Lisa Marie Presley kept her dead son's body in the house for two months

The only daughter of legendary singer Elvis Presley was so devastated by the loss of her own child that she kept her son's body in her home for two months after his death.

Page Six reported the explosive revelation ahead of the release of Lisa Marie Presley's upcoming memoir. From here to the great unknown– which she was writing last year when she died aged 54, and which has since been completed by her daughter Riley Keough.

Presley apparently writes in the book that she refused to bury her singer-songwriter son Benjamin Keough for so long after his tragic death by suicide in 2020, partly because she was so heartbroken and partly because she couldn't decide whether to should bury him in Hawaii or with his grandfather at the famous Graceland estate in Memphis.

“My house has a separate casitas bedroom and I put Ben there for two months. There is no law in the state of California that requires the immediate burial of a person,” the excerpt reads. “I found a very compassionate funeral home owner… She said, 'We'll bring Ben Ben to you'.”

Apparently Lisa Marie and her daughter Riley had to maintain a constant temperature of 55 degrees in Benjamin's room to prevent the body from decomposing. At one point, they even invited a tattoo artist to the house so they could get tattoos that matched Benjamin's own.

“Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this poor man to look at her dead son's body, which happened to be right next to us in the casitas,” Riley wrote in her own comment. “I've had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five.”

Her mother seemed to have been fully aware of how bizarre this might have been. “I think it would scare the hell out of anyone else if their son was there like that,” she wrote. “But not me.”

Benjamin was eventually actually buried at Graceland, alongside his grandfather and later, tragically, his mother, after Lisa Marie died of a heart attack last January.