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you ever had. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, that would be great. let's take this weapon to the farmers' market and raise hell. [ laughter ] >> that's my public service announcement, the way to get rid of a pumpkin. >> jimmy: science bob pflugfelder, thank you so much. [ cheers and applause ] you can see what bob is up to at crunchlabs.com. thanks to tiffany haddish, thanks to guillermo. science bob pflugfelder and olivia rodrigo. apologies to matt damon. "nightline" is next, thank you for watching. happy halloween! this is nightline. >> tonight, stealing graceland. >> i'm all shook up. >> the famed home of all shook up singer elvis presley and his daughter, lisa marie. >> the wild card factor is very much alive and well in this
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family. and alive and well in me. >> almost sold at auction. it was not thoroughly implausible to imagine that graceland might be on the block because of something that lisa marie had done. meet the unlikely hero who foiled what authorities call an audacious swindle. >> i would have remembered notarizing something for lisa marie presley. >> plus martha stewart. like you've never seen her. >> what does it mean to be the first female self-made billionaire in american history? >> the subject of a just dropped documentary delving into the lifestyle gurus decades long career. >> what is more important a marriage or a career? i don't know. >> blazing a trail for some of today's biggest influencers, i think kim kardashian could thank martha stewart. >> a lot of ways, because martha really laid the groundwork for what you could actually build yourself. >> what the self-described perfectionist says about the parts of the film she doesn't
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incredible it almost sounds like a joke. but authorities say it was just one day away from actually happening. here's abc's eva pilgrim through these white gates engraved with music notes. >> one of the most beloved sites in america. graceland. the home of elvis presley. >> people are so enamored of graceland because they're enamored of elvis. and what he represents. >> the magic of the memphis mansion, hallowed grounds for generations of elvis fans, from lovestruck teenagers. >> in the 50s, i did the ultimate vip tour at graceland to tiktokers today, also home for lisa marie presley, the king of rock n roll's only child. >> was his schedule that you would keep. >> 4 a.m. sleep. go to bed 4 or 5. get up at 2 or 3 in the afternoon. >> every moment in her headline grabbing life problems with drugs, her marriages to michael jackson and nicolas cage, the
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tragic suicide of her son and her premature death at 54, fueling the fascination. >> i'm not attracted to mediocrity or normalcy or things like that. i think certain things are. i'm weird. i don't know, i'm whacked. >> the complexities of lisa marie's life laid bare in a new memoir, from here to the great unknown, based on tapes she'd recorded. >> i love my children. i just smother them with so much love and affection. >> the book finished after lisa marie's death by her oldest daughter, riley keough, who keough, an actress known for a starring role in daisy jones in the six. riley telling the ladies of the view about their unusual collaboration. >> it was it was very emotional and the longer i would listen, the more it started to feel like a phone call in a way. and so it was like kind of difficult to stop listening.
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>> but lisa marie's public struggles may have left the presley family vulnerable. >> listen to this crazy story about graceland. >> a court hearing is scheduled for this morning, as elvis's home faces a possible foreclosure sale. >> the family allegedly victims of an elaborate fraud. >> the company said that lisa marie presley used graceland as collateral for a loan. >> we received acclaim from a company saying that lisa presley owed $3.8 million and hadn't paid it had i ever met. >> lisa marie presley did i sign the document? did i notarize it? >> no, no, no, it was not thoroughly implausible to imagine that graceland might be on the block because of something that lisa marie had done when she was in arrears. >> i love coming here. i just i just feel like i can exhale when i'm here. i feel like i can deflate. >> lisa marie, the king of rock and roll's princess, grew up at
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graceland, reveling in the larger than life presence of her father. >> what? i remember him waking me up to do things, you know, like get in the golf cart and go take me, you know, for a ride in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning, or at some point when you probably shouldn't have been doing that. >> after her parents divorced, lisa marie split her time between los angeles, where her mother, priscilla lived, and the memphis mansion. >> any time that she's with priscilla in los angeles, she is dreaming, scheming how to get back to memphis to be with her dad at graceland. >> she was nine years old and visiting graceland when her father collapsed on august 16th, 1977. he was just 42. >> presley was found unconscious in his mansion at about 230, was pronounced dead an hour later. >> shortly after her father died, lisa marie became the sole heir to her father's financially troubled estate, which reportedly at the time was a few million dollars in cash. and of course, graceland. priscilla
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organized elvis's treasure trove of personal belongings. >> everyone recognizes. oh, wow. yeah, this was like bad boy elvis. it is. so this is the original black leather suit that elvis wore during the 68 special. >> she turned graceland into a museum. more than 40 years later, it's still one of the most visited homes in the country you can imagine. >> elvis sitting at the table having dinner. >> in 2004, lisa marie sold 85% of elvis presley enterprises in a $100 million deal. >> when i saw graceland, i said, it's everything. elvis loved golf carts. he had a harley-davidson golf cart, joel weinshenker, the managing partner of elvis presley enterprises, later bought the assets. all of the business of we run, we own, the family is our partner. >> but lisa marie kept graceland the home she loved so much.
