Elvis Presley’s Graceland was famous around the world—but fame couldn’t pay its bills. After his death, Priscilla Presley and the estate’s executors faced a difficult choice: sell the family home or find a way to keep it.
Step inside Graceland to explore the rooms, the Jungle Room recording sessions, and the financial pressures behind its transformation into a public attraction. Discover how opening the gates in 1982 helped preserve Elvis’s home for his daughter, Lisa Marie—and why visitors were walking through a house where a member of his family still lived.
This Estates & Empires documentary tells the story of the home Elvis left behind and the decisions that gave it a future.
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