Lisa Marie Presley will probably be buried at Graceland, the well-known dwelling of Elvis Presley, that on Friday grew to become a gathering place for followers distraught over her demise a day earlier.
The singer-songwriter’s closing resting place will probably be subsequent to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, mentioned a consultant of her daughter and actor Riley Keough.
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Elvis and different members of the Presley household are additionally buried at Graceland.
Followers paid their respects at Graceland’s gates on Friday, writing messages on the stone wall, leaving flowers and sharing recollections of Elvis Presley’s solely youngster.
Lisa Marie was one of many final remaining touchstones to the icon whose affect and significance nonetheless resonates greater than 45 years after his personal sudden demise.
The 54-year-old died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized for a medical emergency.
Two days earlier, she had appeared with her mother Priscilla Presley at the Golden Globe Awardsthe place actor Austin Butler received the very best actor award for portraying her father within the movie Elvis and paid tribute to the 2 ladies.
“Lisa Marie’s closing resting place will probably be at Graceland, subsequent to her beloved son Ben,” Keough’s consultant mentioned.
Benjamin Keough died in 2020 at age 27, a demise dominated a suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner.
Lisa Marie remembered her son in an essay for Individuals journal earlier this 12 months that she posted on Instagram, calling herself “destroyed” by his demise.
‘It is devastating’
A singer-songwriter herself, Lisa Marie didn’t reside in Memphis, the place she was born.
However she made journeys to the town for celebrations of her father’s birthday and commemorations of his demise, which surprised the world when he was discovered lifeless in his Graceland dwelling at age 42 on August 16, 1977.
She was in Memphis simply this previous Sunday, on what would have been her father’s 88th birthday.
Angela Ferraro was amongst these on Thursday night time who stopped by Graceland, the place the bushes within the entrance garden have been adorned by inexperienced and crimson lights.
Followers took images and left flowers on the entrance gate on the chilly and windy night.
Ferraro mentioned she was a fan of Elvis’ music and of Lisa Marie’s — the couple listened to Lisa Marie’s music Lights Out on the drive north to Graceland.
“Elvis died younger, and so did she. And her son, his passing was very tragic as nicely,” mentioned Ferraro, 32. “It is exhausting and it is devastating.”
Lisa Marie grew to become the only inheritor of the Elvis Presley Belief, which — together with Elvis Presley Enterprises — managed Graceland and different property till she bought her majority curiosity in 2005.
She retained possession of the mansion itself, the 13 acres round it and gadgets inside the house.
A consultant from Elvis Presley Enterprises informed The Related Press that the mansion is in a belief that may go to the good thing about her kids — she’s survived by three daughters.
The consultant didn’t have particulars on the timing of a funeral or burial.
Lisa-Marie Presley dies aged 54.
Lisa Marie was 9 when her father died. She was staying at Graceland on the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours earlier than he died.
When she subsequent noticed him, the next day, he was mendacity face down within the toilet.
“I simply had a sense,” she informed Rolling Stone in 2003.
“He wasn’t doing nicely. All I do know is that I had it (a sense), and it occurred. I used to be obsessive about demise at a really early age.”
Followers devastated
Kristen Sainato and her husband have been visiting Memphis from Cleveland when she heard the information of Lisa Marie’s demise on Thursday.
Sainato set down a bouquet of flowers on the entrance gate of Graceland, the place one of many two planes is known as for Lisa Marie.
“These are for Lisa,” she mentioned.
“Everyone seems to be shocked by this. Why? Why did this should occur?” Sainato mentioned, wiping tears from her eyes as she stood in entrance of the stone wall that borders the home-turned museum.
“She deserved an extended, joyful life.”