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>> the house has, does and always will belong to the family. >> but that ownership would be the basis for an elaborate scheme. >> there are some suspicious minds in tennessee over an attempt to sell elvis presley's beloved home, graceland. >> it didn't seem like the craziest thing ever that maybe at some point in her life, lisa marie had gotten the equivalent of a payday loan to keep things afloat and had put graceland at risk as a result. >> in a bombshell last may, a secret entity named nosy investments claimed lisa marie, using graceland as collateral, had borrowed $3.8 million and never paid it back. so the mysterious company said it was going to auction graceland off nasini investments in private lending, or the company purporting to be, or whoever it was, took out an ad in a newspaper. bradley russell is riley keough's attorney. >> when this document came in, we evaluated it and we had
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reason to suspect maybe it wasn't right. >> riley and russell filed a countersuit. in the lawsuit, riley claims her mother did not borrow anything that the loan documents are forgeries. in a script straight out of hollywood, the investigation into the fraud took traveling far from the iconic memphis mansion, meeting an unlikely savior and yes, a fake notary seal as the potential smoking gun. >> if you consider being famous without all the money behind it, that's me. i'm holly hill, not hollywood. >> kimberly philbrick has been a notary in holly hill, florida for nearly 30 years, living a perfectly normal life. she was about to be cast in a widely different role. >> we sent our private investigator out to find the notary public who allegedly notarized these documents in
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2018 to interview her. >> he asked me if i ever notarized anything for her. i go, i would have remembered notarizing something for lisa marie presley. >> philbrick knew right away something was off. >> the signature was definitely way off. everything was no, no, no, just screaming, this is not right. this is a fraud. >> philbrick swore in an affidavit that wasn't her signature. >> this is the what they showed you that was what they showed me and i. >> yeah, that's not even close to my signature. it's very loop. >> based on philbrick's affidavit, riley's lawyers rushed into court to stop the sale of graceland. a judge issued a temporary injunction the day before it was set to go for auction. it took nearly three more months to find the alleged mastermind. >> the suspect has been charged in a complicated scheme to steal graceland and defraud the family of elvis presley. >> in mid-august, 53 year old lisa finley was arrested in the ozarks. and can you believe
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this? they got her on the same day that elvis died, 47 years earlier. federal prosecutors charging the missouri woman with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. finley has pled not guilty and is in jail awaiting trial. she and her attorneys did not respond to our request for comment. >> i helped protect what was the presley's rights. whatever they owned, i helped protect that, riley says. >> she intends to keep graceland both as a museum and a home, just like her mother would have wanted. she spoke about how special it still is on live with kelly and mark. >> there's just this, like sort of love that just doesn't stop. and i really love that. >> you can feel the vibes as you're there. you're in a family home. it's elvis presley's family home, and you can never shake that. >> our thanks to eva for that.
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for more on this story, watch impact by nightline. stealing graceland. streaming now on hulu. when we come back, lifestyle guru pop culture icon and convicted felon. a new documentary pulls back the curtain on martha stewart's curtain on martha stewart's storied life crohn's symptoms kee out of the picture. now i have skyrizi. ♪ i've got places to go and i'm feeling free ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me ♪ ♪ control is everything to me ♪ and now i'm back in the picture. feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements. skyrizi helped visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining. and with skyrizi, many were in remission at 12 weeks, at 1 year, and even at 2 years. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to.
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>> welcome back. martha stewart has been called the original influencer. her motto, she says, is when you are through changing, you're through. a new documentary captures her many, many ups and downs, emerging in yet another peak of her career. here's abc's deborah roberts. >> what is more important a
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marriage or a career? you tell me, i don't know. >> she gained fame with her focus on perfection. now at age 83. martha stewart basking in a new spotlight. >> what does it mean to be the first female self-made billionaire in american history? >> a new documentary, martha pulling back the curtain, highlighting the highs and the lows of her life and decades long career. stewart, the consummate chameleon building and rebuilding her lifestyle empire from the ground up. >> martha stewart was the first self-made female american billionaire. she is literally the manifestation of the american dream. >> director r.j. cutler, known for films like billie eilish the world's a little blurry and the september issue with anna wintour at the helm for martha, she really was ready to have her
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story told, and no story deserves a big screen treatment more than martha stewart's life story. >> it was a fascinating process interviewing martha because she's not a woman who is prone to self-reflection. >> stewart's life, not always as picture perfect as it seemed, dropping new bombshells in the dock like her infidelities while she's a very young woman on her honeymoon, she felt impulsive and kissed a stranger. >> martha stewart also revealed that she had this brief affair with an irishman that she didn't think her husband was aware of. >> and her heartbreak, her marriage crumbling in 1990 after 29 years. >> she really talks about not only the breakdown of her marriage, but she talks about her mental state of being at the time that her marriage was breaking down. >> mary did just 19, the budding businesswoman getting her start on wall street before creating a catering service.
