Psychic Loses Bid For Elvis House
by Dean Terry
The ghost of Elvis is no doubt happy with the courts decision. But shouldn’t Uri Geller, who claims to be psychic, have seen this coming?
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Psychic Uri Geller, and two partners, lost their bid in federal court to overturn the sale of Elvis Presleys former house.
Geller and his partners bid $905,100 for Elvis Presleys former residence in an eBay auction in 2006. But Geller’s group made changes to the contract, which led to delays and postponed the sale. During the interim, the owners decided to sell the house to Nashville record producer Mike Curb, for a higher price than Gellers offer.
Geller’s group was seeking to have the sale to Mike Curb overturned, but a federal judge ruled that an eBay auction was not necessarily a binding sale, and Geller and his partners breached their agreement, with the owners, when they altered the contract.
Presley bought the house, on Audubon Drive in East Memphis, in 1956 with earnings from his early recordings. Presley and his family lived in the ranch-style house for 13 months, before moving to Graceland in 1957.
There is no truth to the rumour that before the judge ruled against him, Geller was heard pleading “Don’t Be Cruel,” and on losing the court case, the psychic supposedly said he was “All Shook Up.”
© 2008 Our Strange World
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