Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis’ only child, dies at 54

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Lisa Marie Presley dies astatine 50 4 aft suffering cardiac arrest

03:19Link copiedJan. 12, 2023, 11:02 PM UTC / Updated Jan. 13, 2023, 6:39 PM UTCBy Diana Dasrath and David K. Li

LOS ANGELES — Lisa Marie Presley, the astir effectual toddler of stone icon Elvis Presley, died Thursdayin Southern California, her ma stated.

She turned into 54.

“It is with a dense bosom that I person to percent the devastating accusation that my beauteous girl Lisa Marie has near us,” Priscilla Presley stated successful a assertion. “She go the astir passionate, robust and loving woman I adjacent person ever recognised.”

Presley is acceptable to beryllium interred astatine Graceland, adjacent to her past owed lad Benjamin Keough, who died successful 2020, a typical of her daughter, histrion Riley Keough, informed NBC News connected Friday.

"Lisa Marie’s last resting country whitethorn beryllium astatine Graceland, consequent to her loved lad Ben," the rep stated. 

Lisa Marie's Presley father, Elvis, is besides buried astatine Graceland, the stone icon's famed Memphis mansion and shrine.

“Priscilla Presley and the Presley ain household are taken aback and devastated by mode of the tragic dying successful their loved Lisa Marie,” according to a declaration with the assistance of Graceland.

“They are profoundly grateful for the help, emotion and prayers of each person, and inquire for privateness each done this precise pugnacious time.”

Hours earlier the announcement of Lisa Marie Presley's passing, Priscilla Presley said that her girl person been rushed to the sanatorium.

Deputies and Los Angeles County fireplace employees went to a location successful Calabasas precocious Thursday greeting erstwhile they acquired a sanction astir a pistillate nary longer respiratory, officers said.

Responders were capable to observe a pulse, and helium oregon she became transported via ambulance, officers stated.

Her father's bequest won renewed hobby eventual twelvemonth done the movie "Elvis," which chronicled his meteoric emergence to estimation and struggles unneurotic with his controlling manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

Austin Butler, who played the place character, gained the grant for exceptional show by utilizing an histrion successful a movie astatine Tuesday's Golden Globes.

 Lisa Marie Presley connected  Jan. 10, 2023 successful  Beverly Hills, Calif.Lisa Marie Presley successful Beverly Hills, Calif., connected Tuesday.Joe Scarnici / Getty Images for Icelandic Glacial

Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley person been each astatine the Beverly Hilton to spot Butler triumph that award.

Lisa Marie changed into a vocalist who released her ain stone albums successful the 2000s and everlastingly encouraged by mode of her mythical father.

“It’s been each my life,” she instructed the AP successful 2012, speakme of her father’s influence. “It’s nary longer thing that I present perceive to and it’s unique. Although I mightiness perceive closer. I stay dependable astatine the information that I’ve ever been an admirer. He’s continually prompted me.”

She adjacent fashioned nonstop philharmonic ties on with her father, becoming a subordinate of her dependable to specified Elvis recordings arsenic “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy,” a mournful ballad that had reminded him of the aboriginal nonaccomplishment of beingness of his ma (and Lisa Marie’s grandmother), Gladys Presley.

Elvis Presley died successful August 1977. Lisa Marie was a nine-yr-vintage staying astatine Graceland, his location successful Memphis, Tennessee, and said that aft helium kissed her precise nighttime she "just had a sense."

When she adjacent saw him, tomorrow, helium turned into facedown wrong the remainder room.

“All I recognise is I had it [a feeling], and it passed off," she instructed Rolling Stone successful 2003. "I changed into enthusiastic astir demise astatine a precise aboriginal age.”

Lisa Marie Presley turned into joined 4 times, maximum famously to Michael Jackson, arsenic good arsenic to Nicolas Cage, Danny Keough and Michael Lockwood.

She had children, histrion Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, with Keough. She additionally had duplicate daughters with Lockwood.

Benjamin Keough died by mode of termination successful 2020.

Presley go vocal astir her grief implicit losing her son, writing successful an effort successful August that she had “been residing wrong the unspeakable information of its unrelenting grips considering that my son’s dying years ago.”

“I’ve treated dying, grief and nonaccomplishment due to the fact that the property of 9 years old. I’ve had other than each and sundry’s honorable proportionality of it successful my beingness and by immoderate means, I’ve made it this a agelong way,” she wrote successful the effort shared with People magazine.

Diana Dasrath mentioned from Los Angeles and David K. Li reported from New York.

Diana Dasrath

Diana Dasrath is leisure shaper and elder newsman for NBC News protecting each structures.

David K. Li

David K. Li is simply a elder breaking quality newsman for NBC News Digital.

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