LISA MARIE PRESLEY. A week after the death of Lisa Marie Presley, only daughter of Elvis, at 54, the causes of her disappearance remain officially undetermined?
[Mis à jour le 19 janvier 2023 à 18h19] A week after the death of Lisa Marie Presley, only daughter of Elvis, the causes of her death remain officially undetermined, reports the chain CNN. Analyzes remain in progress and an additional investigation into the death after autopsy has been requested by the medical examiner-coroner of the county of Los Angeles, details the same source.
Lisa Marie Presley died on the night of Thursday, January 12, 2023, at her home in Calabasas, California. The announcement was made by his mother, Priscilla Presley. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” she wrote in a statement released by People. Died at the age of 54, the singer and businesswoman leaves behind three daughters, including twins barely 14 years old.
The funeral of the only daughter of the “King”, will be held on Sunday January 22 at Graceland, the historic property of Elvis Presley in Memphis, where he himself is buried and which has, since his disappearance in August 1977, become a mausoleum. and a museum dedicated to his memory. Lisa Marie Prelsey will be buried alongside her own son, Benjamin Keough, who took his own life in 2020.
What is the cause of death of Lisa Marie Presley? At first, the American media TMZ claimed the rock ‘n’ roll legend’s only daughter died of cardiac arrest. Which has not been made official. It was her housekeeper who first found her “unconscious” in her home in Calabasas, in the US state of California. Her ex-husband Danny Keough, who still lives under the same roof, then proceeded to cardiac massage to try to revive the singer, while waiting for help to arrive. When they arrived, the emergency services took care of her and rushed her to the hospital. On the spot, Lisa Marie Presley was put in an artificial coma and on life support.
But despite rapid treatment and rescue efforts, the businesswoman could not be saved. In his press release published by PeoplePriscilla Presley wrote, of her daughter, that she “was the most passionate, strong and loving woman [qu’elle ait] never known”, before asking the press to respect his mourning: “We ask for privacy while we try to deal with this deep loss. Thanks for the love and prayers. At this time, there will be no further comment.”
Only a few days before her death, the daughter of Elvis Presley had appeared in public at the Golden Globes, with her mother Priscilla. They had come to support Austin Butler, who won Best Actor in a Drama for his role in Elvis by Baz Luhrmann. Some internet users and newspapers had then found Lisa Marie Presley visibly weakened. In an interview with Extra on the red carpet, the 54-year-old looked confused and had to hold the arm of her father’s friend, Jerry Schilling. “I’m going to grab your arm,” she had asked him.
Purepeople recounts another disturbing episode that occurred in the days preceding the death of Lisa Marie Presley. On January 8, she gave a moving speech in the Graceland mansion, where her father died in August 1977. A speech organized to celebrate the memory of Elvis Presley, who would have been 88 that day. But in addition to the touching side of her speech, the singer would have appeared very saddened, which would have raised concerns about her state of mental health. the DailyMail also reports that she would have made some rather worrying remarks: “I continue to say that you are the only ones who can get me out of my house. I am not kidding. I love you very much and you are the reason why I am here.”
A singing career like her father Elvis Presley
In the footsteps of her father, the “King” of rock’n’roll, Lisa Marie Presley began a career as a singer in 2003. His third and final album, Storm and Grace, was released in 2012. During her career, she has also performed duets with old Elvis recordings for the songs “In the Ghetto”, “Where No One Stands Alone” and “Don’t Cry Daddy”. When her first album was released, she declared in a interview with Larry King, that she had to “put aside” the pressure and the comparisons with the legendary career of her father. She was also a songwriter and businesswoman, but in 2005 sold her majority stake in Elvis Presley Enterprises.
Lisa Marie Presley was also very involved in the associative field. She founded two organizations, the “Presley Place” and the “Presley Charitable Foundation”. She also worked closely with The Dream Factory, whose mission is to support children and young adults with serious illness.
Lisa Marie Presley was married four times, once to Michael Jackson. She had met him for the first time at one of the famous Elvis shows in Las Vegas in 1975. The couple will not be formalized until 17 years later, in 1992. This year, Lisa Marie Presley is still married to her first husband, Danny Keough, but divorced and married the King of Pop in 1994. A marriage that did not last long, as the couple separated in 1996 because of Michael Jackson’s drug addiction problems. However, still attached to each other, the former lovers would have seen each other several times after the divorce.
On June 25, 2009, Lisa Marie Presley paid her a last tribute. “I don’t know why, but it was the weirdest day of my life. I cried all day. And I don’t normally do that, I was trying to work, coming home, cutting my food, I ate my dinner crying,” she confided in 2010 to Oprah Winfrey.
After marrying the pop star, she married fellow celebrity Nicolas Cage. The marriage between the two celebrities only lasted a few months. In 2006, she married her guitarist and producer Michael Lockwood. They separated ten years later. After this divorce, the heir to the fortune of Elvis Presley had declared that it had completely melted and that she found herself ruined.
Lisa Marie Presley has admitted that as a teenager she took “cocaine, sedatives, weed and drank – all at the same time”. “I just couldn’t get sober,” she revealed to the Paper Magazine in 2003, adding that she doesn’t know how she “survived it all”. After her 2016 divorce from Michael Lockwood, she entered a facility to treat her addiction to opioids and painkillers, which she had been taking since the birth of her twin daughters in 2008.
Lisa Marie Presley leaves behind three orphans. Mother of four children, she had lost her only son Benjamin Keough in 2020. He indeed committed suicide. Born on October 21, 1992 from his marriage to Danny Keough, he was 27 when he shot himself. From her first marriage to Danny Keough, Lisa Marie Presley also had a daughter: Riley Keough, born May 29, 1989. She is now a model at Dior and an actress. She notably starred in Runaways (2010), magic mike (2012) or even Mad Max: Fury Road (2017). Lisa Marie Presley also had twin daughters named Harper Vivienne Ann and Finley Aaron Love. Born on October 7, 2008, and therefore now barely 14 years old, their father is the American guitarist Michael Lockwood.
In 2020, she was struck by a terrible personal drama: the suicide of her son Benjamin Keough, born from her first marriage to Danny Keough. “My heart and soul left with you,” she shared in a statement. In an essay published by People in August 2022, she wrote fighting with herself. “I blame myself tirelessly and chronically, I blame myself every day and it’s hard enough to live with, but others judge you and blame you too, even secretly or behind your back, which is even more cruel and painful on top of everything else,” she said.
The media People had questioned Brandon Howard, a friend of Benjamin Keough, who was in “depression”. The crisis and the confinements due to the Covid would have contributed to reinforcing this feeling. His friend also revealed that the pressure of the name “Presley” was also one of the causes of his depression.
Present at the Golden Globes 2023, Lisa Marie Presley had been put on the front of the stage. During Austin Butler’s speech, rewarded for his role as Elvis Presley in the biopic released in France in 2022, the actor greeted Lisa Marie, declaring her “to love her forever”.
On Instagram, actor Tom Hanks, also present in the Elvis Presley biopic, paid tribute to him by writing to be “broken” by this announcement. Also on Instagram, John Travolta sent him a vibrant message: “I will miss you, but I know I will see you again.” In a communicated shared by Nicolas Cage, her ex-husband lamented “devastating news” adding that “Lisa had the biggest laugh of all those [qu’il a] met.” “She lit up every room, and I’m heartbroken,” he wrote.