Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of singer Elvis and a devoted defender of her father’s legacy, died Thursday after being hospitalized for a medical emergency. She was 54 years old. Presley’s death was confirmed by his mother, Priscilla. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I ever met.”
Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, shared her father’s charisma – hooded eyes, cheeky smile, low, sultry voice – and followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s. performed, and appeared onstage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley, among others. She also forged a direct musical relationship with her father, adding her voice to Elvis recordings such as “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy”, a heartbreaking ballad that made her remember her mother’s (and Lisa Marie’s) early death. Was given Grandmother), Gladys Presley.
“It’s been my whole life,” she told The Associated Press in 2012, speaking about her father’s influence. ‘It’s not something I listen to anymore and it’s different. Although I can hear close. I stand by the fact that I’ve always been a fan. He has always impressed me. Her birth just nine months after her parents married was international news and her background was rarely far from her mind. With the release of Baz Luhrmann’s major musical feature “Elvis” last year, Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley were attending red carpets and award shows with the film’s stars.
She was at the Golden Globes on Tuesday to celebrate Austin Butler’s award for playing her father. Just days earlier, she had been in Memphis at Graceland—the mansion where Elvis lived, and died—to celebrate her father’s birth anniversary on January 8.
After his parents separated in 1973, Presley lived with his mother, an actress best known for the films “Dallas” and “Naked Gun,” in California. She recalled her earliest memories of her father during a visit to Graceland while riding a golf cart through the neighborhood. and watching her daily entrance down the stairs. He told The Associated Press in 2012, “He was always perfectly dressed. You would never see him walking down the stairs in his pajamas.” ‘dress.”
Elvis Presley passed away in August 1977, when he was just 42 and she was 9. Lisa Marie was living at Graceland at the time and would remember kissing her goodnight before she collapsed and never recovered. When she next saw him, the next day, he was lying face down in the bathroom. He told Rolling Stone in 2003, “I just had a feeling.” She would later make headlines of her own. Struggles with drugs and some very public marriages. Her four husbands included Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
Jackson and Presley were married in the Dominican Republic in 1994, but the marriage ended after two years and was marred by several awkward public appearances, including an unexpected kiss from Jackson during the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint with Diane Sawyer. The interview was included when she defended her husband against allegations that he had sexually abused a minor. Their other celebrity marriage was even shorter: Cage filed for divorce in 2002 after four months of marriage.