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Riley Keough shows Oprah Winfrey treasures from Elvis’ black box
Elvis Presley’s oldest granddaughter, Riley Keough, recently showed off some of the King’s most prized possessions and the items he’d typically bring on the road with him inside his black box – which Keough compared to a purse.
“These are special,” commented Oprah Winfrey as she examined some of Elvis’ special items up close while wearing gloves alongside Keough in the first in-depth interview she’s given since her mother Lisa Marie Presley’s death in 2023 at the age of 54. Keough gave Winfrey an intimate look at the famous family’s life and a tour of Graceland in Memphis for “An Oprah Special: The Presleys — Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley,” which will air Tuesday night on CBS.
One of the first items Keough showed Winfrey was his cream-colored 1957 Bible, which had writing inside. She also held up her mother’s golf cart key, which she used to drive around Graceland when she was as young as 4.
“She was a terror. She crashed a few,” joked Keough.
Cracking open Elvis’ black box
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Keough also gave Winfrey a peek inside a large black box that Elvis typically used while traveling.
“You can look inside it,” Keough told Winfrey. “It was sort of his most personal things and nothing’s been touched.”
Inside, Winfrey found Elvis’ green American Express card, which expired in May 1972, as well as a comb that still contained strands of his hair. The black box also contained a Polaroid and scraps of miscellaneous ticket stubs and papers, among other items.
“You could probably sell those for a lot,” said Keough of Elvis’ hair.
Oprah agreed, “Yeah, you could sell that for a lot – that hair right there. Elvis’ comb. Wow. Treasures from Elvis’ black box. Wow.”
Keough is now the sole heir of the famous Graceland estate, where her mother spent part of her childhood and shared the second floor with Elvis. The 35-year-old Emmy-nominated actor and director went on a deep dive into her family’s past while finishing her mother’s memoir, which she titled, “From Here to the Great Unknown.”
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Stream Winfrey’s exclusive hourlong interview with Keough on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. “An Oprah Special: The Presleys — Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley” will stream live on Paramount+ for “Paramount+ with Showtime” subscribers and will be available on demand the next day for “Paramount+ Essentials” subscribers.
The House Ethics Committee, which has been conducting an investigation into sexual misconduct and obstruction allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, scheduled a vote for Friday on whether to release its report, according to three sources with knowledge of the committee’s work.
Hours after President-elect Donald Trump said he planned to nominate Gaetz to be attorney general, Gaetz resigned his congressional seat, effective immediately.
“I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress, to pursue the position of Attorney General in the Trump Administration,” Gaetz said in his resignation letter obtained by CBS News
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that there was about an eight-week period during which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could fill his seat by setting the date for a special election.
Now that Gaetz has resigned, it is unclear whether the panel will vote on releasing the report, since Gaetz is no longer in Congress.
There is precedent in Congress on the Senate side for an ethics committee report to become public after a member resigns from Congress, however. In 2011, this happened when Sen. John Ensign of Nevada resigned amid allegations that he tried to hide an extramarital affair.
But it’s not clear that that would apply to the House, leaving open the possibility that the report on Gaetz would not be released.
In June, the House Ethics Committee released a statement saying it was investigating a range of allegations against Gaetz, including sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and bribery.
Multiple sources at the time told CBS News that four women had informed the House Ethics Committee that they had been paid to go to parties that included sex and drugs, and that Gaetz had also attended. The committee has Gaetz’s Venmo transactions that allegedly show payments for the women.
Gaetz has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has called the committee’s investigation a “frivolous” smear campaign.
Some of the allegations of sexual misconduct under review by the committee were also the subject of a previous Department of Justice probe into Gaetz. Federal investigators sought to determine if Gaetz violated sex trafficking and obstruction of justice laws, but no charges were filed.
The House Ethics Committee resumed its investigation into Gaetz in 2023, following the Justice Department’s decision not to pursue charges against him.
Gaetz has long blamed then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, also a Republican, for the probe. And Gaetz later led the movement to sack McCarthy as speaker.
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