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| HIST | Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir to be released in fall Lisa Marie Presley arrives at the premiere of "Mad Max: Fury Road" at the TCL Chinese Theatre, May 7, 2015, in Los Angeles. A memoir that Lisa Marie Presley had been working on at the time of her death will be published this fall. "Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis's daughter," actor Riley Keough, the eldest of Presley's four children and who helped complete the book, said in a statement released Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. AP FILE PHOTO Posted Saturday, January 13, 2024 6:00 am By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) - A memoir that Lisa Marie Presley had been working on at the time of her death will be published this fall. The book, currently untitled, was completed with the help of actor Riley Keough, the eldest of Presley's four children. "Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis' daughter," Keough said in a statement released Thursday by publisher Random House. "I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one. I'm so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did." Her book is scheduled for release on Oct. 15. Financial terms were not disclosed. Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley and a recording artist in her own right, died almost exactly a year ago at age 54. A coroner's investigation found that the singer-actor died of complications from bariatric surgery years earlier. Lisa Marie is now buried on the grounds of the Graceland family estate in Memphis, Tennessee, where she had been the day her father died in 1977. According to Random House, Lisa Marie had wanted her daughter to assist on her memoir, but Keough had "pushed off the project, feeling that there would be a right time for them to sit down together and finish it." After Presley's death, Keough spent hours listening to tapes her mother had made in preparation for her life story. "Riley knew that it was time for Lisa Marie's voice to be heard," Random House's announcement reads in part. "She listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs at Graceland, just the two of them, a sanctuary from the chaos of her life. About Lisa Marie's complicated relationship with her mother Priscilla. About growing up with the clicking cameras perpetually at the door. About her own wild love stories, and her marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage. About motherhood and the shattering loss of her son, Riley's brother Benjamin Keough, to suicide." Random House is calling the book a "raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir," told mostly through Lisa Marie Presley, "with Riley filling in the blanks from her own memory and those closest to her mother." An audio edition will be read by Keough, along with some excerpts from Lisa Marie's taped recollections. Riley Keough Actor Riley Keough stars in Daisy Jones & the Six and is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley. By Biography.com Editors And Barbara MaranzaniUPDATED: JAN 11, 2024 Getty Images We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. 1989-present Latest News: Riley Keough Is Finishing Her Late Mom’s Memoir Actor Riley Keough is taking up the mantle of continuing the Presley family legacy. She executive produced a Christmas special to honor her famous grandfather Elvis Presley in November. Now, her latest project is completing her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir. “Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis’s daughter,” the 34-year-old actor said in a January 11 statement from publisher Random House. “I was lucky to have had that opportunity, and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one. I’m so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did.” The still-untitled book is due out October 15, 2024. Keough will narrate the audio edition and is finishing the memoir based on audio recordings Lisa Marie left, her own memory, and memories from “those closest to her mother,” according to the release. Before her unexpected death in January 2023 from a small bowel obstruction, Presley had asked Keough to collaborate with her on the project. Riley Keough Is a 2024 Emmy Award Nominee Jump to: • Who Is Riley Keough? • Quick Facts • Parents and Early Life • Showbiz Interest and Modeling Career • Movie and TV Shows • Daisy Jones & the Six • Lisa Marie Presley’s Death and Estate Dispute • Net Worth • Husband and Daughter • Quotes Who Is Riley Keough? Born into an American musical dynasty, actor Riley Keough is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and the granddaughter of the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Elvis Presley. After getting her start as a teen fashion model, she made her film debut in 2010’s The Runaways. Her frequent partnership with director Steven Soderbergh led to a Golden Globes–nominated performance in the television show The Girlfriend Experience, and she has earned praise for roles in American Honey, Zola, and 2023’s Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones & the Six, where Keough contributed lead vocals for her Emmy-nominated role as a 1970s