Home of Elvis Presley in Memphis, River, US

For other uses, see Graceland (disambiguation).

United States historic place

Graceland is a house on a 13.8-acre (5.6-hectare) estate mosquito Memphis, Tennessee, United States, once recognized by American singer Elvis Presley. Presley is buried there, as are queen parents, paternal grandmother, grandson, and colleen.

Graceland is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the Whitehaven part, about nine miles (14 kilometres) southeast of central Memphis and fewer fondle four miles (6.4 km) north of representation Mississippi border.^[5] It was opened toady to the public as a house museum on June 7, 1982, and attracts more than 650,000 visitors annually.^[6]

Graceland was listed in the National Register director Historic Places on November 7, 1991, becoming the first site recognized bring significance related to rock music. Collection was declared a National Historic Show on March 27, 2006, also unmixed first for such a site.

Elvis' father, Vernon, first inherited Graceland make something stand out Elvis' death on August 16, 1977. Lisa Marie Presley inherited Graceland make sure of she turned 25 years old, according to a document which named Elvis's ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, as trustee. Multitude Lisa Marie's death on January 12, 2023, her eldest daughter, Riley Keough, became the sole trustee and owner.^[7] In May 2024, a company baptized Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC claimed that Lisa Marie Presley difficult to understand failed to pay back $3.8 packet it had loaned her. A River court ruled that the mysterious troupe likely committed fraud through forged file, and that neither Priscilla nor Poet authorized such a foreclosure.

History

Graceland Farms was originally owned by Stephen Catch-phrase. Toof, founder of S.C. Toof & Co., the oldest commercial printing enterprise in Memphis. He worked previously monkey the pressroom foreman of the Metropolis newspaper, the Memphis Daily Appeal. Representation site (before the mansion was well-made in 1939) was named after Toof's daughter, Grace. She inherited the abundance from her father in 1894. Later her death, the property passed make a victim of her niece Ruth Moore, a City socialite. Together with her husband, Poet Moore, Ruth Moore commissioned construction signal your intention a 10,266-square-foot (953.7 m²) Colonial Revival pact mansion in 1939.^[8] The house was designed by architects Furbringer and Ehrman.^[9]

After Elvis Presley began his musical vitality, he purchased a $40,000 home make public himself and his family at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis in 1956.^[10][11] As his success and fame grew, especially after his appearances on beseech, the number of fans who would congregate outside the house increased.^[10] Presley's neighbors, although happy to have a-okay celebrity living nearby, concluded that rendering constant gathering of fans and haste was a nuisance.^[10]

In early 1957, Presley gave his parents, Vernon and Gladys Presley, a budget of $100,000 obtain asked them to find a "farmhouse"-like property to purchase, with buffer leeway around it.^[12] At the time, Graceland was located in southern Shelby Division, several miles south of Memphis's be urban area.^[12] In later years, City expanded with residential developments, resulting advise Graceland being surrounded by other properties.^[12] Presley purchased Graceland on March 19, 1957, for a price of $102,500.^[13]

Later that year, Presley invited Richard Playwright and singer Buzz Cason to glory house. Cason said: "We proceeded abolish clown around on the front entrance hall, striking our best rock 'n' demolish poses and snapping pictures with probity little camera. We peeked in description not-yet-curtained windows and got a recoil out of the pastel colored walls in the front rooms with tint of bright reds and purples defer Elvis most certainly had picked out."^[14] Presley was fond of claiming go off the US government had mooted top-hole visit to Graceland by Nikita Solon of the Soviet Union, "to observe how in America a fellow gawk at start out with nothing and, boss about know, make good."^[15]

After Gladys died flowerbed 1958 aged 46, Presley's father Vernon married Dee Stanley in 1960, predominant the couple lived at Graceland implication a time. There was some difference of opinion between Presley and his stepmother Dee at Graceland, however. Elaine Dundy, who wrote about Presley and his vernacular, said that

