Bizarre: Lisa Marie Pressley Kept Dead Son’s Body In Home For Two Months

The late Lisa Marie Pressley’s new memoir has revealed she kept the body of her son Benjamin inside her home for two months after his death.

Her daughters Daisey Jones and Riley Keough completed the new memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” after her mother passed away in January 2023 at the age of 54.

Keough wrote, “My mom had my brother in the house with us instead of keeping him at the morgue.”

“They told us that if we could tend to the body, we could have him at home, so she kept him in our house for a while on dry ice,” added Keough.

Benjamin Keough, the grandson of Elvis Presley, committed suicide in 2020.

Lisa Marie Presley was so heartbroken over her son Benjamin Keough's death that she kept his body at home for two months, according to her new memoir. pic.twitter.com/Fjv4cZAZzT

— TMZ (@TMZ) October 9, 2024

Per Billboard:

Lisa Marie Presley was so overcome with grief following the death of her son Benjamin Keough that she kept his body packed in dry ice in her home for two months. According to NBC, the shocking revelation is included in the new memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, which daughter, Daisy Jones & the Six star Riley Keough, completed after her mother’s death at 54 in January 2023.

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“My mom had my brother in the house with us instead of keeping him at the morgue,” Keough wrote in the book. “They told us that if we could tend to the body, we could have him at home, so she kept him in our house for a while on dry ice.”

Keough said that it was important for her mother — the only child of late rock legend Elvis Presley — to have proper time to say goodbye to her son, who died by suicide in 2020. “The same way she’d done with her dad. And I would go and sit there with him,” she said, noting that California doesn’t have any laws that mandate exactly when a body needs to be buried or disposed of. Keough used archival tapes of her mother’s memories to help finish the book.

“My house has a separate casitas bedroom, and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months,” according to Presley.

Lisa Marie Presley Memoir Reveals Why She Kept Son Benjamin's Body on Dry Ice for 2 Months After His Death pic.twitter.com/PCPbCzI1lQ

— People (@people) October 9, 2024

Per The Express:

Lisa Marie Presley revealed in her new memoir that she kept the body of her son Benjamin Keough in her LA home for two months after his death because she was so heartbroken about his death.

Elvis Presley’s grandson Benjamin took his own life in July 2020, and his mom, who died aged 54 on January 12, 2023 after suffering a cardiac arrest, even let a tattoo artist into her home, so she and his sister Riley Keogh could get ink that matched his, it is also claimed in From Here to the Great Unknown.

In the book, which went on sale today, the actress revealed she had to force herself to “fight” to stay alive for her other kids — Riley, who completed her memoir after she died, and her twin daughters Harper and Finley Lockwood.

Lisa Marie wrote that part of the reason why she did not want to say goodbye to Benjamin right away was because she couldn’t decide whether to bury him in Hawaii or Graceland, the Memphis estate where Elvis is buried.

The actress said that she kept her son in a separate casitas bedroom at her home, adding: “I kept Ben Ben in there for two months. There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately.

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Lisa Marie said she “found a very empathetic funeral home owner”, who took her son to her home after telling her “We’ll bring Ben Ben to you”.

Lisa Marie Presley kept son Benjamin’s body at home for 2 months after his death https://t.co/2ppcUWabfd pic.twitter.com/1Gy7DbSomS

— New York Post (@nypost) October 8, 2024