Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley died on the night of Thursday January 12, 2023. The American singer had a cardiac arrest at the age of 54.
What harm took Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of the man nicknamed the King? The American singer and songwriter died of cardiac arrest on the evening of Thursday, January 12, 2023, at just 54 years old. Found “unconscious” in her house in Calabasas by her governess, Lisa Marie Presley was quickly taken to hospital by the emergency services according to media reports. TMZ. On the spot, the daughter of Elvis Presley was admitted in emergency and placed under artificial coma and under respiratory assistance.
Before help arrived, the artist’s ex-husband Danny Keough, who still lives under the same roof as Lisa Marie Presley, began cardiac massage. But the quick support of the singer was not enough to save her. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” wrote Priscilla Presley, the King’s wife.
Confirming the news to the site PeoplePriscilla Presely wrote of her daughter that she “was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to come to terms with this profound loss. Thank you for love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comments.”
A few days before his death, the singer had appeared in public at the Golden Globes, with her mother Priscilla, they had come to support Austin Butler who won the award for best actor in a dramatic film for Elvis by Baz Luhrmann. Some internet users and newspapers had found Lisa Marie Presley visibly weakened. In an interview with Extra on the red carpet, the 54-year-old seemed 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.
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. In her career she also 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 comparison with her father’s storied career. She was also a songwriter and businesswoman but in 2005 sold the majority of her shares in the company Elvis Presley Enterprises.
Lisa Marie Presley was also very involved in the associative field. She founded two organizations, the “Presley Place” and “Presley Charitable Foundation”. She also worked closely with The Dream Factory, whose mission was to support children and young adults with serious illness.
Married to Michael Jackson
Lisa Marie Presley was married four times, including michael jackson. She married the singer whom she met 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 more than two years because the couple separated in 1996 because of drug addiction problems. Michael Jackson drug. Yet 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 her marriage to the pop star, she marries another celebrity, Nicolas Cage. The marriage between the two stars only lasted a few months. In 2006, she married her guitarist and producer, but ten years later they separated. After this divorce, the heir to the fortune of Elvis Presley said that it completely melted and found herself ruined.
Addictions in the past
Lisa Marie Presley 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 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 care facility to treat her addictions to opioids and painkillers, which she had been taking since the birth of her twin daughters in 2008.
The death of his son
In 2020, she was struck by a terrible personal tragedy, the suicide of her son Benjamin Keough, born from her first marriage to Danny Keough. “My heart and my soul are gone 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 helped to reinforce this feeling. His friend also revealed that the pressure of the name “Presley” was also one of the causes of his depression.
International reactions
Present at the Golden Globes 2023, Lisa Marie Presley had been put on the front of the stage. During Austin Butler’s speech for his role as Elvis Presley in the biopic released in France in 2022, the actor greeted Lisa Marie, declaring “love her forever”.
On Instagram, actor Tom Hanks, also present in the biopic of Elvis Presley, paid tribute to him by writing to be “broken” this announcement. Also on Instagram, John Travolta paid him a vibrant tribute: “I will miss you but I know I will see you again”. In a communicated shared by Nicolas Cage, her ex-husband, he announced “devastating news”. Adding that “Lisa had the biggest laugh of anyone I’ve met. She lit up every room, and I’m heartbroken,” he wrote.