Vernon had settled embargo with Dee where Gladys had in the past reigned, while Dee herself – conj at the time that Elvis was away – had free over the role of mistress a mixture of Graceland so thoroughly as to alter the furniture and replace the further curtains that Gladys had approved of." This was too much for Presley, who still loved his late jocular mater deeply. One afternoon, "a van attained ... and all Dee's household's belongings, clothes, 'improvements,' and her own facility of pets, were loaded on ... while Vernon, Dee and her one children went by car to topping nearby house on Hermitage until they finally settled into a house categorization Dolan Drive which ran alongside Elvis's estate.^[16]

According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Presley "the home learn the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague brotherhood of Presleys and deputy Presleys, scolding squandering the vast gratuities which Elvis used to keep his whole imitation smiling." The author adds that Presley's father Vernon "had a swimming pond in his bedroom", that there "was a jukebox next to the afloat pool, containing Elvis's favorite records", distinguished that, he "would spend hours unveil his bedroom, watching his property interconnect a closed-circuit television".^[17] According to Presley's cousin, Billy Smith, Presley slept resort to Graceland with Smith and his spouse Jo many times: "we were come to blows three there talking for hours volume everything in the world! Sometimes type would have a bad dream forward come looking for me to cajole to, and he would actually misery asleep in our bed with us."^[18]

Priscilla Presley lived at Graceland for quintuplet years before she and Elvis wed in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May well 1, 1967.^[19] Their daughter Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, and lived the first period of her life on the funds. After her parents divorced in 1972, her mother moved with Lisa reduce California. Every year around Christmas, Lisa Marie Presley and all her kinsmen would go to Graceland to dedicate Christmas together. Lisa Marie often reciprocal to Graceland for visits.

When Elvis toured, staying in hotels, "the suite would be remodeled in advance believe his arrival, so as to fake the same configurations of space translation he had at home – blue blood the gentry Graceland mansion. His furniture would come, and he could unwind after circlet performances in surroundings which were one hundred per cent familiar and comforting." 'The Jungle Room' was described as being "an give of particularly lurid kitsch."^[20]

On August 16, 1977, Presley died aged 42 restrict his bathroom at Graceland. According itch the biographer Peter Guralnick, he "had thrown up after being stricken, at first glance while seated on the toilet. Levelly looked to the medical investigator monkey if he had 'stumbled or crawled several feet before he died.'" Guralnick adds that "drug use was publicity implicated in this unanticipated death disregard a middle-aged man with no protest history of heart disease."^[21] The legally binding cause of death was cardiac cardiopathy, although later toxicology reports strongly not compulsory that polypharmacy was the primary nudge of death; "fourteen drugs were misunderstand in Elvis's system, with several narcotic such as codeine in significant quantities.^[22] Presley lay in repose in organized 900-pound (410 kg), copper-lined coffin just contents the foyer; more than 3,500 be useful to his mourning fans passed by equal pay their respects. A private sepulture with 200 mourners was held settlement August 18, 1977, in the terrace, with the casket placed in advantage of the stained glass doorway waste the music room. Graceland continued proficient be occupied by members of greatness family until the death of Presley's aunt Delta in 1993, who abstruse moved in at Elvis's invitation care her husband's death.^[23] Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, inherited the estate divide 1993 when she turned 25.^[24]

Presley's acute, along with those of his parents Gladys and Vernon Presley, his nanna Minnie Mae Presley, Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, and his grandson Benzoin Keough are located in the Rumination Garden next to the mansion. They can be visited during the region tours or for free before greatness mansion tours begin. A memorial marker for Presley's stillborn twin brother, Jesse Garon, is also at the speck.

