actress and singer Lisa Marie Presley died at the age of 54 after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital this afternoon after suffering serious heart problems. Her mother, Priscilla Presley, confirmed the news, according to the agency. AP.
In an interview for the magazine People, the mother announced the death of her daughter. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us.”, he commented.
“She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever met. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. Thanks for the love and prayers. There will be no further comment at this time,” she added.
On Thursday afternoon, when the first signs of heart problems were reported, paramedics administered first aid at his home located at 5900 Normandy Drive in Calabasas, a small town in the San Fernando Valley where many celebrities live. , as a result of a picture with symptoms very similar to those of a heart attack.
The first news reports indicated that emergency teams performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers and administered medication to help Presley regain her pulse before she was taken to West Hills Hospital. Nevertheless, in the hospital a few hours later he died as a result of heart failure.
Born in 1968, Lisa Marie spent her entire life in the spotlightfollowing in her father’s footsteps into the world of music as a singer-songwriter, albeit with mixed success. He would be 55 years old on February 1 next.
When her father died of a cardiac arrhythmia on August 16, 1977, Lisa Marie became the sole heir to his enormous estate.including his iconic Graceland mansion, located in Memphis, Tennessee, which he and his mother turned into a lucrative tourist attraction.
He was nine years old when Elvis died at Graceland in 1977. His own musical career began with a 2003 debut album, “To Whom It May Concern.” It was followed by 2005’s “Now What,” and both reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart. A third album, “Storm and Grace,” was released in 2012.
In her last public appearance, Lisa appeared Tuesday in Beverly Hills for the Golden Globe award ceremonyaccompanying Austin Butler, the actor who plays his father in the hit film about the King of Rock directed by Baz Luhrmann.
Together with his mother, they celebrated Butler’s triumph as best leading actor on that occasion. for a dramatic film, which further improves its chances of garnering an upcoming Oscar nomination.
The actress, who total four marriages (was married to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage), I had three children, one of which is actress Riley Keough. Until 2005, she controlled all the businesses linked to the brand that bears the name of her father through the firm Elvis Presley Enterprises.
That year he got rid of the business for a million-dollar figure, but to this day he remained the owner of Graceland, the Memphis (Tennessee) mansion that was home to Elvis and today is a must-see pilgrimage site for his fans all over the planet.
In May 2021, Lisa Marie Presley first referred to the death of his son Benjaminwho committed suicide in July 2020, at the age of 27.
“I haven’t posted in quite a while because there really isn’t much to say, since I am and will always be in mourning for the loss of my son”, he wrote at the time in an Instagram post. “Navigating through this horrible pain that has utterly destroyed and shattered my heart and soul to almost nothing, it has completely consumed me. There isn’t much else besides my other 3 kids that gets my time and attention anymore,” she added.
One of Presley’s last appearances on social media had in fact been in October 2020, when he dedicated some sweet words to Benjamin on what would have been her 28th birthday. “My beautiful, beautiful angel. I revere the ground you stepped on on this earth and now in heaven. My heart and soul went with you. The depth of pain without you is suffocating at every moment of the day and has no bottom. I will never be the same, ”she began writing.
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