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>> i said to myself, catering is very ephemeral. you work so hard you get a beautiful celebration and then it's gone. but if you write a book that's well liked, that is forever. >> discovered while working an event for her husband's publishing company, martha stewart, the brand soon taking off with the release of her eponymous how to books. this pivot spawning a lifestyle empire. >> she is someone who really brought back the art of at home entertaining, catering, making things beautiful beyond measure in your home to the masses. >> a lucrative line of home goods, a magazine, tv shows. >> i always had hoped that i would be doing television in conjunction with a magazine that was called synergy. the dirty word in the 1990s, i was considered crazy, but it worked.
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>> all leading up to a publicly traded company in her name. in 1999. >> martha stewart is a visionary and a person whose life story has a tremendous amount to teach us about american womanhood. >> i think kim kardashian could thank martha stewart a lot of ways, really. martha was the first to say the brand is me, and we're going to start there and build from there. >> but a public fall from grace hitting her hard. >> in your wildest dreams, did you ever think that something like this could happen? >> not really. i thought that things were going along just great. and then something like this happens. >> in 2004, stewart, losing control of her company after being convicted of conspiracy, obstruction and making false statements related to an insider trading case. the film, retracing stewart's controversial conviction and the self-described perfectionist not
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sparing the project from her signature shrewdness, telling the new york times this week the film's second half is, quote, a bit lazy and dishing on her distaste for the film's ending, saying i hate those last scenes. >> i think martha was incredibly brave and courageous to trust me to tell her story, and i'm so grateful to her for that. i sent martha a bunch of the rave reviews we received this morning, and told her that so far, hers was the only negative one we had gotten. and i said, martha, you may be good at many things, but it turns out that film criticism appears not to be one of them. and she agreed with me. so i think we're back on the same page. >> stewart, also commenting on a rift with another famous foodie, ina garten on watch what happens live, ina said that they fell out because she moved to connecticut. >> that's not true. >> that's not true. >> martha, don't fall out with people. >> martha. martha feels like she stopped talking after i went to
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jail. >> right? >> the barefoot contessa column, once a longtime staple in the martha stewart living magazine, the so-called beef, causing a stir on social media. >> these two cooking queens have beef. i didn't even know this. but, ina garte you better watch your back, martha. >> right here. >> after her release from prison, the queen of homemaking. rebuilding her brand and image. >> when the pimp's in the crib, ma, drop it like it's hot. drop it like it's hot. drop it like it's hot. >> and unexpectedly joining forces with. drop it like it's hot. rapper snoop dogg sitting together at the 2015 justin bieber comedy central roast. the tv moment introducing her to a younger audience and to one of her most prolific business partners. >> snoop and i made brownies together, and i've used this recipe ever since. as a matter of fact, i ate three of them right before they called and asked me to do this roast. >> and i called the original
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influencer and ever evolving stewart, now boasting 1.7 million tiktok followers. >> good evening. welcome. >> even gracing sports illustrated's cover at age 81. in 2023. now with 100 cookbooks to her name, stewart still in the spotlight and seemingly here to stay. >> this is a story with an extraordinary rise and an extraordinary fall and an extraordinary rise again. >> people are going to understand that martha stewart is a badass who did it on her own and did not stop whenever she had any kind of obstacle thrown in front of her. >> our thanks to deborah for that. martha is streaming on netflix now, and when we come back, ha ha ha ha, stayin alive, stayin alive, meet the moms focusing on helping women stay focusing on helping women stay alive longer and stabbing pain in my hands,
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>> and finally, on this halloween night, it's the zombie apocalypse. a group of connecticut moms dressing up and dancing for a good cause to michael jackson's thriller, raising money for breast cancer research. they appeared on world news tonight last year and raised $80,000 this year in new york city, performing stayin alive by the bee gees, setting their fundraising sights even higher. >> the ghouls on this mom's express have raised over $500,000 for breast cancer research, and we're just getting star
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