BLUE SUEDE SUSHI
Elvis’s Graceland mansion may be shipped to Japan after £76million makeover row
City chiefs in Memphis, US, and bosses at the Blue Suede Shoes icon’s estate have clashed over public cash
ELVIS’S Graceland mansion could be moved to Japan amid a £76million makeover row.
City chiefs in Memphis, US, object to public cash going on part of the expansion.
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Bosses at the Blue Suede Shoes icon’s estate have threatened to dismantle and relocate it in the Middle or Far East.
Joel Weinshanker, 48, said: “We had an offer ten days ago to move Graceland to Japan.
“We had two offers to move to the Middle East and one to go to China.
“They offered us more profit than we could ever make in Memphis.”
Refit plans include a hangar for Elvis’s planes, a larger visitors’ guesthouse, a club based on his living room and a 6,200-seat indoor arena.
City chiefs agreed to help fund work — but not the arena as they are backing one elsewhere.
Both sides are said to be working on a deal along those lines to save Elvis’s links to the city.
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Mr Weinshanker said: “No matter how famous he got, he always came back to Memphis.”
The 13.8-acre estate has 600,000 visitors a year.
It opened in 1982, five years after Elvis’s 1977 death at 42.
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