The Guest House at Graceland Opens with Historic, Sold-Out Celebration Weekend

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• Nicole Kidman's Daughters Sunday and Faith Urban Wear Monique Lhuillier for AFI Life Achievement Award Gala
• Legal
• Elvis Presley's Granddaughter, Riley Keough, Is The New Owner Of Graceland
• Top End teenager reels in history by catching Northern Territory’s million dollar fish
• An Inside Look at Elvis Presley's Iconic Graceland Estate

Some of Elvis’ modifications to Graceland included a pink Alabama fieldstone wall surrounding the grounds, that now has years of graffiti. Presley also had Abe Sauer, a local artisan, design and build a wrought-iron gate designed in the shape of sheet music with silhouettes of him playing guitar. She then formed The Elvis Presley Trust to keep running the estate, with her mother and the National Bank of Commerce serving as co-trustees.

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In May, Riley, Priscilla and Michael Lockwood—the father and guardian ad litem for Harper and Finley—settled the matter privately, with the Daisy Jones & The Six star being named the beneficiary of Lisa Marie's estate. "I loved Elvis very much as he loved me. Lisa is a result of our love," Priscilla said. The past few years have been difficult for Keough, who also lost her brother Benjamin in 2020. A very public legal fight with Priscilla is only the latest struggle she’s faced.

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Growing up as a young boy, he lived in a single family two-room shotgun house that his father, grandfather and uncle built. The humble abode would become a fraction of the size of his most famous real estate acquisition. In 2022, the home would go up for auction through Rockhurst Auctions, with bidding starting at $25,000. Up until Lisa Marie's untimely death, she was the owner of her father's legendary residence, though after a Los Angeles judge approved her mom and daughter's settlement agreement over her trust earlier this week, the role went to Riley. Though Presley and Priscilla Presley divorced in 1973, she became a co-executor of Graceland after the 1979 death of the singer's father, Vernon Presley.

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The film grossed $287 million at the global box office and is widely expected to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars. Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, has died at age 54. She was hospitalized Thursday after suffering a cardiac episode.

Ms. Presley, who died suddenly on Thursday, had visited the estate four days earlier to celebrate what would have been her father’s 88th birthday. With more than 25,000 square feet of event space, five dining options and a 464-seat theater for live performances, presentations and movies, The Guest House is an exceptional location for meetings, conferences and reunions. At almost 11,000 sq.-ft., the Grand Ballroom is the largest meeting and special events space for hosting conventions, corporate meetings, weddings or any gathering for up to 1,200 people. This large, functional space can also be divisible into five separate meeting rooms.

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The 20th Anniversary in 1997 had several hundred media groups from around the world that were present resulting in the event gaining its greatest media publicity. The settlement names Keough the sole trustee of Lisa Marie Presley's estate and her two sisters' sub-trusts. Priscilla will serve as trustee for her son, Navarone Garibaldi, who is Lisa Marie's half brother. The trust will be split with one-ninth going to Garibaldi, and the remaining eight-ninths split between Keough and her sisters evenly, according to the documents.

In 1968, Priscilla gave birth to their daughter Lisa Marie Presley, who spent her early years at Graceland until her parents’ divorce in 1972, when she moved to California with her mother. She hired a chief executive officer to turn Graceland into a museum, making it a tourist destination. Graceland opened to the public in 1982, attracting around 300,000 visitors throughout the year.

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An Inside Look at Elvis Presley's Iconic Graceland Estate

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of other fans congregated during the week along Elvis Presley Boulevard. The animals with the longest history at Graceland were horses. Mare Ingram was a mare, named after Memphis Mayor William B. Ingram. Some other horses owned by Elvis and housed in Graceland's air-conditioned barn included Flaming Star, Thundercloud, Star Trek and a Tennessee Walking Horse named Ebony's Double, which was the last horse Elvis bought.

