A Missouri woman is accused of defrauding Elvis Presley’s family of millions of dollars and stealing the family’s shares in Graceland, the US singing legend’s family home.

Lisa Jeanine Findley, who used a number of aliases, was arrested for allegedly masterminding a scheme to fraudulently sell her home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Findley, 53, was charged in federal court with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft and was scheduled to appear in court on Friday. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.

The Presley family has not commented publicly on the allegations.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Ms. Findley posed as three different individuals associated with a fictitious private lender called Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC (Naussany Investments).

The Justice Department alleges she falsely claimed that Elvis Presley’s daughter – Lisa Marie Presley, who died in January 2023 – borrowed $3.8 million (£3 million) from Naussany Investments, pledged Graceland as collateral for the loan and failed to repay the debt.

According to the Justice Department, Ms Findley allegedly demanded $2.85 million (£2.2 million) from Presley’s family to pay off the alleged debts.

The fraudulent acts she is accused of include falsifying loan documents, forging the signature of Elvis Presley’s daughter, and publishing a fraudulent foreclosure notice in a Memphis newspaper announcing that Naussany planned to auction Graceland on May 23.

When the Presley family sued Naussany Investments and tried to block the sale of Graceland, Ms. Findley also allegedly filed false court documents, according to the Justice Department.

The auction to sell Graceland attracted international attention earlier this year after Presley’s granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, claimed the loan documents were fake. She said her mother’s signature was forged.

Ms. Keough inherited Graceland, long a public museum honoring Mr. Presley, as well as much of Presley’s estate, after her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, died last year.

She filed a lawsuit to stop the planned auction, and a judge in Tennessee granted the lawsuit.

Graceland and Elvis Presley Enterprises issued a statement to the BBC at the time: “As the court has now made clear, the claims were not valid.”

Elvis bought the Graceland estate in 1957 and lived there until his death two decades later.

The 14-acre site opened to the public as a music history park in the early 1980s. Today, it is officially a National Historic Landmark and attracts around 600,000 visitors annually, according to the venue.

Elvis died at Graceland and is buried there, as are his parents, his daughter Lisa Marie Presley and her son Benjamin Keough.

The BBC’s efforts to reach a lawyer for Ms Findley were unsuccessful.

She made a brief court appearance on Friday and was taken to a jail in Greene County, Missouri.