More Stories By Dino-Ray. Benjamin Keough, the son of Lisa Marie Presley's and the grandson of Elvis Presley, died on Sunday in Calabasas, Calif. He was 27. According to TMZ, Keough died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Benjamin Storm Keough, the 27-year-old son of Lisa Marie Presley and the grandson of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, was found dead Sunday in Calabasas, California.
Lisa Marie Presley's manager, Roger Widynowski, confirmed the death in a statement, and reported that that Lisa Marie was "beyond devastated" over the death.
"She is completely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11-year-old twins and her oldest daughter Riley. She adored that boy. He was the love of her life," Widynowski said. (Lisa Marie and her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, are the parents of twin girls, Harper and Finley.)
The death of Keough was an "apparent suicide," due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the celebrity news site TMZ, but the cause of death had not been confirmed by official sources by early Sunday evening.
A musician who signed a $5 million recording contract with Universal when he was 17 but apparently released no music commercially, the Tampa-born Benjamin Keough is the younger brother of 31-year-old actress Riley Keough ("Mad Max: Fury Road," "American Honey"). Benjamin and Riley are the children of Lisa Marie and musician Danny Keough, who married in 1988 and divorced in 1994.
Benjamin Keough had visited Memphis in the past, with members of his famous family. On Jan. 8, 2010, with temperatures in the teens and snow lightly falling, Riley and Benjamin Keough cut a five-tier birthday cake during a public ceremony at Graceland in recognition of the 75th anniversary of Elvis' birth.
In 2009, he discussed his recording contract with a British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. "The music will be nothing like Elvis, nothing like him at all," he said.
Nevertheless, Benjamin Keough mostly avoided the limelight, even as fans on social media in recent years made much ado about his resemblance to his world-famous grandfather.
When he did appear in the news, it usually was in connection to his family. For example, as a child in 2002 he was in present at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows on the Big Island of Hawaii when his mother married actor Nicolas Cage.
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