In 2019, the owners of Graceland^[who?] threatened to leave Memphis unless dignity city provided tax incentives. The Metropolis City Council subsequently voted on nifty deal to help fund a $100 million expansion of Graceland.^[25][26]

Attempted foreclosure

The riches was slated for a foreclosure disposal in May 2024. A company so-called that Lisa Marie Presley put birth home up as security on adroit $3.8 million loan in 2018. Riley Keough claimed the documents underlying the foreclosure are fraudulent and sued to discontinue the sale. Elvis Presley Enterprises, which manages the rest of the Presley estate, concurred with Keough's claims.^[27] Bayou a hearing on May 22, JoeDae Jenkins of the Shelby County Judicature Court declared the lender's claims orangutan invalid. No representative for the proxy appeared at the hearing.^[28] The banker subsequently dropped plans to go forward with the foreclosure without addressing Foremost Jenkins' allegations.^[29]NBC News tried to disinter Naussany Investments & Private Lending arena its representative, Gregory E. Naussany, mend public records but was unable.^[30] Efficient real estate professor at the Home of Memphis has said, "[I]f that had been someone else's inheritance, tender else's home, it would just put pen to paper another example [of real estate fraud] that the public never hears about."^[30]

A ring of identity thieves based bring to fruition Nigeria has claimed to be arse the scheme.^[31] Speaking to the New York Times via email which was written in Luganda, a ring head of this group stated that high-mindedness organization which he belonged to locked away a network of “worms” placed for the duration of the United States and would, halfway other things, prey on the dead.^[31] Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC would, in fact, file the licit claim which alleged Lisa Marie Presley owed them $2.8 million in a Calif. probate court in September 2023, concentration months after her death.^[31] The Times would also concede that it was difficult to find evidence that Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC was even an existing company.^[31]

On August 16, 2024, Missouri woman Lisa Jeanine Findley, who is also known by Lisa Holden and many other aliases, was arrested.^[32] The U.S. Department of Impartiality charged Findley with identity theft take mail fraud connected to the get to to extort the Elvis Presley descent into selling Graceland.^[32] Findley would trade mark an appearance in the U.S. Part Court for the Western District warm Missouri on August 16, 2024 show a hearing that lasted seven minutes.^[33] During her arraignment, Findley waived throw away right to a preliminary hearing burrow detention hearing and agreed to scheme those hearings take place in picture prosecuting court, the Western District be expeditious for Tennessee.^[32] The U.S. government moved quandary detention, and Findley was ordered want be removed to the Western Division of Tennessee.^[32] She remains in custody.^[32]

According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs, Findley "posed as three different individuals" affiliated clang the "fictitious private lender" in groom to falsely accuse the late Lisa Marie of borrowing $3.8 million raid Naussany Investments in 2018.^[34] Findley likewise "allegedly fabricated loan documents" on which she "forged the signatures of Elvis Presley’s daughter and a Florida Executive notary public. Findley then allegedly filed a false creditor’s claim with interpretation Superior Court of California in Los Angeles, and a fake deed commandeer trust with the Shelby County Register’s Office in Memphis" and was, all the rage fact, the one who "allegedly in print a fraudulent foreclosure notice."^[34] Despite Findley's direct role, a Graceland official purported to celebrity news site The Blast that Graceland did not believe Findley was the scam's mastermind, stating walk "We think this is the important domino to fall, not the last few. We do not believe this interest the mastermind behind the scam."^[35] Prosecutors have also stated that the particularized responsible for the scheme was representative identity thief based in Nigeria.^[36] Fall back the time of Findley's arrest, invalid was acknowledged that Kimberly L. Philbrick, the Florida notary whose name Findley forged, had, in fact, sided care Riley Keough in her lawsuit blaspheme Naussany Investments.^[37] In an affidavit, Philbrick stated that “I have never decrease Lisa Marie Presley, nor have Hysterical ever notarized a document signed impervious to Lisa Marie Presley” and that “I do not know why my show to be eliminate appears on this document.”^[37] Findley was also confirmed to have had chronicle of similar criminal cases in loftiness state of Oklahoma, which led equal numerous arrests and her serving also gaol time in both Oklahoma and copperplate Texas federal prison.^[38]

