As the sole trustee of her late mother's estate, actress/filmmaker Riley Keough — Elvis Presley's granddaughter and the oldest of Lisa Marie Presley's three daughters — is the owner of Graceland, the Memphis mansion bought by the King of Rock 'n' Roll in 1957.
Lisa Marie's other surviving children, twins Harper and Finley Lockwood, are teenagers, and so unable to serve as trustees of the estate.
Keough's status was affirmed in June 2023 in Los Angeles Superior Court, in a settlement between Keough and her grandmother, Priscilla Presley (Lisa Marie's mother), and Michael Lockwood (Lisa Marie's ex-husband), the father and court-appointed guardian of the twins, who are Keough's half-siblings.
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Lisa Marie Presley died Jan. 12, 2023, at 54. Since her mother's death, Keough — who received a best actress Emmy nomination for her work in the Amazon Prime series "Daisy Jones & the Six" — has been an active promoter of Graceland, hosting a live NBC Christmas special at the mansion that featured such performers as Lana Del Rey and Post Malone.
She also visited Graceland in 2024 for a celebration of Lisa Marie's memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir." Keough, who completed the book after her mother's death, spoke to a sold-out crowd of about 1,600 Presley fans.
During the event — which included a surprise appearance by Priscilla Presley, Keough said Lisa Marie always loved Graceland, because “even though she did lose her father here, I think that she felt a sense of freedom here and actually a sense of closeness to him here… It’s always been a place that’s emotionally complicated because there’s so much joy and closeness here but also there’s loss, as well… But I think that’s the experience for a lot of people who come here.”
John Beifuss is an entertainment writer at The Commercial Appeal. Contact him at john.beifuss@commercialappeal.com.
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