TMZ: Benjamin Keough, Elvis Presley's grandson, died due to suicide

Benjamin Keough, Elvis Presley's grandson, died due to an apparent suicide, according to TMZ's report. Keough was the son of Lisa Marie Presley.

Based on TMZ's report, law enforcement sources on Sunday said it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound that led to the demise of Keough in Calabasas, California on Sunday.

Roger Widynowski, a representative for his mother, did not disclose further details about the death of Keough , including the date.

Keough's father was the singer-songwriter Danny Keough. Singer Riley Keough, 31, was his sister.

Resemblance to Elvis

Keough had been known for having a close resemblance to his famous grandfather. Priscilla Presley was Keough's maternal grandmother.

Widynowski, describes Lisa Marie's reaction to her son's death "She is completely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11 year old twins and her oldest daughter Riley. She adored that boy. He was the love of her life."

Lisa Marie was reportedly close to Benjamin. In 2012, she posted on Twitter in 2012 that they bonded over Celtic eternity knot tattoos placed in the same location on Mother's Day.

In the same year, Lisa Marie featured Benjamin and his siblings in a music video for the remake of Elvis' 1954 song "I Love You Because."

"He was at the Opry and was the quiet storm behind the stage!" she told CMT in October 2012, referring to the time they went to the backstage at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. "Everybody turned around and looked when he was over there. Everybody was grabbing him for a photo because it is just uncanny. Sometimes I am overwhelmed when I look at him.”

"He’s doing his own thing right now. I’m going to let him decide when he wants to go out and do what he wants to do," she said in an interview with The Huffington Post in 2013 when she was asked if Keough would enter the music industry.

Elvis

Keough's grandfather, Elvis, became popular for being the “King of Rock and Roll” and one of the dominant performers from the mid-1950s until his death, according to Britannica.

Presley reportedly lived a lethal lifestyle. He spent most of his time in Graceland, his Memphis estate, where he lived nocturnally, eating "greasy foods and a variety of prescription drugs."

His tours declined in the final two years of his life, and his recording career came to halt.

"Presley never seemed confident in his status, never entirely certain that he would not collapse back into sharecropper poverty, and, as a result, he seems to have become immobilized; the man who had risked everything, including potential ridicule, to make himself a success now lived in the lockstep regimen of an addict and recluse. Finally, in the summer of 1977, the night before he was to begin yet another concert tour, he died of a heart attack brought on largely by drug abuse. He was 42 years old," Britannica states.