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How Elvis's daughter kept her dead son's body on ice at home for months and married Jacko because she thought he was 'normal'


When in 2020, Elvis Presley's grandson Ben took his own life at the family's home in California, his mother Lisa Marie processed her grief as perhaps only a member of the Presley clan could do.

In a new memoir by Lisa Marie, which Riley completed after her mother died aged 54 in January last year, the only child of Elvis and wife Priscilla explains how California law didn't require the dead to be buried immediately. Lisa Marie's 'chilly' and painfully insecure mother, Priscilla, whose parents allowed her to start a relationship with Elvis when she was just 14, told her daughter that she was so terrified of putting on weight and losing Presley to another woman when she got pregnant that she'd considered falling off her horse to cause a miscarriage. At 40, following the birth of twins by Caesarean section with fourth husband Michael Lockwood – and the family's move to England where they lived near a Scientology HQ in East Sussex – she became addicted to painkillers, swallowing 80 pills a day.

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