• American Airlines is facing backlash for blaming a 9-year-old girl in a hidden camera lawsuit.
• The airline's defense claimed the girl should have seen the phone filming her in the bathroom, court document show.
• Lawyers amended the court record after criticism; American Airlines says it does not blame the child.

American Airlines is facing backlash after saying that a 9-year-old girl should have seen the cellphone filming her in the bathroom in its initial lawsuit defense.

Paul Llewellyn, an attorney for the girl's family, told Business Insider that the airline placing blame on the 9-year-old was "shocking." Llewellyn is representing several families who claim Estes Carter Thompson filmed their children on American Airlines flights in separate civil lawsuits against the airline.

Lawyers for the airline amended the court record to remove the claims of fault placed on the girl.

Thompson, a former flight attendant for the airline, is also facing federal charges of attempted sexual exploitation of children and possession of images of child sexual abuse.

Federal authorities charged Thompson after police say he taped his phone to a toilet seat during a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Boston to film a 14-year-old girl in September 2023. Thompson pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Llewellyn is representing that girl's family in a civil lawsuit against the airline. The lawsuit alleged Thompson used "psychological tricks" to make her think the filming wasn't strange. He is also representing the family of a 9-year-old girl, who says Thompson filmed her in the bathroom during a flight from Texas to Los Angeles in January 2023.

The family of the 9-year-old became aware of the incident after FBI agents informed them that images of their child were found on Thompson's iCloud account, according to the lawsuit.

In a response to the family's complaint, lawyers for America Airlines denied negligence on the part of the airline, claiming that the girl "knew or should have known" that the bathroom was "compromised" because it "contained a visible and illuminated recording device."

The 9-year-old girl's mother said in a statement that the family was both "shocked and angered" by the defense.

"How in good conscience could they even make such a suggestion?" the family said. "American Airlines has no shame."

American Airlines told Business Insider in a statement that it does "not believe this child is at fault, and we take the allegations involving a former team member very seriously."

"Our outside legal counsel retained with our insurance company made an error in this filing," American said in the statement. "The included defense is not representative of our airline and we have directed it be amended this morning."

Llewellyn said that the airline's defense is "not credible" and that "the bell can't be unrung."

"They should never have taken such a position in the first," Llewellyn said.

• Nicole Shanahan took ketamine with Elon Musk and had a sexual encounter in 2021, NYT reported, citing multiple sources.
• Shanahan, a lawyer and RFK Jr.'s running mate, was married to Brin from 2018 to 2023.
• Shanahan and Musk both previously denied having an affair. 

Nicole Shanahan took ketamine with Elon Musk at a private party in 2021 and later told her husband at the time, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, that she had sex with the Tesla CEO, The New York Times reported, citing multiple sources.

The New York Times published an article on Wednesday about Shanahan, a lawyer campaigning as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate for the 2024 presidential election.

The article discussed details of her relationship with Brin, whom she married in 2018 before the pair finalized their divorce in May 2023, and sheds new light on a past allegation that she had an affair with Musk in 2021, which both Shanahan and Musk have denied.

During Shanahan's marriage to Brin, the Times reported that Shanahan partied with Silicon Valley's upper echelon and engaged in recreational drug use that included ketamine and cocaine, citing eight sources as well as documents the publication viewed. Ketamine is a "dissociative anesthetic" that can have some hallucinogenic effects, according to The Drug Enforcement Administration. Ketamine can be legally prescribed under federal law and recent research indicates it could be used to treat depression, but it's also a popular party drug.

Stressors like the COVID-19 pandemic and their daughter's autism diagnosis began weighing on the former couple's marriage, prompting Shanahan to start going out and attending events without Brin, according to the report.

"At a party in early 2021 in Miami, Ms. Shanahan was so intoxicated by drugs and alcohol that she required an IV infusion," the outlet reported.

Three sources told the Times that Shanahan and Musk had an affair in December 2021 during a private party in Miami. They both took ketamine and "disappeared together for several hours," the Times reported, citing four people who had been briefed on the matter and related documents.

Musk said in March 2024 that he takes a "small amount" of ketamine weekly and that he has a prescription.

"Ms. Shanahan later told Mr. Brin that she had had sex with Mr. Musk, three of the people said. She also relayed the details to friends, family and advisers," the Times reported.

