Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dead at 54

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Published 15.01.2023
Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dead at 54

Lisa Marie Presley, a singer, Elvis’ solely daughter and a devoted keeper of her father’s legacy, died Thursday after being hospitalized for a medical emergency.

Her demise in a Los Angeles hospital was confirmed by her mom, Priscilla, just a few hours after her daughter was rushed to the hospital after having a medical emergency at house.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley stated in an announcement. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”

A spokesperson for Los Angeles County’s hearth division says paramedics have been dispatched to a Calabasas house Thursday morning following a report of a lady in full cardiac arrest. Property information point out that the 54-year-old Lisa Marie Presley was a resident at that deal with.

Presley, the one little one of Elvis and Priscilla, shared her father’s brooding charisma. She adopted him professionally, releasing her personal rock albums within the 2000s and showing on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley, amongst others.

Her delivery, 9 months precisely after her mother and father’ wedding ceremony, was worldwide news and her background was hardly ever removed from her thoughts. With the discharge, final yr of Baz Luhrmann’s main musical characteristic “Elvis,” Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley had been attending purple carpets, and award reveals alongside stars from the movie.

She was on the Golden Globes on Tuesday, readily available to rejoice Austin Butler’s award for taking part in her father. Just days earlier than, she was in Memphis at Graceland — the mansion the place Elvis lived and died — on Jan. 8 to rejoice her father’s delivery anniversary.

She would later make headlines of her personal. Struggles with medicine and a few very public marriages. Her 4 husbands included Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.

Elvis Presley died in August 1977 when he was simply 42, and she or he was 9 years previous. Lisa Marie was staying at Graceland on the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours earlier than he would collapse and by no means recuperate. When she subsequent noticed him the next day, he was mendacity face down within the lavatory.

“I just had a feeling,” she informed Rolling Stone in 2003. “He wasn’t doing well. All I know is I had it (a feeling), and it happened. I was obsessed with death at a very early age.”

Lisa Marie Presley remembered for her charitable efforts, musical profession

Lisa Marie grew to become concerned in quite a few humanitarian causes, from anti-poverty applications administered via the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation to reduction efforts after Hurricane Katrina. She would obtain formal citations from New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee, for her work.

Presley had two youngsters, actor Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, along with her former husband Danny Keough. She additionally had twin daughters with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.

Benjamin Keough died by suicide in 2020 on the age of 27. Presley was vocal about her grief, writing in an essay final August that she had “been living in the horrific reality of its unrelenting grips since my son’s death two years ago.”

“I’ve dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of nine years old. I’ve had more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime, and somehow, I’ve made it this far,” she wrote in an essay shared with People journal.

“But this one, the death of my beautiful, beautiful son? The sweetest and most incredible being that I have ever had the privilege of knowing, who made me feel so honored every single day to be his mother? Who was so much like his grandfather on so many levels that he actually scared me? Which made me worry about him even more than I naturally would have?” the essay continued. “No. Just no … no no no no …”

Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dead at 54
Lisa Marie Presley poses for her first image, within the lap of her mom, Priscilla, on Feb. 5, 1968, along with her father, Elvis Presley. (AP Photo/Perry Aycock, File)

Lisa Marie grew to become the only inheritor of the Elvis Presley Trust after her father died.

Along with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the belief managed Graceland and different belongings till she offered her majority curiosity in 2005. She retained possession of Graceland Mansion itself, the 13 acres round it and gadgets inside the house. Her son is buried there, alongside along with her father and different members of the Presley household.

After her first album, “To Whom It May Concern,” in 2003, some followers got here out to see her carry out simply out of curiosity given her well-known household, she informed the AP in 2005.

“First, I had to overcome a pre-speculated idea of me,” she stated of the obstacles to changing into a singer-songwriter.

“I had to sort of burst through that and introduce myself, and that was the first hurdle, and then now sing in front of everybody, and then that was the second one, and I’m the offspring of — you know, who I’m the offspring of — I had a few hurdles to get through, no doubt about it,” she continued.

“But the scales never tipped in the other direction too much.”

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“Priscilla Presley and the Presley family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Lisa Marie. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time.” — assertion launched by a household spokesman at Graceland.

 

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