The 27-year-old grandson of Elvis passed away in 2020
Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide which some readers may find distressing.
Lisa Marie Presley had a tattoo artist look at the body of her dead son after keeping him in her house for months after his death.
Her daughter, Riley Keough, revealed the sad anecdote during a recent Oprah interview, having finished her late mum’s memoir which was published on Tuesday (8 October) and recounts this moment.
During the interview, Riley explained how Lisa Marie (the only child of Elvis) kept the body of her brother Benjamin on dry ice in a guest home following his death in 2020.
The 27-year-old died as a result of suicide in 2020 following a long battle with mental health problems.
Writing in From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie didn’t say goodbye to her son straight away, partly due to her being torn on whether he would be buried in Hawaii or at Graceland.
She wrote: “My house has a separate casitas bedroom and 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.