Brin filed for divorce from Shanahan one month later in January 2022, citing "irreconcilable differences."

Representatives for Shanahan, Musk, and Brin did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment ahead of publication.

The Wall Street Journal first reported in July 2022 that an "alleged affair" between Shanahan and Musk had created a rift between the Tesla CEO and Brin, whom many considered to have a close and amicable friendship.

Musk denied the affair with Shanahan that July, calling the WSJ report "total bs" in an X post. At the time, Musk's relationship with singer Grimes, with whom he shares three children, had ended.

"This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!" Musk wrote. "I've only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic."

He added in another post: "Haven't even had sex in ages (sigh)."

Musk also posted a photo of himself with Brin, which he said had been taken at the party the previous day (his biographer Walter Isaacson later said that Brin had "tried to avoid" the selfie).

"We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting," The Wall Street Journal said in a statement at the time.

Shanahan also denied any affair, telling People that the speculation was "utterly debilitating."

"To be known because of a sexual act is one of the most humiliating things . . . it was utterly debilitating," she told the outlet. "I remember feeling like everything I had ever worked for was under siege by a press cycle that had no idea what was going on in my life and who I was."

In response to questions from a The New York Times reporter, Shanahan said she was "shocked the NYT is letting you run something like this."

• The US Air Force just released more photos of the B-21 Raider, its newest stealth bomber.
• The long-range aircraft is working through flight testing in California. 
• Pentagon leadership has said it will form the "backbone" of America's future bomber fleet.

The US Air Force on Wednesday published more photos of its newest stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, as the penetrating strike aircraft continues to work through flight testing.

The photos, captured in January and April, show the sleek-looking new bomber in the middle of its testing — consisting of ground testing, taxiing, and flight operations — at California's Edwards Air Force Base. The new images come as the long-range aircraft inches closer to entering service later this decade.

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Andrew Hunter said earlier this month that the B-21's flight test program is "proceeding well" and is on schedule to meet timelines and delivery schedules.

"It is doing what flight test programs are designed to do, which is helping us learn about the unique characteristics of this platform, but in a very, very effective way," Hunter said during testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 8.

The B-21 is the US military's first strategic bomber in more than 30 years. Development began in 2015, and the Pentagon unveiled the Raider to the public in December 2022. Nearly a year later, in November 2023, the aircraft finally embarked on its much-anticipated first flight. Following the success of ground and flight tests, it was cleared to enter low-rate initial production.

The US Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office manages the acquisition program with a strategy of building test bombers "as production-representative as possible," the 412th Test Wing said in a Wednesday statement.

"Rather than a traditional flight prototype approach, B-21 test aircraft are built including mission systems using the same manufacturing processes and tooling for production aircraft," the Wing said, adding that "this approach in development laid the groundwork for production to start more quickly."

The B-21 is expected to enter service in the latter half of the decade. The military has a goal of producing at least 100 of these aircraft. The Raider, US officials say, is slated to incrementally replace the B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers.

Pentagon leadership has stressed that the B-21 will form the "backbone" of America's future bomber fleet. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has praised the aircraft's stealth capabilities, saying that decades of advances in low-observable technology have gone into the bomber's development.

"Even the most sophisticated air-defense systems will struggle to detect a B-21 in the sky," Austin said at the aircraft's unveiling.

Northrop Grumman, which manufactures the bomber, has touted the plane as the "world's first sixth-generation aircraft." It can be armed with standoff and direct-attack munitions and will be able to conduct both conventional and nuclear strikes.

GOP politicians are flocking to Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York to show support, with some hoping for a spot on his presidential ticket.

• In over two years, Ukrainian forces have devastated Russia's Black Sea fleet.
• In lieu of warships, Ukraine uses unmanned drones and anti-ship missiles to thwart Russia's navy.
• The barrage of attacks forced Russia to shift warships away from a prized naval base in Crimea.

Ukraine has inflicted significant damage on the Russian Black Sea Fleet, wrecking many Russian vessels in over two years of war.

Since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainians have destroyed or damaged roughly half of the Russian fleet's warships, including one submarine, per publicly available information.

Without warships of its own, Ukrainian forces have relied on unmanned maritime drones and long-range anti-ship missiles to hammer Russia's naval forces.

Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesman for the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said in a public statement in February that the Russian Navy had about 80 warships at the outset of the war, including large warships, landing ships, submarines, patrol boats, and minesweepers.