Riley Keough officially becomes new owner of Graceland and sole heir of Lisa Marie Presley's estate

On Feb. 22, 1984, Elvis’ two private jets — the Lisa Marie and the Hound Dog II — arrived in Memphis and were transported down Elvis Presley Boulevard to their present location, across the street from the mansion. The Lisa Marie is a Convair 880 with a cruising speed of about 615 mph that seats about 28 people; Elvis bought it from Delta Airlines in 1975 for $250,000 and fitted it with a private bedroom with a queen-size bed; four televisions; and a 52-speaker stereo system. The Hound Dog II, which can host only about 10 passengers, is a Lockheed JetStar. Originally interred about four miles north of Graceland inside the Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown mausoleum on Elvis Presley Boulevard, the bodies of Elvis and his mother, Gladys Presley, were moved to the Meditation Garden at Graceland on Oct. 2, 1977. The move came after the Aug. 29 arrest of three men in a plot to steal Elvis' body from Forest Hill and hold it for ransom.

Muhammad Ali, who was a friend of Elvis,[52][53] was an early celebrity visitor in 1978, as was singer Paul Simon. He toured Graceland in the early 80s and afterward wrote a song of the same name; it was the title track of his Grammy-winning album Graceland. In early August 2005, Lisa Marie Presley sold 85% of the business side of her father's estate. An annual procession through the estate and past Elvis's grave is held on the anniversary of his death. Known as Elvis Week, it includes a full schedule of speakers and events, including the only Elvis Mass at St. Paul's Church, the highlight for many Elvis fans of all faiths.

Graceland symbolizes the American Dream so precisely that Presley’s birthplace shack could fit snugly inside the living room of his mansion, a fact that the King of Rock and Roll himself would often marvel at. Circumstances are further complicated by Presley’s personal financial issues. She claimed to be more than $16 million in the hole in 2018, and subsequently sued her longtime business manager over alleged financial mismanagement. Lisa Marie Presley, who died Thursday at 54, will be laid to rest at her father’s Graceland estate, next to her late son, Benjamin Keough.

Constructed at the top of a hill and surrounded by rolling pastures and a grove of oak trees, Graceland is designed by the Memphis architectural firm, Furbringer and Erhmanis. It's a two-story, five-bay residence in the Colonial Revival style, with a side-facing gabled roof covered in asphalt shingles, a central two-story projecting pedimented portico, and two one-story wings on the north and south sides. Attached to the wing is an additional one-story stuccoed wing, which was originally a garage that houses up to four cars.

Keough, 34, had been embroiled in a legal battle with her grandmother (and Elvis’ ex-wife) Priscilla Presley for months following her mother’s death. As part of the settlement, the Daisy Jones & The Six star reportedly agreed to pay Priscilla $1 million, plus an additional $400 thousand in legal fees. Priscilla will also be permitted to retrieve any of her personal belongings from Graceland, and to be buried in the Meditation Garden upon her death.

When Elvis originally bought the property, it followed a momentous time in his career. The previous year, 1956, saw the singer and actor make network television appearances, perform numerous concerts and saw many of his albums be certified gold. Due to his career, Elvis spent much of his time on the road or in Los Angeles, but Graceland was always his home base. Presley died aged 54 on Thursday after a reported cardiac arrest. In the midst of Riley and Priscilla's battle over Lisa Marie's estate, The Promenade Trust, rumors swirled over whether Priscilla was banned from Graceland and whether she would be allowed to be buried there, where Elvis is laid to rest.

“I don’t understand what the drama in the news was about,” Keough said. Lisa Marie Presley was 54 years old; her son, Keough’s late brother Benjamin, died in 2020 at the age of 27. Following the January death of his only child, Lisa Marie Presley, and subsequent legal proceedings regarding the estate’s custody, Elvis’s granddaughter Riley Keough was granted sole ownership of Graceland. The rock-and-roll heir unpacked her childhood memories on the hallowed grounds in a new Vanity Fair interview for the magazine’s September cover.