“It is with a heavy heart that I must share this devastating news. My beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us. She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known,” Priscilla Presley announced on Thursday. January 12, 2023. The King’s daughter had been rushed to hospital hours earlier at West Hills Hospitals and Medical Center in Los Angeles. The intervention of the medical teams was unfortunately not enough to restart the heart of Lisa Marie Presley, who died of a heart attack like her father, at the age of 54. A tragedy all the more surprising since the singer had just made an appearance at the Golden Globes where comedian Austin Butler had just been rewarded for his breathtaking performance in the role of Elvis Presley.
The death of Lisa Marie Presley has also upset her ex-husband, Michael Lockwood, who is also the father of their twin daughters, 14-year-old Harper Vivienne and Finley Aaron. “Michael had hoped for a quick and full recovery because his daughters needed her. It’s very sad that it didn’t happen like that,” says the guitarist’s lawyer in the columns of the Washington Post at the end of the week. . The singer would have suffered several illnesses before being placed in an artificial coma, according to anonymous sources mentioned by the American media Page Six. Lisa Marie Presley also leaves behind actress Riley Keough, 33, born of a first marriage to musician Danny Keough at the turn of the 90s.
This touching tribute to Lisa Marie Presley by the King’s widow
Lisa Marie Presley was barely 5 years old when her parents divorced. After his breakup, Elvis would spend his last days on the arm of Ginger Alden, an actress twenty years his junior. On Facebook, the King’s last companion paid a vibrant tribute to the singer whom she had seen grow up in Graceland until that day in August 1977 when a heart attack brutally fell the king of rock’n’roll from his throne. roll. “We had a good time when she visited us, Elvis and me, at Graceland, when she was just a child, in 1977, remembers Ginger Alden, who recounts the memories of happy days. I remember Lisa walking into Elvis’ room one night, sitting up on his bed, and while she was watching television, he clapped my hand silently behind her and waved at me. said, ‘She has the same look as me’.” Eyes are on Graceland today where Lisa Marie Presley will be buried alongside her son Benjamin Storm Keough, who died in 2020 at the age of 27.
Lisa Marie Presley © FAMEFLYNET