"I can say that the Black Sea fleet operations have been greatly complicated, if not paralyzed," Pletenchuk said at the time.

The attacks have allowed Ukraine to resume grain shipments through the Black Sea, which is central to its economy, and forced the Black Sea Fleet to shift warships away from its prized naval homeport in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula.

Several Russian ships that Ukraine claimed to have destroyed have yet to be fully identified, but reportedly among them are Raptor-class patrol boats, a BK-16 high-speed assault boat, Serna-class and Akula-class landing craft, and a Stenka-class patrol vessel.

Here are the Russian warships known to have been sunk or taken out of the fight over the past two years.

March 24, 2022: The Saratov

Commissioned in 1968, the Saratov was a large Alligator-class amphibious landing ship in the Black Sea Fleet. It was reactivated to transport supplies and support the Russian military operations in Syria.

The ship was able to carry about 400 troops, as well as 20 main battle tanks or 45 armored vehicles.

While the warship was docked in occupied Berdiansk in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on March 24, 2022, Ukrainian forces reportedly sank it with a Soviet Tochka-U short-range ballistic missile.

Video of the incident appears to show fire erupting above the wreck of the ship near the port as other Russian warships sail to escape the flames.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAEcRCV6rs?feature=oembed&w=560&h=315]

April 14, 2022: The Moskva

In a significant blow, the Black Sea Fleet lost its flagship, the Moskva, a guided missile cruiser, when it was sunk on April 14, 2022. It marked the first time a Russian flagship was sunk by an enemy since the Russo-Japanese War in the early 1900s.

At the start of the invasion, the Moskva provided air cover for other Russian warships and aided in capturing Snake Island in late February 2022.

Ukraine said it struck the cruiser with long-range Neptune missiles launched from shore.

The 1st video of the Moskva missile cruiser before it sank, if photos posted last night are accurate. It was listing to one side & on fire inside & out, with the area around the bridge burning intensely from what Ukraine says was 2 missile strikes pic.twitter.com/0QpI1tzOrI

— Alec Luhn (@AlecLuhn) April 18, 2022

June 17, 2022: The Vasily Bekh

The Vasily Bekh, a Russian rescue tugboat, joined the Black Sea Fleet in 2017, to provide emergency rescue, tow ships, evacuate maritime crews, and conduct diving operations and survey work. The Russian tugboat was also used to transport ammunition, weapons, and personnel to Snake Island.

But the Russian rescue tug's time in the fleet ended on June 17, 2022. Ukrainian forces said that they struck and "successfully demilitarized" the Vasily Bekh with two Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The attack marked the first time that Ukraine hit a Russian vessel with Western-supplied anti-ship weapons.

October 29, 2022: The Ivan Golubets

The Russian minesweeper Ivan Golubets was reportedly damaged in a "massive attack" on Sevastopol, a key Russian port on the Crimean peninsula.

On October 29, Ukrainian forces launched nine unmanned aerial vehicles and seven naval drones, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Russia claimed the minesweeper only sustained "minor damage," but a senior Ukrainian official told The New York Times that it appears the ship was critically damaged — possibly beyond repair.

Internal Russian reports detailed damage to the Ivan's hull, Forbes reported. Video footage posted to social media by Anton Gerashchenko, then an advisor to Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, captured explosions lighting up the dark sky in Sevastopol harbor.

August 4, 2023: The Olenegorskiy Gornyak

The Ropucha-class tank landing ship Olenegorskiy Gornyak was designed to quickly unload cargo and transport amphibious forces to land. At 360 feet long, Ropucha-class warships can land up to 10 battle tanks and carry up to 350 troops.

On August 4, 2023, the Russian warship was left badly damaged after it was struck by a Ukrainian sea drone armed with explosives — the first of many ships to fall to attack drones that could reach warships out of missile range. Russia acknowledged the attack but claimed that the Olenegorskiy Gornyak was left unharmed. Video footage of the attack suggested otherwise, though.

In the video, the sea drone can be seen zooming toward the landing ship and slamming into the side of it before the feed cuts off after detonating. In the aftermath, the ship was seen listing dangerously in the water.

