Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of music icon Elvis Presley and actor Priscilla Presley, has died on the age of 54 following a cardiac arrest.
Presley was born in Memphis, Tennessee on February 1, 1968. She grew up residing in her father’s Graceland property till the age of 4, when her mother and father separated. Presley moved along with her mom to Los Angeles, California. Even although her mother and father have been separated, she continued to see each, splitting time between each Los Angeles and Memphis. When she was 9, Presley’s father died of an obvious coronary heart failure related to prescription drug abuse.
Her youth was, regardless of the seeming benefits of her mother and father, not a simple one, and Presley struggled with habit. At 17, Presley was despatched to Scientology’s Celebrity Center rehab facility. There, Presley met musician Danny Keough. Presley and Keough married on October 3, 1988. and had two youngsters, actress Riley Keough and a son named Benjamin, who died of obvious suicide in 2020.
Presley and Keough divorced in 1994. Only 20 days after her divorce to Keough was finalized, Presley married famous person Michael Jackson, who reportedly proposed over the cellphone after solely 4 months of relationship. Their relationship was short-lived, nonetheless, and Presley filed for divorce from Jackson in January of 1996. In 2000, whereas engaged to musician John Oszajca, she met Nicolas Cage. She quickly broke off the engagement to Oszajca up to now Cage. The couple married quickly after in Hawaii on August 10, 2002 however divorced a mere 108 days later.
On January 22, 2006, Presley married for the fourth time, this time to guitarist, producer and director Michael Lockwood. The couple welcomed fraternal twins, Harper and Finley, on October 7, 2008. In 2016, Presley filed for divorce from Lockwood.
She inherited her father’s mansion, Graceland. And after the demise of her father, grandfather and great-grandmother, she grew to become sole proprietor of Presley’s total property when she turned 25. She offered 85% of the property, which had an estimated worth of $100 million when she inherited it, in 2005 to Industrial Media, however saved management of Graceland.
Following in her father’s footsteps, she cast a profession as a singer, releasing a number of albums, together with “To Whom It May Concern”, “Now What” and “Storm & Grace,” and enjoyed some success.
Priscilla Presley issued a statement after her daughter’s death. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Presley said. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”
Rita Wilson, who met Lisa Marie after husband Tom Hanks labored on ‘Elvis’, took to Instagram to remember her. “Our hearts are broken with the sudden and shocking passing of Lisa Marie Presley tonight. Tom and I had spent some time with the family during the ‘Elvis’ movie promotional tour. Lisa Marie was so honest and direct, vulnerable, in a state of anticipation about the movie,” Wilson wrote. “She spoke so eloquently about her father, what the movie meant to her, that it was a celebration of her dad. She had her gorgeous daughters Finley and Harper with her who made us all laugh. She privately showed us her home, Graceland, and she made it feel like home to us. She was so gracious to us, Austin, Baz, and guests. If you haven’t heard her music please go listen. She had a sultry voice, a power and tenderness, that I have always loved.”
She is survived by her mother, Priscilla Presley, her three daughters and a half-brother, Navarone Garibaldi.