Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley will be buried at Graceland, the mansion of her father Elvis, a representative for actress Riley Keough, daughter of the late, has said. She will rest next to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020 at the age of 27.
Elvis’ mansion turned Friday into a gathering place for distraught fans of the singer-songwriter, who died of cardiac arrest the day before.
Fans paid tribute to him by writing messages on the stone wall, laying flowers or sharing memories of Elvis Presley’s only child, who was one of the icon’s last touchstones whose the influence endures more than 45 years after his sudden death.
Lisa Marie Presley, 54, died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized for a medical emergency.
The singer didn’t live in Memphis, where she was born, but she often traveled there to celebrate her father’s birthday and to commemorate his death, which stunned the world on August 16, 1977. She was d Elsewhere in Memphis last Sunday for the 88e his father’s birthday.
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A fan lays a bouquet of flowers on the stone wall in front of Elvis’ mansion on Friday.
Angela Ferraro was one of the fans who stopped by Graceland on Thursday night, where the trees on the lawn were adorned with green and red lights. Fans took photos and left flowers at the door on a cool, windy evening.
Mme Ferraro and her fiancé drove 25 minutes from Olive Branch, Mississippi, to pay their respects. Ferraro said she was a fan of Elvis and Lisa Marie music; the couple listened to the song Lights Out of Lisa Marie on the drive to Graceland.
“Elvis died young and so did she. And the death of her son was also very tragic, said Ferraro, 32. It’s hard and it’s devastating. Benjamin Keough, son of Lisa Marie Presley and her first husband, Danny Keough, took his own life in June 2020 at the age of 27.
Lisa Marie became the sole heir to the Elvis Presley Trust which, along with Elvis Presley Enterprises, managed Graceland and other assets, until she sold her majority stake in 2005. She remained the owner of the mansion itself, the 13 acres surrounding it, and the objects inside the house. His son is buried there, along with his father and other members of the Presley family.
A representative for Elvis Presley Enterprises told The Associated Press the mansion was placed in a trust fund for the benefit of her children – she is survived by three daughters, including actress and director Riley Keough. The representative did not give details of the funeral or burial schedule.
Lisa Marie was 9 years old when her father died. She was staying at Graceland at the time and recalled him kissing her goodnight hours before he died. When she saw him again the next day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.
“I had a feeling,” she told RollingStone in 2003. He was not well. All I know is I got it [ce pressentiment] and it happened. I was obsessed with death at a very young age. »
On Thursday, Sancelle Vance, 50, had taken the tour of Graceland, which included a stop in front of Lisa Marie’s old swing and her son’s grave.
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Sancelle Vance, 50, was visiting Graceland when news broke of Lisa Marie Presley’s death.
About an hour and a half later, Mr.me Vance learned of Lisa Marie’s death; the mood at the hotel where she is staying, The Guest House at Graceland, has darkened. Mme Vance, who decided to stop in Memphis on her way to California from Mississippi, said it was “surreal” that she was in Graceland the day Lisa Marie died.
Kristen Sainato and her husband were visiting Memphis from Cleveland when she heard the news of Lisa Marie’s death on Thursday. She wore a black jacket with the famous TCB flash (short for ‘taking care of business in a flash’, Elvis’s motto) on the back and described meeting Lisa Marie at her father’s birthday celebration . Mme Sainato left a bouquet of flowers at the front gate of Graceland, where one of the two planes is named after Lisa Marie.