Presley Family’s Quotes About Ben Keough’s Death: Lisa Marie and More

Benjamin Keough, the son of Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough, died by suicide at age 27 in July 2020. Their family has been remembering him ever since.

“[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,” her rep, Roger Widynowski, told Us Weekly in a statement at the time. “She adored that boy. He was the love of her life.”

Lisa Marie and Danny welcomed Benjamin in 1992, two years before their divorce. Benjamin was the only grandson of Elvis Presley (who died in 1977) and his ex-wife, Priscilla Presley. (Lisa Marie also shares daughter Riley, born in 1989, with ex Danny. She shares twin daughters, Harper and Finley, born in 2008, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.)

Riley recalled the day her brother died in Lisa Marie’s From Here to the Great Unknown memoir, which was released posthumously in October 2024. (Lisa Marie died in January 2023 at age 54.)

Benjamin was throwing a party at his mom’s Calabasas home when he went upstairs “to get a beer,” she wrote. After he was missing for “almost an hour,” Benjamin was found. Both Riley and Lisa Marie wrote about him at length in the book.

Keep scrolling to read all the Presley family’s quotes about the late Benjamin:

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