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Lisa Marie Presley used her son's body to get matching tattoos while she kept him in her house two months after death
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Updated 14:49 9 Oct 2024 GMT+1Published 10:34 9 Oct 2024 GMT+1

Lisa Marie Presley used her son's body to get matching tattoos while she kept him in her house two months after death

Lisa Marie Presley had got a matching tattoo with her late son Benjamin as part of her grieving process

Kit Roberts

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Topics: Books, Celebrity, News, Oprah Winfrey, US News, Lisa Marie Presley

Kit Roberts
Kit Roberts

Kit joined UNILAD in 2023 as a community journalist. They have previously worked for StokeonTrentLive, the Daily Mirror, and the Daily Star.

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Lisa Marie Presley got a matching tattoo with her son after his death, her daughter has revealed to Oprah.

The interview comes following the posthumous publication of Presley's autobiography, which was finished by her daughter Riley Keough after her death.

Keough spoke to Winfrey in a special called An Oprah Special: The Presleys - Elvis, Lisa Marie And Riley.

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In the interview Riley revealed that her mom had kept the body of her son Benjamin on dry ice in a guest home for two months following his death in 2020.

Eventually Benjamin was buried at Graceland, where Elvis is buried, with Lisa Marie joining him after her death in 2023.

While Lisa Marie kept Benjamin's body, she also decided to get a tattoo which matched one that he had.

Riley revealed that a tattoo artist had visited them so that she could replicate a tattoo that her son had.

Lisa Marie had kept her son's body preserved for two months (oe Scarnici/Getty Images for Icelandic Glacial)
Lisa Marie had kept her son's body preserved for two months (oe Scarnici/Getty Images for Icelandic Glacial)

Speaking to Oprah, Riley said: "On paper, I can see how this sounds completely insane and absurd but my mom was just very much herself ... she wasn't a crazy lady - she was just herself."

Riley went on to describe how her mom had been anxious about the placement of the tattoo.

She said: "And this was just a moment where she wanted to get his name - she wanted to get a matching tattoo with him on her hand. And the tattoo artist was there ... at my house."

Riley added that her mom 'really wanted the placement to be exactly right'.

Describing the interaction with the tattoo artist, she said: "He's like, 'Okay, do you have any photos?' Kind of a thing. And she was, like, 'No - but I can show you.'"

She added: "And I was just sitting there, like, this is ... I stayed quiet because it's my mom.

Riley Keough described how her mom had gotten a tattoo like one that her son had (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Riley Keough described how her mom had gotten a tattoo like one that her son had (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

"And she - she does what she wants. But it was definitely one of the most, like, absurd moments."

Riley recalled how her mom had told the artist: "My son is here, you know, in the back room. I can show you."

She went on to say that the tattoo artist had been 'very normal about the whole thing' despite the circumstances.

After the artist had left, Riley recalled what she said: "And then when he left I was, like, 'Do you know how crazy that was what you just did?'"

The book also goes into detail about Lisa Marie's relationship with her father, Elvis Presley.

Riley said that her mom 'could sense' that Elvis had been struggling in his latter years, saying: "I think she had a sense many times that he wasn't OK, you know?"

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