Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock legend Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter, has died. She was 54.
The information was introduced inside a number of hours of her being rushed to hospital in Los Angeles after struggling a suspected coronary heart assault at house.
Her demise was confirmed by her mom, Priscilla who in a press release mentioned: “It's with a heavy coronary heart that I need to share the devastating information that my lovely daughter Lisa Marie has left us. She was essentially the most passionate, robust and loving lady I've ever identified.”
Presley, the one youngster of Elvis and Priscilla 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 shaped direct musical ties along with her father, becoming a member of her voice to such Elvis recordings as “Within the Ghetto" and “Do not Cry Daddy," a mournful ballad which had reminded him of the early demise of his mom (and Lisa Marie's grandmother), Gladys Presley.
Her delivery, 9 months precisely after her mother and father' wedding ceremony, was worldwide information and her background was hardly ever removed from her thoughts. With the discharge final 12 months of Baz Luhrmann's main musical characteristic “Elvis,” Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley had been attending pink carpets and award exhibits alongside stars from the movie.
She was on the Golden Globes on Tuesday, readily available to have a good time Austin Butler's award for enjoying her father. Simply days earlier than, she was in Memphis at Graceland — the mansion the place Elvis lived, and died — on Jan. 8 to have a good time her father's delivery anniversary.
She referred to as his efficiency “mind-blowing” throughout a pink carpet interview with “Leisure Tonight.”
“I actually didn’t know what to do with myself after I noticed it,” she informed ET of Baz Luhrmann's film. “I needed to take, like, 5 days to course of it as a result of it was so unimaginable and so spot on and simply so genuine that, yeah, I can’t even describe what it meant.”
Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was simply 42, and she or he 9 years outdated. 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 toilet.
“I simply had a sense," she informed Rolling Stone in 2003. “He wasn't doing nicely. All I do know is I had it (a sense), and it occurred. I used to be obsessive about demise at a really early age."
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.
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 surprising 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.
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 women, 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 youngster assist from Presley.
Presley had not too long ago penned an essay revealed in Folks about “the horrific actuality” of her grief following her 27-year-old son Benjamin Keough's demise by suicide in 2020.
“I’ve handled demise, grief and loss for the reason that age of 9 years outdated. I’ve had greater than anybody’s fair proportion of it in my lifetime and one way or the other, I’ve made it this far,” she wrote in August.
Lisa Marie grew to become the only real inheritor of the Elvis Presley Belief after her father died. Together with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the belief managed Graceland and different property till she offered her majority curiosity in 2005.
She retained possession of Graceland Mansion itself, the 13 acres round it and objects inside the house. Her son is buried there, alongside along with her father and different members of the Presley household.
Post a Comment