Priscilla Presley’s Only Son Navarone Is All Grown Up. Here’s What He Does Now

If you guessed the young man in our photo belonged to the King’s family, you were right, with a twist. His mother is the one who made a quick, wordless cameo in the 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun, stepping back into the role of Jane Spencer opposite Liam Neeson more than 35 years after she first played her beside Leslie Nielsen in 1988. “Over 35 years later the laughs continue,” Priscilla Presley wrote on Instagram before the film opened on August 1, 2025, and fans who blinked missed her.

The son is Navarone Garibaldi, Priscilla Presley’s only son and the much younger half-brother of Lisa Marie Presley. He was born on March 1, 1987, which makes him 39 today, and his mother turned 81 in May. He grew up in one of the most watched families in America without ever carrying the Presley name, and his road from a Los Angeles rock stage to a German town hall this fall took a turn few people saw coming.

How Did Priscilla Presley’s Only Son End Up A Garibaldi?

Elvis had been gone for nearly a decade when Navarone arrived. His father is Marco Garibaldi, whom Priscilla met in 1984. They never married, but they spent more than two decades together and raised their boy while Priscilla was busy playing Jenna Wade on Dallas and Jane Spencer in the Naked Gun films.

Navarone chose music over acting. He fronts the Los Angeles rock band Them Guns, singing lead and playing guitar. The band has played West Hollywood’s Viper Room and the Troubadour, two rooms with plenty of rock history of their own. “She likes it,” he told Entertainment Tonight in 2024 when asked what his mother thinks of his songs. “You know she’s used to the best so…”

His love life went the old-fashioned way, long distance included. He proposed to Elisa Achilli on Christmas 2020 after years of dating across an ocean, and the two married on February 15, 2022, at the Schloss Hünigen Hotel in Konolfingen, Switzerland. Priscilla broke the news herself. “Navarone and Elisa are MARRIED!!!” she wrote on Instagram, as Hola! and HollywoodLife both reported, adding, “I couldn’t be happier!” Less than a year later, the family was planning a funeral.

What Really Happened Between Navarone And Lisa Marie?

Lisa Marie was 19 when her baby brother was born, and the two never had the easy closeness fans might imagine. When she died on January 12, 2023, at 54, Navarone posted an old photo of the two of them along with a message that was loving and honest at once. “Big sister… i hope you are now at peace and happy with your Dad and your son by your side,” he wrote, as Entertainment Tonight and Cover Media reported. He admitted their relationship had been strained, wrote that he wished things had been different between them, and signed off, “Love you sis.”

The Los Angeles County medical examiner later found that Lisa Marie died of a small bowel obstruction caused by scar tissue from an earlier bariatric surgery. The son he mentioned was Benjamin Keough, Lisa Marie’s only boy, who died in July 2020 at 27. Her daughter Riley Keough, now 37, became the sole trustee of the family trust, and in 2023 she and Priscilla settled their dispute over it, an agreement that also promised Priscilla a resting place near Elvis in the Meditation Garden at Graceland. Riley has since become a mother herself, to a daughter born in 2022, which made Priscilla a great-grandmother.

Lisa Marie’s twin daughters, Harper and Finley Lockwood, were born on October 7, 2008, and Priscilla marked their 18th birthday last month with a rare family photo. Navarone has stayed close to the girls, and Parade reported they were with him and Priscilla at his 39th birthday party in March. But by the time he lost his sister, he had already survived a fight that nearly took him too.

The Battle He Tried To Keep From His Mother

Navarone has said his drug use started with marijuana in high school and moved on to heroin, and that it did not become a real problem until around 2015. By the worst stretch he was on fentanyl without even knowing how strong it was. “It [got to] where I was using 40 times a day,” he told Entertainment Tonight, in an interview that E! News also carried. “I could feel myself getting closer to the edge of not coming back.”

He hid it from his mother for as long as he could. The breaking point came in 2020, about two weeks after Benjamin Keough was buried, when he went to Priscilla and asked for help. “Mom, I want to get off drugs. I don’t want to do this anymore. I don’t want to hurt you anymore. Will you help me?” she recalled him saying in a 2025 interview with People, which LADbible and Yahoo also reported. He detoxed in her home, and she stayed with him through it. “He stayed at my home and I slept with him every night, and he had withdrawals every night,” she said.

Navarone remembers those nights the same way. “I would need help crawling to the bathroom,” he told ET. “She would be assisting.” Then he added the line that sums up the whole story: “She was amazing the whole way.” There was a relapse months later, and Priscilla took him in again. She told People in 2025 that he has been sober since and is “in a good place,” and in her memoir Softly, As I Leave You she wrote that he rated fentanyl withdrawal a 10 on a scale where heroin had been a 6.5.

What Does Navarone Do Now?

These days he is building a life that is very much his own. Alongside Them Guns, he is a business partner in the streetwear label Navarone by Loranda with designer Lorand Coza, according to HELLO! and Hola!. Earlier this year he also drew headlines for a GoFundMe to buy a commercial oven for an affordable organic pizza business he hopes to run in Los Angeles. When critics asked why a Presley needed crowdfunding, he answered that a famous mother does not mean an open checkbook and that he was putting in his own money, as People reported.

The clearest picture of where he stands came on October 20, when he walked beside his mother through the little town of Baesweiler, Germany, the country where a 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu met a young soldier named Elvis in 1959. She signed the town’s Golden Book before an evening of stories about her life, and then she handed the microphone to her son.

“Hello everyone,” Navarone said, according to HELLO! and Hola!. “I’m just happy to be traveling with my mom.” For a man who once hid his worst years from her, it was a simple thing to say. “Thank you for the welcome as well,” he added. “Everyone’s been so kind to both of us.”