Who Is Priscilla Presley’s Son? All About Navarone Garcia

The love between a mother and son is strong — which is something Priscilla Presley discussed in her 2025 memoir, Softly as I Leave You: Life After Elvis.

In the book, she opens up about her family and children, including her son, Navarone Garibaldi Garcia. There, Presley wrote about helping Garcia through drug addiction and his near-death experience mere days before the death of his sister, Lisa Marie Presley.

Presley and her former partner, music producer Marco Garibaldi, welcomed Garcia four years into their relationship in 1987. While Presley and Garibaldi parted ways for good in 2006 and Garcia no longer has a relationship with his father, he and his mother have remained close.

“I got in trouble more than everybody else, because kids’ parents would find out who my mom was, and they’d want a reason to talk to her,” he told PEOPLE in February 2023. “I wasn’t very comfortable with it.”

Like his older sister and father, Garcia has also launched a music career of his own and has been performing with the band Them Guns since 2012. Here is everything to know about Priscilla Presley’s son Navarone Garcia.

He was born in 1987

Presley gave birth to Garcia in 1987 — over 21 years after her first child, daughter Lisa Marie, was born.

Soon after Garcia’s arrival, an ex of Garibaldi’s called Presley and told her, “[Garibaldi is] not who you think he is.” As Garcia later explained to PEOPLE, “My mom pretty much said, ‘Don’t call here again,’ because she didn’t know what to do with that information.”

Though Presley and Garibaldi never married, they were a couple for over 20 years before splitting in 2006.

He is a musician and performs with the band Them Guns

Like his sister and his father before him, Garcia is also a musician. He was in a band as a teen and formed the group Them Guns in 2012. However, Garcia quickly recognized that a successful career isn’t easy to pull off.

Garcia told PEOPLE, “I thought, ‘OK, I’m going into the family business. I’ll write a song, and then we’ll start touring it.’ I didn’t realize it takes way more than that.”

Garcia found out more about his father’s background in 2017

Growing up, Garcia believed his father was from a wealthy Italian family. But in 2017, he was contacted by a teenager from Brazil who claimed they were “cousins.”

Garcia later earned his dad had come to the United States from Brazil — not Italy — and changed his last name from Garcia to Garibaldi after being told he’d never make it in Hollywood with a Hispanic last name.

After Garcia asked Garibaldi about the name change, his dad replied, “Lose my number,” Garcia told PEOPLE. That was the last time the two spoke.

However, losing a relationship with his father has not stopped Garcia from pursuing a relationship with his father’s family in Brazil. He continued, “I lost one family member, but I gained 20-plus. I have zero regrets.”

He married Elisa Achilli in 2022

On Feb. 15, 2022, Garcia married his longtime girlfriend Elisa Achilli in her home country of Switzerland.

“I never thought I would find a counterpart that is so understanding and supportive,” Garcia told PEOPLE following the nuptials. “She makes everything we do effortless, and I can’t imagine life without her.”

Achilli added, “Navarone is truly the most genuine, sweet and sensitive man I have ever known and I’m so lucky that after four years of long-distance, we can start our life together as husband and wife.”

Presley, who also attended her son’s big day, said of the newlyweds, “They’ve been together for four years and we’ve all have been waiting patiently for this day.”

He once struggled with addiction

Weeks after his older sister Lisa Marie unexpectedly died, Garcia opened up about his own struggles with substance abuse and addiction to PEOPLE, which he said date back to when he was in high school. As a teen, Garcia began using heroin before becoming addicted to fentanyl.

“I was under the impression I was doing heroin, but then it’d turn out to be fentanyl. That was a whole different beast. I became so addicted that I’d need it every 45 minutes,” he told PEOPLE in February 2023.

With the help of his now-wife, Garcia got clean in 2020. He explained, “When COVID happened, I wanted to go [to Switzerland] and see her for more than three or four days. I didn’t want to have to bring a pound of fentanyl with me anywhere I went. I buckled down and said, ‘Let’s see how bad this can get.’ I was pretty much in my bed in the fetal position all day. It feels like a different lifetime, almost. The whole world got a lot better [afterward].”

In a September 2025 interview with PEOPLE, Presley recounted helping Garcia through fentanyl and heroin withdrawal. She said, after his detox from heroin, Garcia has “been sober ever since.”

“I’m really happy for him,” Priscilla added. “He’s in a good place. We made it.”

He has been by fascinated by reptiles since childhood

Music isn’t all that Garcia is passionate about. In 2016, Garcia showcased his collection of reptiles, which includes snakes and lizards, on Vimeo.

“It’s a big passion of mine that I’ve had since I was a little kid,” Garcia said as he introduced his snakes to the camera. He also said of his interest, “Music and reptiles have always been side by side.”

He attended his half-sister Lisa Marie Presley’s funeral at Graceland in January 2023

Garcia was among those who attended the funeral of Lisa Marie in late January 2023. The service was held at Elvis Presley’s Tennessee home Graceland, and Garcia was joined by his mother and Lisa Marie’s surviving children.

After Lisa Marie’s death, Garcia shared a photo of the pair from his childhood in a since-deleted post on Instagram and wrote, “Big sister… i hope you are now at peace and happy with your Dad and your son by your side. I know the past couple years weren’t easy for you, and I wish things had been different between us. regardless, you are my sister and I’m sending love and prayers for your journey home. I still can’t believe this, I’m lost for words. Love you sis. Beijos. 💔.”