Lisa Marie Presley - SECRETS SCANDALS & SORROW

ELVIS' ONLY CHILD DIED SUDDENLY LAST YEAR, BUT HER LEGACY WILL LIVE ON IN A BOMBSHELL-FILLED MEMOIR SHE LEFT BEHIND - COMPLETED BY DAUGHTER RILEY KEOUGH.

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RILEY KEOUGH will never forget how lovely her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, looked on their final evening together. “We had dinner,” the Daisy Jones & the Six actress told Vanity Fair last year. “That was the last time I saw her. I remember thinking about how beautiful she looked, and that was my strongest memory of the dinner.”

Now, more than a year after Lisa Marie’s death from a bowel obstruction, Riley is helping to share her story. The 35-year-old worked to complete a memoir, out this fall, that publisher Random House calls “raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind,” and for which the music scion had recorded “countless hours of breathtakingly vulnerable tape.” Star has seen an unpublished manuscript that lays bare the secrets most thought Elvis Presley’s only daughter had taken to the grave. “Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis’ daughter,” Riley has said. “I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one.” She added, “I’m so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest. In doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did.”

HURT AND HEARTACHE

Lisa Marie was haunted for decades by her birthright, four failed marriages and the demons of childhood trauma, addiction and loss. After the tragic suicide of her only son, Benjamin Keough, at 27 in 2020, she became a virtual recluse — until she was asked to help promote the 2022 film Elvis