Almost three months have passed since the death of Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, who left the world in dismay, dying at the age of 54 after cardiac arrest.
A life of music, cinema and a priceless legacy, being the daughter of the so-called ‘king of rock’. A millionaire inheritance of which it is currently known that her daughters -Riley Keough, Lisa Marie’s eldest daughter and born from her relationship with Danny Keough, will be one of the beneficiaries of her will; Together with her twin sisters Harper and Finley, 14, the result of Lisa Marie’s last marriage, with Michael Lockwood, from whom she officially divorced in 2021- they will be the greatest beneficiaries of her.
The three will inherit the famous Graceland estate, watchword of the city of Memphis, valued at 500 million dollars; and that it will be managed by the eldest, Riley, 33 years old. That is, if her grandmother doesn’t prevent it, because Priscilla has already taken the first legal steps to prevent that from happening, starting an unexpected war with her eldest granddaughter, with whom she no longer talks about herself.
Sources close to the family already assured the local media that both only communicate through their lawyers. There is no relationship between grandmother and granddaughter, who would rather have resolved this issue in private. “Riley has been dealing with the loss of her mother and she is devastated to have to face this dispute with a member of her family,” the sources said. In addition, they also ensure that Priscilla is convinced that she has a solid case that will prosper in court. This would have dynamited one hundred percent the relationship between the two.
Even more so since Priscilla would have found an unexpected ally, Michael Lockwood, father of Riley’s little sisters, with whom Lisa Marie lived through a dramatic divorce with financial issues still unresolved to this day. According to People, no one understands that Priscilla joined Lockwood, knowing what her daughter had been through at her side, even going so far as to invite him to the funeral when no one wanted him there. “She came to Memphis uninvited, and with Priscilla’s help she got in,” a friend of Lisa Marie’s tells the publication, “It’s the last thing Lisa Marie would want.”
Proof of Lisa Marie’s pain was the fact that the singer’s first husband, Danny Keough, requested custody of the twins after her death, having acted as a father in their lives in recent years. However, custody of the girls will end up going to her biological father, married to stylist Stephanie Hobgood.
A decision that Riley didn’t understand either, which would only have added fuel to the fire in the conflict with her grandmother. The current managers of the trust are clear that if Lisa Marie left all control to Riley, it would be for a reason: “We talked about it many times before her death, and she always said that she wanted Riley and Ben to be. She never had any doubt that it would be them, that they would take care of everything in the same way that she has. Obviously, when Ben died, everything remained with Riley, “she assured, insisting that the young actress has always been interested in the project and she” knew that one day she would be in charge of everything “.