singer-songwriter. Quick Facts FULL NAME: Danielle Riley Keough BORN: May 29, 1989 BIRTHPLACE: Santa Monica, California PARENTS: Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough SPOUSE: Ben Smith-Petersen (2015-present) CHILDREN: Tupelo Storm ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Gemini Parents and Early Life Getty Images Riley Keough’s parents Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough were married until she was 5. Born on May 29, 1989, in Santa Monica, California, Danielle Riley Keough is the daughter of musicians Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough and the eldest grandchild of legendary performer Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. Keough never met the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, who died 12 years before her birth. Keough was 5 when her parents divorced, and she and her younger brother Benjamin split their time between their parents, alternating between her father’s homes in Los Angeles and Hawaii and their mother’s Los Angeles home and Graceland, the Presley family home in Memphis, Tennessee. They also spent periods at Neverland Ranch, the lavish California home of singer Michael Jackson, who Lisa Marie married shortly after her divorce from Danny Keough. Keough would later note that this upbringing, while hectic, had provided her with a balanced world view. As she told The Guardian, “I grew up very privileged with my mother,” she says. “But my dad didn’t live like that. And I think experiencing both sides has been helpful. My father had mattresses on the floor of his apartments. He lived in cabins and trailer parks. He just didn’t have much money.” Elvis Presley's Family Tree by Biography Following her divorce from Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley wed twice more, including a nearly four-month marriage to actor Nicolas Cage and a fourth marriage to music producer and guitarist Michael Lockwood, with whom she had twin daughters, Keough’s half-sisters, Harper and Finley. Elvis Presley’s Family Tree Showbiz Interest and Modeling Career Getty Images Riley Keough modeled for Christian Dior in 2004. Keough’s frequent travels made maintaining a regular school life difficult. She was eventually homeschooled and later dropped out of high school before graduating (a decision she later said she regretted). But she had set her sights on a performing career at a young age, writing and directing movies and plays at home that starred family and friends. Her parents, while supportive, feared the hazards of the entertainment industry, and Keough began modeling in her teens to support herself before beginning her acting career. She appeared in fashion shows for Dolce & Gabbana and Tommy Hilfiger and was named the face of Dior’s Miss Dior Chérie perfume in 2005. Keough continues to model today. In October 2023, she became a house ambassador for Chanel and will be photographed for a 2024 spring-summer collection. Movie and TV Shows Keough made her movie debut in The Runaways (2010), a musical biopic of the 1970s female rock band of the same name, where she played singer Marie Currie to Dakota Fanning’s Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart’s Joan Jett. Additional work followed, including roles in the 2011 film The Good Doctor, then three movies in 2012: Jack & Diane, Kiss of the Damned, and Magic Mike, which marked her first project with director Steven Soderbergh. More drawn to indie films, Keough was initially uninterested in a part in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, eventually accepting a smaller role in the 2015 blockbuster starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. Keough had her first breakthrough role when she reteamed with Soderbergh for the first season of the Starz series The Girlfriend Experience in 2016. Based on an earlier Soderbergh film, the series starred Keough as a law school student intern-turned-high class call girl. She earned critical acclaim for her performance and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television Motion Picture. In 2017, Keough reteamed with Soderbergh a third time, for the comedy Logan Lucky. A self-described “workaholic,” Keough kept busy after her Girlfriend breakout, earning a reputation for her skillful portrayals of middle or lower-class characters often on the margins of society, far from her roots as the scion of a musical dynasty. These included 2016’s American Honey, where she starred as a troubled runaway who joins a traveling sales crew (a role which earned Keough a Film Independent Spirit Award nod). Additional roles tackled other genres, including horror films like It Comes at Night (2017), The House That Jack Built (2018), and 2019’s The Lodge. In a significant departure, Keough starred in Zola (2020), a movie based on A’ziah “Zola” King’s wildly popular viral series of 2015 tweets documenting the troubled meeting between two strippers. Having earned praise for her earlier naturalistic, more restrained roles, Keough went all out, sporting cornrows, spiky fingernails, an exaggerated “blaccent,” and highly sexualized performance as the troubled Stefani, who lures co-star Taylour Paige’s Zola on an ill-fated road trip to Florida in search of a big payday. As director Janicza