Lisa Marie Presley, the smoky-voiced singer and songwriter who led a cleaning soap opera existence as the one youngster of Elvis Presley and the primary spouse of Michael Jackson, has died. She was 54.
Presley died Thursday at West Hills Hospital and Medical Middle after an episode of cardiac arrest earlier within the day at her dwelling in Calabasas, California, her mom, actress Priscilla Presley introduced in a press release.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I have to share the devastating information that my lovely daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” she stated. “She was essentially the most passionate robust and loving girl I’ve ever identified. We ask for privateness as we attempt to cope with this profound loss. Thanks for the love and prayers. At the moment there will likely be no additional remark.”
In accordance with a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, deputies and hearth division personnel arrived on the scene earlier than transporting Lisa Marie to the hospital.
She and her mom attended the Golden Globes on Tuesday evening, when Austin Butler gained for his starring flip as her dad in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
In his acceptance speech, Butler stated: “I additionally wish to thank our unimaginable producers and Warner Bros. and the Presley household. Thanks, guys. Thanks for opening your hearts, your reminiscences, your house to me. Lisa Marie and Priscilla, I like you eternally.”
Earlier, she referred to as his flip “nothing wanting spectacular. Completely beautiful. Austin Butler channeled and embodied my father’s coronary heart & soul superbly.”
Presley’s edgy first album, Capitol Data’ To Whom It Might Concern, produced by Glen Ballard, debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, featured the singles “Lights Out” and “Sinking In” and was shortly licensed gold. She wrote or co-wrote all 11 songs on the LP.
She adopted two years later with Now What — which included “Fool,” a kiss-off tune to a former lover, and a canopy of Don Henley’s “Soiled Laundry” — and 2012’s Storm & Grace, a roots rock effort produced by T Bone Burnett. The primary single from that was the swampy “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ But.”
Presley toured in help of these albums, with The Hollywood Reporter praising a 2013 live performance efficiency at Metropolis Vineyard in New York that “revealed an endearing heat and vulnerability.”
Alongside the way in which, she recorded duets that includes her late father’s vocals for singles together with “Within the Ghetto,” “I Love You As a result of” and “The place No One Stands Alone.”
As a singer, she informed the Related Press in 2005, “First I needed to overcome a pre-speculated thought of me. I needed to form of burst by that and introduce myself, and that was the primary hurdle, after which now to sing in entrance of everyone … after which [there was] the second [as] I’m the offspring of — , who I’m the offspring of. I had just a few hurdles to get by, little question about it. However the scales by no means tipped within the different path an excessive amount of.”
She was born in Memphis on Feb. 1, 1968, as the one youngster of Elvis and Priscilla, who have been wed on Might 1, 1967, on the Aladdin in Las Vegas. After her dad and mom divorced when she was 4, she moved to Los Angeles to reside together with her mother, although she often visited her dad in her birthplace.
She wrote and sang about that on “Lights Out”: “I used to be crying each time I’d go away you, after which I didn’t wish to see you. … I nonetheless maintain my watch two hours behind.”
She was 9 when Elvis died at age 42 on Aug. 16, 1977.
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Presley turned joint inheritor to his property together with her grandfather, Vernon Presley, and great-grandmother, Minnie Mae Hood Presley. After their deaths in 1979 and 1980, respectively, she turned the one surviving beneficiary, and she or he inherited his property upon turning 25.
In 2004, she offered 85 % of the holdings for a reported $100 million to SFX Leisure founder Robert F.X. Sillerman however retained her dad’s Graceland property on 13 acres in Memphis.
She supervised the launch of a deeply private exhibit at Graceland, “Elvis … By way of His Daughter’s Eyes,” in 2012.
Presley was married to musician Danny Keough from 1988-94, to Jackson from 1994-96, to actor Nicolas Cage from 2002-04 and to guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood from 2006-21. All her marriages resulted in divorce; she had been separated from Lockwood for about 5 years earlier than the official finish of their marriage. (She and Keough remained shut, nevertheless.)
In a 2003 interview with Rolling Stone, Presley stated that she was nonetheless married to Keough and simply mates with Jackson when accusations of kid abuse started encircling the pop star.
“I obtained into this entire, ‘I’m going to avoid wasting you’ factor,” she stated. “I assumed all that stuff he was doing — philanthropy and the youngsters factor and all these items — was superior, and perhaps we might save the world collectively … OK. Hi there. I used to be delusionary. I obtained some romantic thought in my head that I might save him and we might save the world.”
Survivors embrace her three daughters, model-actress Riley Keough and twins Harper and Finley. Her son, Benjamin, 27, died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in July 2020.
“It’s an actual option to maintain going, one which I’ve to make each single day and one that’s always difficult to say the least … However I maintain going for my ladies,” she wrote a month later. “I maintain going as a result of my son made it very clear in his ultimate moments that taking good care of his little sisters and looking for them have been on the forefront of his issues and his thoughts. He completely adored them and so they him.”
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