Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis, has died aged 54

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Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis, has died aged 54


Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and solely youngster of Elvis, has died on the age of 54, following her sudden admission to hospital for a medical emergency.

News of Presley’s demise was confirmed as we speak by her mom, Priscilla, who mentioned in a press release (by way of the Associated Press) that “my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us. She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known.” Priscilla thanked the general public for his or her “love and prayers”.

Presley’s demise comes hours after she had been rushed to hospital after struggling a doable cardiac arrest. According to stories, an ambulance was known as to Presley’s Calabasas residence on Thursday (January 12), the place it’s mentioned responders administered CPR. Priscilla later issued a press release confirming the hospitalisation, writing on the time that her daughter was “receiving the best care”.

NME has contacted a consultant of Presley for remark.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley with Lisa Marie in 1968. CREDIT: Alamy

Lisa Marie Presley was the one youngster of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and the only inheritor to her father’s property, which she assumed in 1980. Presley retained possession of Elvis’ residence in Memphis, Tennessee, together with her father’s Graceland mansion and its surrounding 13 acres. In 2004, she bought 85 per cent of all trademark rights to Elvis’ title to music promoter Robert F. X. Sillerman.

She was additionally a musician in her personal proper, releasing three studio albums between 2003 and 2012. Her first two albums – ‘To Whom It May Concern’ (2003) and ‘Now What’ (2004) – each hit the highest 10 of the Billboard 200 album charts.

Presley was married 4 occasions. She was married to Danny Keough between 1988 and 1994, and shared two kids with the musician. In 2020, one in all her two kids to Keough, Benjamin, died on the age of 21. In a press release launched on the time by her consultant Roger Widynowski, Presley mentioned: “She adored that boy. He was the love of her life.” The assertion didn’t state a explanation for demise.

Presley was married to Michael Jackson for 18 months in 1994, and would go on to marry actor Nicolas Cage in 2002. Presley’s final public look passed off simply days in the past (January 11) on the 2023 Golden Globe Awards, which she attended together with her mom in celebration of the Baz Lurhmann-directed biopic, Elvis.

Lisa Marie Presley and Elvis
Lisa Marie and Elvis Presley. Credits: Frank Carroll/Sygma by way of Getty Images

Austin Butler received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama for his portrayal of the title character. “I really didn’t know what to do with myself after I saw it”, Presley mentioned of Elvis on the crimson carpet. “I had to take, like, five days to process it because it was so incredible and so spot on and just so authentic.”

Presley spoke of bereavement in a 2022 essay for People, writing that “grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss. Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe.”

The likes of Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins, Diane Warren, Corey Feldman and Octavia Spencer have paid tribute to Presley.

“There is heartbreak and then there is sorrow. This would be sorrow and on more levels than I can count,” Corgan wrote on Twitter. “Please send your prayers out for her family and children at this difficult time. I truly cannot find the words to express how sad this truly is. RIP.”

See Corgan’s tribute and others under.

Lisa Marie Presley was such a sort lovely mushy spoken girl who knew that I had named my daughter Presley after ELVIS…

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