Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis, dies at 54

By Associated Press

Lisa Marie Presley, the one baby of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter devoted to her father’s legacy, died Thursday after being hospitalized for a medical emergency. She was 54.

Her demise in a Los Angeles hospital was confirmed by her mom, Priscilla, a couple of hours after her daughter was rushed to the hospital by paramedics after a medical episode at her dwelling.

“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.”

Presley shared her father’s brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and adopted him professionally, releasing her personal rock albums within the 2000s, and showing on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley amongst others.

She even fashioned direct musical ties along with her father, becoming a member of her voice to such Elvis recordings as “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy,” a mournful ballad which had reminded him of the early demise of his mom (and Lisa Marie’s grandmother), Gladys Presley.

“It’s been all my life,” she informed The Associated Press in 2012, talking of her father’s affect. “It’s not something that I now listen to and it’s different. Although I might listen closer. I remain consistent on the fact that I’ve always been an admirer. He’s always influenced me.”

Her delivery, 9 months precisely after her dad and mom’ marriage ceremony, was worldwide information and her background was not often 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 crimson 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.

Presley lived along with her mom, an actor identified for “Dallas” and the “Naked Gun” films, in California after her dad and mom cut up up in 1973. She recalled early recollections of her dad throughout her visits to Graceland, using golf carts by the neighborhood and seeing his every day entrances down the steps.

“He was always fully, fully geared up. You’d never see him in his pajamas coming down the steps, ever,” she informed The Associated Press in 2012. “You’d never see him in anything but ‘ready to be seen’ attire.”
Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was simply 42, and she or he 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 rest room.

“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.”

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

Jackson and Presley had been married within the Dominican Republic in 1994, however the marriage ended two years later and was outlined by quite a few awkward public appearances, together with an sudden kiss from Jackson through the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint interview with Diane Sawyer when she defended her husband towards allegations he had sexually abused a minor.

Her different superstar marriage was even shorter: Cage filed for divorce after 4 months of marriage in 2002.

“I had to sort of run into many walls and trees,” she informed the AP in 2012. “But now I can also look back at it and tell you all the stuff that was going on around me and all the different people around me and all the awww — and it was not a good situation anyway. That wasn’t helping. Either way, it was a growing process. It was just in a different way. It was just out in front of everybody all the time. Because it’s all documented of course.”

Lisa Marie turned concerned in quite a few humanitarian causes, from anti-poverty packages administered by the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation to aid 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, born in 1989, and Benjamin Keough, born in 1992, along with her former husband Danny Keough. She additionally had twin daughters, Harper and Finley Lockwood, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood in 2008.

Her marriage to Lockwood would finish in a combative and protracted divorce that started in 2016 and nonetheless was not resolved when she died, although they had been declared single in 2021. The combat noticed the ladies, now 15, put quickly in protecting custody in 2017. Presley and Lockwood later had joint custody, however had been nonetheless at odds over the difficulty, with Lockwood searching for extra baby assist from Presley.

Benjamin Keough died by suicide in 2020 at 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 9 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 turned 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.

Lisa Marie Presley is a former Scientologist — her son was born in 1992 underneath pointers set by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, in accordance with an AP story on the time — however later broke with Scientology.

Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley would make common journeys to Graceland throughout large fan celebrations on the anniversaries of Elvis’ demise and birthday. One of the 2 airplanes at Graceland is called the Lisa Marie.

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 turning 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.”

Lisa Marie Presley, the one baby of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter devoted to her father’s legacy, died Thursday after being hospitalized for a medical emergency. She was 54.

Her demise in a Los Angeles hospital was confirmed by her mom, Priscilla, a couple of hours after her daughter was rushed to the hospital by paramedics after a medical episode at her dwelling.

“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.”

Presley shared her father’s brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and adopted him professionally, releasing her personal rock albums within the 2000s, and showing on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley amongst others.

She even fashioned direct musical ties along with her father, becoming a member of her voice to such Elvis recordings as “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy,” a mournful ballad which had reminded him of the early demise of his mom (and Lisa Marie’s grandmother), Gladys Presley.

“It’s been all my life,” she informed The Associated Press in 2012, talking of her father’s affect. “It’s not something that I now listen to and it’s different. Although I might listen closer. I remain consistent on the fact that I’ve always been an admirer. He’s always influenced me.”

Her delivery, 9 months precisely after her dad and mom’ marriage ceremony, was worldwide information and her background was not often 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 crimson 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.

Presley lived along with her mom, an actor identified for “Dallas” and the “Naked Gun” films, in California after her dad and mom cut up up in 1973. She recalled early recollections of her dad throughout her visits to Graceland, using golf carts by the neighborhood and seeing his every day entrances down the steps.

“He was always fully, fully geared up. You’d never see him in his pajamas coming down the steps, ever,” she informed The Associated Press in 2012. “You’d never see him in anything but ‘ready to be seen’ attire.”
Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was simply 42, and she or he 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 rest room.

“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.”

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

Jackson and Presley had been married within the Dominican Republic in 1994, however the marriage ended two years later and was outlined by quite a few awkward public appearances, together with an sudden kiss from Jackson through the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint interview with Diane Sawyer when she defended her husband towards allegations he had sexually abused a minor.

Her different superstar marriage was even shorter: Cage filed for divorce after 4 months of marriage in 2002.

“I had to sort of run into many walls and trees,” she informed the AP in 2012. “But now I can also look back at it and tell you all the stuff that was going on around me and all the different people around me and all the awww — and it was not a good situation anyway. That wasn’t helping. Either way, it was a growing process. It was just in a different way. It was just out in front of everybody all the time. Because it’s all documented of course.”

Lisa Marie turned concerned in quite a few humanitarian causes, from anti-poverty packages administered by the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation to aid 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, born in 1989, and Benjamin Keough, born in 1992, along with her former husband Danny Keough. She additionally had twin daughters, Harper and Finley Lockwood, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood in 2008.

Her marriage to Lockwood would finish in a combative and protracted divorce that started in 2016 and nonetheless was not resolved when she died, although they had been declared single in 2021. The combat noticed the ladies, now 15, put quickly in protecting custody in 2017. Presley and Lockwood later had joint custody, however had been nonetheless at odds over the difficulty, with Lockwood searching for extra baby assist from Presley.

Benjamin Keough died by suicide in 2020 at 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 9 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 turned 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.

Lisa Marie Presley is a former Scientologist — her son was born in 1992 underneath pointers set by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, in accordance with an AP story on the time — however later broke with Scientology.

Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley would make common journeys to Graceland throughout large fan celebrations on the anniversaries of Elvis’ demise and birthday. One of the 2 airplanes at Graceland is called the Lisa Marie.

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 turning 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.”