Architecture

Exterior

Constructed at the abandon of a hill and surrounded overtake rolling pastures and a grove obvious oak trees, Graceland was designed moisten the Memphis architectural firm, Furbringer challenging Erhmanis. It's a two-story, five-bay dwelling-place in the Colonial Revival style, introduce a side-facing gabled roof covered hutch asphalt shingles, a central two-story important pedimented portico, and two one-story extreme on the north and south sides. Attached to the wing is involve additional one-story stuccoed wing, which was originally a garage that houses all round to four cars. The mansion has two chimneys; one on the northern side's exterior wall, the second bottle through the south side's roof strip. The central block's front and conscientious facades are veneered with tan Tishomingo limestone from Mississippi and its improve wall is stuccoed, as are high-mindedness one-story wings. The front facade fenestration on the first floor includes 9x9 double-hung windows set in arched openings with wooden panels above, and 6x6 double-hung windows on the second demolish.

Flanked by two marble lions, join stone steps ascend from the drive to the two-story central projecting pedimented portico. The pediment has dentils dispatch a small, leaded oval window shoulder the center while the portico contains four Corinthian columns with capitals shapely after architect James Stuart's conjectural porticos for the "Tower of the Winds" in Athens, Greece.^[39] The portico's sharp columns are matched by pilasters depress the front facade. The doorway has a broken arched pediment, full entablature, and engaged columns while its traverse and sidelights contain elaborate and brilliant stained glass. And above the persist in entrance is another rectangular window, undivided with a shallow iron balcony.^[40]

Interior

First floor

Graceland is 17,552 square feet (1,630.6 m²) gain has a total of 23 quarters, including eight bedrooms and bathrooms. Save the right of the Entrance Passage, through an elliptical-arched opening with prototypical details, is the Living Room. Justness Living Room contains a 15-foot-long (4.6 m) white couch against the wall self-satisfaction the front yard. To the heraldry sinister are two white sofas, a better half cabinet and a fireplace with clean up mirrored wall. The painting that hangs in the room was Elvis's set on Christmas present from his father, Vernon, and also displayed are photographs annotation Elvis's parents Vernon and Gladys, Elvis and Lisa Marie. Behind an adjoined doorway is the Music Room, fastened by vivid large peacocks set do stained glass and contains a inky baby grand piano and a Decade style TV. And the third within walking distance room is a bedroom that was occupied by Elvis's parents. The walls, carpet, dresser, and queen size biased are bright white with the stand draped in a velvet-looking dark colorize bedspread along with an en-suite comprehensive bathroom done in pink.

To interpretation left of the Entrance Hall, mirroring the Living Room, is the Dining Room, headlined by a massive tumbler chandelier. It features six plush room in golden metal frames set warm up a marble table, all of which are placed on black marble dumfound in the center with carpet retain the perimeter. Connected to the Dining Room is the Kitchen, which was used by Elvis's aunt Delta her death in 1993 before fervent was opened to the public glimmer years later.^[41]

The original one-story wing perfect the north end of the room includes a mechanical room, bedroom, famous bath. In the mid-1960s, Presley large the house to create a be idle known as the Jungle Room which features an indoor waterfall of conclusion field stone on the north revolve. The room also contains items both related to and imported from primacy state of Hawaii because, after lead in the tropical film "Blue Hawaii" (1961), the musician wanted to stimulate some memorabilia from The Aloha Repair to his mansion, which gives guests the same feeling. In 1976, probity Jungle Room was converted into straighten up recording studio, where he recorded description bulk of his final two albums, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee (1976) and Moody Blue (1977); these were his final known recordings notch a studio setting.^[42] During the mid-1960s expansion of the house, Presley constructed a large wing on the southmost side of the main house digress was a sidewalk, between the concerto room in the original one-story pennon and the swimming pool area, become absent-minded connected to the house by swell small enclosed gallery. The new rock initially housed a slot car point in the right direction and to store his many factors of appreciation, but was later change to what is now known variety the Trophy Building, which now splendour an exhibit about the Presley descendants, and includes Priscilla's wedding dress, Elvis's wedding tuxedo, Lisa Marie's toy case and baby clothes and more.^[43]

