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Lisa Marie Presley’s final words at son’s grave

More details are emerging about the haunting last days of Lisa Marie Presley as her daughters’ inheritance is revealed.

New details are emerging about Lisa Marie Presley’s sad final days, the New York Post reports.

The daughter of Elvis Presley died suddenly on January 12 at 54 from cardiac arrest, mirroring her father’s 1977 death.

Just days before her tragic passing, the singer visited her late son Benjamin’s grave on the Graceland estate and expressed her wish to be buried next to him.

Lisa Marie Presley appeared frail and unsteady at the Golden Globes just days before her death. Picture: Getty Images
Lisa Marie Presley appeared frail and unsteady at the Golden Globes just days before her death. Picture: Getty Images

The singer visited the Memphis residence’s Meditation Garden — where both her father, Elvis Presley, and her son are buried — on January 8 with her friend, David Kessler, an expert on grief and loss.

She was at Graceland to celebrate what would have been her late father’s 88th birthday with fans.

“We sat there mostly in silence by Ben’s grave,” Kessler told People.

“She showed me where she’d be buried some day, right across from her father’s grave.”

The Presleys at their family handprint ceremony in Hollywood last June. Picture: Getty
The Presleys at their family handprint ceremony in Hollywood last June. Picture: Getty
Lisa Marie Presley visited Graceland just days before her death. Picture: Getty
Lisa Marie Presley visited Graceland just days before her death. Picture: Getty
The singer, who died aged 54, will be laid to rest near her father Elvis Presley’s grave at Graceland.
The singer, who died aged 54, will be laid to rest near her father Elvis Presley’s grave at Graceland.

“I said, ‘Not for a long time,’” Kessler recalled, adding that Presley, “was like, ‘Nope, I got a lot to do still’.”

“She was very excited about what was coming up. She had such a challenging first and second act of life, and she was about to take on this third act that was so much about helping people,” he added.

Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. Picture: Getty
Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. Picture: Getty
Elvis Presley with his beloved daughter Lisa Marie. Picture: Getty
Elvis Presley with his beloved daughter Lisa Marie. Picture: Getty

A public memorial for Presley is set to be held on January 22 on the front lawn of Graceland. The family noted in a statement that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation.

The iconic Memphis mansion will now be passed down to Presley’s daughters Riley Keough and twins Harper and Finley Lockwood after Lisa Marie blew through her $143m inheritance in 25 years.

Lisa Marie Presley’s life was filled with tragedy, from the death of her father to the passing of her son Benjamin Keough. Picture: lisamariepresley/Instagram
Lisa Marie Presley’s life was filled with tragedy, from the death of her father to the passing of her son Benjamin Keough. Picture: lisamariepresley/Instagram

In 2020, Rolling Stone reported Graceland’s estimated worth to be as much as $US500 million ($A718 million).

Presley was adamant that the property stay in the family.

“Graceland was given to me and will always be mine,” she insisted in 2013. “And then passed to my children. It will never be sold.”

The star’s former husband and father of her twins, musician Michael Lockwood. Picture: AFP
The star’s former husband and father of her twins, musician Michael Lockwood. Picture: AFP

Her twin daughters will not return to the Calabasas home where she suffered her fatal cardiac arrest as they are too traumatised, according to a new report, and are staying with their grandmother, Priscilla Presley.

Throughout their parents’ divorce, the twins lived with their grandmother in LA.

In October their father remarried, to celebrity hairdresser Stephanie Hobgood.

The twins were “grooms women” at their father’s wedding.

Lockwood said, following Lisa Marie death, that the girls were with him.

“Michael had been hoping for a speedy and complete recovery because her children needed her. It is very sad it didn’t turn out that way,” said Joe Yanny, Lockwood’s spokesman.

Presley and Lockwood had been embroiled in a bitter divorce battle.

In 2016, Lockwood lost his bid undo their prenup, but he reopened the case in 2021, demanding Presley pay the $6,500-a-month child support that a court ordered.

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