A serial con artist who audaciously attempted to cheat Elvis Presley’s family out of millions and sell his legendary Graceland estate discovered her fate during sentencing on Tuesday.
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, received a sentence of four years and nine months in prison from a federal judge in Memphis for impersonating a fictitious investor who claimed ownership rights to Graceland, as per court records obtained by The Post.
In addition to her prison term, Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. mandated three years of supervised probation following her release.
In February, she pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, while an additional charge for aggravated identity theft was dismissed as part of her plea deal, according to CBS News.
During the hearing, Findley, who used various aliases throughout her elaborate scheme, chose not to speak in her defense, according to reports.
The con artist from Kimberling City, Missouri, fabricated a false narrative claiming that Lisa Marie Presley, the late daughter of Elvis, had collateralized Graceland for a $3.8 million loan that she allegedly did not repay prior to her passing in January 2023, as stated by prosecutors.
She then threatened to auction off the renowned landmark—where Elvis lived until his heart attack in 1977—unless the Presley family paid $2.8 million to settle the fabricated claim, officials reported.
Findley impersonated a man named “Kurt Naussany” from a fictitious company, “Naussany Investments and Private Lending,” and created documents forging Lisa Marie Presley’s signature to execute her scheme.
In an audacious move, she even published a fabricated foreclosure notice for Graceland in a local daily newspaper in Memphis, as reported by prosecutors.
The scheme came to a halt when Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter, Riley Keough, filed a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the loan and asserting that it was not authorized by her mother.
As her scheme unraveled, Findley misguidedly tried to shift the blame onto a supposed Nigerian identity thief.
Media outlets, including NBC News, received perplexing emails from someone posing as the scammers, claiming they were merely identity thieves, NBC reported.
Findley was known for a history of romance scams, check forgery, and bank fraud amounting to hundreds of thousands, having previously served time for obtaining fraudulent loans, NBC reported.
In the weeks leading to her sentencing, Findley’s defense team pleaded for leniency, asserting that the scheme was “very brief” and that she never profited from it.
“This outrageously fabricated plot was, in the words of Marvin Gaye, ‘doomed from the start,’” her public defender, Tyrone Paylor, remarked in court documents.
