Lisa Marie Presley, a singer-songwriter, Elvis’ solely daughter and a devoted keeper of her father’s legacy, died Thursday after being hospitalized for a medical emergency. She was 54.

Her dying in a Los Angeles hospital was confirmed by her mom, Priscilla, just a few hours after her daughter was rushed to the hospital after having a medical emergency at dwelling.

“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I need to share the devastating information that my lovely daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley mentioned in a press release. “She was probably the most passionate, sturdy and loving girl I’ve ever identified.”

Presley, the one youngster of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, shared her father’s brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and adopted him professionally, releasing her personal rock albums within the 2000s, and showing on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley amongst others.

She even fashioned direct musical ties along with her father, becoming a member of her voice to such Elvis recordings as “Within the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy,” a mournful ballad which had reminded him of the early dying of his mom (and Lisa Marie’s grandmother), Gladys Presley.

“It’s been all my life,” she instructed The Related Press in 2012, talking of her father’s affect. “It’s not one thing that I now take heed to and it’s totally different. Though I’d hear nearer. I stay constant on the truth that I’ve at all times been an admirer. He’s at all times influenced me.”

Her delivery, 9 months precisely after her mother and father’ wedding ceremony, was worldwide information and her background was not often removed from her thoughts. With the discharge final yr of Baz Luhrmann’s main musical characteristic “Elvis,” Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley had been attending crimson carpets and award reveals alongside stars from the movie.

She was on the Golden Globes on Tuesday, available to have fun Austin Butler’s award for taking part in her father. Simply days earlier than, she was in Memphis at Graceland — the mansion the place Elvis lived, and died — on Jan. 8 to have fun her father’s delivery anniversary.

Presley lived along with her mom, an actor identified for “Dallas” and the “Bare Gun” motion pictures, in California after her mother and father break up up in 1973. She recalled early reminiscences of her dad throughout her visits to Graceland, using golf carts by way of the neighborhood and seeing his every day entrances down the steps.

“He was at all times absolutely, absolutely equipped. You’d by no means see him in his pajamas coming down the steps, ever,” she instructed The Related Press in 2012. “You’d by no means see him in something however ‘able to be seen’ apparel.”

Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was simply 42, and she or he 9 years previous. Lisa Marie was staying at Graceland on the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours earlier than he would collapse and by no means recuperate. When she subsequent noticed him, the next day, he was mendacity face down within the rest room.

“I simply had a sense,” she instructed Rolling Stone in 2003. “He wasn’t doing properly. All I do know is I had it (a sense), and it occurred. I used to be obsessive about dying at a really early age.”

She would later make headlines of her personal. Struggles with medication and a few very public marriages. Her 4 husbands included Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.

Jackson and Presley have been married within the Dominican Republic in 1994, however the marriage ended two years later and was outlined by quite a few awkward public appearances, together with an surprising kiss from Jackson in the course of the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint interview with Diane Sawyer when she defended her husband in opposition to allegations he had sexually abused a minor.

Her different superstar marriage was even shorter: Cage filed for divorce after 4 months of marriage in 2002.

“I needed to kind of run into many partitions and timber,” she instructed the AP in 2012. “However now I may look again at it and inform you all of the stuff that was happening round me and all of the totally different folks round me and all of the awww — and it was not a great scenario anyway. That wasn’t serving to. Both manner, it was a rising course of. It was simply another way. It was simply out in entrance of everyone on a regular basis. As a result of it’s all documented in fact.”

Lisa Marie grew to become concerned in quite a few humanitarian causes, from anti-poverty applications administered by way of the Elvis Presley Charitable Basis to reduction efforts after Hurricane Katrina. She would obtain formal citations from New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee for her work.

Presley had two youngsters, actor Riley Keough, born in 1989, and Benjamin Keough, born in 1992, along with her former husband Danny Keough. She additionally had twin daughters, Harper and Finley Lockwood, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood in 2008.

Her marriage to Lockwood would finish in a combative and protracted divorce that started in 2016 and nonetheless was not resolved when she died, although they have been declared single in 2021. The battle noticed the women, now 15, put quickly in protecting custody in 2017. Presley and Lockwood later had joint custody, however have been nonetheless at odds over the difficulty, with Lockwood in search of extra youngster assist from Presley.

Benjamin Keough died by suicide in 2020 at 27. Presley was vocal about her grief, writing in an essay final August that she had “been dwelling within the horrific actuality of its unrelenting grips since my son’s dying two years in the past.”

“I’ve handled dying, grief and loss because the age of 9 years previous. I’ve had greater than anybody’s fair proportion of it in my lifetime and in some way, I’ve made it this far,” she wrote in an essay shared with Individuals journal.

“However this one, the dying of my lovely, lovely son? The sweetest and most unimaginable being that I’ve ever had the privilege of figuring out, who made me really feel so honored each single day to be his mom? Who was a lot like his grandfather on so many ranges that he truly scared me? Which made me fear about him much more than I naturally would have?” the essay continued. “No. Simply no … no no no no …”

Lisa Marie grew to become the only real inheritor of the Elvis Presley Belief after her father died. Together with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the belief managed Graceland and different belongings till she bought her majority curiosity in 2005. She retained possession of Graceland Mansion itself, the 13 acres round it and objects inside the house. Her son is buried there, alongside along with her father and different members of the Presley household.

Lisa Marie Presley is a former Scientologist — her son was born in 1992 underneath tips set by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, in keeping with an AP story on the time — however later broke with Scientology.

Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley would make common journeys to Graceland throughout big fan celebrations on the anniversaries of Elvis’ dying and birthday. One among the 2 airplanes at Graceland is called the Lisa Marie.

After her first album “To Whom It Might Concern,” in 2003, some followers got here out to see her carry out simply out of curiosity given her well-known household, she instructed the AP in 2005.

“First I needed to overcome a pre-speculated concept of me,” she mentioned of the boundaries to turning into a singer-songwriter.

“I needed to kind of burst by way of that and introduce myself, and that was the primary hurdle, after which now sing in entrance of everyone, after which that was the second, and I’m the offspring of — you understand, who I’m the offspring of — I had just a few hurdles to get by way of, little question about it,” she continued. “However the scales by no means tipped within the different path an excessive amount of.”