Graceland Foreclosure Update: A Missouri Grandma Might Be Behind Scam
The highly publicized Graceland foreclosure attempt in May has led to many media outlets to investigate the culprit behind this seemingly random stunt. The latest investigation comes from NBC News, who report the person behind the Graceland drama is a grandmother in Branson, Missouri with a long history of cons and scams.
The investigation from NBC News is lengthy, meticulously researched and should be read in its entirety, because it is both bizarre and fascinating. Reporters Brandy Zadrozny and Jon Schuppe traced the Graceland foreclosure attempt to a woman who goes by Lisa Holden. However, she has also gone by three other surnames over the past few decades.
During this time, Lisa started accruing a rap sheet of various scams, often against those she was dating. In the process, she pretended to hold a variety of different occupations, from being an underwater welder to being a cannabis entrepreneur. Lisa was in and out of jail from the late ’90s to the late 2010s.
Interestingly, Lisa’s older sister, Linda, was also in similar legal trouble, but NBC News noted, “Linda’s crimes were more sophisticated than Lisa’s bad checks and romance scams.”
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The investigation stated that in 2023, the two sisters started living together. Despite NBC News not being able to find any evidence that linked Linda to the Graceland foreclosure scam, it was reported, “It’s puzzling to consider how Lisa might have graduated from small-time hustling of boyfriends and big-box stores to an attempt at multimillion-dollar fraud and the theft of one of the country’s most beloved landmarks.”
What the NBC News investigation did find was three pieces of evidence from the Graceland foreclosure filings that were ties back to Lisa. Those pieces included a fax number and a phone number, which she also used in a dispute with a Branson nail salon, and a PO Box address, which a public records database listed as belonging to Lisa. (In the Graceland filings, this PO Box was listed as the address of Naussany Investments and Private Lending LLC, the company from which Lisa Marie Presley allegedly secured $3.8 million loan that used Graceland as collateral.)
An NBC News reporter visited Lisa at her home in Branson and spoke with her on her porch for 13 minutes. When questioned, Lisa denied any connections to Naussany Investments, the PO Box and the fax and phone numbers.
Shortly after that reporter followed up with Lisa via text about her alleged connection to Naussany Investments, Lisa served NBC News with a cease and desist letter, which states, in part, “You are hereby NOTIFIED to immediately CEASE AND DESIST any and all communication through and by phone, text, email in-person, stop harassment, CEASE AND DESIST any publication or media which will be detrimental to myself and my family. Your allegations have caused severe mental anxiety and health issues.”
