Spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller has failed to get a court to uphold an auction bid he made on Ebay for Elvis Presley's house.
Geller sued the former owners of Elvis Presley’s pre-Graceland house after they went back on their commitment to sell it.
Owners Cindy Hazen and Mike Freeman decided not to sell the home after Geller altered terms of the real estate deal so that it was unacceptable. Instead they flogged it to Nashville record producer Mike Curb, who bought the house for $1 million. Geller claimed that the couple had breached an Ebay contract to sell the place.
US District Judge Jon McCalla ruled that the Ebay auction was more of an advertising vehicle than a binding sale. He added that even if it was a contract, Geller and his partners breached it when they altered the closing terms after the sale.
Presley bought the four-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot house in 1956 with his early song royalties. He later
moved to Graceland where he died on the loo in a drug filled state while eating yet another cheesburger. X
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