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Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough is combating to maintain Graceland in her household.
Based on authorized paperwork obtained by Us, the 34-year-old actress filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, Might 15, claiming fraud towards the corporate that moved to place the rock ‘n’ roll landmark up on the market.
Earlier in Might, a discover for the foreclosures sale of Graceland — the house in Memphis, Tennessee, that Presley made well-known — turned public. It claimed that Promenade Belief, which oversees Graceland, owes $3.8 million to Naussany Investments and Non-public Lending after neglecting to pay again a mortgage taken out six years in the past.
Keough’s attorneys have received a brief restraining order delaying a public public sale that was to be held on Thursday, Might 23, on the Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis, USA At the moment reported on Monday, Might 20.
Keough inherited the Promenade Belief when her mom (and Elvis and Priscilla Presley‘s solely daughter), Lisa Marie Presley, died in January 2023 at age 54 after struggling a cardiac arrest. Whereas Missouri-based Naussany Investments claims that Lisa Marie used Graceland as collateral to safe a mortgage that she didn’t pay again, Keough alleges in her lawsuit that the lender’s “paperwork are fraudulent. Lisa Marie by no means borrowed cash from Nassau Investments and by no means gave a deed of belief to Nassau Investments.”
Memphis’ Chancery Court docket has scheduled an injunction listening to for Wednesday, Might 22.
Keough, who lately starred within the TV sequence Daisy Jones & The Six, has needed to tackle larger obligations as a keeper of her household’s legacy within the wake of Lisa Marie’s dying. In January, she introduced her plans to launch her mother’s memoir posthumously. The e-book will hit cabinets on October 15.
Keough wished to publish Lisa Marie’s story as a result of “few individuals had the chance to know who my mother actually was,” she defined earlier this 12 months, telling the Related Press, “I used to be fortunate to have had that chance and dealing on getting ready her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one. I’m so excited to share my mother now, at her most weak and most sincere, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to like my mother as a lot as I did.”
Lisa Marie shared Riley with ex-husband Danny Keough and in addition had twin daughters Finley and Harper, 15, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.
After shedding Lisa Marie, Riley turned the sole trustee of her property. Beforehand, she was briefly engaged in a authorized battle along with her grandmother Priscilla, who filed to contest her daughter’s will. Us confirmed the settlement included stipulations the place Riley’s youthful sisters have been named sub-trustees and Priscilla was given a $1 million lump sum cost.