Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and Daughter of Elvis, Dead at 54 - Rolling Stone

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The lone kid of Elvis and Priscilla Presley died aft suffering from cardiac apprehension astatine her location successful Calabasas

Lisa Marie Presley, the vocalist whose blues-tinged dependable carried crossed 3 albums and lone kid of Elvis Presley, died connected Thursday astatine the property of 54.

“It is with a dense bosom that I indispensable stock the devastating quality that my beauteous girl Lisa Marie has near us,” her mother, Priscilla Presley, said successful a statement, according to The Associated Press. “She was the astir passionate, beardown and loving pistillate I person ever known.”

The announcement came conscionable hours aft her parent had confirmed she was rushed to a section infirmary earlier Thursday. Presley had suffered cardiac arrest astatine her location successful Calabasas, the L.A. County Fire Dept. confirmed to Rolling Stone. Just days earlier the incident, Presley attended the Golden Globes alongside her mother, Priscilla, wherever Austin Butler, who portrayed Elvis successful the biopic astir the musician, was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actor successful a Motion Picture – Drama. “Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I emotion you forever,” Butler said during his acceptance speech.

Born connected Feb. 1, 1968 successful Memphis, Tennessee, 9 months aft Elvis and Priscilla’s wedding, Lisa Marie was raised successful the country earlier moving to Los Angeles with her parent pursuing her parents’ divorcement successful 1973. As the girl of 1 of the astir celebrated artists successful history, Presley forged her ain vocation successful music. She released 3 albums: 2003’s To Whom It May Concern, which was gold-certified for implicit 500,000 units sold successful the United States, 2005’s So What, and 2012’s Storm & Grace. Throughout her enactment she paid homage to a antheral whose a benignant and code everlastingly echoed passim the American soundscape.

On her last album, Storm and Grace, the earthy country, people and blues postulation embraced her Southern roots and household name. The twelvemonth it was released, she spoke with Rolling Stone astir uncovering her roots arsenic she got older. “I’m ever feeling a spot similar I request to combat and kick, I don’t cognize why. But each I ended up doing successful the past by trying to bash thing other was stepping and tripping connected my ain feet,” she told Rolling Stone. “It was ever against myself and hurting myself, though I was reasoning I was warring different people. I had to spell done those phases, I did. So then, yes, I’m not doing that anymore.”

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In 1998, she joined instrumentalist Danny Keough. The brace separated aft six years and had 2 children, including the histrion Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, who died by termination successful 2020 astatine the property of 27.

She was joined to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996. Often billed arsenic the girl of the king of stone n’ rotation who joined the king of pop, their narration was mired successful tabloids and media attention. Two years aft her matrimony with Jackson ended, Lisa Marie joined histrion Nicholas Cage on the 25th day of Elvis’ decease during a ceremonial successful Hawaii. Less than 4 months aft their wedding, the brace announced they were separating.

Her 4th matrimony was to Michael Lockwood, with whom she had duplicate daughters, Finley Lockwood and Harper Lockwood. They divorced successful 2021.

Presley has been unfastened astir her wellness struggles successful the past, including her sobriety travel aft suffering from an addiction to opioids.

“You whitethorn work this and wonderment how, aft losing radical adjacent to me, I besides fell prey to opioids,” she wrote in The United States of Opioids, referring to her begetter and ex-husband Michael Jackson, according to Yahoo. “I was recovering aft the [2008] commencement of my daughters, Vivienne and Finley, erstwhile a doc prescribed maine opioids for pain. It lone took a short-term medicine of opioids successful the infirmary for maine to consciousness the request to support taking them.”