Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir is lifting the curtain on how the star grieved the loss of her son Benjamin Keough.
In From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie writes that after Benjamin, whom his family called Ben Ben, died by suicide at age 27 in 2020, she decided to keep his body on dry ice for two months, in a separate casitas bedroom in their home in Los Angeles.
“There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately,” Lisa Marie writes.
Lisa Marie’s daughter Riley Keough, Benjamin’s sister, writes that it was “really important” for her mom to “have ample time to say goodbye to him, the same way she’d done with her dad” Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 when she was 9.
Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley.
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To get Benjamin’s body into the home, Lisa Marie writes she enlisted the help of a compassionate funeral home owner.
“Having my dad in the house after he died was incredibly…
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