A convicted fraudster has been charged over a “brazen” scheme to extort millions of dollars from the family of Elvis Presley by trying to force the sale of his Graceland estate.
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, from Kimberling City, Missouri, was arrested on Friday morning, the 47th anniversary of the singer’s death, on charges of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, the US Department of Justice said.
Federal prosecutors allege that Findley used fake identities to claim that a company she controlled was owed $3.8 million by Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie, who died last year, aged 54.
Findley attempted to force the repossession of Graceland after filing a bogus legal claim that Lisa Marie had put her family’s Memphis estate up as collateral on the loan,