Singer Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley, died Thursday aged 54, her mother said to the American media. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share devastating news: my dear daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley wrote in a statement.
The King’s daughter had been rushed to hospital Thursday morning, according to a message posted earlier by his mother on social media. She had been placed in an artificial coma, on life support, after a cardiac arrest, according to the people site TMZ, which relied on anonymous sources. Lisa Marie Presley was “unconscious” when her housekeeper discovered her at her home Thursday morning in Calabasas, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles, according to the site.
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Her ex-husband, Danny Keough, who also lives on the property, performed CPR until paramedics arrived and took her to hospital. The unnamed sources told TMZ that the singer did not attempt suicide. In 2020, her son Benjamin Keough killed himself at the age of 27, a disappearance that had “destroyed” her, she wrote in an essay on mourning in august 2022.
“She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I know”, greeted her mother in her press release to the People site, asking to respect the privacy of the family and thanking the fans for their “love and prayers”. .
Without confirming the identity of the patient, Los Angeles firefighters told the press that their teams had taken care of a woman in her fifties who suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after 10:30 a.m. Asked, a press officer for Lisa Marie Presley did not immediately respond to AFP.
Present at the Golden Globes on Sunday
The singer was seen with her mother on Tuesday at the Golden Globes ceremony, where Austin Butler received an award for his role in the biopic “Elvis.” The actor, whose larger-than-life incarnation of the rock’n’roll legend has been widely acclaimed, dedicated a word to the two women during his onstage speech. “Thank you for opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me. Lisa Marie and Priscilla, I love you forever,” he said. At the microphone of Access Hollywood, Lisa Marie Presley had praised her performance “more real than nature”.
Just days before Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest at her home, Lisa shared with Access Hollywood at the 2023 Golden Globes what the movie “Elvis” meant to her famous family. pic.twitter.com/d8ywaHPRVx
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Lisa Marie Presley was Elvis’ only child. She previously controlled Elvis Presley Enterprises, but sold most of her stake to a private equity firm in 2005.
She retained control of Graceland, the Memphis, Tennessee property her father owned and where he was found unconscious in August 1977, before being taken to hospital and his death attributed to a heart attack. His father’s toxicology reports revealed high levels of drugs in the rock ‘n’ roll legend’s system.
Lisa Marie Presley has released three albums during her career and is the mother of actor Riley Keough, who starred in Mad Max: Fury Road. Besides Danny Keough, whom she divorced in 1994, she was also briefly married to Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and actor-songwriter Michael Lockwood.
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