Lisa Marie Presley, the Daughter of Elvis Presley, Dies at 54 - The New York Times

U.S.|Lisa Marie Presley, the Daughter of Elvis Presley, Dies astatine 54

Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and lone kid of Elvis Presley, died connected Thursday aft a aesculapian exigency and little hospitalization. She was 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.”

Earlier successful the day, Priscilla Presley said that her girl had been receiving aesculapian attraction but did not stock much information.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said successful a connection connected Thursday that it had responded to a telephone astir a pistillate successful Calabasas, Calif., who was “not breathing” but did not further specify the person’s condition. Her representative, Roger Widynowski, could not beryllium instantly reached for remark connected Thursday night.

“Upon the deputies’ arrival, paramedics were performing CPR and assessing the patient’s status,” the authorities said. “They determined the diligent had signs of beingness and instantly transported her to a section infirmary for further aesculapian care.”

The girl of 1 of the astir celebrated artists successful history, Ms. Presley followed the vocation way of her father, Elvis Presley. She released 3 albums successful which she acceptable retired to separate her stone dependable portion besides paying homage to the antheral who everlastingly changed the American soundscape by blending blues, gospel, popular and country.

The tremendous bequest of her begetter was a changeless beingness passim her life. On Tuesday, she was again celebrating him astatine the Golden Globes, telling Extra TV that Austin Butler, who won the pb acting grant for play for his show successful Baz Luhrmann’s biopic “Elvis” connected Tuesday, had perfectly captured the essence of her father.

“I was mind-blown, truly,” said Ms. Presley, who was 9 years aged erstwhile her begetter died successful 1977. “I really had to take, like, 5 days to process it due to the fact that it was truthful spot connected and authentic.”

The begetter and girl were highly close, with Elvis erstwhile flying her retired to Idaho aft she said she had ne'er seen snow.

But her past sanction had ever enshrined her arsenic a celebrity. And her star-studded relationships lone deepened that perception.

From 1994 to 1996, she was joined to Michael Jackson. Together, the brace — 1 the girl of the king of stone n’ roll, the different regarded arsenic the king of popular — attracted the glare of cameras and bountiful attention. In 2002, she joined the histrion Nicolas Cage, but the mates separated wrong a four-month play that aforesaid year.

Before Mr. Jackson, she joined the instrumentalist Danny Keough successful 1998. They separated aft six years and had 2 children together, including the histrion Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, who died by termination astatine property 27 successful 2020. In caller years, she was joined to Michael Lockwood, with whom she had duplicate daughters, Finley Lockwood and Harper Lockwood. They divorced successful 2021.

In a 2022 People Magazine essay, Ms. Presley said that her beingness had been struck with death, grief and nonaccomplishment since her childhood, penning that the decease of Mr. Keough had been a devastating stroke to her and her 3 daughters.

“Grief does not halt oregon spell distant successful immoderate sense, a year, oregon years aft the loss,” she said. “Grief is thing you volition person to transportation with you for the remainder of your life, successful spite of what definite radical oregon our civilization wants america to believe.”

Kirsten Noyes contributed research.