The Missouri woman behind a wild scheme to sell Elvis Presley’s famous Graceland estate-turned-museum will spend four years and nine months in federal prison, The Associated Press reports. Lisa Jeanine Findley, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges tied to the scheme earlier this year, was sentenced in a Memphis …
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Elvis Presley’s ex-wife and heirs have spent decades hounded by public fascination and scrutiny. Members of an American folklore dynasty, they share a mythology that’s seemingly unstoppable. Not only did it inspire two recent prestige films from directors Baz Luhrmann and Sofia Coppola, but the films were critical hits that …
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A Missouri woman has agreed to plea guilty to a federal charge of mail fraud related to a scheme to defraud Elvis Presley‘s family by attempting to auction off Graceland. Her plea deal, filed Tuesday, dropped a count of aggravated identity theft. The woman, Lisa Findley, had been accused by …
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The Florida lawyer accused of conspiring with memorabilia auctioneer Brigitte Kruse to defraud Priscilla Presley out of more than $1 million in an alleged elder abuse scheme is breaking her silence to claim she never violated her duty to the author, actress, and ex-wife of Elvis Presley. In new court …
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The history of pop music is littered with crazy yarns, and Elvis Presley and his wild life weren’t exempt. But the ongoing saga of the Presley family took an especially strange turn last month, when a mysterious company announced a foreclosure sale of Graceland, the 14-acre home and property in …
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A dark web scammer has taken credit for trying to sell Elvis Presley’s Graceland home, The New York Times reports. The paper said it received two emails from a person who claimed to be the brains behind this scheme and other identity theft frauds. “We figure out how to steal. …
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A Memphis judge has postponed the planned foreclosure sale of Graceland after Elvis’ granddaughter, the actress Riley Keough, accused the company behind the sale of committing fraud. The ruling was handed down Wednesday, May 22, one day before the scheduled sale, as ABC 24 in Memphis reports. “The court will …
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In January 2019, Paul Simon awoke from a dream. Some voice in his head had informed him, deep within his REM cycle, that he was going to work on a project called “Seven Psalms.” The singer-songwriter behind “The Sound of Silence,” “A Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” “Love Me Like a …
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Graceland will be hosting an all-star group of performers this year in tribute Elvis Presley‘s legacy. Lana Del Rey, John Legend, Post Malone, Kacey Musgraves, Alanis Morissette, Kane Brown, Lainey Wilson, and The War and Treaty will gather at Presley’s home in Memphis, Tennessee on Nov. 29, according to People. …
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Sofia Coppola zeroed in on her artistic signatures early on: The very first shot in her debut as a director, the 1998 short film Lick the Star, shows a teenage girl staring pensively out a car window. She did it again with a shot of Kirsten Dunst in a taxi …
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