Graceland is in stable palms with Riley Keough.
Since August 2023, the Daisy Jones & the Six actress, 35, has acted because the sole trustee of her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s property and the proprietor of her grandfather Elvis Presley’s beloved Memphis, Tenn., mansion.
“My hope is to proceed what my grandmother [Priscilla Presley] did, after which my mom did, which is solely to protect our household residence,” Riley tells PEOPLE by way of electronic mail for this week’s cowl story.
Keough additionally presides over the sub-trusts of her 15-year-old sisters Finley and Harper Lockwood, Lisa Marie’s daughters from her 2006 to 2021 marriage to ex-husband Michael Lockwood.
This week’s PEOPLE cowl story shares the primary excerpt from Lisa Marie’s memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, which Riley accomplished following her mother’s loss of life at age 54 in 2023 from a small-bowel obstruction that developed after she’d undergone bariatric surgical procedure a number of years prior.
With a view to full the memoir, which she’d promised her mother she’d assist write previous to her loss of life, Riley listened to tapes of reminiscences Lisa Marie recorded.
“As a result of my mom was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was continuously talked about, argued over and dissected,” Riley says “What she wished to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve achieved in ending it for her, is to go beneath the journal headline concept of her and reveal the core of who she was. To show her right into a three-dimensional human being: the perfect mom, a wild baby, a fierce good friend, an underrated artist, frank, humorous, traumatized, joyous, grieving — all the pieces that she was all through her outstanding life. I wish to give voice to my mom in a approach that eluded her whereas she was alive.”
Within the memoir, Lisa Marie talks about dad Elvis’ love and the way a lot she struggled after his loss of life; her romantic relationships; the balm of motherhood; the devastating loss of life of her son Benjamin, Riley’s brother, in 2020; and the redemptive delivery of her granddaughter, Riley’s 2-year-old daughter Tupelo.
“The tapes are an unimaginable portrait of the power of nature that she was,” Riley says. “Relying on the day and her temper, she will sound locked-in or distracted, weak and open or aggravated and closed off, hopeful, indignant, all the pieces. You hear her in all her issues.”
Even about essentially the most wrenching subjects, Riley provides, “There wasn’t a lot we didn’t talk about, and I do know that she knew how a lot I liked her, simply as I understand how a lot she liked me and my brother and sisters. I don’t really feel like she or I left something unsaid, which I really feel profoundly grateful for.”
As Riley readies for public consideration to as soon as once more flip towards her mom’s story, she’s additionally looking forward to the day Tupelo, whom she shares together with her stuntman husband Ben Smith-Petersen, can learn it.
“This is without doubt one of the largest privileges of the entire thing,” Riley says. “Not everybody has a ebook to examine their grandparents. That’s distinctive to our household. And it’s actually a present.”
From Here to the Great Unknown shall be launched Oct. 8 and is offered for preorder now, wherever books are offered.
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