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Left-right: Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley and Benjamin Keough photographed in 2010
Benjamin Keough’s cause of death has been confirmed by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The 27-year-old, who was the son of Lisa Marie Presley and grandson of the late Elvis Presley, was found dead in Calabasas, California, on Sunday.
After an autopsy, his cause of death was listed as a shotgun wound and his form of death was listed as suicide.
After her death, Lisa Marie’s manager said she was “heartbroken, heartbroken and more than devastated.”
“She adored that boy. He was the love of her life,” said Roger Widynowski, adding that he was “trying to stay strong” for his three daughters.
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Benjamin was the younger of the two children Lisa Marie Presley had with her first husband, musician Danny Keough, before their divorce in 1994. The other is Mad Max actress Riley Keough, 31.
Lisa Marie had previously described Keough’s resemblance to her famous father as “just plain weird.”
Images of Keough and her siblings appeared in the 2012 music video for Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous “duet” with Elvis, I love you because.
Her close relationship with her son, whose middle name was Storm, also apparently inspired the title track for her third album, Storm & Grace, released in 2012.
He reportedly signed his own record deal with Universal in 2009, though music was never released.
In 2013 Lisa Marie told the Huffington Post that she was letting Keough do “her thing.”
“I’m going to let him decide when he wants to go out and do what he wants to do,” he said.
Lisa Marie also has 11-year-old twin daughters with her fourth husband, musician, and producer Michael Lockwood, whom she married in 2006 after brief marriages with pop star Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage.
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