Benjamin Keough is buried near relatives including his grandfather, Elvis Presley, at Graceland, but his mother had a hard time letting go after he died by suicide in 2020. In posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Maria Presley says she kept the 27-year-old's body on dry ice in a bedroom at their California home for two months after his death, NBC News reports. "There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately," she writes. "I found a very empathetic funeral home owner. I told her that having my dad in the house after he died was incredibly helpful because I could go and spend time with him and talk to him."
"I got so used to him, caring for him and keeping him there," Presley writes. "I think it would scare the living f---ing piss out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me." Presley's daughter Riley Keough, who finished the book after her mother's death in 2023, writes that after a bizarre moment in which a tattoo artist was shown the location of a tattoo on Benjamin's body so she and her mother could get matching ones, "we all got this vibe from my brother that he didn't want his body in this house anymore," People reports. "'Guys,' he seemed to be saying, 'This is getting weird,'" she writes. "Even my mom said that she could feel him talking to her, saying, 'This is insane, Mom, what are you doing?'"
- Keough tells People that what her mother hoped to do in the memoir was to "go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was. To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life." She says that by finishing the memoir, she wants "to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive."
- In the memoir, Presley also shares details about her relationship with Michael Jackson, E! News reports. When they got married in 1994, she was 25 and he was 35. "He told me he was still a virgin," Presley writes. "I think he had kissed Tatum O'Neal and he'd had a thing with Brooke Shields which hadn't been physical apart from a kiss. He said Madonna had tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened. I was terrified because I didn't want to make the wrong move."
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