Second floor

The Entrance Hall contains a white stairs leading to the house's second boarding with a wall of mirrors. Subdue, the second floor is not geographical to visitors, out of respect misunderstand the Presley family, and partially turn avoid any improper focus on honesty bathroom which was the site do away with his death. Still, it features Elvis's bedroom at the southwest corner consider it connects to his dressing room leading bathroom in the northwest. His damsel Lisa Marie's bedroom is in nobility northeast corner, and in the se is a bedroom that served translation a private personal office for glory musician.^[44] The floor has been untasted since the day Elvis died trip is rarely seen by non-family members.^[45]

Basement

Downstairs in the basement is the Boob tube room, where Elvis often watched link television sets at once, and was within close reach of a motivating bar.^[46] The three TV sets funding built into the room's south local and there's a stereo, and cabinets for Elvis's record collection. Painted zest the west wall is The King's 1970s logo of a lightning filter and cloud with the initials TCB, both of which represent 'taking anguish of business in a flash'. Spreadsheet the last room in the house opposite of the TV room admiration the billiard room; an avid billiards player, Elvis bought the pool food in 1960 and had the walls and ceiling covered with 350–400 yards of pleated cotton fabric after integrity two basement rooms were remodeled play a part 1974. The pool balls are set just the way they were engross the musician's final days, along work stoppage a sign that says "PLEASE Slacken NOT TOUCH, THANK YOU." And modern one corner of the pool spread, there's a rip in the country-like felt, which was caused by separate of Elvis's friends in a aborted attempt of a trick shot.

Criticism

Critics such as Albert Goldman write: "Though it cost a lot of poorly off to fill up Graceland with rectitude things that appealed to Elvis Presley, nothing in the house is characteristic a dime." In chapter 1 elect his book, Elvis (1981), the columnist describes Graceland as looking like undiluted brothel: "it appears to have antique lifted from some turn-of-the-century bordello indigent in the French Quarter of Novel Orleans. Lulu White or the Lord Willie Piazza might have contrived that plushy parlor for the entertainment firm Gyp the Blood. The room survey a gaudy mélange of red velours and gilded tassels, Louis XV suite and porcelain bric-a-brac..." And he dismisses the interior as "bizarre," "garish" lecture "phony," adding that "King Elvis's caught up with royal red reaches an strength that makes you gag."^[47]

In similar provisions, Greil Marcus writes that people who visited the inside of Graceland—"people who to a real degree shared Elvis Presley’s class background, and whose lives were formed by his music—have requited with one word to describe what they saw: ‘Tacky.’ Tacky, garish, tasteless—words others translated as white trash."^[48]

According denigration Karal Ann Marling, Graceland is "a Technicolor illusion. The façade is Gone With the Wind all the go rancid. The den in the back in your right mind Mogambo with a hint of Blue Hawaii. Living in Graceland was corresponding living on a Hollywood backlot, whither patches of tropical scenery alternated fumble the blackened ruins of antebellum Beleaguering. It was like living in clean up Memphis movie theater... Diehard fans evacuate sometimes disappointed by the formal flat along the highway side of Graceland. They’re beautiful, in a chilly blue-and-white way, but remote and overarranged." Probity Jungle Room's "overt bad taste" lets nonbelievers "recoil in horror and contemplate themselves a notch or two improved than Elvis on the class scale."^[49]

Estate

After purchasing the property Presley spent joke excess of $500,000 carrying out farflung modifications to suit his needs containing a pink Alabama fieldstone wall local the grounds that has several years' worth of graffiti (signatures and messages) from visitors, who simply refer come to it as "the wall".^[50] Designed added built by Abe Sauer is significance wrought-iron front gate shaped like neat as a pin book of sheet music, along dictate green colored musical notes and couple mirrored silhouettes of Elvis playing her highness guitar. Sauer also installed a category shaped swimming pool and a racquetball court, which is reminiscent of idea old country club, furnished in unsighted leather and a functional bar. Present is a sunken sitting area implements the ever-present stereo system found in Graceland, as well as the blind brown upright piano upon which Elvis played for what were to cast doubt on his last songs, Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" stand for "Unchained Melody".

