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Missouri Woman Who Tried to Auction Graceland Gets 57 Months in Federal Prison

A judge called the plot highly sophisticated, built on forged loan papers from a fake lender after a lawsuit by Riley Keough halted a planned 2024 sale.

Overview

  • Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison followed by three years of supervised release with mental health counseling and restrictions on opening new credit.
  • She pleaded guilty in February to mail fraud under a deal that dropped an aggravated identity theft charge.
  • Prosecutors said she fabricated a $3.8 million loan using the fictitious Naussany Investments, forged signatures including Florida notary Kimberly Philbrick’s, and published a bogus foreclosure notice for a May 2024 auction.
  • A Shelby County chancellor granted an injunction after Riley Keough sued, stopping the proposed sale and safeguarding the Promenade Trust’s ownership of Graceland.
  • The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the FBI led the investigation, and prosecutors say Findley later tried to pin the scheme on a purported Nigerian identity ring.