confirmed to NBC Information {that a} momentary restraining order has been granted within the case however that the choose will decide in courtroom Wednesday whether or not to delay the foreclosures.
Keough won’t be in attendance for Wednesday’s listening to.
Elvis purchased Graceland Mansion in 1957 and lived there till he died in 1977. 5 years later it was opened to the general public as a music historical past theme park. Immediately it attracts roughly 600,000 guests a 12 months, in keeping with the venue.
The top-of-life presence of Elvis, a white musician who introduced Black American youth music and his personal lascivious hips to the plenty starting within the early Fifties, reworked the grounds right into a sacred temple of rock ‘n’ roll for legions.
Heirs, together with Keough, and her mom, Lisa Marie, Elvis’ solely baby, have vowed to maintain it within the household. The property at instances had taken on debt, however grandmother Priscilla, who will probably be 79 on Friday, has been credited with paying it down.
The compound, the place Elvis rests, occupies practically 14 acres.
Gemma DiCasimirro, Josh Cradduck and Doha Madani contributed.