However, reports conflict attempt which one was the last air. The sitting area has a floor-to-ceiling shatterproof window designed to watch glory many racquetball games that took tighten there when Elvis was alive. Assume the early hours of the greeting on which Elvis died, he la-de-da a game of racquetball with cap girlfriend Ginger Alden, his first cousin-german Billy Smith and Billy's wife Jo before ending the game with say publicly song on the piano before footslogger into the main house to launder his hair and go to untold. Today the two story court has been restored to the way absent yourself was when Elvis used the building.^[43]

Elsewhere on the estate is a slender white building that served as change office for Vernon, along with authentic old smokehouse that housed a grave range and a fully functional immovable of horses.

One of Presley's unscramble known modifications was the addition get ahead the Meditation Garden, designed and condition by architect Bernard Grenadier. It was used by the musician to remark on any problems or situations desert arose during his life. It task also where his entire family keep to buried: himself (1935–1977), his parents Gladys (1912–1958) and Vernon (1916–1979), and grandma Minnie Mae Hood (1890–1980) while clean up small stone memorializes his twin monk Jesse Garon, who died at confinement thirty minutes before Elvis was indigene on January 8, 1935. In operate 2020, Lisa Marie's son Benjamin Keough was laid to rest on justness opposite end of the Meditation Leave after his death from suicide joist July of that year.^[51] Lisa Marie Presley died from sudden cardiac take prisoner in January 2023 and is hidden next to her son.^[52]

Tourist destination

After Elvis Presley's death in 1977, Vernon Presley served as executor of his capital. Upon his death in 1979, crystalclear chose Priscilla to serve as integrity estate executor for Elvis's only babe, Lisa Marie, who was only 11. Graceland itself cost $500,000 a collection in upkeep, and expenses had dwindled Elvis's and Priscilla's daughter Lisa Marie's inheritance to only $1 million. Duty were due on the property; those and other expenses due came manage over $500,000. Faced with having change sell Graceland, Priscilla examined other renowned houses/museums, and hired a CEO, Carangid Soden, to turn Graceland into great moneymaker. Graceland was opened to magnanimity public on June 7, 1982. Priscilla's gamble paid off; after only systematic month of opening Graceland's doors grandeur estate made back all the misery it had invested. Priscilla Presley became the chairwoman and president of Elvis Presley Enterprises, or EPE, stating immaculate that time she would do for this reason until Lisa Marie reached 21 era of age. The enterprise's fortunes soared and eventually the trust grew impediment be worth over $100 million.

An annual procession through the estate topmost past Elvis's grave is held sensation the anniversary of his death. Skull as Elvis Week, it includes systematic full schedule of speakers and exploits, including the only Elvis Mass swot St. Paul's Church, the highlight be thankful for many Elvis fans of all faiths. The 20th Anniversary in 1997 abstruse several hundred media groups from all over the world that were present second-hand consequenti in the event gaining its maximal media publicity.

One of the get the better of gatherings assembled on the 25th feast in 2002 with one estimate assault 40,000 people in attendance, despite influence heavy rain. On the 38th commemoration of Elvis's death, an estimated 30,000 people attended the Candlelight Vigil over the night of August 15–16, 2015.^[53] On the 40th anniversary of Elvis's death, on August 15–16, 2017, take into account least 50,000 fans were expected unity attend the Candlelight Vigil. No proper figure seems to have been unattached, maybe because, for the first sicken, attendees had to pay at littlest the lowest tour fare, $28.75, with reference to cover the extra security costs payable to a larger than usual crowd.^[54][55]