Bravo told The New York Times, “She’s one of those actors who so effortlessly lands in the feet of her character that it almost seems like it isn’t Keough has also worked behind the camera. In 2017, she formed a production company, Felix Culpa, with producer Gina Gammell. The company has several projects in development, and in 2022, the pair co-directed the film War Pony, a coming-of-age film which follows the lives of two Lakota Indigenous boys on a reservation. The movie premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it won the prestigious Caméra d’Or, awarded to the best first feature. Daisy Jones & the Six Lacey Terrell/Prime Video Riley Keough and Sam Claflin in a scene from Daisy Jones & The Six In spring 2023, just weeks after her mother’s death, Keough stepped into the spotlight for the release of her highest profile project to date, taking on the starring role in the Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones & the Six. A TV adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 best-selling book, the series charts the meteoric rise and fall of a fictitious 1970s rock band, whose turbulent personal relationships (inspired by legendary group Fleetwood Mac) threaten the band’s survival. Despite hailing from a multigenerational musical family, Keough had little musical experience before starting the limited series but was determined to land the part as soon as she heard about it. As she told Vanity Fair: “I know I’m playing Daisy. I just knew it… I didn’t know if they liked me, I hadn’t even talked to them at that stage. The only other time I’ve experienced that is when I met my husband, and I knew a week in that I’m gonna have kids with him and marry him.” Keough and the rest of the cast took singing and musical lessons, playing their own instruments on camera to recreate the fictional band’s Southern California–inspired sound. A companion soundtrack album, Aurora, with music featured in the show, was released in conjunction with the show. In July 2023, Daisy Jones & the Six received nine Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and a nod for Keough for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. These Are the 2024 Emmy Award Nominees Lisa Marie Presley’s Death and Estate Dispute A series of tragedies struck Keough’s family beginning in 2020. That June, her 27-year-old brother Benjamin died by suicide, following a years-long battle with depression intensified by the spotlight and glare of the Presley family legacy. In the subsequent years, both Keough and Lisa Marie Presley publicly shared their grief over Benjamin’s death (Keough even trained as a death doula in an attempt to come to terms with the end of her brother’s life). In January 2023, just days after attending the Golden Globes Awards ceremony where Austin Butler won the Best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture award for his portrayal of her father, Lisa Marie died from a small bowl obstruction at age 54. The singer’s death made headlines again when it was revealed that Keough’s grandmother Priscilla Presley filed a petition challenging her late daughter’s will, which had been amended in 2016 to remove Priscilla as a trustee in place of Keough and her brother. Presley questioned the authenticity of the document, which she alleged was filled with inconsistencies and was never formally witnessed or notarized. Getty Images Priscilla Presley and her granddaughter Riley Keough in 2016 Keough was reportedly deeply upset with the legal challenge and surrounding publicity. The case was settled, pending a judge’s approval, in May 2023. Priscilla Presley released a statement following news of the settlement, noting “I want to make clear that there was never any lawsuit filed against my beloved granddaughter. As a family, we are pleased that we resolved this together. My family and I hope that everyone will grant us the privacy we have needed to properly grieve Lisa Marie and spend personal time together.” Riley Keough Is Upset Over Elvis Estate Drama Riley Keough, Priscilla Presley End Trust Battle The Presley Family Trust Battle Is Finally Over A Los Angeles Superior Court judge officially approved the settlement in early August 2023 and finalized its financial details later in October. Per the terms of the agreement, Keough was named the sole trustee of Promenade Trust, which controls her mother’s estate and the Graceland property. In return for withdrawing her petition challenging Lisa Marie’s will, Priscilla received a $1 million payout, and her adult son (and Keough’s uncle) Navarone Garibaldi Garcia, received a one-ninth share of the trust. Keough now also manages a sub-trust created to safeguard the financial interests of her two teenaged half-sisters. In addition, she agreed to honor her grandmother’s wishes to be buried at Graceland near Presley’s ex-husband, daughter, and grandson. Net Worth Thanks to her busy schedule and numerous film paydays (including a reported $1.5 million for her starring role in 2023’s Daisy Jones & the Six), Riley Keough’s net worth was an estimated $5 million as of May 2023. Riley Keough’s Net Worth Is Complicated... However, this doesn’t account for her inheritance following the untimely death of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, the