How Lisa Marie Presley's rollercoaster life was beset by tragedy

, the only daughter of legendary rock icon Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla, has died aged 54 from a ‘full cardiac arrest’ on Thursday.

The mother-of-four was discovered unresponsive by a housekeeper, with sources saying her first husband, Danny Keough, returned to the house they were sharing and performed CPR until paramedics arrived.

EMTs were able to and rush her to a local hospital, but she was pronounced dead a few hours later.

Her mother, Priscilla, was later seen arriving at the hospital to support her daughter – an hour after reports of the medical emergency. 

She eventually released a statement saying: ‘It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us.’ 

‘She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. 

‘Thank you for the love and prayers.At this time there will be no further comment.’

As the only daughter of rock ‘n’ roll royalty, Lisa Marie was quickly thrust into the limelight as a child and has had her fair share of tragedy.

In recent years, she has opened up about her crippling drug addiction, including painkillers, opioids and cocaine.

Rock n’ roll heir’s battle with addiction

While writing the foreword for Harry Nelson’s book – The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain – she opened up for the first time about her addiction to painkillers, opioids and cocaine. 

Presley said in the book, written in 2019, that she was ‘grateful to be alive today’ before explaining that she first started taking opioids after the birth of her twins Vivienne and Finley in 2008.

She said: ‘You may read this and wonder how, after losing people close to me, I also fell prey to opioids.

‘It only took a short-term prescription of opioids in the hospital for me to feel the need to keep taking them.’

Addiction has been a part of the star’s life since she was a child, with her father and ex-husband, Michael Jackson, both dying due to complications from drug use.

Lisa Marie was just nine when she saw her father’s dead body slumped face -down on the carpet, as she recalled crying as she said ‘my daddy’s dead’.

His body was not removed from the property following his death in August 1977, which Lisa Marie previously said made it ‘not seem real’ to her – adding it was ‘oddly comforting’.

Lisa Marie’s four failed marriages 

Lisa Marie has fought to keep her addiction private, but details of her battle for sobriety emerged as she filed paperwork to divorce her fourth husband – musician Michael Lockwood.

She married Danny Keough in 1988 and stayed with him for six years.They had daughter Riley and son Benjamin together, before she married Jackson in 1994.

The pair became friends after meeting in 1975 at a concert in Las Vegas, but did not build on their budding relationship until they had dinner with a mutual friend in Los Angeles.

However, their marriage only lasted two years and became quickly overwhelmed with problems – including Jackson being accused of abusing children.

She claims she was ‘sucked into’ believing that Jackson was a ‘misunderstood person,’ and their wedding came a year after Jordan Chandler filed a lawsuit against the signer alleging sexual abuse.

Lisa Marie told Rolling Stone in 2003 that she became obsessed with trying to ‘save’ the star and thought that they could ‘save the world’ together.

Reflecting on the effect the marriage has had on her life and reputation, she said: ‘All I did get out of it was a s**t storm.And I got out of it.’

She said that she was aware of his drug addiction in 1995 – just a year after they tied the knot – after he collapsed on stage while rehearsing for an HBO special concert.

She gave the superstar an ultimatum – choose the drugs or her.He chose the drugs.

The star said that she would regularly see her second husband come back from his dermatologist’s office ‘completely out of it’.

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She insisted that their marriage was real and not a publicity stunt, often saying she tried to fix in Jackson what she couldn’t with Elvis.

Even after their split, the pair stayed close friends, with her flying ‘all over the world’ to be with him.

The last time they spoke was in 2005 just before he went on trial for another molestation allegation.

At the time he asked if she still loved him, but they stopped speaking after she said she was ‘indifferent’.

Lisa Marie explained that she was very emotional when she discovered he had died in 2009, saying ‘it was the strangest day of my life.’

She then became engaged to singer John Oszajca, before breaking off their relationship after meeting actor Nicholas Cage.

The two had a marriage that lasted just 107 days – from 2002 to 2004 – with Cage filing for divorce after they failed to ‘stabilize’ each other’s lives.

Speaking in 2003, she reflected on her relationship with the Hollywood star, compared themselves to ‘tyrannical pirates’.