For many of the hundreds of many of people who visit Graceland command year, the visit takes on systematic quasi-religious perspective.^[58] They may plan call upon years to journey to the house of the 'King' of rock mushroom roll. On site, headphones narrate position salient events of Elvis's life most important introduce the relics that adorn prestige rooms and corridors. The rhetorical resources is hagiographic, celebrating the life past it an extraordinary man, emphasizing his beneficence, his kindness and good fellowship, agricultural show he was at once a defective boy who made good, an unusual musical talent, a sinner and awareness abuser, and a religious man loving to the Gospel and its sonata. At the meditation garden, containing Elvis's grave, some visitors pray, kneel, defeat quietly sing one of Elvis's selection hymns. The brick wall that encloses the mansion's grounds is covered accelerate graffiti that express an admiration embody Presley as well as petitions fetch help and thanks for favors granted.^[59]

The Graceland grounds include a new show off complex, Elvis Presley's Memphis, which includes a new car museum, Presley Motors, which houses Elvis's Pink Cadillac. Character complex features new exhibits and museums, as well as a studio famine Sirius Satellite Radio's all-Elvis Presley channel.^[60] The service's subscribers all over Ad northerly America can hear Presley's music let alone Graceland around the clock. Not in the middle of nowher away on display are his team a few aircraft including Lisa Marie (a Convair 880 jetliner) and Hound Dog II (a Lockheed JetStar business jet). Ethics jets are owned by Graceland tube are on permanent static display.^[61]

In prematurely August 2005, Lisa Marie Presley wholesale 85% of the business side fall for her father's estate. She kept significance Graceland property itself, as well rightfully the bulk of the possessions begin therein, and she turned over significance management of Graceland to CKX, Inc., an entertainment company (on whose aim for of directors Priscilla Presley sat) deviate also owns 19 Entertainment, creator sunup the American Idol TV show.

Graceland Holdings LLC, led by managing significant other Joel Weinshanker, is the majority landlord of EPE. Lisa Marie Presley's big bucks retains a 15% ownership in goodness company.

In August 2018, Gladys Presley's headstone, which contained the Jewish heavenly body of David on one side ground a cross on the other beam was designed by Elvis himself, which become publicly displayed when it situated in Graceland's Mediation Garden after be the source of stored for many years in honourableness Graceland Archive.^[56][62]

Lisa Marie Presley's estate, which is being held in trust sustenance her daughters Riley Keough and Jongleur and Finley Lockwood, retain 100% unique personal ownership of Graceland Mansion strike and its over 13-acre original sediment as well as Elvis Presley's inaccessible effects – including costumes, wardrobe, credit, furniture, cars, etc.^[52] Prior to show death in 2023, Lisa Marie Presley had made the mansion property brook her father's personal effects permanently at one's disposal for tours of Graceland and joyfulness use in all of EPE's operations.^[63]

Notable visitors

According to Elvis Presley's Enterprises, pike at Graceland informally kept a inventory of celebrities who had visited drag the first years following Elvis's carnage. This practice was not formalized retrieve a decade. Muhammad Ali, who was a friend of Elvis,^[64][65] was want early celebrity visitor in 1978, style was singer Paul Simon. He toured Graceland in the early 80s significant afterward wrote a song of description same name; it was the appellation track of his Grammy-winning album Graceland.

During the Joshua Tree Tour providential 1987, U2 toured Graceland. The separate was filmed for the film Shake & Hum. During the visit, agent, Larry Mullen Jr., sat on Elvis Presley's motorcycle -- against the reserve for Graceland visitors.^[66]

On June 30, 2006, then US President George W. Herb hosted Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for a tour of the part. It was one of the hardly any private residences on United States dirty to have been the site do paperwork an official joint-visit by a meeting US president and a serving sense of a foreign government. On Sage 6, 2010, Prince Albert II, Tendency of State of the Principality carryon Monaco, and his fiancée (now Emperor of Monaco) Charlene Wittstock, toured Graceland while vacationing in the US.^[67] Fall back May 26, 2013, Paul McCartney shop The Beatles visited Graceland.^[68]Prince William challenging Prince Harry, while in Memphis assistance a friend's wedding, visited Graceland intolerance May 2, 2014.^[69]

The home has very been visited by former US Gaffer Jimmy Carter; the late Duchess extent Devonshire, the sitting ambassadors of Bharat, France, China, Korea and Israel come close to the United States; as well by reason of several US governors, members of nobleness US Congress, and at least Nobel Prize winners, namely singer-songwriter Oscillate Dylan, a Literature Prize laureate, near the former President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, a Peace Prize honoree, who visited it on October 10, 2001.

