Riley Keough will attend a memorial service for her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, on Sunday at Graceland, the renowned Memphis house of her late grandpa, along with her 14-year-old twin sisters and grandmother Priscilla, according to family insiders who spoke to Page Six.
The 33-year-old, an accomplished actress and director, spent the previous year working alongside Lisa Marie to promote the famous film “Elvis,” which was made by Baz Luhrman and starred Austin Butler.
Just four days before Lisa Marie passed away, a mother and daughter were spotted together at the Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood honoring Elvis Presley’s 88th birthday. Bobby Green, the restaurant owner, recalled Riley and her mother sitting “arm in arm” in Elvis’ favorite booth to Page Six.
“The only time they were separated was when Austin sat between them with his arm around them,” said Green. “It was such a loving, family feeling with Austin and Baz. “Hopes were super high for awards season coming up,” Green added.
Now that Lisa Marie has passed away, Riley and the family will no longer be able to enjoy any Oscar nominations. On January 12, just two and a half years after her son Benjamin’s terrible suicide at 27, Lisa Marie, 54, passed away after a cardiac attack.
He and Riley, the kids of Lisa Marie and Danny Keough’s previous marriage were very close. Riley later memorialized her brother by getting his name tattooed on her collarbone and enrolled in a death doula training program to comfort and support those dying and their families.
Riley has established a thriving Hollywood career in recent years, appearing in “Zola,” “The Girlfriend Experience,” and the Starz series “The Terminal List,” among other projects.
She co-directed the film “War Pony,” which took home the prestigious Camera d’Or award for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Riley will soon play a free-spirited ’70s musician in the highly anticipated Amazon adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling book “Daisy Jones & The Six.” She has disclosed how her mother served as an inspiration for the undertaking.
“I was raised by somebody who did their own thing and didn’t care what other people thought. She was inspirational to me,” Riley added.
Riley was born in Santa Monica, California, and was reared in Scientology by her mother and father, Danny, who is reportedly regarded as a sort of church aristocrat because his stepmother Karen Hollander served as the head of the International Celebrity Center for Scientology in Los Angeles. Riley told the Guardian in 2017 that her father does not live a luxurious life.
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“My mother gave me a pretty rich upbringing, but my dad didn’t live that way. And I believe that having seen both sides has been beneficial. She recalled Danny, a musician living in Hawaii and Los Angeles, saying, “My father put mattresses on the floors of his apartments.”
“He resided in trailer parks and cabins. He merely lacked much cash. When I was about eight years old, I told him, “I want to grow up and be poor like you!” He was consuming some cereal. I had no idea how egregiously insulting that was!
Riley resided in Southern California with her mother, including at Neverland Ranch during Lisa Marie’s 1994–1996 marriage to Michael Jackson and at the Scientology headquarters in Clearwater, Florida.
After Lisa Marie passed away, Page Six uncovered how her mother, Priscilla, initially exposed Lisa Marie to Scientology when she was a little child. But Lisa Marie quit the church in 2012 following a dispute with David Miscavige, the leader of the Scientology movement.
Before “blowing” the church in 2007, Mike Rinder, one of the top three Scientology officials, claimed Lisa Marie and her kids had a history of changing their minds about the faith. Rinder informed Page Six that the situation was not binary. The only one who never wavered was Priscilla.
In 2015, Lisa Marie helped her leak a story about how Miscavige had private investigators track his father, Ron, to the Los Angeles Times, according to Rinder, who claimed to have spent hours with Lisa Marie at her LA home.
