Lisa Presley Obituary – Lisa Marie Presley, a singer-songwriter, died. 54. “It is with a heavy heart that I must bring the devastating news that my darling daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla told PEOPLE Thursday night. She was the most passionate, strong, and loving woman I’ve ever known. We request privacy as we grieve. Thank you. No more comments.” On Thursday, EMTs were called to Presley’s Calabasas, California, home for a possible heart attack.
After her parents’ 1973 divorce, Lisa Marie relocated to Los Angeles with her mother at 4. Nine months after Elvis and Priscilla’s wedding, Memphis, Tennessee’s Lisa Marie was born. Elvis Presley died in August 1977, leaving Lisa Marie, then 9, Vernon Presley, and Minnie Mae Hood Presley as joint heirs. After their deaths in 1979 and 1980, she inherited Graceland and was the only heir.
“He’d often wake me up to sing in the middle of the night, hop on the table and sing,” Lisa Marie claimed about Elvis on Good Morning America in 2009. I only remember him as my dad. Lisa Marie married Chicago musician Danny Keough in October 1988 and had two children, Riley in 1989 and Benjamin in 1992. Five-and-a-half years after marrying, the couple divorced.
When she was seven, she met Michael Jackson, then a Jackson Five member, at one of her father’s Las Vegas shows. They married in 30 days. I’m Michael’s wife because I love him. “Lisa Marie at the moment read a statement,” I agree. “Starting a family excites us.” Jackson and Lisa Marie split two years later. “The one thing that resonates with Michael and with my father on this subject is that they had the luxury of building whatever universe around them,” she told Oprah Winfrey in 2016. They might pick supporters and detractors. If not, they may be discarded.”
Inside the Presley Family’s Highs and Lows. At a Johnny Ramone birthday party in 2000, she met actor Nicolas Cage, who was married to Patricia Arquette. Their engagement to Hawaiian-born musician John Oszajca ended. Two years later, Lisa Marie and Cage married privately in Hawaii on Elvis Presley’s 25th anniversary. After four months, the couple divorced.
Lisa Marie told her publicist, Paul Bloch, “I’m heartbroken about this, but we shouldn’t have gotten married.” Her fourth husband was Michael Lockwood, with whom she had Harper and Finley in 2007. Lisa Marie divorced June 2016. Legally divorced in 2021. Since their divorce, they have fought over child custody. In 2014, Lisa Marie told Healthy Living she was “ferociously protective” of her children. “I shower them in love,” she stated. “They’re my priority.
That’s my job. That worries me. I keep them close and happy.” Benjamin, Lisa Marie’s son, committed suicide on July 12, 2020, the day before his 28th birthday. “My beloved little angel,” she wrote on Instagram after his death. I’m yours. Without you, I suffer daily.”