Lisa Marie Presley was troubled by burying her family in the Graceland “cemetery.”
The late singer, who died at the age of 54 after suffering two heart attacks on January 12, will be buried at his father’s famous Memphis mansion after a memorial service on the front lawn on Sunday. .twenty three)
But for years, she’s believed that the family graves behind Graceland (including those of her father Elvis and son Benjamin Keough, who died at the age of 27 in 2020) will always mark her death. I hated being a reminder.
Her fear was shared in an interview she gave to Playboy magazine in 2003.
She told the publication: How many people remember their destiny, their time of death every day?
“All the graves are lined up and there is a place waiting for me right next to my grandmother.”
Riley Keough, 33, the actress’ daughter of Lisa Marie, revealed through her eulogy read by her stuntman and actor husband Ben Smith-Petersen at her mother’s memorial service. had a daughter.
After the service, there was a procession to Lisa’s final resting place in Graceland’s Meditation Gardens.
The deceased singer’s gray marble sarcophagus is next to her burial site on the same site as her son Benjamin, and a photograph of them was placed in front of the memorial.
Benjamin’s resting place had to be moved slightly to match his mother’s resting place.
Lisa Marie’s body was unveiled to the public at a celebration of life at her family’s mansion and was streamed live at 9 a.m.
Several members of the Presley family died of heart disease. Elvis, who died in 1977 at the age of 42 of an arrhythmia with ventricular fibrillation, a condition in which his heart beats abnormally and then stops.
Lisa Marie’s grandmother, Gladys Love Presley, also died of heart failure at the age of 46, and her grandfather, Vernon Elvis Presley, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 63.
Lisa Marie, a mother of four, bequeathed Elvis’ entire estate when he died in 1977 at the age of 42, and took control of the trust in 1993 at the age of 25.
Elvis was worth just $5 million when he died, but Lisa Marie made millions of dollars by transforming Graceland into a tourist attraction and using his image and legacy by founding Elvis Presley Enterprises. brought.