sole heir to the lucrative estate of Keough’s grandfather Elvis Presley. Although it was reported that Lisa Marie had spent much of her money, she retained ownership of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate in Memphis, as well as a significant stake in the legendary singer’s intellectual property rights. Keough now shares that inheritance (along with partial benefits from a life insurance trust set up by her mother) with her two surviving half-siblings, twins Harper and Finley Lockwood. Husband and Daughter Getty Images Riley Keough and husband Ben Smith-Petersen in May 2016 Riley Keough met Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen in 2012, while filming Mad Max: Fury Road. According to People, the pair began dating the following year, became engaged in 2014, then married in 2015. During the memorial services for Keough’s mother Lisa Marie in January 2023, Smith-Petersen read a message written by Keough, in which she revealed that the couple had welcomed a daughter. Born in August 2022 via a surrogate, Tupelo Storm is named after Elvis’ birthplace and has her late uncle’s middle name. Riley Keough Pays Tribute to Family with Daughter Quotes • Rejection just makes me work harder to prove myself. • At [age] 9, 10, 11, I was making movies all day, and I had a very practical mindset about it all for a child. • I’m just generally trying to be grateful for everything at the moment, trying to operate in love and keep my heart open and give and receive love. • I grew up with, you know, going to the grocery store, and my mom’s on the cover of all the magazines there. And, you know, there were photographers at my school... It was probably similar to how the Kardashians’ kids are growing up now. • If you can take one of the most basic fears away, which is death, you’re living a much more present, fulfilled life. And then, therefore, you’re living. • On her Zola role: Our thought process was if she is going to be this demon, then we need to really make her demonic. It was very collaborative. 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| HIST | Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir to be released in fall Lisa Marie Presley arrives at the premiere of "Mad Max: Fury Road" at the TCL Chinese Theatre, May 7, 2015, in Los Angeles. A memoir that Lisa Marie Presley had been working on at the time of her death will be published this fall. "Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis's daughter," actor Riley Keough, the eldest of Presley's four children and who helped complete the book, said in a statement released Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. AP FILE PHOTO Posted Saturday, January 13, 2024 6:00 am By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) - A memoir that Lisa Marie Presley had been working on at the time of her death will be published this fall. The book, currently untitled, was completed with the help of actor Riley Keough, the eldest of Presley's four children. "Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis' daughter," Keough said in a statement released Thursday by publisher Random House. "I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one. I'm so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did." Her book is scheduled for release on Oct. 15. Financial terms were not disclosed. Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley and a recording artist in her own right, died almost exactly a year ago at age 54. A coroner's investigation found that the singer-actor died of complications from bariatric surgery years earlier. Lisa Marie is now buried on the grounds of the Graceland family estate in Memphis, Tennessee, where she had been the day her father died in 1977. According to Random House, Lisa Marie had wanted her daughter to assist on her memoir, but Keough had "pushed off the project, feeling that there would be a right time for them to sit down together and finish it." After Presley's death, Keough spent hours listening to tapes her mother had made in preparation for her life story. "Riley knew that it was time for Lisa Marie's voice to be heard," Random House's announcement reads in part. "She listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs at Graceland, just the two of them, a sanctuary from the chaos of her life. About Lisa Marie's complicated relationship with her mother Priscilla. About growing up with the clicking cameras perpetually at the door. About her own wild love stories, and her marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage. About motherhood and the shattering loss of her son, Riley's brother Benjamin Keough, to suicide." Random House is calling the book a "raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir," told mostly through Lisa Marie Presley, "with Riley filling in the blanks from her own memory and those closest to her mother." An audio edition will be read by Keough, along with some excerpts from Lisa Marie's taped recollections. Riley Keough Actor Riley Keough stars in Daisy Jones & the Six and is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley. By Biography.com Editors And Barbara MaranzaniUPDATED: JAN 11, 2024 Getty Images We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. 