She said: ‘So we connected, we had a great connection. We were both a bit – we’re sort of these gypsy spirited, you know, tyrannical pirates.

‘And one pirate marries another they will sink the ship basically is what it comes down to.

‘It was kind of one of those things where you marry someone hoping…to either stabilize my life or it’s going to, you know, accentuate all that was going on prior to what was problematic. So it kind of did the latter, that’s all.’ 

She married musician Michael Lockwood for ten years, between 2006 and 2016.They had twins Finley and Harper together.

Lisa Marie Presley’s struggle with cocaine 

She tried to keep the majority of her battles private, but the couple’s divorce papers revealed the extent of her cocaine habit.

The singer admitted that her problems with sobriety started in 2003, after years of witnessing those around her struggle.

As a teenager, her drug abuse led to her being admitted to The Castle – a Scientology center in Hollywood – for rehab.

She also became embroiled in the trial of That ‘70s Show actor Danny Masterson, and apologized to his alleged victims, after the Church asked her to persuade his accusers not to report him to the police.

She admits to having seen her father taking ‘handfuls of pills’ and remembers his ‘erratic behavior’ towards the end of his life’.

Her foreword continued: ‘It’s a difficult path to overcome this dependence and to put my life back together.

‘Even in recent years, I have seen too many people I loved struggle with addiction and die tragically from this epidemic.

‘It is time for us to say goodbye to shame about addiction. We have to stop blaming and judging ourselves and the people around us.That starts with sharing our stories.’ 

She says that her therapist called her a ‘miracle’ before adding: ‘I don’t know how you’re still alive.’

Amid the divorce proceedings with Lockwood, she temporarily lost custody of her twin daughters, who went to live with her mother Priscilla.

In a 2017 deposition, a year after the acrimonious split, she admitted to abusing cocaine, opioids, painkillers and alcohol.

Lisa Marie added that she had to go to rehab ‘several times’, admitting to between three and five stints in a Mexican treatment facility.

She said she was a ‘mess’ and ‘couldn’t stop’, with court documents revealing in the last year of her marriage to Lockwood she was ‘abusing cocaine terribly’.

The singer added: ‘I didn’t mix the pills and alcohol until, like, the last two years.’

Celebrity daughter suffers financial troubles 

Lockwood and Lisa Marie spent years fighting about finances and were still continuing the battle up to her death on Thursday.

He was seeking $40,000 a month in child support and insisted she had more money than she claimed in court documents. 

Presley, in turn, said she was at one point $16 million in debt, following disastrous business deals made by her business manager Barry Siegel.

She took control of the trust in 1993, aged 25.

At the time of his death Elvis was worth only $5 million, but Priscilla cannily turned Graceland into a tourist attraction and set up Elvis Presley Enterprises, capitalizing on his image and massive fandom.

By the time Lisa Marie took the reins, the fund was worth a healthy $100 million.

She appointed Barry Siegel in 1995 to manage the money.

Siegel, senior managing director of Provident Financial Management and a prominent entertainment business manager, counted Al Pacino, Elijah Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons as his clients.

But in 2005 Siegel sold off 85 percent of her share in Elvis Presley Enterprises, which saw her lose control of her father’s name and image rights.

Siegel said the deal ‘cleared up over $20m in debts that Lisa had incurred and netted her over $40m cash and a multi-million dollar income stream’.

Presley said it lost her millions thanks to a subsequent investment in Core Entertainment, the company behind American Idol that went bankrupt in 2016.

He then allegedly began liquidating Presley’s assets in order to supplement her trust income.

She also claimed his business decisions left her with a $500,000 credit card debt.

Leon Gladstone, a lawyer representing Barry Siegel, said at the time: ‘It’s clear that Lisa Marie is going through a difficult time in her life and is looking to blame others instead of taking responsibility for her actions.’

 Star suffers the loss of her son

In 2020 Lisa Marie almost completely retreated from the spotlight following the death of Benjamin.

One of the first times she reappeared in public was to celebrate Elvis’ birthday with her daughter Riley and Austin Butler.

She also appeared at an event in Orlando on January 6, with tickets to the evening costing $750.

The heiress’s only son committed suicide at age 27 – and had cocaine and alcohol in his system.

