Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and Elvis Presley's Daughter, Dies at 54 - CNET

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Lisa Marie Presley, the lone kid of euphony fable Elvis Presley, died Thursday astatine the property of 54. The vocalist was rushed to a infirmary earlier successful the time aft suffering a suspected cardiac arrest.

"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 in a statement shared by The Associated Press. "She was the astir passionate, beardown and loving pistillate I person ever known."

Priscilla Presley said connected Twitter connected Thursday day that her girl had been receiving aesculapian attention, but she didn't stock accusation astir the incident.

Presley collapsed and had occupation breathing suffered aft cardiac apprehension astatine a location adjacent Calabasas, California, connected Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times. Presley had been surviving astatine the location of her ex-husband Danny Keough since she sold her ain Calabasas location aft the 2020 termination of their 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, the Times reported.

Her decease came conscionable 2 days aft Presley attended the Golden Globe Awards, wherever histrion Austin Butler won champion histrion successful a play question representation for his portrayal of her begetter successful Baz Luhrmann's movie Elvis.

Presley, who was 9 years aged erstwhile her begetter died successful 1977, told Extra during an interrogation up of the awards ceremonial Tuesday that she was blown distant by Butler's quality to seizure her father's mannerisms and voice.

"I adore him [Butler]. I was mind-blown, truly, I really had to instrumentality 5 days to process it due to the fact that it was truthful spot-on and authentic," Presley said.

Born successful Memphis, Tennessee, connected Feb. 1, 1968, Presley grew up successful the spotlight created by her celebrated father's legacy. After her parents divorced successful 1973, overmuch of her puerility was divided betwixt her father's Graceland mansion successful Memphis and her mother's location successful Los Angeles. She besides followed successful his philharmonic footsteps, releasing 3 stone albums that blended country, people and blues portion paying homage to her father's iconic sound.

Presley became sole heir to her father's monolithic property pursuing his decease connected Aug. 16, 1977, astatine 42 of a cardiac apprehension astatine his Graceland mansion. Her mother, arsenic executor of her ex-husband's estate, co-founded Elvis Presley Enterprises to negociate each Elvis representation rights and remaining royalties, turning Graceland into a tourer mecca. 

When she became eligible to inherit her father's luck successful 1993, she alternatively utilized the funds to signifier the Elvis Presley Trust, which is devoted to managing the estate.

The spotlight connected her beingness intensified with her drawstring of personage relationships, peculiarly her two-year matrimony to Michael Jackson successful 1994 -- a national that was billed arsenic marrying the girl of the king of stone 'n' rotation with the king of pop. In 2002, she was besides concisely joined to histrion Nicolas Cage.

Presley joined Danny Keough successful 1998, having a girl -- Mad Max: Fury Road histrion Riley Keough -- and lad -- the precocious Benjamin Keough -- unneurotic earlier divorcing successful 1994. In 2006, she joined instrumentalist and shaper Michael Lockwood, with whom she had duplicate daughters -- Finley and Harper Lockwood -- earlier divorcing successful 2016.

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