PRESLEY DEATH ‘DEVASTATING’
Heart attack kills Elvis heir
SINGER Lisa Marie Presley – the only child of rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis – is dead after a cardiac arrest.
The 54-year-old collapsed at her home in Calabasas, California, and was found by her former husband Danny Keough and her housekeeper on Friday.
Keough performed CPR until paramedics arrived and were able to restore a pulse before Lisa Marie was transported to West Hills hospital.
She remained in a critical condition and on life support with a temporary pacemaker fitted before she died just hours later.
Her mother, Priscilla, made the mercy dash to be by her daughter’s side at the hospital as the tragic news broke.
“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla confirmed in a statement to People magazine.
“She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.
“We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comment.”
Lisa Marie, who was nine when her father died in 1977 also of a heart attack, attended the Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday night in Beverly Hills with her mother.
The pair watched as Austin Butler won a Globe for his portrayal of the King of Rock ’n’ Roll in the film Elvis.
Both were seen breaking down in tears during Butler’s speech after he won Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama for his role as Elvis.
Butler even said he would love the ladies “forever”.
Lisa Marie is still the owner of Graceland, Elvis’s famed Memphis estate.
However,
she sold Elvis Presley Enterprises, the business she once operated, in 2005.
The Presleys had grown close to Butler as he made the film with director Baz Luhrmann.
The event marked a rare public appearance for Lisa Marie, whose only son, Benjamin, died by suicide in 2020 at the age of 27.
She married four times – to musician Danny Keough, singer Michael Jackson, actor Nicolas Cage and music producer Michael Lockwood.
Lisa Marie had two children with Keough, including Benjamin and daughter Riley, 33. She also shares 14year-old twins Finley and Harper with Lockwood.
Last year in People magazine she wrote of her grief at the loss of Benjamin, which she said “destroyed”.
“Death is part of life whether we like it or not – and so is grieving; there is so much to learn and understand on the subject,” Presley wrote.
“But here’s what I know so far: One is that grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss.
“Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not ‘get over it’, you do not ‘move on’, period.”