Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley dies at 54

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Lisa Marie Presley, to sum up, passed away on Thursday.
It was a medical emergency that landed her in the hospital.
For context, she was 54 years old.
Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, passed away on Thursday following a brief hospitalisation for an apparent medical issue. She was a singer and a devoted protector of her father’s legacy. For context, she was 54 years old.

Priscilla Presley has announced her daughter’s passing.

Priscilla Presley said in a statement, “It is with a sad heart that I must deliver the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us.” That woman was the most fervent, powerful, and loving person I had ever met.

She was the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and she took after her famous father professionally, releasing rock albums in the 2000s and performing alongside Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley. Presley shared her father’s dark allure, including his hooded eyes, insolent smile, and low, sultry voice.

She sang on Elvis’s songs alongside him, including “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy,” the latter of which was written when Elvis’s mother and Lisa Marie’s grandmother, Gladys Presley, passed away at a young age.

As she put it to The Associated Press in 2012, “it’s been all my life” in reference to her father’s impact on her life. No longer do I listen to it since it’s too new and strange for me. Though I might try to pay more attention. Throughout our interactions, my admiration for you has remained unchanged. I’ve always been influenced by him.

Her birth, which occurred exactly nine months after her parents’ wedding, made international headlines, and she rarely let her past slip her thoughts. Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley had been seen on red carpets and award shows since the premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s huge musical feature picture, “Elvis,” last year.

On Tuesday, she attended the Golden Globes to cheer Austin Butler’s win for his portrayal of her father. On January 8, she was to Graceland, Elvis’s home and final resting place, to commemorate her father’s birthday.

After her parents divorced in 1973, Presley moved to California to live with her mother, an actress best known for her roles in the ‘Dallas’ and ‘Naked Gun’ films. While visiting Graceland, she reflected on her earliest memories of her father, including riding golf carts across the neighbourhood and witnessing his regular stairway arrivals.

He always had everything he needed. She told The Associated Press in 2012, “You’d never see him in his jammies walking down the steps, ever.” He always seems “ready to be seen,” as one person put it.

When Elvis Presley passed away in August of 1977, she was just nine years old. Lisa Marie, who was a guest at Graceland at the time, remembered that he kissed her goodnight in the hours before he passed out and never woke up. The following day, she found him face down in the restroom.

I just got a sense,” she told Rolling Stone in 2003. We weren’t getting good news about how he was doing. Only that I had it (a feeling), and it materialised, is all I know for sure. Even as a young child, I was preoccupied with mortality.

Eventually, she’d be the centre of attention herself. Addiction problems and a string of high-profile marriages. Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage were among her four spouses.

Awkward public appearances, such as an unexpected kiss from Jackson at the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint interview with Diane Sawyer in which she defended her husband against allegations of sexual abuse of a minor, contributed to the demise of Jackson and Presley’s marriage, which took place in the Dominican Republic in 1994 but ended just two years later. Her next high-profile marriage didn’t last much longer, with Cage filing for divorce from her after only four months.

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She told the Associated Press in 2012, “I had to sort of run into several walls and trees.” But now that I have some distance, I can tell you about everything else that was happening, about all the different people I was surrounded by, and about how this was not a healthy situation. The strategy was failing. It was, in either case, an opportunity for development. It was merely done in a unique fashion. It was always plainly visible to anyone passing by. For the obvious reason that everything has been recorded.

Through the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation, Lisa Marie became involved in anti-poverty activities and the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Cities like New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee, would formally recognise her efforts.

With her first husband, Danny Keough, Presley had the actor Riley Keough, as well as Benjamin Keough. Together with her ex-husband, Michael Lockwood, she had a set of identical twin daughters.

In 2020, at the age of 27, Benjamin Keough took his own life. For example, in August of last year, Presley wrote an essay in which she said, “Since my son’s death two years ago, I have been living in the horrible reality of its unyielding grasp.”

Since I was 9 years old, I’ve had to cope with death, loss, and grief. She said in an essay published in People magazine, “I’ve got more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime, yet somehow, I’ve made it this far.”

But this one, the loss of my stunningly handsome son? The kindest and most amazing person I’ve ever met, who made me feel like a million bucks every day just by being his mom? Who eerily resembled his grandfather in so many ways that it made me nervous. The piece continues, “Which made me worry for him much more than I naturally would have.” “No. Please, just don’t say “no”

After her father’s passing, Lisa Marie was left as the sole beneficiary of the Elvis Presley Trust. Until she sold a majority stake in Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2005, the trust oversaw Graceland and other Presley assets. She kept the mansion, its 13 acres, and everything inside. There, her son rests next to her father and other Presley family members.

Lisa Marie Presley is a former Scientologist who later left the religion after giving birth to her son in 1992 according to the strict criteria established by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, as reported by the Associated Press at the time.

Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley frequently visited Graceland for the massive fan gatherings held in honour of Elvis’s birthday and death anniversaries. The Lisa Marie is the name of one of the two planes in the Graceland collection.

She told the Associated Press in 2005 that after the release of her first album “To Whom It May Concern” in 2003, some people attended to her shows out of curiosity about her renowned family.

In order to succeed as a singer-songwriter, she “had to first overcome a pre-speculated idea of me,” she explained.

She said, “I had a few hurdles to get through, no doubt about it. I had to sort of burst through that and announce myself, and that was the first one; and now sing in front of everybody, and that was the second one; and I’m the offspring of — you know, who I’m the offspring of;” But the balance never swung too far in the other direction.