September 13, 2023: The Minsk

A little over a month later, another Ropucha-class landing vessel was struck on September 13, 2023, while in dry-dock undergoing maintenance at the Sevmorzadov shipyard in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Open-source imagery of the aftermath showed that the Minsk had "almost certainly been functionally destroyed," the UK Ministry of Defense said. A month later, satellite imagery reportedly showed the Minsk had been dismantled.

"The Minsk may be disassembled for spare parts, if there are any left there at all," Ukrainian Navy spokesman Pletenchuk said.

A closer look at the Ropucha-class 'Minsk'. Destroyed during a recent Storm Shadow attack on Sevastopol bay. https://t.co/rC10KD0gJU pic.twitter.com/Q13cPZOSDx

— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) September 14, 2023

September 13, 2023: The Rostov-on-Don

Along with the Minsk, the improved Kilo-class submarine Rostov-on-Don also "suffered catastrophic damage," the UK Defense Ministry said in an intelligence report. The submarine was also undergoing repairs at the Sevmorzadov shipyard when the Ukrainians attacked.

"Any effort to return the submarine to service is likely to take many years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars," the ministry continued.

CIT received exclusive photos of the damaged Russian submarine Rostov-on-Don. They indicate she received two hits, one of which is not visible from the satellite imagery.

1/2 pic.twitter.com/pYJ5n4n07H

— CIT (en) (@CITeam_en) September 18, 2023

November 4, 2023: The Askold

The Russian Navy also lost one of its brand-new warships before it had the chance to even join the Black Sea Fleet.

Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of Ukraine's Air Force, said Ukrainian forces targeted the Zaliv shipyard in Russian-occupied Crimea, causing significant damage to the Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette Askold.

Less than a week later, two more Russian vessels — a Serna-class landing craft and an Akula-class small landing ship — were struck by Ukrainian sea drones, though it was not immediately clear which ships were targeted.

+1 destroyed russian ship.@StratCom_AFU confirmed that an Askold russian ship was destroyed during Saturday’s cruise missile attack on the shipbuilding plant in Kerch. pic.twitter.com/TRhuXkouYx

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) November 6, 2023

Russian media publish a video from Kerch in temporarily occupied Crimea.

Information also appeared that there were at least three strikes on Askold, a Rusaian small missile ship that was to the south of Kerch.

Waiting for official confirmation. pic.twitter.com/bDJJjWoUgZ

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) November 4, 2023

December 26, 2023: The Novocherkassk

To cap off a devastating year for the Russian Navy, Ukrainian forces launched guided missiles at the Ropucha-class landing ship, the Novocherkassk, near the town of Feodosiya in Russian-occupied Crimea in December 2023.

"Russia's fleet is getting smaller and smaller!" Oleshchuk, the Ukrainian air force commander, wrote in a post on Telegram along with footage of the explosion.

A Russian-appointed governor claimed only one person was killed and that just two were injured in the attack, an unlikely outcome since the ship has a crew of about 100 service members. Independent Russian journalists reported dozens were wounded or missing.

January 31, 2024: The Ivanovets

In an overnight operation on January 31, a Ukrainian special military unit sank a small warship, the Ivanovets, with six satellite-controlled naval drones powered by Jet Skis.

The Ivanovets was a Tarantul-class missile corvette armed with supersonic anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.

Video shared by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine appears to show the drone approaching the Ivanovets. Following a massive explosion, the Russian vessel can be seen listing aggressively before descending stern-first into the water.

#працюєГУР

🔥 «Івановєц» на дні ― внаслідок спецоперації ГУР МО  знищено ракетний корабель ворога
 
🔗 https://t.co/b8MQb3KJrk pic.twitter.com/Tu6uuaF2rt

— Defence intelligence of Ukraine (@DI_Ukraine) February 1, 2024

February 14, 2024: The Caesar Kunikov

Ukraine continued its kill streak less than a month later, sinking the Russian landing ship, the Caesar Kunikov, on February 14 with inexpensive sea drones.

In a weird twist of fate, the Ropucha-class warship was named after a Soviet naval officer who was killed on February 14, 1943 — exactly 81 years before the warship bearing his namesake was sunk by Ukrainian MAGURA drones.

According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' general staff, the Caesar was near Alupka, a resort city in Crimea, just miles away from Russian President Vladimir Putin's Olivye palace complex.

