Lisa Marie Presley's Signature on Graceland Loan Is Deemed Fake by Handwriting Expert
Elvis' home is protected - at least that's what Bart Baggett claims. The California-based handwriting specialist says Lisa Marie Presley's signature on a $3.8 million loan application, supposedly signed but not paid back using Graceland as collateral, is a bogus imitation.
Baggett elaborates by saying that the "stamp-like" signatures on the deed of trust are nothing but reproductions of the one found on the loan document.
Lisa Marie Presley, the single child of Elvis, inherited Graceland when she turned 25. Upon her death in January 2023, the iconic 13-acre mansion, along with the museum that runs it, was passed on to her daughter, actress Riley Keough, through a trust.
Though a foreclosure auction was scheduled to take place today, Keough managed to halt it by filing a civil lawsuit on Tuesday. In her complaint, Keough alleged that her mother's signature was forged.
Baggett confirms her statement, stating that "when two signatures are identical, they can't be authentic since no one in the world can sign their name exactly the same way twice, let alone three times."
Unchained Melody
Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC, a company owned by financier Kurt Naussany, published a public notice for a foreclosure sale on Graceland earlier this month. This notice stated that they had laid claim to Graceland because Lisa Marie hadn't repaid her loan.
In her suit, Keough asserts that her mother never borrowed any money from Naussany Investments, alleging that the business is a fake one.
Additionally, according to Keough's suit, the notary listed on the loan paperwork is willing to testify she never met Lisa Marie or notarized any documents for her.
Baggett remarks that "based on available samples, the notary signatures are strikingly different," albeit he adds that "to arrive at an official forensic verdict, I'd have to gather many samples of the notary's genuine signature."
A report from TMZ suggests that the con men's plan to take over Graceland may soon become the subject of multiple criminal investigations.
Baggett, a qualified handwriting expert and owner of Handwriting Experts, Inc., has worked with law enforcement on some of the most debatable handwriting cases in the past two decades. These cases involve the 2011 murder of Rebecca Zahau, a Burmese-American woman whose body was discovered hanging in the San Diego beach house of her boyfriend.
Thus, the forgery attempt on Graceland looks set to become a focus of multiple law enforcement probes.
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