Days after Riley Keough filed a lawsuit looking to block an allegedly “fraudulent” attempt at selling her grandfather Elvis Presley’s legendary Graceland estate, a judge has stopped the sale, PEOPLE reports.
At a hearing that took place Wednesday, May 22 at the Shelby County Chancery Court in Memphis, Tennessee, a Shelby County judge halted the sale of the iconic Graceland estate, which was slated for a foreclosure auction Thursday, May 23, according to PEOPLE.
“The estate is considered unique under Tennessee law, and in being unique the loss of the real estate will be considered irreparable harm,” the judge said.
The hearing for which Keough was not present came two days after the Daisy Jones & the Six star, 34, filed a complaint claiming that a company called Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC was trying to defraud her family into selling Graceland by forging the signature of her late mother Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis.
In a lawsuit filed on May 20, Keough says Naussany may not even be “a real entity,” and asked the court to grant a restraining order against them ahead of an apparent non-judicial sale of Graceland scheduled for Thursday, May 23.
Naussany claims that Lisa Marie borrowed $3.8 million and gave them a deed of trust encumbering Graceland as security before she died in January 2023 but Keough’s lawsuit claims Lisa Marie’s apparent signatures on the Standard Promissory Note and deed of trust are forged.
The suit also claims that the notary who allegedly witnessed Lisa Marie signing the deed and the note said she did not in fact notarize anything, and that she has never met Lisa Marie.
“There is no foreclosure sale. Simply put, the counter lawsuit has been filed is to stop the fraud,” Elvis Presley Enterprises said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.