Lisa Marie Presley and the Presley Family’s Most Heartbreaking Quotes About Late Benjamin Keough
usmagazine.comRemembering Benjamin. After Benjamin Keough — the late son of Lisa Marie Presley — tragically died by suicide at the age of 27, the Presley family has been candid about navigating their loss.“[Lisa Marie] is entirely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11-year-old twins and her oldest daughter Riley,” the songwriter’s rep, Roger Widynowski, told Us Weekly in a statement in July 2020, confirming Benjamin’s death. “She adored that boy.
He was the love of her life.”The late musician, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, is survived by his mother, father Danny Keough, sister Riley Keough and younger sisters Harper and Finley. (Lisa Marie and ex-husband Danny welcomed Riley and Benjamin in 1989 and 1992, respectively.
Lisa Marie and ex-husband Michael Lockwood later welcomed their twins in 2008.)Before his death, Benjamin was the only grandson of Elvis Presley (who died in 1977) and his ex-wife, Priscilla Presley.
The former couple, who split in 1972, also have three granddaughters from daughter Lisa Marie.“I see a little of [Elvis in Benjamin], but you know, Ben very much is his own person,” the Dallas alum previously told Us in September 2019 of her grandson. “He strives for that so we don’t make a really big deal about it.
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