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Fame accompanied her from the cradle and her life had all the ingredients of the great rock sagas. Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley, died in Los Angeles at the age of 54 after suffering a heart attack. “Priscilla Presley and the Presley family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Lisa Marie. They are deeply grateful for everyone’s support, love and prayers, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time,” reads the statement issued. for the family.
Lisa Marie was born on February 1, 1968 in Memphis and was the only daughter of the king of rock and his wife, Priscilla. She came into the world only 9 months after her parents’ wedding and in one of the best professional moments of her father, baptized as the king of rock. Four years later his parents separated and at the age of 9 he had to take the first big blow of his life: the death of his father from a heart attack at only 42 years of age.
Lonely, melancholic and strange: this is how she herself defined her childhood in the Los Angeles Times. Her rebellious, drug-ridden adolescence caused her mother to send her to various boarding schools. A difficult youth that she wanted to leave behind, making a name for herself in the world of music. And that the shadow of her father was very long. Her first album To Whom It May Concern, It was released in 2003 and it didn’t take long for it to reach fifth place on the Billboard charts. She wrote almost all the lyrics and participated in the composition of the songs, always trying to show that she was not there because of his last name but because of his talent.
A troubled sentimental life
Then came the albums now what (2005) and Storm & Grace (2012). In parallel to his musical career, his life did not stop making big headlines. At just 20 years old, she married musician Danny Keough, with whom she had her daughter Riley and her son Benjamin Storm. Six years later the couple divorced and In just a few weeks, Lisa Marie made headlines on all front pages for her wedding to Michael Jackson. In an interview she said that she had fallen in love with him and had fallen into the trap of believing that she was going to save that poor misunderstood man. The marriage ended in January 1996, but they continued to be lovers for a few more years and fueled a story that did not stop generating media interest.
In 2002, it was the actor Nicholas Cage who became her third husband. The marriage only lasted a few months and he claimed “irreconcilable differences” to obtain a divorce. Her last husband was Michael Lockwood, a musician in her band, whom she married in 2006. In 2008 they had twins Harper and Finley. In 2016 the couple divorced. Y In 2020 Lisa Marie suffered the hardest blow of her life: the death of her son Benjaminwho was found with a gunshot wound at age 27.
Just two days before she died, Lisa Marie had gone with her mother to the Golden Globes, to support the Baz Luhrmann film Elvisfor which Austin Butler won the Best Actor award.
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The death of Lisa Marie (54), the daughter of Elvis Presley, which enlarges the dramatic family legend