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“Time TV”
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We are able to’t be 100% positive that an obscure lending firm simply tried to steal Graceland. However a Tennessee choose on Wednesday mentioned, primarily, it positive seems to be like that’s what occurred.
It’s a really bananas sequence of occasions that led to Graceland, a beloved vacationer attraction in Memphis, getting pulled from the public sale block simply at some point earlier than it was scheduled for a foreclosures sale.
ICYMI: Elvis Presley’s household dwelling — the second most-visited residence in America after the White Home — was set to go up for public sale this Thursday, below the pretext that the late singer’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, who died in 2023, did not pay again a $3.8 million mortgage she’d secured from a non-public lender referred to as Naussany Investments and Personal Lending.
Naussany claimed that the home was a part of the collateral on that mortgage, and fee was due, so get able to kiss Graceland goodbye.
However earlier this month, Riley Keough, Elvis’s granddaughter and the only real proprietor of Graceland, swooped in to halt the sale.
Keough, an actor recognized for her roles in “Mad Max Fury Highway” and “Daisy Jones & the Six,” filed a lawsuit saying, primarily, Naussany’s claims had been all rubbish.
Keough contends there was no such mortgage made to her mom. And that Naussany isn’t even an actual firm.
Her lawsuit says that the paperwork Naussany offered, together with a 2018 notarized promissory word signed by Lisa Marie Presley, had been cast. Even the notary public whose identify appeared on the disputed doc, instructed the court docket in an affidavit that no, they’d by no means notarized Lisa Marie Presley’s signature.
On Wednesday, Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins mentioned that the affidavit was enough proof to delay the foreclosures till a listening to can decide the information. However Jenkins additionally advised fairly overtly that somebody, someplace, did some frauds.
“It seems you’ll achieve success on the deserves,” Jenkins instructed Keough’s lawyer Wednesday.
When “Time TV” tried to achieve Naussany Investments, the quantity was not in service. The enterprise was listed in a court docket doc from Keough’s legal professional as being positioned in Kimberling Metropolis, Missouri, however “Time TV” was unable to find a enterprise within the state of Missouri by that identify. “Time TV” was additionally unable to find a enterprise by that identify when looking nationwide.
Then, on Wednesday, an individual recognized as a consultant of Naussany Investments launched a grammatically challenged and considerably complicated assertion saying they “might be withdrawing all claims with prejudice.”
“As a result of Deed of Belief not being recorded and the mortgage being obtained in several state, authorized motion must be filed in a number of states and Naussany Investments & Personal Lending won’t purchase to proceed,” the corporate mentioned.
(“Not purchase to proceed?”)
It added: “There was no hurt meant on Ms. Keough for her moms LMP mis habits and mis managing of cash.”
(LMP, presumably, is Lisa Marie Presley. As for “mis habits,” your guess is pretty much as good as mine.)
Backside line: If Keough is true and it is a case of forgery and fraud, then it’s certainly a contender for one of many all-time most silly. (And, as we all know, solely fools rush in.)
Scammers and predatory lenders pull off all types of immoral and unlawful schemes on a regular basis, however most of them have the great sense to not prey on the multimillion-dollar property of 1 the world’s most beloved cultural icons. When you pitched a film script about it, the writers of the Nationwide Treasure motion pictures would chortle you out of the room.