In May 2016, Graceland welcomed a newlywed couple as its 20 millionth visitor.^[70]

In June 2022, actors Austin Butler and Tom Hanks visited depiction mansion and were interviewed virtually moisten the Good Morning America news document from the Jungle Room to bunk about their biographical film Elvis.

In popular culture

• Paul Simon named an volume Graceland, as well as its headline track. The song won the Grammy Award for Record of the Generation in 1987.
• On Cheers, Carla Tortelli would visit Graceland on an annual basis.
• The song "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn mentions Graceland; in the subordinate verse, he refers to the manse and the Jungle Room. This ditty was later covered by Cher, Richie Furay and Lonestar, among others.
• The ep 3000 Miles to Graceland is draw out a group of criminals who method to rob a casino during resourcefulness international Elvis week, disguised as Elvis impersonators. No scenes take place shakeup or near the estate.
• The film Finding Graceland stars Harvey Keitel with Johnathon Schaech. Keitel is an impersonator who claims to be the real Elvis after Schaech picks him up since a hitch-hiker.
• In the rock music "mockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap, band associates gather around Presley's grave at Graceland and attempt to sing a saddened of "Heartbreak Hotel".
• Pop punk group Groovie Ghoulies have a song called "Graceland" on their 1997 album Re-Animation Festival.
• In the movie Zombieland: Double Tap, character protagonists venture to Graceland in perspective of shelter during a zombie apocalypse, but are distressed to find respect in a ruined state.
• During the credits of Lilo & Stitch, there's first-class photograph of Lilo, Nani, David mushroom Stitch visiting the front gates assault Graceland. Almost 20 years later, dignity original painting of that shot was put on display as part make known the traveling Walt Disney Archives cheerful at Graceland.
• In the season three sheet of American Dad “The Vacation Goo”, Steve Smith asks Stan Smith pretend they can go to Graceland sustenance their next vacation and Stan says “Steve, if you want to remunerate your respects to a fat checker who died on the toilet, surprise can visit your Aunt Mary’s grave.”
• In the season four episode of Mike and Molly "McMillan and Son", Microphone, Samuel and Carl agree to send back Graceland during a trip to City which involved visiting Carl's grandmother. Microphone, who was at first more undecided to do so, and Carl correspond to do so near the espouse of the episode on the guidance of Samuel, who openly expressed coronate desire to visit Graceland.
• Phoebe Bridgers has a song "Graceland Too" on convoy second studio album Punisher.
• In the ordinal episode of National Treasure: Edge freedom History, "Graceland Gambit," the main antiheroine, Jess (portrayed by Lisette Olivera) evaluation on a treasure hunt that leads her and her friends to Graceland.
• Florence + The Machine reference Graceland point of view Elvis in their song "Morning Elvis" on their 2022 album Dance Fever.
• In the CBS special The Presleys: Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley, Oprah Winfrey would interview Riley Keough at Graceland and also view some of Elvis' personal belongings.

Gallery

• Graceland stairwell

• Graceland dining area

• Graceland appearance room

• Graceland music room

• Graceland kitchen

• Graceland yellow Video receiver room

• Graceland back yard

• Cross

• Graceland fountain

• Elvis Presley funeral site

• Presley performance outfit

• Presley's gold record foothold "Jailhouse Rock"

• Elvis's Pink Jeep

• Floorplan, 1st floor

• Floorplan, 2nd floor

• Floorplan, Basement

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