Benjamin died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the family’s $1.8M Calabasas home after an argument with his girlfriend of three years, Diana Pinto.

He had attempted to take his life six months earlier and had been to rehab four times but never completed his recovery.

In August, she finally opened up about the grief she felt in losing her son, penning an essay about her attempts to move on from her son Benjamin’s death to mark National Grief Awareness.

‘I can understand why people may want to avoid you once a terrible tragedy has struck.Especially a parent losing their child because it is truly your worst nightmare,’ she wrote in her essay, which was published by People.

Presley went on to admit that she had kept her distance from the parents of other people whose children died by suicide, something that seemed to haunt her.

‘I can recall a couple of times in my life where I knew parents who lost their child and while I could be there for them when it happened, I avoided them after and never bothered to follow up with them because they quite literally became a representative of my biggest fear,’ she wrote.

‘I also low-key judged them, and I swore I’d never do whatever it was that I felt they either did or neglected in their parental actions and choices with their child.’

The daughter of Priscilla Presley — who was seen rushing to her side at the hospital after her medical emergency — wrote that she had been ‘living in the horrific reality’ of grief’s ‘unrelenting grips’ ever since her son’s death.

Presley admitted in her essay that grief is not a ‘comfortable subject for anyone’ and is ‘most unpopular’ to discuss.

But she believed it was necessary to speak openly about grief and tragedy if any ‘progress’ was to be made.

Presley added that her son reminded her of her father, which only troubled her further.

He was ‘so much like his grandfather on so many levels that he actually scared me,’ she wrote, adding that it, ‘made me worry about him even more than I naturally would have.’

Two years after Benjamin’s death, Lisa had not felt much relief from the tragic loss, and even worse, she blamed herself for her son’s death.

‘I already battle with and beat myself up tirelessly and chronically, blaming myself every single day and that’s hard enough to now live with,’ she confessed, adding that, ‘others will judge and blame you too, even secretly or behind your back which is even more cruel and painful on top of everything else.’

She opined that ‘grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss.Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe.

‘You do not «get over it,» you do not «move on,» period,’ she wrote.

Drug abuse and multiple stints in rehab: Lisa Marie admitted abusing cocaine, had five stints in rehab (during fourth failed marriage) and became addicted to opioids after birth of her twin daughters 

Lisa Marie Presley died on Thursday at the age of 54, after a life long lived in the shadow of drug and alcohol abuse.

She abused drugs from the age of 13-17, until her mother checked her into a Scientology rehab center.

Her son Benjamin died by suicide in July 2020 aged just 22, after a long battle with addiction. Her two-year marriage to Michael Jackson collapsed amid his drug abuse, and she herself became addicted to opioids in 2008, when she was given a short-term prescription during her recovery from the birth of her twin daughters, Vivienne and Finley.

By 2013, she was heavily abusing cocaine, and checked into rehab at least five times.

She was believed to have been sober in recent years, but following her son’s death her ex-husband Michael Lockwood said he feared she could relapse.

The daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was just nine when her father died aged 42 of a heart attack, likely brought on by his addiction to prescription barbiturates.

As the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, she was quickly thrust into the limelight as a child and had more than her fair share of tragedy

Lisa Marie said she had to go to rehab ‘several times’, admitting to between three and five stints in a Mexican treatment facility

The little girl found his dead body slumped face-down on the carpet, with his girlfriend Ginger Alden trying to revive him, and recalled crying as she said ‘my daddy’s dead’.

His body was not removed from the property for three days following his death in August 1977, which Lisa Marie previously said made it ‘not seem real’ to her, and was ‘oddly comforting’.

As a teenager, she rebelled with drugs from the age of 13 to 17, but her mother put her into The Castle, a Scientology center in Hollywood, to get her off drugs.

‘I did everything but mushrooms and heroin or crack,’ she said.

‘Cocaine, sedatives, pot, and drinking — all at the same time…I don’t know how I lived through it.

‘I woke up one day with a bunch of people on the floor. I drove myself to the Church of Scientology and said: ‘Somebody… help me right now.»

For a time it worked, and Presley said she was drug-free from the age of 17.

At the age of 27, she married Michael Jackson – her second marriage, after a six-year union with actor Danny Keough, father of Benjamin and his actress sister Riley, now 33.

