Was Lisa Marie buried at Graceland?
Nearly two weeks after her passing, Lisa Marie Presley has reached her final resting place. The singer, the only child of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, was laid to rest at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. and honored at a public memorial on Jan. 22.
Lisa Marie was 9 when her father died. She was staying at Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours before he died. When she next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.
The actress, 78, opened up about the Presley family's trials and tribulations as of late on TalkTV's Piers Morgan Uncensored, and revealed it was important to her that her final resting place be in the Memphis estate's Meditation Garden. “My feelings [about being buried at Graceland] are great,” she said.
After Lisa Marie's death in 2023, Graceland and her trust were inherited by her daughters, Keough and Harper and Finley Lockwood, a representative for Graceland confirmed to People. Lisa Marie shared Riley with her ex-husband, Danny Keough, whom she divorced in 1994.
Kendall relented but he knew how upsetting it would be for Lisa Marie to place the bracelet on her father herself. So he walked the young girl to the coffin and asked her where she would like the bracelet to go. She pointed to her own right wrist.
Following Lisa Marie Presley's death on Jan. 12, after she was rushed to the hospital for a possible cardiac arrest at age 54, the daughter of the King of Rock and Roll was buried at the Memphis estate like her father and her late son, Benjamin Keough.
LOS ANGELES — Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock 'n' roll icon Elvis Presley, died of small bowel obstruction, the Los Angeles County medical examiner's office ruled.
Priscilla Presley confirms she'll be buried next to ex-husband Elvis after her death: It's 'what I want'
“Riley agrees to allow Priscilla to be buried upon her death in the Meditation Garden of Graceland. The burial location will be at the location closest to Elvis Presley without moving any existing gravesite,” the settlement obtained by Rolling Stone reads.
Keough (Lisa Marie's daughter) agreed to provide as much as $400,000 to pay legal fees Priscilla (Lisa Marie's mother) incurred after her grandmother petitioned a California judge to reject an alleged 2016 amendment to Presley's living trust as “invalid.”
What happens to Graceland when Lisa died?
According to People, Lisa Marie's three daughters – actor Riley Keough, 33, and twins Harper and Finley Lockwood, 14 – will inherit Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the sole heir to her father's estate, which she assumed in 1980 after Elvis Presley's death in 1977.
Elvis' only daughter was valued at about -$10 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, and it has a lot to do with her father's $100 million fortune she inherited at the time of his death. According to Lisa, she ran into financial troubles when she trusted her former business manager Barry Siegel with her cash.
Lisa Marie Presley was the sole heir to the sprawling 13-acre estate following Elvis' death in 1977. Per People, the Memphis mansion will now go to her three daughters, including actor Riley Keough. "Graceland was given to me and will always be mine," she told USA Today. "It will never be sold."
Priscilla was there for Elvis' funeral on August 18, 1977 at Graceland. There were about 80,000 in attendance, according to People. "I was in shock," Priscilla said of the funeral on TODAY in 2018. "You'd see glimpses, you'd see people crying, hysterical, fainting, and that's how impactful it was and still to this day.
Elvis was buried wearing a white suit and a blue shirt, with his signature TCB logo ring brought in by Vernon and a metal bracelet placed, with assistance, by daughter Lisa Marie. A cylinder with Elvis' name, birth and death dates was included for future identification.
The remains sat on our back lot (Hwy. 41 / Cobb Pkwy) until 1989 when it was finally put through a car crusher and hauled off. My friend and I sat there and watched as it was crushed. Other than the VIN, the hearse was identifiable by the number on the lower right-hand side of the rear window.
Elvis was buried at his beloved Graceland estate upon his death in 1977, and his grave sits beside those of his mother Gladys and father Vernon. Lisa Marie Presley, his only child, is also buried at Graceland, beside her son Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020.
Elvis Presley has actually had two graves. After the rock-'n'-roll legend died of heart complications in August 1977, he was buried in a mausoleum in Forest Hills Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn.
Lisa Marie Presley has been laid to rest next to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, in the Meditation Garden at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, ET can confirm. In addition to Lisa Marie and Ben, Lisa Marie's father, Elvis Presley, and his parents, Vernon and Gladys, are also buried in the garden.
The twins were 'grooms women' at their father's wedding. Lockwood said, following Lisa Marie death, that the girls were with him.
What does Lisa Marie Presley's son do?
Lisa Marie Presley suffered a cardiac arrest: The different signs of heart disease in women. Presley was 54 at the time of her death. Heart disease, including heart attacks, are becoming more common in women between 40 and 60, one cardiologist tells TODAY.com.
Judge Lynn Scaduto signed the agreement on Monday, confirming, among other things, that Priscilla, 78, will receive a $1 million lump-sum payment funded by Lisa Marie's $25 million life insurance policy, that her son Navarone Garibaldi will be a beneficiary of Lisa Marie's trust, and to the extent that she has the ...
Priscilla and Elvis' Divorce Settlement
According to Celebrity Net Worth, when Priscilla and Elvis split in 1973, she got a one-time payment of $725,000. On top of that, Priscilla was granted spousal support, child support, 5 percent of Elvis' royalties, and half the money from the sale of their house.
Riley Keough's Net Worth Seems Kind of Complicated Due to the Elvis Estate. Riley just inherited Graceland after her mother Lisa Marie Presley's passing.
