By JAMES KELLEHER
URI Geller's dream of turning the first home Elvis Presley owned into a museum dedicated to the paranormal has been dealt a setback nearly as bizarre as the spoon-bending trick that made the Israeli-born psychic famous.
Geller, who thought he had purchased the Memphis property in an eBay auction last month for $905,100, learned on Friday that the sellers had sold the 3,000-square-foot house for an undisclosed sum to a foundation set up by Mike Curb, a music producer
The King of rock'n'roll lived in the house at 1034 Audubon Drive for 13 months before moving to the Graceland estate, in Memphis where he died in 1977.
Now Geller is preparing for a protracted legal fight to get the house back. "We are absolutely, mind-blown angry," Geller said. "Of course we're going to sue."
Geller and his two partners, New York lawyer Pete Gleason and Lisbeth Silvandersson, a Swedish-born jewellery maker, may not be able to pursue a breach of contract claim because eBay maintains real estate auctions on its site are marketing events, and not actual sales.
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