Lisa Marie Presley lifeless at 54

Lisa Marie Presley, a singer-songwriter, Elvis’ only daughter and a dedicated keeper of her father’s legacy, died Thursday after staying hospitalized for a healthcare unexpected emergency. She was 54.

Her demise in a Los Angeles hospital was confirmed by her mother, Priscilla, a several several hours after her daughter was rushed to the clinic after possessing a clinical crisis at residence.

“It is with a large heart that I need to share the devastating news that my attractive daughter Lisa Marie has remaining us,” Priscilla Presley stated in a statement. “She was the most passionate, solid and loving lady I have ever acknowledged.”

Presley, the only kid of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, shared her father’s brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the very low, sultry voice — and adopted him skillfully, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s, and showing up on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley among many others.

She even formed immediate musical ties with her father, joining her voice to this kind of Elvis recordings as “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy,” a mournful ballad which experienced reminded him of the early death of his mom (and Lisa Marie’s grandmother), Gladys Presley.

“It’s been all my lifetime,” she advised The Associated Press in 2012, talking of her father’s impact. “It’s not one thing that I now pay attention to and it’s diverse. Even though I could possibly listen closer. I continue being constant on the reality that I’ve always been an admirer. He’s usually affected me.”

Her start, nine months specifically soon after her parents’ wedding ceremony, was intercontinental information and her qualifications was hardly ever far from her head. With the launch final 12 months of Baz Luhrmann’s big musical characteristic “Elvis,” Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley experienced been attending purple carpets and award displays alongside stars from the movie.

She was at the Golden Globes on Tuesday, on hand to rejoice Austin Butler’s award for playing her father. Just days ahead of, she was in Memphis at Graceland — the mansion the place Elvis lived, and died — on Jan. 8 to rejoice her father’s beginning anniversary.

Presley lived with her mom, an actor regarded for “Dallas” and the “Naked Gun” motion pictures, in California immediately after her mom and dad split up in 1973. She recalled early recollections of her father all through her visits to Graceland, using golfing carts via the neighbourhood and looking at his each day entrances down the stairs.

“He was often absolutely, thoroughly geared up. You’d in no way see him in his pyjamas coming down the steps, ever,” she explained to The Related Press in 2012. “You’d never see him in just about anything but ‘ready to be seen’ attire.”

Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was just 42, and she 9 several years outdated. Lisa Marie was keeping at Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hrs in advance of he would collapse and never ever get well. When she next observed him, the following day, he was lying confront down in the toilet.

“I just had a sensation,” she advised Rolling Stone in 2003. “He was not undertaking perfectly. All I know is I had it (a emotion), and it transpired. I was obsessed with dying at a very early age.”

She would afterwards make headlines of her have. Struggles with medicines and some incredibly public marriages. Her four husbands integrated Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.

Jackson and Presley ended up married in the Dominican Republic in 1994, but the relationship ended two a long time later and was defined by many uncomfortable general public appearances, which includes an surprising kiss from Jackson for the duration of the MTV Movie Songs Awards and a joint interview with Diane Sawyer when she defended her spouse versus allegations he had sexually abused a insignificant.

Her other movie star marriage was even shorter: Cage submitted for divorce following four months of marriage in 2002.

“I had to kind of run into quite a few walls and trees,” she informed the AP in 2012. “But now I can also glance back again at it and tell you all the stuff that was heading on about me and all the distinctive people today close to me and all the awww — and it was not a great situation in any case. That was not supporting. Either way, it was a increasing approach. It was just in a diverse way. It was just out in entrance of every person all the time. Because it is all documented of program.”

Lisa Marie became concerned in many humanitarian brings about, from anti-poverty systems administered by means of the Elvis Presley Charitable Basis to relief attempts following Hurricane Katrina. She would obtain formal citations from New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee for her do the job.

Presley had two small children, actor Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, with her previous spouse Danny Keough. She also had twin daughters with ex-spouse Michael Lockwood.

Benjamin Keough died by suicide in 2020 at the age of 27. Presley was vocal about her grief, writing in an essay last August that she had “been dwelling in the horrific fact of its unrelenting grips considering that my son’s loss of life two years in the past.”

“I’ve dealt with demise, grief and decline because the age of 9 a long time aged. I have had much more than anyone’s truthful share of it in my life span and in some way, I have created it this much,” she wrote in an essay shared with Men and women magazine.

“But this just one, the demise of my attractive, gorgeous son? The sweetest and most remarkable remaining that I have at any time experienced the privilege of being aware of, who produced me come to feel so honoured every solitary day to be his mother? Who was so a lot like his grandfather on so many levels that he actually scared me? Which built me fret about him even far more than I by natural means would have?” the essay continued. “No. Just no … no no no no …”

Lisa Marie turned the sole heir of the Elvis Presley Rely on right after her father died. Along with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the belief managed Graceland and other property until she marketed her bulk desire in 2005. She retained ownership of Graceland Mansion alone, the 13 acres all over it and products within the dwelling. Her son is buried there, alongside with her father and other associates of the Presley household.

Lisa Marie Presley is a former Scientologist — her son was born in 1992 less than tips set by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, according to an AP tale at the time — but later on broke with Scientology.

Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley would make frequent journeys to Graceland for the duration of substantial admirer celebrations on the anniversaries of Elvis’ loss of life and birthday. A person of the two airplanes at Graceland is named the Lisa Marie.

After her first album “To Whom It May well Problem,” in 2003, some supporters came out to see her execute just out of curiosity provided her popular family, she told the AP in 2005.

“First I experienced to prevail over a pre-speculated plan of me,” she stated of the boundaries to becoming a singer-songwriter.

“I experienced to kind of burst by way of that and introduce myself, and that was the first hurdle, and then now sing in front of everybody, and then that was the next a person, and I’m the offspring of — you know, who I’m the offspring of — I experienced a number of hurdles to get through, no doubt about it,” she ongoing. “But the scales never ever tipped in the other route too significantly.”

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