By the time of their 1994 wedding, he had been addicted to opioids for over a decade, following an 1984 accident on the set of a Pepsi commercial which left him with severe burns.

Lisa Marie and her second husband, Michael Jackson, are seen in Paris in 1994

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley at Neverland Ranch in 1995

Lisa Marie had a shotgun wedding to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, (left) just 20 days after she finalized her divorce with Danny Keough.She then went on to marry Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage (right) in a marriage that lasted just 107 days – with Cage filing for divorce

The last time Jackson and Lisa Marie spoke was in 2005 just before he went on trial for another molestation allegation

He checked into rehab in 1993, saying: ‘I became increasingly more dependent on the painkillers to get me through the days of my tour.’

He canceled the latter part of his 1993 ‘Dangerous’ world tour and announced that he was going into treatment.

Presley said she hoped their marriage would quell his addictions.

‘I fell into this whole, ‘You poor, sweet, misunderstood man, I’m going to save you,» she said in 2003.

‘I fell in love with him.’

But finally she gave him an ultimatum – and he chose drugs.

‘He had to make a decision. Was it the drugs and the vampires or me?’ she told Oprah Winfrey in 2003.

‘And he pushed me away.’

Their divorce was finalized in 1996.

Her third marriage, to Nicholas Cage, lasted only three months – Cage had also battled drug addition throughout his 20s, and famously revealed he took magic mushrooms with his cat.

By 2006 she married musician Michael Lockwood, and the birth of their twin daughters begun her own descent into drug addiction.

She fought to keep her addiction private, but details of her battle for sobriety emerged as she filed paperwork to divorce her fourth husband – musician Michael Lockwood

Lisa Marie tried to keep the majority of her battles private, but after marrying musician Michael Lockwood and having twins Finley and Vivian together, the pair went through a bitter divorce.The family are seen in 2010: from left – Riley Keough, Michael Lockwood, Benjamin Keough, and Lisa Marie Presley

In the forward to a 2015 book by Harry Nelson, The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain, she revealed for the first time the extent of her own addictions.

‘You may read this and wonder how, after losing people close to me, I also fell prey to opioids,’ she wrote.

She explained: ‘I was recovering after the [2008] birth of my daughters, Vivienne and Finley, when a doctor prescribed me opioids for pain.

‘It only took a short-term prescription of opioids in the hospital for me to feel the need to keep taking them.’

Presley, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, added: ‘I had never openly spoken in public about my own addiction to opioids and painkillers.

‘I wasn’t sure that I was ready to share on such a personal topic.’

Ahead of the Golden Globes, Lisa Marie celebrated her late father’s 88th birthday with fans outside Graceland – Austin Butler also attended this event

Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to hospital less than two hours after celebrating her father at the Golden Globes with Austin Butler, who brought him back to life on the big screen

She said, in the 2015 book, she faced a ‘difficult path’ with her recovery.

‘It is time for us to say goodbye to shame about addiction.

‘Across America and the world, people are dying in mind-boggling numbers because of opioid and other drug overdoses.

‘Many more people are suffering silently, addicted to opioids and other substances.

‘I am writing this in the hope that I can play a small part in focusing attention on this terrible crisis.’

Presley mentioned her children – the twins with Lockwood, plus Riley and Benjamin Keough.

‘As I write this, I think of my four children, who gave me the purpose to heal,’ she wrote, and that made her think of ‘the countless parents who have lost children to opioids and other drugs.’

She ended by saying that she is ‘grateful to be alive today’ and especially appreciative ‘to have four beautiful children who have given me a sense of purpose that has carried me through dark times.’

The scale of her problem was laid bare amid her bruising 2016 divorce from Lockwood, after a decade of marriage.

In a 2017 deposition, which was obtained by the Radar Online, she admitted to abusing cocaine, opioids, painkillers and alcohol.

‘The last three years I … had to go to rehab several times,’ she said, later putting the exact number at somewhere between three and five stints in a Mexican treatment facility.

‘I was a mess.I couldn’t stop.’

The 54-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest at her Calabasas home on Thursday morning and was resuscitated by paramedics

Lisa Marie Presley walks Golden Globe carpet in all-black gown

Presley said that her addiction peaked as their marriage ended in 2016.