Video footage of the attack captured Ukraine's naval drones approaching the Caesar as the crew aboard the ship desperately attempted to defend the landing ship with machine guns. Following a large explosion, the video shows what appears to be a large hole in the side of the ship.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmQCQXfN_SU?feature=oembed&w=560&h=315]

March 5, 2024: The Sergey Kotov

Some Russian warships have taken more than one attempt to sink, like the Russian patrol ship Sergey Kotov.

Ukrainian forces attacked the $65 million vessel three times — in July, August, and September 2023 — before Ukraine's drones successfully sank it on the morning of March 5, 2024.

Russia was planning to use the Kotov as an anti-aircraft missile platform, Andrii Yusov, a Ukrainian intelligence official, told Radio Free Europe.

Video of the attack showed the warship attempting to flee from the exploding sea drones in pursuit. The footage also captured the vessel's crews trying — and failing — to stop the drones with a heavy amount of gunfire.

According to Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence, the Kotov "sustained damage to the stern, starboard, and port sides." At least 13 Russian sailors were killed, and 52 had to be medically evacuated, according to Ukraine.

March 24, 2024: The Yamal and the Azov

Russia's Black Sea fleet took another devastating blow in late March when Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed to have damaged two of Russia's large landing ships in Crimea.

On March 23, Ukrainian forces attacked the Yamal and the Azov — both of which underwent repair in the shipyard just two years prior — in Sevastopol, Russia's major Black Sea port in Crimea.

The attack also targeted a Russian military communications center using at least three Storm Shadow cruise missiles, according to OSINTtechnical project.

In a post on Telegram, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-appointed head of Sevastopol, described the attack as "the largest in recent times."

March 24, 2024: The Ivan Khurs

At first, Ukraine only said the strikes on Russian warships at the end of March damaged the Yamal and the Azov. But two days later, Ukraine's military said two more Russian navy vessels were also struck, including the Ivan Khurs, a Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship.

Launched in 2017, the Ivan Khurs is one of Russia's most sophisticated vessels, making it a prime target for Ukraine to further disable the Black Sea fleet. It is fitted with radar warning receivers and electronic eavesdropping gear and armed with machine guns and mobile air defense systems.

Open-source analysts posted satellite images on Telegram of apparent damage to the Russian spy ship after the Ukrainian missile strike on Sevastopol.

"As for the Ivan Khurs ship, we can confirm the damage to the reconnaissance equipment," Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said, according to Ukrainian media outlet Militarnyi. "That is, in fact, now it is not combat-ready, it cannot perform its intended tasks."

The Ukrainian navy targeted the Ivan Khurs less than a year prior to the March attack. In May 2023, Ukraine launched three explosive-laden sea drones toward the 4,000-ton reconnaissance vessel, which was sailing 75 miles northeast of the Bosphorus Strait.

While the drones got close to the Ivan Khurs and detonated, the ship sustained little to no damage and continued to operate in the western Black Sea, where it was protecting two key pipelines carrying gas from Russia to Turkey.

"The drone had to sail for over [310 miles] in an extremely difficult operation," a senior Ukrainian defense official told Ukrainian news outlet Pravda. "The start of the mission had been delayed due to inclement weather. The connection dropped repeatedly. We couldn't see anything and didn't have control over the drones, so the enemy crew began to repel the attack."

"The connection was eventually restored, and we followed the ship for six hours, waiting until it ran out of ammunition," the official added.

"After about two hours," they said, "it became clear that the ammo hadn't run out. We caught up to the ship at half past midnight, and they kept shooting back at us till around 7 a.m. During the long pursuit, some drones ran out of fuel. Several others sustained damage. But we still managed to reach it." [not sure how necessary this is]

March 26, 2024: The Konstantin Olshansky

The large landing ship Konstantin Olshansky was also caught in the massive missile attack on Sevastopol. The decades-old vessel formerly belonged to Ukraine before it was seized along with much of the Ukrainian navy by Russian forces during its illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Ukraine attacked its former warship using a Neptune anti-ship missile, and the navy said "damage was definitely done" to the amphibious assault ship and "it is not combat-ready now."

"Justice has been restored," the Ukrainian defense ministry wrote on social media.

Pletenchuk told Ukraine's Freedom TV that the former Ukrainian vessel was moored in Sevastopol Bay for nearly a decade, being dismantled for parts, but Russian forces decided to restore it because they were running out of landing ships.

