Bowel obstruction from weight op killed Lisa Marie
LISA Marie Presley died of complications from weight loss surgery she had several years ago, a post-mortem examination revealed.
The singer, the only child of Elvis Presley, suffered a bowel obstruction, the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office ruled.
Presley died after being rushed to a California hospital on January 12. She was 54.
At the time of her death, local officials said that first responders had been dispatched to her home in Calabasas, where they found her in cardiac arrest.
Complication
But the cause of death was stated as “sequelae,” or the after effect, “of small bowel obstruction”.
The issue is a known long-term complication of bariatric surgery, the report said.
Surgery can include the use of a gastric band, a gastric bypass or a sleeve gastrectomy.
The medical examiner’s office said she died of natural causes and no additional causes or significant conditions were listed.
Presley had complained about abdominal pain in the months before her death, and she was found unresponsive at her home the morning before, the report said.
She also had “therapeutic levels” of the pain reliever oxycodone and trace amounts of other substances in her blood, which did not contribute to her death, it added.
Lisa Marie was buried on January 22 at Graceland – the famous Memphis home where she lived with her father as a child.
It became a museum, tourist attraction and shrine for Elvis fans.
She left three daughters, 34-yearold actor Riley Keough and 15-yearold twins Harper and Finley Lockwood. A son, Benjamin Keough, died in 2020 by suicide.
Four days after her funeral, her mother, Priscilla Presley, filed legal documents disputing a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie’s living trust.
The papers had removed Elvis’s ex-wife, 78, and a former business manager as trustees and replaced them with her children.
Priscilla and Keough, who is now acting as sole trustee, agreed to a settlement in May.