‘The last year of our marriage, I was abusing cocaine terribly,’ she said, according to the court documents.

Asked if her drug use was heavy, she said, ‘It was bad, yeah.’

She added: ‘I didn’t mix the pills and alcohol until, like, the last two years.’

Presley and Lockwood’s divorce battle is ongoing, with Lockwood now seeking money for his legal fees.

He said in court that he feared Benjamin’s suicide could cause her to relapse.

Lockwood requested custody of the children.

‘Lisa Marie Presley’s son shot and killed himself in her home (Although she was not there at the time.)

‘With all due sympathy and respect, this creates a new and unaddressed twofold problem: the safety of the children and the greater likelihood of LMP to relapse into drug and alcohol dependency,’ the documents read.

She was rushed to hospital on Thursday, 강남안마방 suffering a cardiac arrest – having been out with her mother the night before at the Golden Globes, celebrating the success of Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic.

Priscilla Presley, 77, said she was getting the ‘best care’.

In a statement to People, she said: ‘My beloved daughter Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital.She is now receiving the best care.

‘Please keep her and our family in your prayers. We feel the prayers from around the world and ask for privacy at this time.’

Lisa Marie’s missing millions: She lost the $100million that Elvis left her, was at one point $16m in debt and was battling her fourth husband in court who said she had more money than she claimed 

 

Lisa Marie Presley’s death at the age of 54 has left unresolved legal battles over her finances, and questions as to how she managed to lose the $100 million fortune left to her by her father.

Presley, whose death on Thursday was confirmed by her mother Priscilla, was still battling her fourth and final husband Michael Lockwood when she died.

Lockwood, father of her twin daughter Vivien and Finley, was seeking $40,000 a month in child support and insisted she had more money than she claimed in court documents.

Presley, in turn, said she was at one point $16 million in debt, following disastrous business deals made by her business manager Barry Siegel.

She sued him in 2018, accusing him of mismanaging her inheritance.

Presley was married to actor Danny Keough, Michael Jackson, and Nicholas Cage before Lockwood, but is not believed to have gained financially from her marriages to the King of Pop and Oscar-winning actor.

The only child of Elvis, she was left his entire estate in his will when he died in 1977, aged 42.

She took control of the trust in 1993, aged 25.

At the time of his death Elvis was worth only $5 million, but Priscilla cannily turned Graceland into a tourist attraction and set up Elvis Presley Enterprises, capitalizing on his image and massive fandom.

By the time Lisa Marie took the reins, the fund was worth a healthy $100 million.

She appointed Barry Siegel in 1995 to manage the money.

Siegel, senior managing director of Provident Financial Management and a prominent entertainment business manager, counted Al Pacino, Elijah Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons as his clients.

But in 2005 Siegel sold off 85 percent of her share in Elvis Presley Enterprises, which saw her lose control of her father’s name and image rights.

Siegel said the deal ‘cleared up over $20m in debts that Lisa had incurred and netted her over $40m cash and a multi-million dollar income stream’.

Presley said it lost her millions thanks to a subsequent investment in Core Entertainment, the company behind American Idol that went bankrupt in 2016.

He then allegedly began liquidating Presley’s assets in order to supplement her trust income.

She also claimed his business decisions left her with a $500,000 credit card debt.

Presley divorced her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, in 2016, and in their divorce proceedings claimed she was $16 million in debt – which Lockwood said was not true.

In 2018, she sued Siegel, accusing him of mismanaging her finances.

Siegel and his company, Providence Financial Management, countersued, alleging Presley’s ‘out-of-control spending’ led to her financial predicament.

Leon Gladstone, a lawyer representing Barry Siegel, said at the time: ‘It’s clear that Lisa Marie is going through a difficult time in her life and is looking to blame others instead of taking responsibility for her actions.’

The King of Pop and the daughter of the King of Rock and Roll: Lisa Marie’s marriage to Michael Jackson and THAT awkward kiss at the MTV Awards

In 1994 the King of Pop wed the heir to the kingdom of rock and roll, and the two great houses of modern music were united – if only for a brief, bizarre stint.