"Within a year, it was restored, but the purpose of these works was to create a falsification in order to report to the Moscow leadership on how they had restored one of their allegedly 'own' large landing ships," the navy spokesman said in March. "This ship was to be used against Ukraine. Therefore, it was decided to hit this vessel with our Neptune."

May 19, 2024: The Kovrovets

In the latest of Ukraine's string of attacks against the Black Sea Fleet, Ukraine reported it destroyed the Project 266M Akvamarin-class minesweeper Kovrovets in an overnight attack over the weekend in the port of Sevastopol.

The Soviet-era vessel could detect mines at depths up to nearly 500 feet and was armed with two 30mm AK-230M naval guns. It featured a high-resolution Lynx radar system.

"The Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with their comrades, continue to bring us closer to victory," the Ukrainian Navy wrote on Telegram.

No information has been released publicly on the Russian sea minesweeper's exact location nor what weapons were used in the attack.

"Another bad day for the russian Black Sea Fleet," Ukraine's Defense Ministry wrote in a post on X.

May 20, 2024: The Tsiklon

One of Russia's most significant losses in its Black Sea fleet also came this past weekend, when Ukraine's navy said it took out the Tsiklon, Russia's last cruise missile carrier based out of Crimea.

The Karakurt-class missile corvette entered service with the Black Sea fleet less than a year ago, in July 2023. It was launched just three years prior at Zalyv Shipyard in Kerch, Crimea.

Ukrainian navy spokesperson Dymtro Pletenchuk said the brand-new corvette never fired a cruise missile while on active service, Reuters reported.

The corvette is capable of launching cruise missiles at sea and ground targets up to 1,500 miles away, according to KCHF.ru, a Russian site covering the Black Sea Fleet.

While Ukrainian forces continue to assess the damage sustained by the small missile carrier, satellite imagery shared on social media appeared to show the sunken Tsiklon.

Pletenchuk told Radio Free Europe Monday that there was a "fairly high probability that there is now not a single carrier of cruise missiles in Crimea."

Editor's note: This list was first published in February 2024 and has been updated to reflect recent developments.

• The company that insisted it owned the rights to Graceland told the AP it is withdrawing its claim.
• Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough had accused the company of fraud and forging documents.
• Just hours after a judge ruled in Keough's favor, the legal battle is over. 

A bizarre legal battle over who actually owns Elvis Presley's Graceland estate came to an end on Wednesday, leaving the iconic site in the hands of the King of Rock and Roll's family.

The company insisting it owned the deed to Graceland said it'll withdraw its claim on the estate, the Associated Press reported.

Hours earlier, a Tennessee court had ruled in favor of Elvis' granddaughter, actor Riley Keough, who had been fighting to keep the property.

Keough became the owner of the 13.8-acre Memphis property and trustee of Promenade Trust, which operates the estate, after her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, died in January 2023.

The saga started when a company called Naussany Investments and Private Lending said it owned the deed to the property and announced plans last week to auction it off.

The company said that Lisa Marie Presley had taken out a $3.8 million dollar loan from Naussany, using the estate as collateral. Naussany alleged it had the right to sell the property for repayment after Presley never paid them back.

But Keough sued Naussany, accusing the creditor of forging the signatures that purportedly gave it the deed to Graceland.

"While the documents bear signatures that look like the signatures of Lisa Marie Presley, Lisa Marie Presley did not, in fact, sign the documents," the lawsuit says.

"These documents are fraudulent," Keough's lawsuit alleges. "Lisa Marie Presley never borrowed money from Naussany Investments and never gave a deed of trust to Naussany Investments."

The lawsuit also argues that Naussany isn't a real company.

"Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC appears to be a false entity created for the purpose of defrauding the Promenade Trust, the heirs of Lisa Marie Presley, or any purchaser of Graceland at a non-judicial sale," the suit continues.

Naussany said in an email to the AP that it would be "withdrawing all claims with prejudice." Naussany told the AP that it was dropping the case because both the loan and a critical document had been filed in another state, meaning the company would have to take legal action in multiple states.

"As the court has now made clear, there was no validity to the claims," a spokesperson for Graceland told Business Insider. "There will be no foreclosure. Graceland will continue to operate as it has for the past 42 years, ensuring that Elvis fans from around the world can continue to have a best in class experience when visiting his iconic home."

Lawyers for Keough declined to comment on the situation.

BI wasn't able to reach Naussany Investments.