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 popular film “Elvis,” which was made by Baz Luhrman and starred Austin Butler.
Only four days before Lisa Marie passed away, a mother and daughter were spotted together at the Formosa Café in West Hollywood honoring Elvis Presley’s 88th birthday. Bobby Green, the owner of the restaurant, recalled Riley and her mother sitting “arm in arm” in Elvis’ favorite booth to Page Six.
Riley Keough, an actor on “The Terminal List,” lost her brother Benjamin Keough and mother Lisa Marie Presley during the past 2.5 years. Here’s what her life is truly like.
The only time they were apart, according to Green, was when Austin sat between them and had his arm around them both. With Austin and Baz, there was such a strong sense of love and family.
Green stated that anticipation for the upcoming awards season was extremely strong.
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 the age of 27, Lisa Marie, 54, passed away after a cardiac attack. Michael 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 in an effort to comfort and support those who are 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 last year took home the prestigious Camera d’Or award for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival. Riley will soon play a free-spirited ’70s musician in the eagerly awaited “Daisy Jones & The Six” adaption on Amazon, which is based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling book.
She has disclosed how her mother served as an inspiration for the undertaking.
“I was reared by someone who followed their own path without much regard for what others thought. She was unquestionably an influence to me, Riley continued.
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, however, live a life of luxury.
“I grew up pretty fortunate with my mother, but my dad didn’t live like that. And I think experiencing both sides has been good. She recalled Danny, a musician who has lived in Hawaii and Los Angeles, saying that her father used to have mattresses on the floors of his apartments. “He resided in trailer parks and cabins. He merely lacked much cash. I told him when I was about eight years old, “I want to grow up and be poor like you!” He was consuming some cereal. I had no idea how egregiously insulting that was!
With her mom, Riley lived in Southern California — notably, during Lisa Marie’s 1994-1996 marriage to Michael Jackson, at Neverland Ranch — as well as the Clearwater, Fla., headquarters of Scientology.
After Lisa Marie passed away, Page Six revealed how her mother, Priscilla, first exposed Lisa Marie to Scientology when she was a young child. However Lisa Marie apparently quit the church in 2012 following a dispute with David Miscavige, the leader of the Scientology movement.
Prior to “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 own father, Ron, to the Los Angeles Times, according to Rinder, who claimed to have spent hours with Lisa Marie at her LA home.
According to Rinder, author of “A Billion Years: My Exodus from Life in the Top Ranks of Scientology,” “She called me from Nashville during the height of the Ron Miscavige crisis.”
Riley is here and wants to talk to you, [Lisa Marie] abruptly remarked, Rinder alleged. “ I need you to take those f-kers down, Riley stated to me over the phone.
“Riley was definitely being supportive of her mother since Lisa Marie was so distressed,” he said of the then-25-year-old.
Rinder is unsure if Riley ever left Scientology, though. He said, “It’s hard to figure these folks out.
Riley’s representative did not respond to requests for comment.
As a matter of fact, Lisa Marie, according to Rinder, may have returned to the church in subsequent years for support in overcoming addiction, especially to the opiates she claimed were prescribed for pain relief after the delivery of her twins.
Riley has remained close friends with a number of the young Hollywood Scientologists she grew up with, including Lillie Price, the daughter of the late Kirstie Alley, and “The Walking Dead” actor Alanna Masterson, despite the fact that Riley has never publicly discussed Scientology.
Lisa Marie’s “auditor,” or counselor, Karen de la Carriere, a former senior Scientologist who worked with the late singer when she was just 10 years old, told Page Six that she believes Riley is still a member of the organization.
“The Church does not comment on parishioners,” a Scientology representative told Page Six. “The loss of Lisa Marie saddens us. During this challenging time, our thoughts are with the family. The Church had a friendly and caring relationship with Lisa Marie.
The fact that Riley has inherited a third of Graceland, which is a phenomenal moneymaker and will remain so forever, is quite alarming. Riley will be surrounded by vultures, according to de la Carriere.
Throughout her sadness, she is being supported by her husband, Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen, whom she wed in Napa, Calif., in February 2015.
The couple first met while filming “Mad Max: Fury Road” in Namibia, Africa, in 2013, and they started dating while doing re-shoots in Australia the following year.
She revealed they had a Hindu ceremony in Nepal, where they were constructing a school, before their US wedding, in an article she published in Vogue Australia last year.
“My hubby is such a lovely person,” she continued. He is composed, dependable, powerful, and sensitive. I’m eager to start a family.
Riley has been very vocal about how much she still misses her brother Ben. She shared a picture of the two of them when they were very young on Instagram on October 21 along with the caption, “You would be 30 today. Happy birthday to my angel and dearest friend. Without you, this world seems odd.