The relationship between Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley – the only child of The King himself, Elvis Presley – traversed Jackson’s child molestation charges and a shotgun wedding in the Dominican Republic, included one of television’s most awkward kisses and MTV’s strangest music videos, and was dogged by skeptics until it dissolved in divorce in 1996.

The couple met when Presley was just a child and a lover of Jackson’s music, but she wouldn’t become his lover until they reconnected nearly two decades later.

Many accused the couple of marrying to distract the world form the damning accusations against Jackson, but the couple always maintained its authenticity, with Presley insisting Jackson was haunted by its dissolution until the day he died.

Presley was a Jackson 5 fanatic when she was a kid, and at seven-years-old her father brought her back stage at one of Jackson’s concerts to meet the singer himself.

An employee of Jackson’s told People magazine in 1994 that Presley ‘has known Michael almost all of her life,’ and that the two ‘stayed in touch,’ after their first meeting.

Their friendship was rekindled in 1992 after the met again in Los Angeles.Presley was married at the time to the musician Danny Keough, who she had two children with.

In 1993 when Jackson was accused of molesting 13-year-old Jordan Chandler, he and Presley talked regularly on the phone and she became his support system throughout the investigation and its publicity.

During one of those phone calls, on a whim Jackson reportedly asked Presley if she would marry him if he asked her to.

‘Michael valued Lisa’s settling effect on him, so much so that during his phone conversation, he posed a question that surprised both of them,’ wrote biographer J.Randy Taraborrelli. »If I asked you to marry me, would you do it?’ … Without missing a beat, she replied, ‘I would do it,’ he wrote.

Presley’s six-year marriage to Keough was falling apart at the time, and months later in May of 1994 she and Jackson jetted off to the Dominican Republic to escape the press and elope.

There Presley filed for a quickie divorce from Keough, and she and Jackson were married in a fifteen minute ceremony.They both wore black, and Jackson donned a cowboy hat and bolo tie.

The pair kept their marriage secret throughout the summer as rumors swirled, until Presley finally confirmed it in a statement that August.

‘My married name is Mrs.Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson. My marriage to Michael Jackson took place in a private ceremony outside the United States weeks ago,’ she said.

‘I am very much in love with Michael. I dedicate my life to being his wife. I understand and support him.We both look forward to raising a family.’

A month later she and Jackson opened the MTV Video Music Awards together. Walking out on the stage hand-in-hand, Jackson paused to let the crowd’s cheers die down.

‘Welcome to the MTV Video Music Awards,’ he said.Then, waiting another moment for the applause to die down again, he said with a not to Presley, ‘I’m very happy to be here. Just think, nobody thought this would last.’

He then planted a bit lip-locking kiss on his wife and pulled her in close as the crowd went wild.They then walked off stage.

As the couple continued to make public appearances together across 1994 and into 1995, rumors began to swirl that they did not have sex with each other.

They addressed the whispers in June of 1995 during an interviewed with Diane Sawyer.

‘Do we have sex?’ Presley said, and together she and Jackson exclaimed ‘Yes!Yes! Yes!’ They added that they indented to have kids together.

As if to accentuate their sexual stance, a month later Jackson released the music video for You Are Not Alone, which prominently featured him and Presley canoodling, dripping wet and in the nude, throughout some sort of desert temple.

Rumors about the state of their marriage continued to dog the couple throughout 1995, and finally came to fruition when they separated in December of that year.

A month later Presley filed for divorce, citing ‘irreconcilable differences.’

Nevertheless, the two tried to reconcile throughout the late 90s, with Presley traveling the world to be with Jackson at times, and the pair occasionally being spotting together during Jackson’s world tours.

Jackson ultimately married nurse Debbie Rowe in 1996 – who he would have two children with before divorcing in 2000 – and Presley married actor Nicholas Cage in 2002.

In 2003, Presley told Rolling Stone she was pulled into the relationship with Jackson out of a desire to save him during his first child molestation charges.

‘You get sucked into the, ‘You poor, misunderstood person, you…’ I’m a sucker for that,’ she said.’I got into this whole, ‘I’m going to save you’ thing.’

Speaking with Oprah after Jackson’s death, she said caring for Jackson was one of the ‘highest points’ of her life.

