Riley Keough remembers being “trapped” in Elvis Presley’s room with her mother during Graceland tours

Following her mother's death in 2023, Keough is now the sole heir and beneficiary of the estate.

As Elvis Presley's eldest granddaughter, Riley Keough is no stranger to Graceland, his famous Memphis estate. She has spent a lot of time in the villa since she was a child – but not just on purpose.

During her performance on Wednesday Late Night with Seth MeyersThe actress revealed that while visiting the mansion with her mother and brother Lisa Marie Presley and Benjamin Keough, they were often trapped in Elvis' bedroom as they waited for the daily tours of the mansion to end.

“If we didn’t get out before the tours started, we were stuck until like 5 p.m.,” Keough told host Seth Meyers. “Elvis' room and my mother's room are not part of the tour. So we stayed up and had to basically wait and we'll be stuck until the tours are over.”

When Meyers asked what she thought would happen if they walked around, Keough laughed. “It's funny because I think they could have stopped the tours for a second so we could run out, but they never did. They never offered it,” she said.

Keough delved deeper into her most important Graceland memories From here to the great unknownher mother's posthumous memoir, which she helped complete after Lisa Marie's death in 2023.

“Upstairs at Graceland is exactly as Elvis left it, so you can really feel his presence,” Keough writes in the book. “Sometimes we all slept in his bed. My mother loved lying in her father's bed – it made her feel close to him, and we felt that closeness too. But because Elvis' bedroom is not part of the tour and no visitors are allowed up there, if we got up late and the tours had already started, we would be stuck in his room until late afternoon.”

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She continues: “We had employees who would bring food – usually McDonald's – and just hang out all day. Trapped in Elvis’ bedroom.”

To pass the time, Keough and her brother often sat under their grandmother's hairdryer and pretended they were in a salon. Meanwhile, her mother enjoyed browsing through the books on Elvis' shelf.

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“He was clearly looking for a deeper understanding of the world – most of the books had spiritual or self-help titles,” Keough noted. “Elvis underlined sentences and wrote things like 'AMEN!' Seeing the underlinings and the spiritual quest, you got a sense of the fundamental broken feeling he shared with my mother. He was looking for a deeper meaning, for something that she would then look for in her own life too.”

She writes that her mother went “line by line,” looking for meaning in everything Elvis underlined. “Then security knocked on the door and brought us sausage and biscuits, which we ate,” she remembers. “You can still feel him in this room. His spirit is imprinted there.”

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Keough, who shares daughter Tupelo with Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen, is now the sole heir and beneficiary of the estate, which also includes the Graceland residence and the family shares in Elvis Presley Enterprises. Keough's brother Benjamin died by suicide in 2020, and she also has two half-sisters from her mother's marriage to Michael Lockwood.

After Lisa Marie's sudden death, her mother, Priscilla Presley, filed a petition challenging the validity of her daughter's will, which listed Keough as a beneficiary. They later agreed on a settlement agreement that will last until 2023 Vanity Fair The cover story was about Keough paying her grandmother $1 million, plus another $400,000 in legal fees.

Recently, Lisa Jeanine Findley of Kimberling City, Missouri was arrested for allegedly trying to force the Presley family to sell her the Graceland estate. According to the Justice Department, she faces a minimum of two years in prison for aggravated identity theft and a maximum of 20 years for mail fraud.

You can watch Keough talk about the memoir and her time at Graceland in the clip above.

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