Yes, the headline is correct. No, she wasn't caught shoplifting a CD of Paul Simon's 1986 hit album. A Missouri woman was arrested for trying to steal Graceland, the former home and final resting place of Elvis Presley.

Elvis purchased the home in 1957, where he lived until his death in 1977. The property is now described as a "200,000 square foot entertainment complex" which holds museums, restaurants, and gift shops for its 600,000 annual visitors.

How do you steal a 200,000 square foot entertainment complex? Lisa Jeanine Findley had just the idea. Authorities apprehended and charged her with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection to an extortion scam against the Presley family, attempting to fraudulently sell Graceland in a foreclosure auction.

“The defendant orchestrated a scheme to conduct a fraudulent sale of Graceland, falsely claiming that Elvis Presley’s daughter had pledged the historic landmark as collateral for a loan that she failed to repay before her death,” says Nicole M. Argentieri, the Justice Department's principal deputy assistant attorney general.

Findley is reported to be a career criminal with a long list of aliases, including Lisa Holden, Lisa Howell, Gregory Naussany, Lisa Jeanine Sullins, Carolyn Williams, and Kurt Naussany. If the name Naussany sounds familiar, in May of this year, Graceland was set to undergo a foreclosure auction. A company called Naussany Investments and Private Lending alleged Promenade Trust (the entity which holds the Presley estate, including Graceland) owed them $3.8 million.

Graceland was days away from auction until Presley's granddaughter, actress Riley Keough (Logan Lucky, Mad Max: Fury Road) stepped in. Keough gained control of the Promenade Trust in 2023. Keough was named the sole trustee after settling a long legal dispute with grandmother Priscilla Presley over who would control the entity following Lisa Marie Presley's death in January 2023. She created the Promenade Trust to manage the estate.

Months after Lisa Marie Presley's death, Naussany claimed she had borrowed $3.8 million from them, putting up Graceland as collateral. The estate was about to be sold when Keough's lawyers presented the court with papers claiming this was an instance of fraud. The sale was successfully blocked when a representative for Naussany failed to appear in court. Everything was then put on hold for further investigation before being turned over federal law enforcement.

Three months and a media circus later, we finally have our answer as to who was behind the scheme. The scheme made minds suspicious from the beginning, initially garnering scrutiny due to court filings not remotely resembling that of a legitimate business. When the media caught wind of this, Findley sent an email to authorities, the news, and the Presleys, falsely claiming that a Nigerian identity theft ring was at the center of the scheme. The email was written in Spanish.

With that email, and the poorly forged court documents, authorities were able to trace everything back to Branson, Missouri, which is just 5 hours north of Graceland, and NBC managed to track her down in June. She didn't cover her tracks well enough, apparently, as common phone numbers, fax numbers, and PO boxes, between Findley and her fictitious personas, were all used to link her to the foiled Graceland heist. NBC went so far as to knock on her door. She answered and spent almost 15 minutes claiming she had "no earthly idea" what Naussany was, much less anything related to Graceland.

Those close to Findley described her as a scammer, a cancer faker, and an underwater welder. She can now add jailbird to her resume. If convicted, Findley could face up to 22 years in prison.

Plenty of time to do the jailhouse rock.