A serial scammer who brazenly plotted to defraud Elvis Presley’s family out of millions of dollars and auction off his iconic Graceland estate learned her fate at her sentencing Tuesday.
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison by a federal judge in Memphis for posing as a bogus investor who claimed the rights to Graceland, according to court documents obtained by The Post.
Findley will face an additional three years of probation on top of the prison sentence, Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. ordered.
She pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud in February and had an additional charge of aggravated identity theft dropped in a plea agreement, according to CBS News.
Findley, who adopted several personas to carry out her elaborate scheme, declined to speak on her own behalf during the hearing, the outlet reported.
The career scammer from Kimberling City, Missouri, fabricated a claim that Presley’s late daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, had pledged Graceland to her as collateral for a $3.8 million loan she hadn’t repaid before her death in January 2023, prosecutors said.
She then threatened to auction off the famed tourist landmark — where the “Jailhouse Rock” singer lived until he died of a heart attack in 1997 — if the Presley family refused to cough up $2.8 million to settle the fictitious claim, authorities said.
Findley posed as a man named “Kurt Naussany” of a fake financial company, “Naussany Investments and Private Lending,” and fabricated documents with Lisa Marie Presley’s signature to attempt to pull off the scheme.
She even boldly published a fake foreclosure notice for Graceland in one of Memphis’s daily newspapers, prosecutors said.
The plot was halted when Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter, Riley Keough, filed a lawsuit, arguing the loan was fake and not executed by her mother.
As Findley’s scheme unraveled, she desperately attempted to pin the blame for the foreclosure sale attempt on a Nigerian identity thief.
Reporters at NBC News and other media organizations received bizarre emails from someone posing as the swindlers, claiming to be identity thieves, NBC reported.
The Graceland grifter had a long record of romance scams, forged checks, and bank fraud totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even previously spent time in federal prison for taking out false loans, NBC reported.
Findley’s defense team begged for leniency in the weeks leading up to her sentencing, arguing that the scheme was “very short in duration” and that she was never able to profit from it.
“This outrageously concocted scheme was, to quote Marvin Gaye, ‘doomed from the start,’” her court-appointed public defender, Tyrone Paylor, wrote in a court filing,
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