‘I loved taking care of him,’ she said.’It was one of the highest points in my life when things were going really well, and he and I were united. It was a very profound time of my life.’

Lisa Marie Presley, 54, DIES after suffering cardiac arrest: Mom Priscilla confirms the news saying ‘my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us’ after she rushed to her hospital bedside

By Aneeta Bhole for DailyMail.com

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, has died at the age of 54, hours after she suffered a cardiac arrest at the home where she had been living in Calabasas, California.

Earlier on Thursday, Presley was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and was said to be in a coma following a ‘full cardiac arrest’ shortly after she had been complaining about stomach pains, according to TMZ.

Her mother Priscilla, who was at her daughter’s side, said in a statement: ‘It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us.

‘She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss.Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comment,’ the statement continued.

Presley’s death comes just two days after she was pictured with her mom at the Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hills Hilton where Austin Butler won a Best Actor award for his portrayal of her father in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

Sources told TMZ that Presley was found unresponsive in her bedroom by her housekeeper and that her ex-husband, Danny Keough, who she has been living with, performed CPR until paramedics arrived at the house.

The source added that ‘someone administered epinephrine’ – more commonly known as adrenaline – at the scene at least one time in order to help Presley regain a pulse.

According to the Mayo Clinic, stomach pain is a symptom of cardiac arrest in women.

Epinephrine, or adrenaline, is administered to treat many life-threatening conditions such as cardiac arrests, asthma attacks and allergic reactions.

LA County Sheriff’s Department told Dailymail.com: ‘Deputies from Lost Hills Station responded to an assistance request call LA County Fire, near the 9500 block of Normandy Drive in Calabasas regarding a female adult, approximately 55, for a medical emergency/female not breathing.

‘The female adult was transported by LA County Fire Department to a local area hospital where they were released to the hospital’s care’.

They would not confirm if the person was Lisa Marie, who would have turned 55 next month, what hospital the individual was transported nor what was administered.

They told the Hollywood Reporter the fire department responded and was able to get a pulse on the female before she was transported to West Hills hospital.

Pictures of Lisa Marie’s mother, Priscilla, 77, rushing to hospital an hour after news broke of her daughter’s medical emergency have emerged.

She was seen making a quick dash to the entrance of the hospital where her only daughter was being treated to be by her side.

Lisa Marie is a singer and songwriter and has three children, including actress Riley Keough, 33.

Recently, the former Scientologist was an uncalled witness for the prosecution at That 70s Show star Danny Masterson’s rape trial.

Presley’s ex-husband Michael Lockwood played guitar Bijou Phillips’ band.Phillips and Masterson have been married since 2011.

Three days ago, Riley posted a picture of her mother, Lisa Marie, in her Instagram story with the caption ‘how beautiful is my mama?!’ and tagging her mother.

Riley recently praised her mom calling her an ‘inspiration’ and ‘a very strong, smart woman.’

‘I was raised by somebody who did their own thing and didn’t really care what other people thought.She was definitely inspirational to me,’ said Keough.

Riley’s husband Ben Smith-Petersen was also spotted consoling family members outside the hospital.

The pair have been married since Feb 2015, having announced their engagement the previous year.

Just days earlier Lisa Marie, daughter of Elvis Presley and wife Priscilla, attended the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills with her mother to see Austin Butler pick up a gong for his portrayal of the King of Rock n’ Roll in the film ‘Elvis.’

They were both seen breaking-down-in-tears during Elvis star Butler’s touching speech when he won Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama when he said he would love the ladies ‘forever.’

The Presley women had grown close to Butler as he made the epic film directed by Baz Luhrmann.

They often guided Butler, sharing their stories about what Elvis was like, said Butler from the stage on Tuesday night.

Ahead of the Golden Globes, Lisa Marie celebrated her late father’s 88th Birthday with fans outside Graceland – Butler also attended this event.

She owned and operated the immensely lucrative Elvis Presley Enterprises until 2005, when she sold off all of the business.

Lisa Marie is still the owner of Graceland, Elvis’ famed Memphis estate.When her father died in 1977, she was only aged nine.

In August last year, she opened up about life after the loss of her late son Benjamin Keough aged 27, People reported.