1989-present Latest News: Riley Keough Is Finishing Her Late Mom’s Memoir Actor Riley Keough is taking up the mantle of continuing the Presley family legacy. She executive produced a Christmas special to honor her famous grandfather Elvis Presley in November. Now, her latest project is completing her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir. “Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis’s daughter,” the 34-year-old actor said in a January 11 statement from publisher Random House. “I was lucky to have had that opportunity, and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one. I’m so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did.” The still-untitled book is due out October 15, 2024. Keough will narrate the audio edition and is finishing the memoir based on audio recordings Lisa Marie left, her own memory, and memories from “those closest to her mother,” according to the release. Before her unexpected death in January 2023 from a small bowel obstruction, Presley had asked Keough to collaborate with her on the project. Riley Keough Is a 2024 Emmy Award Nominee Jump to: • Who Is Riley Keough? • Quick Facts • Parents and Early Life • Showbiz Interest and Modeling Career • Movie and TV Shows • Daisy Jones & the Six • Lisa Marie Presley’s Death and Estate Dispute • Net Worth • Husband and Daughter • Quotes Who Is Riley Keough? Born into an American musical dynasty, actor Riley Keough is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and the granddaughter of the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Elvis Presley. After getting her start as a teen fashion model, she made her film debut in 2010’s The Runaways. Her frequent partnership with director Steven Soderbergh led to a Golden Globes–nominated performance in the television show The Girlfriend Experience, and she has earned praise for roles in American Honey, Zola, and 2023’s Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones & the Six, where Keough contributed lead vocals for her Emmy-nominated role as a 1970s singer-songwriter. Quick Facts FULL NAME: Danielle Riley Keough BORN: May 29, 1989 BIRTHPLACE: Santa Monica, California PARENTS: Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough SPOUSE: Ben Smith-Petersen (2015-present) CHILDREN: Tupelo Storm ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Gemini Parents and Early Life Getty Images Riley Keough’s parents Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough were married until she was 5. Born on May 29, 1989, in Santa Monica, California, Danielle Riley Keough is the daughter of musicians Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough and the eldest grandchild of legendary performer Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. Keough never met the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, who died 12 years before her birth. Keough was 5 when her parents divorced, and she and her younger brother Benjamin split their time between their parents, alternating between her father’s homes in Los Angeles and Hawaii and their mother’s Los Angeles home and Graceland, the Presley family home in Memphis, Tennessee. They also spent periods at Neverland Ranch, the lavish California home of singer Michael Jackson, who Lisa Marie married shortly after her divorce from Danny Keough. Keough would later note that this upbringing, while hectic, had provided her with a balanced world view. As she told The Guardian, “I grew up very privileged with my mother,” she says. “But my dad didn’t live like that. And I think experiencing both sides has been helpful. My father had mattresses on the floor of his apartments. He lived in cabins and trailer parks. He just didn’t have much money.” Elvis Presley's Family Tree by Biography Following her divorce from Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley wed twice more, including a nearly four-month marriage to actor Nicolas Cage and a fourth marriage to music producer and guitarist Michael Lockwood, with whom she had twin daughters, Keough’s half-sisters, Harper and Finley. Elvis Presley’s Family Tree Showbiz Interest and Modeling Career Getty Images Riley Keough modeled for Christian Dior in 2004. Keough’s frequent travels made maintaining a regular school life difficult. She was eventually homeschooled and later dropped out of high school before graduating (a decision she later said she regretted). But she had set her sights on a performing career at a young age, writing and directing movies and plays at home that starred family and friends. Her parents, while supportive, feared the hazards of the entertainment industry, and Keough began modeling in her teens to support herself before beginning her acting career. She appeared in fashion shows for Dolce & Gabbana and Tommy Hilfiger and was named the face of Dior’s Miss Dior Chérie perfume in 2005. Keough continues to model today. In October 2023, she became a house ambassador for Chanel and will be photographed for a 2024 spring-summer collection. Movie and TV Shows Keough made her movie debut in The Runaways (2010), a musical biopic of the 1970s female rock band of the same name, where she played singer Marie Currie to Dakota Fanning’s Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart’s