Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, died aged 54. “It is with a sad heart that I must convey the tragic news that my lovely daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” her mother, Priscilla Presley, announced Thursday evening. “She was the most passionate, strong, and loving woman I ever knew.” Priscilla Presley revealed that Lisa Marie Presley had been transported to a Los Angeles hospital hours earlier.
People corroborated TMZ’s account of Presley’s hospitalization. Craig Little, a fire department spokeswoman for Los Angeles County, said paramedics were called to a Calabasas residence at 10:37am (18:37 GMT) to treat a lady in cardiac arrest. Property records show Presley lived there. On Tuesday, Presley attended the Golden Globes, where Austin Butler won best actor for playing her father in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. He was “mind-blowing” in an Entertainment Tonight interview. The film left her “confused.” “I took five days to comprehend that because it was so beautiful and so spot on and just so honest that, yeah, I can’t even articulate what it meant.” She celebrated her father’s January 8 birthday in Graceland, Elvis’ estate, in Memphis, Tennessee, days before. Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Priscilla and Elvis, aged nine when her father died in 1977. To Whom It May Concern, her 2003 first album, debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and featured her father’s brooding appeal and low, sensuous voice. She released Now What two years later, which also reached the top 10. Storm and Grace, her third album, was released in 2012. She sang on Elvis’s In the Ghetto and Don’t Cry Daddy, a melancholy song that reminded him of his mother, Gladys Presley, and Lisa Marie’s grandmother. “It’s been all my life,” she told the Associated Press in 2012. “I don’t listen to it anymore. I might listen more. I’ve always been a fan. I’ve always been influenced by him.”
She married four times, including Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson. Benjamin Keough’s suicide in 2020 upset her. Lisa Marie inherited the Elvis Presley Trust after her father’s death. Graceland and other properties were handled by the trust until 2005, when she sold her controlling stake. She kept Graceland Mansion and its property. Along with her father and other Presley family members, her son is buried there.
