At the 11th hour on a Tuesday in May, a judge in Memphis, Tenn., halted the process that could have led to the famous Elvis Presley estate being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The whole episode was surreal and seemed to mark a sad postscript to the death of Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of the King of Rock and Roll, who died 16 months earlier.

“Graceland is part of this community, loved by this community and actually around the world,” Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins said in court. “The loss of the property would be considered irreparable damage.”

The judge issued the order after a Central Florida notary public swore she had never seen the loan documents she had allegedly notarized and which were allegedly signed by Lisa Marie in her presence. That notary, Kimberly Philbrick, said she could never have imagined what the following days and weeks might be like after her name became intertwined with Elvis’ legacy and his famous home, Graceland.

“Where did they get my name from? That’s the million dollar question,” Philbrick told ABC News in his first comments since the Graceland auction story broke. “I don’t know where they got it. I wish I knew where they got it because then I could tell them, ‘Look, I’m a victim in this. You did this to me, too.'”

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Philbrick broke his silence last week in an interview with GMA3 anchor Eva Pilgrim.

“My life was uprooted,” Philbrick said. “My identity was also stolen. That’s what a lot of people seem to forget.”

A former car dealership employee who had also worked in a county office responsible for recording car title deeds, Philbrick found himself in the spotlight when a business entity calling itself Naussany Investments and Private Lending tried to foreclose on Graceland.

Naussany Investments claimed Lisa Marie took out a $3.8 million loan before her death and agreed to use the Memphis landmark and tourist attraction as collateral, according to court documents.

In court filings, Naussany Investments claimed that Philbrick notarized a promissory note and deed of trust, giving the deal at least the appearance of legitimacy.

“I know I didn’t notarize anything for her,” Philbrick said of the late Lisa Marie. “I would have remembered.”

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The notarization, according to Naussany Investments’ records in the lawsuit, took place in Jacksonville, Fla., 90 miles from where Philbrick works as a pharmacy manager in Daytona Beach.

“The only time I’ve actually been to Jacksonville, I think, is when I pass it,” Philbrick said. “I have no reason to go there.”

The files contained what purported to be Philbrick’s official stamp and signature.

“It looks absolutely nothing like my signature,” Philbrick explained.

“It’s like they didn’t even try to make it look good,” she added. “Everything was fraudulent. Everything was made up.”

In May, Naussany Investments sent legal notices to a Memphis newspaper that it intended to sell Graceland “at the front of the Shelby County Courthouse” in downtown Memphis on May 23 “to the highest and best bidder for cash.”

Actress Riley Keough, one of Lisa Marie Presley’s daughters, rushed to stop the auction, sent lawyers to court and put investigators on the case.

That’s when, Philbrick said, she learned her name was tied to Lisa Marie Presley.

“Do you know Lisa Marie Presley?” is what they asked me,” Philbrick said of the investigator who showed up at her workplace one evening. “I thought it was funny.”

She quickly realized it wasn’t a joke.

Philbrick signed an affidavit swearing that she never met Lisa Marie Presley and did not attest to anything for her. Keough’s legal team filed that declaration in Shelby County Chancery Court as part of a request for an injunction.

On May 22, Jenkins, the judge assigned to the case, issued an order halting the auction during an eight-minute hearing. He could not have been clearer in pointing to Philbrick’s statement as the key to his decision to issue a temporary injunction.

“The affidavit filed by Kimberly Philbrick raises serious questions regarding the authenticity of the signature on the deed of trust,” Jenkins said.

Philbrick was not in court that day. In fact, she said she rarely leaves the Daytona Beach area except for the occasional trip to Las Vegas.

She sensed that the situation with Graceland was now behind her. But soon Philbrick’s phone rang off the hook, she said, and some of the callers were Elvis Presley fans angry that Graceland was possibly close to being on the auction block.

Philbrick said even her denials did not satisfy the callers, and some believed she must have been involved.

“That was my 15 minutes of hell,” Philbrick said.

Some friends and family contacted her to tell her she was famous.

“I still live in Holly Hill, not Hollywood,” Philbrick said, referring to the name of her Daytona Beach-area community. “Being famous comes with money.”

In June, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced that the investigation into Naussany Investments and the attempt to sell Graceland was turned over to federal authorities. A grand jury is now investigating the case to see if wire or mail fraud may have been committed.

Philbrick said she plans to testify in the grand jury on Tuesday after being served with a subpoena by the US Postal Inspection Service.

While in Memphis, she said she plans to visit Graceland because she has never been to the city’s famous estate in the Whitehaven section. Lisa Marie is buried near her late father on the 13.8 hectare plot.

“I still have to pay $82 to get in, but I saved Graceland,” Philbrick said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Memphis declined to comment on the investigation.

Naussany Investments, which listed its addresses as post offices in Jacksonville and rural Missouri, had working email addresses in May, but messages sent to those accounts bounced back as of Thursday.

The entity initially told the court in filings that its claim to Graceland was legitimate and that it would submit additional documents to back it up. No such records have been received by the court.

Philbrick said that despite everything she’s learned about Graceland over the past three months, she still has no idea how someone found her name and claimed she was the notary public associated with this mystery.

“This could have been anybody,” Philbrick said. “Why me?”