WEST HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley — the lone kid of Elvis Presley — died Thursday aft being hospitalized earlier that day, her parent said successful a statement. The vocalist was 54.
“It is with a dense bosom that I indispensable stock the devastating quality that my beauteous girl Lisa Marie has near us,” Priscilla Presley said successful a connection Thursday evening. “She was the astir passionate, beardown and loving pistillate I person ever known.”
The announcement came conscionable hours aft Priscilla Presley had confirmed that Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to the infirmary earlier Thursday.
Los Angeles County paramedics were dispatched to a Calabasas location astatine 10:37 a.m. pursuing a study of a pistillate successful afloat cardiac arrest, according to Craig Little, a spokesperson for the county’s occurrence department. Property records bespeak Presley was a nonmigratory astatine that address.
Paramedics arrived astir six minutes later, Little said. A consequent connection from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said paramedics performed CPR and “determined the diligent had signs of life” earlier taking her to a infirmary successful adjacent West Hills immediately.
The metropolis of Calabasas is nestled betwixt the foothills of the Santa Monica and the Santa Susanna Mountains, astir 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
News of Presley’s hospitalization was archetypal reported by TMZ and aboriginal confirmed by People magazine.
Presley, 54, attended the Golden Globes connected Tuesday, connected manus to observe Austin Butler’s grant for playing her begetter successful “Elvis.” She called his show “mind-blowing” during a reddish carpet interrogation with “Entertainment Tonight.”
“I truly didn’t cognize what to bash with myself aft I saw it,” she told ET of Baz Luhrmann’s movie. “I had to take, like, 5 days to process it due to the fact that it was truthful unthinkable and truthful spot connected and conscionable truthful authentic that, yeah, I can’t adjacent picture what it meant.”
Just days earlier that, she was successful Memphis, Tennessee, astatine Graceland — the mansion wherever Elvis lived — to observe her father’s commencement day connected Jan. 8.
Presley had precocious penned an effort published successful People astir “the horrific reality” of her grief pursuing her son Benjamin Keough’s decease by termination successful 2020. Presley is besides the parent of histrion Riley Keough and duplicate daughters.
“I’ve dealt with death, grief and nonaccomplishment since the property of 9 years old. I’ve had much than anyone’s just stock of it successful my beingness and somehow, I’ve made it this far,” she wrote successful August.
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Dazio reported from Los Angeles. AP researcher Randy Herschaft successful New York and writer Kristin M. Hall successful Nashville, Tennessee, contributed to this report.