Joan Jett. Additional work followed, including roles in the 2011 film The Good Doctor, then three movies in 2012: Jack & Diane, Kiss of the Damned, and Magic Mike, which marked her first project with director Steven Soderbergh. More drawn to indie films, Keough was initially uninterested in a part in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, eventually accepting a smaller role in the 2015 blockbuster starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. Keough had her first breakthrough role when she reteamed with Soderbergh for the first season of the Starz series The Girlfriend Experience in 2016. Based on an earlier Soderbergh film, the series starred Keough as a law school student intern-turned-high class call girl. She earned critical acclaim for her performance and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television Motion Picture. In 2017, Keough reteamed with Soderbergh a third time, for the comedy Logan Lucky. A self-described “workaholic,” Keough kept busy after her Girlfriend breakout, earning a reputation for her skillful portrayals of middle or lower-class characters often on the margins of society, far from her roots as the scion of a musical dynasty. These included 2016’s American Honey, where she starred as a troubled runaway who joins a traveling sales crew (a role which earned Keough a Film Independent Spirit Award nod). Additional roles tackled other genres, including horror films like It Comes at Night (2017), The House That Jack Built (2018), and 2019’s The Lodge. In a significant departure, Keough starred in Zola (2020), a movie based on A’ziah “Zola” King’s wildly popular viral series of 2015 tweets documenting the troubled meeting between two strippers. Having earned praise for her earlier naturalistic, more restrained roles, Keough went all out, sporting cornrows, spiky fingernails, an exaggerated “blaccent,” and highly sexualized performance as the troubled Stefani, who lures co-star Taylour Paige’s Zola on an ill-fated road trip to Florida in search of a big payday. As director Janicza Bravo told The New York Times, “She’s one of those actors who so effortlessly lands in the feet of her character that it almost seems like it isn’t Keough has also worked behind the camera. In 2017, she formed a production company, Felix Culpa, with producer Gina Gammell. The company has several projects in development, and in 2022, the pair co-directed the film War Pony, a coming-of-age film which follows the lives of two Lakota Indigenous boys on a reservation. The movie premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it won the prestigious Caméra d’Or, awarded to the best first feature. Daisy Jones & the Six Lacey Terrell/Prime Video Riley Keough and Sam Claflin in a scene from Daisy Jones & The Six In spring 2023, just weeks after her mother’s death, Keough stepped into the spotlight for the release of her highest profile project to date, taking on the starring role in the Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones & the Six. A TV adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 best-selling book, the series charts the meteoric rise and fall of a fictitious 1970s rock band, whose turbulent personal relationships (inspired by legendary group Fleetwood Mac) threaten the band’s survival. Despite hailing from a multigenerational musical family, Keough had little musical experience before starting the limited series but was determined to land the part as soon as she heard about it. As she told Vanity Fair: “I know I’m playing Daisy. I just knew it… I didn’t know if they liked me, I hadn’t even talked to them at that stage. The only other time I’ve experienced that is when I met my husband, and I knew a week in that I’m gonna have kids with him and marry him.” Keough and the rest of the cast took singing and musical lessons, playing their own instruments on camera to recreate the fictional band’s Southern California–inspired sound. A companion soundtrack album, Aurora, with music featured in the show, was released in conjunction with the show. In July 2023, Daisy Jones & the Six received nine Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and a nod for Keough for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. These Are the 2024 Emmy Award Nominees Lisa Marie Presley’s Death and Estate Dispute A series of tragedies struck Keough’s family beginning in 2020. That June, her 27-year-old brother Benjamin died by suicide, following a years-long battle with depression intensified by the spotlight and glare of the Presley family legacy. In the subsequent years, both Keough and Lisa Marie Presley publicly shared their grief over Benjamin’s death (Keough even trained as a death doula in an attempt to come to terms with the end of her brother’s life). In January 2023, just days after attending the Golden Globes Awards ceremony where Austin Butler won the Best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture award for his portrayal of her father, Lisa Marie died from a small bowl obstruction at age 54. The singer’s death made headlines again when it was revealed that Keough’s grandmother Priscilla Presley filed a petition challenging her late daughter’s will, which had been amended in 2016 to remove Priscilla as a trustee