FBI is investigating Graceland ‘fraud’ after company tried to force sale of Elvis Presley’s beloved estate

The FBI is reportedly investigating the attempted “fraudulent” sale of Graceland, Elvis Presley’s former home and burial site.

Sources said TMZ that Graceland officials and people from the camp of Riley Keough, who is the sole administrator of her grandfather’s estate, have been in contact with the FBI.

The outlet reported that the agency is “interested” in launching a criminal investigation into the sale.

The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Memphis estate was set to go under the hammer this week until 34-year-old Keough filed a legal bid to block the sale.

Her lawyer Jeff Germany told a court there are “significantly serious allegations regarding the authenticity” of documents allegedly showing her late mother Lisa Marie Presley lent $3.8 million using Graceland as collateral.

The alleged loan was made through a Missouri company called Naussany Investments and Private Lending.

Germany told the court he had had “no contact whatsoever” with Nassauny, neither with lawyers acting on behalf of the court nor with his alleged boss Kurt Naussany.

That left a clear decision for Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins, who said it was in the “public interest” to maintain a temporary restraining order blocking the proposed sale on the courthouse steps at 10 a.m. Thursday.

“The court will order the sale as requested because the property is considered unique under Tennessee law and because it is unique, the loss of the property would be considered irreparable harm,” he said during the 10-minute hearing.

The one-page fax, signed by Gregory E. Naussany and received by the court today, stated: “I respectfully deny the allegations made by Danielle Riley Keough. I believe that the claims against Naussany Investments & Private Lending are without merit.”

He said his company was “prepared to provide evidence and arguments” in its defense when the case goes to trial.

On Wednesday, mysterious financier Gregory Nassauny told DailyMail.com that the case was too complicated and that he had given up the fight for the mansion.

In response to an email sent to an address listed on court papers, a man posing as Nassauny told DailyMail.com he was “withdrawing all claims with prejudice.”

“Because the deed of trust has not been recorded and the loan was obtained in multiple states, legal action would need to be taken in multiple states and Naussany Investments & Private Lending will not be acquiring to proceed,” he said in the email.

‘That comes from consultation with the company’s lawyers. No harm was intended against Ms. Keough due to her mother’s LMP bad habits and mishandling of money (sic).”

Asked to clarify whether he has given up all efforts to pursue the alleged $3.8 million he claims to have loaned to the late Lisa Marie Presley, Nassauny said in a follow-up: “According to counsel, it is in the best interest, as multiple returns would have to be filed. 3 different states. The company no longer wishes to comment.”

The legal skirmish comes after it was posted online on May 12 that Graceland and its 13-acre site would be auctioned “to the highest and best bidder for cash.”

It was alleged that Lisa Marie, Elvis’ daughter, had borrowed millions of dollars in 2015 from Naussany Investments & Private Lending, a company that does not appear in state or national searches.

The shadowy outfit claimed that Lisa Marie, who died in January 2023 at the age of 54, defaulted on the loan.

Naussany planned to recoup the money by selling Graceland, the note said.

Ahead of Wednesday’s hearing, the Mad Max: Fury Road actress’ lawyers obtained a temporary restraining order to block the “out-of-court sale,” arguing that the alleged loan never happened and that the documents were “forgeries.”

Keough’s complaint stated that Kurt Naussany sent her numerous emails to collect her mother’s alleged debt, including a standard promissory note and a 2018 deed of trust for Graceland, both bearing Lisa Marie’s signature.

In an accompanying statement, Kimberly Philbrick, a notary based in Duval County, Florida, whose name appears on both documents, claimed that she “never met Lisa Marie nor notarized any document for her.”

The wording on the trust deed also included an incongruous reference to “online notarization,” which was not authorized in Florida or listed on Duval County paperwork until 2020 – two years after the deed was supposedly executed.

“Although the documents bear signatures that appear to be the signatures of Lisa Marie Presley, Lisa Marie Presley did not, in fact, sign the documents,” the prosecutor pointed out.

“The alleged deed of trust and the deed of trust are products of fraud and the persons involved in the production of such documents are presumed to be guilty of the crime of forgery.”

This week’s legal drama marked the second time Keough has gone to court to establish herself as Graceland’s owner following a 2023 legal battle with her grandmother Priscilla Presley, 78, Elvis’ ex-wife.

They tussled over a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie’s will that removed Priscilla as trustee, but a judge ruled that the paperwork was legitimate and that Keough was the Suspicious Minds crooner’s sole trustee.

Elvis bought the eight-bed Graceland estate in 1957 for $102,500, the same year he released Jailhouse Rock, one of 18 songs of his that went to number one.

He and Priscilla had Lisa Marie nine months after their wedding in 1967, and she spent her early years on her father’s sprawling estate.

Elvis and Priscilla divorced six years later, but Lisa Marie returned to Memphis regularly to stay and would eventually inherit Graceland after her father died there in 1977.

The property was eventually converted into a money-making tourist attraction with a museum, $200 VIP tours and candlelight vigils marking each anniversary of the rock ‘n’ roll icon’s death, drawing 650,000 visitors annually and in value rose to $100 million.

Lisa Marie sold 85 percent of the business side of her father’s estate in 2005, but kept Graceland itself, along with his personal assets, and turned over management to an entertainment company.

Elvis, his parents, Lisa Marie and her son Benjamin Keough are all buried in Graceland.

Benjamin took his own life in July 2020 at the age of 27 after a lengthy battle with drug addiction and depression, following his mother’s troubled history of opioid abuse.