Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter dedicated to her father's legacy, died on Thursday after being hospitalized for a medical emergency. She was 54 years old.
Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter dedicated to her father's legacy, died on Thursday after being hospitalized for a medical emergency. She was 54 years old.
Her death at a Los Angeles hospital was confirmed by her mother, Priscilla, after her daughter was taken to the hospital after a medical emergency at home.
"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter, Lisa Marie, has left us," Priscilla Presley said in a statement. "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 charisma – hooded eyes, cheeky smile, low, sultry voice – and followed him professionally, releasing his own rock albums in the 2000s , and appeared on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley among others.
He even forged a direct musical relationship with his father, adding his voice to Elvis recordings such as "In the Ghetto" and "Don't Cry Daddy", a heartbreaking ballad that inspired him to deal with his mother's (and Lisa Marie's) early death. Was reminded of Grandmother), Gladys Presley.
Speaking of her father's influence, she told the Associated Press in 2012, "It's been my whole life." It's not something I listen to now and it's different. I have always been his fan. He has always impressed me."
Her birth just nine months after her parents married was international news and her background was rarely far from her mind. With the release of Baz Luhrmann's major musical feature "Elvis" last year, Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley were attending red carpets and award shows alongside the film's stars.
She was on hand at Tuesday's Golden Globes to celebrate Austin Butler's award for playing her father. Just days earlier, she had been in Memphis at Graceland—the mansion where Elvis lived, and died—to celebrate her father's birth anniversary on January 8.
After his parents separated in 1973, Presley lived in California with his mother, an actress best known for the films "Dallas" and "Naked Gun". He recalled his earliest memories of his father during a visit to Graceland while riding a golf cart through the neighborhood. and watching her daily entrance down the stairs.
"He was always perfectly, perfectly dressed. You would never see him coming down the stairs in his pajamas," she told The Associated Press in 2012. "You'll never see her in a 'ready to see' outfit."
Elvis Presley passed away in August 1977, when he was just 42 and she was 9. Lisa Marie was living at Graceland at the time and would remember kissing her goodnight before she collapsed and never recovered. When she next saw him, the next day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.
He told Rolling Stone in 2003, "I just had a feeling." ,
She would later make headlines of her own. Struggles with drugs and some very public marriages. Her four husbands included Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
Jackson and Presley were married in the Dominican Republic in 1994, but the marriage ended after two years and was marred by several awkward public appearances, including an unexpected kiss from Jackson during the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint with Diane Sawyer. The interview was included when she defended her husband against allegations that he had sexually abused a minor.
Their other celebrity marriage was even shorter: Cage filed for divorce in 2002 after four months of marriage.
"I had to run into a lot of walls and trees," she told the AP in 2012. And all awww - and it wasn't a good situation anyway. It wasn't helping. Either way, it was a growing process. It was in a totally different way. It was in front of everyone all the time. Because it's all definitely documented."
Lisa Marie became involved in a number of humanitarian causes, from anti-poverty programs administered through the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation to relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. He will receive formal citations from New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee for his work.
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, Harper and Finlay Lockwood, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood in 2008.
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