Category Archives: Elvis Presley

Missouri woman charged in scheme to steal Graceland and extort Presley heirs

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Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, arrested for falsely claiming Elvis Presley’s daughter borrowed $3.8m from a bogus lender

A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges that she orchestrated a scheme to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion and property, before a judge halted the mysterious foreclosure sale, the US justice department said on Friday.

Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, of Kimberling City, Missouri, falsely claimed Presley’s daughter borrowed $3.8m from a bogus private lender and pledged Graceland as collateral for the loan. She fabricated loan documents, tried to extort Presley’s family out of $2.85m to settle the matter, and published a fraudulent foreclosure notice in a Memphis newspaper announcing that Graceland would be auctioned off to the highest bidder, prosecutors said.

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Elvis Presley’s blue suede shoes could sell for £120,000 at auction

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Singer wore footwear on and off stage during 1950s before giving them to a friend when called up to US army

Well it’s one for the money … a lot of money actually.

The blue suede shoes worn by Elvis Presley during the early part of his career are expected to fetch £120,000 at auction on Friday.

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Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir to be posthumously published this autumn

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Book co-written with the star’s daughter Riley Keough promises to reveal ‘the complexity of being a Presley’

The posthumous memoir of Lisa Marie Presley written in collaboration with her daughter Riley Keough will be published later this year.

The as yet untitled book about Lisa Marie’s life as the daughter of Elvis will be released by Pan Macmillan on 15 October. Lisa Marie, who died on 12 January last year, had asked Keough to help her finish her memoir, parts of which she had recorded on tape.

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Priscilla Presley disputes validity of Lisa Marie’s will

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Filing in Los Angeles court contests amendment that removed Priscilla as a trustee of her late daughter’s estate

Priscilla Presley has filed a lawsuit disputing the validity of her late daughter’s will, setting up a potential legal battle over Lisa Marie Presley’s estate.

In a filing in Los Angeles superior court, lawyers for Priscilla questioned the integrity of a 2016 amendment which removed her from Lisa Marie’s living trust, a legal document that serves the function of a will if a separate will is not filed.

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Hundreds gather to mourn Lisa Marie Presley at Graceland memorial service

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People pay their respects at Memphis mansion that singer inherited from her father, rock legend Elvis Presley

More than a thousand mourners gathered in Graceland on a chilly, grey Sunday morning to pay their respects to singer Lisa Marie Presley at the Memphis, Tennessee, mansion she inherited from her father, rock legend Elvis Presley.

Presley died on 12 January at the age of 54. Earlier that day, she had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest at her home. She is survived by her daughters, actress Riley Keough and 14-year-old twins Finley and Harper Lockwood.

I’ve had my life and enjoyed every second,
But as it is, another life beckoned.

It’s important to know that I have not gone,
And I hope that, on you all, my light has shone.

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Lisa Marie Presley to be laid to rest at Graceland

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Singer’s 'final resting place’ will be at Memphis mansion she inherited from her father, Elvis Presley, family says

Lisa Marie Presley will be laid to rest at Graceland, the Memphis mansion she inherited from her father, Elvis Presley, a family representative said.

Presley died on Thursday at the age of 54 after being taken to a Los Angeles hospital following cardiac arrest at her home, according to reports.

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Beating the anti-vaxxers: how star power can help squash vaccine myths

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Analysis: Vaccine hesitancy is growing, thanks in part to social media misinformation. Time for the Elvis approach?

The statement by the US president-elect, Joe Biden, that he would be happy to be publicly vaccinated against coronavirus to encourage people to follow suit – following similar pledges from Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton – highlights a fundamental concern in global health circles.

Vaccine hesitancy – as well as anti-vaccination activism, sometimes promoted by celebrities – is growing. Countries that were once measles-free are seeing new cases due to suspicion over vaccination. Vaccine hesitancy was listed a year ago as one of the World Health Organization’s 10 global health threats to watch, alongside Ebola and the threat of a global influenza pandemic. Coronavirus came instead.

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Tight Nevada elections drive record voter registrations

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In this May 31, 2016 file photo, a sign with an Elvis impersonator reminds people to vote at an early primary election polling site in Las Vegas. Tight races for governor and U.S. Senate have pushed a record number of people to register to vote in Nevada, and any stragglers have a little more than one week to sign up in time to participate in the 2018 midterms.