Judge orders Graceland auction be put on hold

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – An funding agency was seeking to promote the house of Elvis Presley in a matter of days, however now, a brief restraining order has been granted by a Shelby County decide, which has put the public sale on maintain for now.

Extra questions than solutions stay after an try to promote a treasured piece of Memphis historical past.

“I don’t assume I’m completely offered on the story,” stated Graceland customer Tricia Scerbo.

Naussany Investments and Non-public Lendors LLC filed a lawsuit in 2023, eight months after Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie handed away.

They declare she didn’t pay again a $3.8 million greenback mortgage and used Graceland and Elvis Presley Enterprises as collateral.

Now they declare Graceland is now theirs to promote.

“I can’t even imagine that it’s one thing that’s even being introduced up,” stated Graceland customer Stephanie.

A discover of sale was posted in a Memphis newspaper this month.

However a fast search on-line for the Naussany Investments and Non-public Lendors LLC turns up nothing however information articles. When looking out the handle listed for the agency in Keough’s grievance, the handle turns up as a U.S. submit workplace in Jacksonville, Florida.

Two P.O. field handle are additionally related to the corporate, one in Jacksonville and the opposite in Missouri.

In a grievance, Riley Keough, Lisa Marie’s daughter and now proprietor of Graceland, says there was no mortgage and the agency doesn’t exist.

Her attorneys filed an injunction grievance to dam the sale and debunk claims made in Nassuany Investments’ authentic lawsuit.

Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the general public in 1982. She posted to social media on Tuesday calling the agency’s try to promote Graceland a rip-off.

“It’s unhappy principally,” Every part taking place the drain for monetary greed,” stated Graceland customer Ness Tagle.

The Shelby County Register of Deeds workplace additionally has no deed on file for Graceland related to Naussany Investments.

Once we reached out to Naussany Investments Monday, an affiliate advised us Kurt Naussany, who is known as in Keough’s grievance, was in a foreign country for “household issues” including it was firm coverage to “gather defaulted debt.”

Naussany advised Motion Information 5 Tuesday in an e-mail he now not associates with Naussany Investments.

Motion Information 5 reached out to Naussany Investments once more Tuesday with these questions:

  • Why does the Shelby County Register of Deeds workplace not have a deed of belief on file for Naussany Investments and Non-public Lenders LLC for Graceland?
  • Why does the Higher Enterprise Bureau and Duval County not have a enterprise document on file for Naussany Investments and Non-public Lenders LLC?
  • Are you able to clarify why searches for addresses listed to your firm flip up as outcomes for a submit workplace location, and two P.O. packing containers?
  • Why is Kurt Naussany listed within the grievance if he left the agency in 2015?

Kurt Naussany stated in an e-mail, with out answering the questions requested, he’d sue “information, Keough, her attorneys” and a person named Gregory Naussany.

Gregory Naussany advised the Related Press, “The attorneys could make remark!” The AP experiences there are not any courtroom information exhibiting a lawyer for the agency.

A listening to for Keough’s grievance is about for Wednesday in Shelby County Chancery Court docket.

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