1968 — 2023
Lisa visited Memphis regularly, where her father doted on her, once flying her in a private jet to Idaho so she could see snow for the first time and play in it for an hour.
She was at Graceland when Elvis died in August 1977. In Los Angeles, her mother was more disciplinarian, but having converted to Scientology enrolled her at the church’s Apple school.
Lisa Marie left the Westlake school for girls when she was 17. She was living at their Celebrity Centre on Sunset Boulevard, and there she met the musician Danny Keough. They married at the Scientology headquarters in 1988.
In 1994, after six years of marriage and the birth of a son and a daughter, Lisa Marie went to the Dominican Republic, divorced Keough and a few weeks later married Jackson. She first met Jackson when she was seven, at a show in Las Vegas, but they became friendly in 1992 and later divorced in 1996.
In 1997 she appeared in a music video, Don’t Cry Daddy, in which she sang a duet with her father – her vocals laid over his original recording – to mark the 20th anniversary of his death. On the 25th anniversary of her father’s death, in 2002, she had married the actor Nicolas Cage, who, in the 1992 film Honeymoon in Vegas, had joined the skydiving Flying Elvises impersonators. Cage filed for divorce in 1992. She said Cage considered her just another Elvis souvenir. In 2006, she married Michael Lockwood, the guitarist in her band. Lisa and Lockwood had twin daughters, but announced they were divorcing in 2016. On the week before her death she travelled to Graceland to mark her father’s 88th birthday, and went alonside her mother to the Golden Globe 2023 ceremony in Los Angeles. She is survived by her mother, her three daughters, Riley, from her first marriage, and Harper and Finley, from her fourth.
She was 54 years old when she died.
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