in place of Keough and her brother. Presley questioned the authenticity of the document, which she alleged was filled with inconsistencies and was never formally witnessed or notarized. Getty Images Priscilla Presley and her granddaughter Riley Keough in 2016 Keough was reportedly deeply upset with the legal challenge and surrounding publicity. The case was settled, pending a judge’s approval, in May 2023. Priscilla Presley released a statement following news of the settlement, noting “I want to make clear that there was never any lawsuit filed against my beloved granddaughter. As a family, we are pleased that we resolved this together. My family and I hope that everyone will grant us the privacy we have needed to properly grieve Lisa Marie and spend personal time together.” Riley Keough Is Upset Over Elvis Estate Drama Riley Keough, Priscilla Presley End Trust Battle The Presley Family Trust Battle Is Finally Over A Los Angeles Superior Court judge officially approved the settlement in early August 2023 and finalized its financial details later in October. Per the terms of the agreement, Keough was named the sole trustee of Promenade Trust, which controls her mother’s estate and the Graceland property. In return for withdrawing her petition challenging Lisa Marie’s will, Priscilla received a $1 million payout, and her adult son (and Keough’s uncle) Navarone Garibaldi Garcia, received a one-ninth share of the trust. Keough now also manages a sub-trust created to safeguard the financial interests of her two teenaged half-sisters. In addition, she agreed to honor her grandmother’s wishes to be buried at Graceland near Presley’s ex-husband, daughter, and grandson. Net Worth Thanks to her busy schedule and numerous film paydays (including a reported $1.5 million for her starring role in 2023’s Daisy Jones & the Six), Riley Keough’s net worth was an estimated $5 million as of May 2023. Riley Keough’s Net Worth Is Complicated... However, this doesn’t account for her inheritance following the untimely death of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, the sole heir to the lucrative estate of Keough’s grandfather Elvis Presley. Although it was reported that Lisa Marie had spent much of her money, she retained ownership of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate in Memphis, as well as a significant stake in the legendary singer’s intellectual property rights. Keough now shares that inheritance (along with partial benefits from a life insurance trust set up by her mother) with her two surviving half-siblings, twins Harper and Finley Lockwood. Husband and Daughter Getty Images Riley Keough and husband Ben Smith-Petersen in May 2016 Riley Keough met Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen in 2012, while filming Mad Max: Fury Road. According to People, the pair began dating the following year, became engaged in 2014, then married in 2015. During the memorial services for Keough’s mother Lisa Marie in January 2023, Smith-Petersen read a message written by Keough, in which she revealed that the couple had welcomed a daughter. Born in August 2022 via a surrogate, Tupelo Storm is named after Elvis’ birthplace and has her late uncle’s middle name. Riley Keough Pays Tribute to Family with Daughter Quotes • Rejection just makes me work harder to prove myself. • At [age] 9, 10, 11, I was making movies all day, and I had a very practical mindset about it all for a child. • I’m just generally trying to be grateful for everything at the moment, trying to operate in love and keep my heart open and give and receive love. • I grew up with, you know, going to the grocery store, and my mom’s on the cover of all the magazines there. And, you know, there were photographers at my school... It was probably similar to how the Kardashians’ kids are growing up now. • If you can take one of the most basic fears away, which is death, you’re living a much more present, fulfilled life. And then, therefore, you’re living. • On her Zola role: Our thought process was if she is going to be this demon, then we need to really make her demonic. It was very collaborative. Trying to make her as awful as possible, as offensive as possible, and just truly going all the way. Fact Check: We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn’t look right, contact us! Biography.com Editors Staff Editorial Team and Contributors The Biography.com staff is a team of people-obsessed and news-hungry editors with decades of collective experience. We have worked as daily newspaper reporters, major national magazine editors, and as editors-in-chief of regional media publications. Among our ranks are book authors and award-winning journalists. Our staff also works with freelance writers, researchers, and other contributors to produce the smart, compelling profiles and articles you see on our site. To meet the team, visit our About Us page: https://www.biography.com/about/a43602329/about-usRead full bio | |
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| Father | Danny KEOUGH | |
| Mother | Lisa Marie PRESLEY, b. 1 Feb 1968, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee  d. 12 Jan 2023 (Age 54 years) | |
| Marriage | 3 Oct 1988 [1] | |
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