Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock legend Elvis Presley, has died. She was 54 years old.
The news was announced just hours after he was hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a suspected heart attack at his home.
Her mother, Priscilla, said in a statement, “I am saddened to share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter, Lisa Marie, has passed away. She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”
The only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, Presley shared his father’s brooding charisma – hooded eyes, brash smile, low, sensual voice – and followed him professionally in the 2000s by releasing his own rock albums and taking the stage. Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley among others.
Even forming direct musical ties with her father, she told him about the early death of her mother (and Lisa Marie’s grandmother), Gladys Presley.
His birth, exactly nine months after his parents’ wedding, was international news, and his past was rarely forgotten. With its launch last year The major musical feature of Baz Luhrmann is “ElvisLisa Marie and Priscilla Presley attended red carpets and awards ceremonies with the stars of the movie.
he was there Golden Globes on Tuesdayis ready to celebrate Austin Butler’s award for playing his dad. He was in Memphis, Graceland, the mansion where Elvis lived and died on January 8, just days before, to celebrate his father’s birthday.
She described her performance as “mind-blowing” during a red carpet interview with “Entertainment Tonight.”
“I really didn’t know what to do with myself after seeing it,” Baz Luhrmann told ET of the movie. “It took me like five days to process it because it was so incredible, so timely and so original, yes, I can’t even describe what it means.”
Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was just 42 and 9 years old. Lisa Marie was staying at Graceland at the time, and she remembered kissing him good night hours before she passed out and recovered. The next day she was lying face down in the bathroom the next time she saw him.
“I had a feeling,” he told Rolling Stone in 2003. “
He would later make his own headlines. She struggles with drugs and some very official marriages. Her four husbands included Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
Jackson and Presley were married in 1994 in the Dominican Republic, but the marriage ended two years later and was described by numerous awkward appearances, including an unexpected kiss by Jackson during the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint interview with Diane Sawyer. against allegations that her husband sexually abused a minor.
His other celebrity marriage was even shorter: Cage filed for divorce in 2002 after four months of marriage.
Presley had two children, actor Riley Keough, born in 1989, and Benjamin Keough, born in 1992, with her ex-husband, Danny Keough. She also had twin daughters named Harper and Finley Lockwood from her ex-husband Michael Lockwood in 2008.
Her marriage to Lockwood would have resulted in a quarrelsome and protracted divorce that began in 2016 and was still unresolved when she died despite being declared single in 2021. The fight saw the girls, now 15 years old, placed in temporary protective custody in 2017. Presley and Lockwood later became joint custody, but were still in dispute over the issue, while Lockwood claimed more alimony from Presley.
Presley recently wrote an article in People about the “terrible truth” of her grief after her 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, died by suicide in 2020.
“I have been dealing with death, grief and loss since I was 9 years old. I’ve had more than anyone’s fair share of this in my life, and somehow I’ve made it so far,” he wrote in August.
Lisa Marie became the sole heir to the Elvis Presley Trust after her father died. The Trust, along with Elvis Presley Enterprises, managed Graceland and other assets until it sold its majority stake in 2005.
He retained ownership of Graceland Mansion, the 13 acres surrounding it, and the contents of the house. His son is buried there along with his father and other members of the Presley family.