The singer penned an emotional essay about the low points she has faced in the time since her son’s death by suicide in 2020.

‘Today is National Grief Awareness Day, and since I have been living in the horrific reality of its unrelenting grips since my son’s death two years ago,’ she wrote.

‘I thought I would share a few things to be aware of in regard to grief for anyone who is interested.If not to help yourself but maybe to help another who is grieving.

She goes on to say that this is not a comfortable subject for anyone and is ‘most unpopular to talk about.’

‘This is quite long, potentially triggering and very hard to confront,’ she said.

‘But if we’re going to make any progress on the subject, grief has to get talked about.I’m sharing my thoughts in the hopes that somehow, we can change that.’

She is also known for her high-profile marriages to actor Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and musical companions Danny Keough and Michael Lockwood.

In June 2019, the daughter of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll revealed her ongoing divorce battle to Michael Lockwood, with her addiction to opioids becoming a focal point of the proceedings.

She opened up about her addiction to painkillers in the foreword for Harry Nelson’s book The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain, according to Yahoo at the time and says she is ‘grateful to be alive today.’

‘You may read this and wonder how, after losing people close to me, I also fell prey to opioids,’ she wrote.

‘I was recovering after the [2008] birth of my daughters, Vivienne and Finley, when a doctor prescribed me opioids for pain,’ she added.

‘It only took a short-term prescription of opioids in the hospital for me to feel the need to keep taking them’ due to their dangerous addictive properties.

The divorce was finalized May 2021, following a decade-long marriage.

She was also married to pop idol Michael Jackson from 1994 until 1996.

The 54-year-old has always maintained their relationship was real and that they had ‘a healthy and normal sex life.’

The pair debuted their relationship together at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards in which the

Lisa Marie vehemently defended the Thriller singer who died in 2009 from a drug overdose after he was accused of child abuse.

‘I believed he didn’t do anything wrong, and that he was wrongly accused and, yes, I started falling for him,’ she said.

‘I wanted to save him.I felt that I could do it.’

Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2010, she said that their romance failed because he led an unhealthy lifestyle.

‘There was a very profound point in the marriage when he had to make a decision. Was it the drugs and the sort of vampires, or me?And he pushed me away,’ she said of the two year marriage.

Lisa Marie Presley, 54, cried when Elvis star Austin Butler told her ‘I love you forever’ at Golden Globes – two days before her death 

By James Gant and Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com

Lisa Marie Presley broke down in tears at the Golden Globes just two days before she suffered a cardiac arrest and died.

The singer-songwriter, 54, was spotted crying with her mother Priscilla, 77, during Austin Butler’s award’s speech for his portrayal of Elvis last year.

They put their hands to their eyes and then their hearts as he told them he would love them ‘forever’ for taking him in as he filmed the role.

It came just two days before Lisa Marie suffered a cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, California.She later died at the hospital with her mother by her side.

The Presleys had grown close to Butler as he made the epic film from director Baz Luhrmann.

The often guided Butler, sharing their stories about what Elvis was like, said Austin from the stage.

The ladies were seen at the Elvis table inside the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton hotel on Tuesday.

They were side by side as they wore elegant black.And they broke down in tears when Butler spoke about them.

‘I also want to thank our incredible producers and Warner Bros and the Presley family, thank you guys, thank you for opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me. Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever.’

Butler baffled viewers, however, by speaking in an Elvis-inspired Memphis drawl.

Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after suffering a ‘full cardiac arrest’, according to TMZ.

Sources told the outlet that paramedics performed CPR Thursday at her home in Calabasas before she was taken away in an ambulance.

They added that ‘someone administered epinephrine at the scene at least one time in order to help Lisa Marie regain a pulse’.Her condition at this time remains unclear.

Just days earlier Lisa Marie, daughter of Elvis Presley and wife Priscilla, attended the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills with her mother to see Austin Butler pick up a gong for his portrayal of the King of Rock n’ Roll in the film ‘Elvis.’

DailyMail have contacted L.A.County Sheriff’s Department for comment.

The department told the Hollywood Reporter that deputies responded to the 5900 block of Normandy in the city of Calabasas for a female in her 50s that suffered a cardiac arrest.

The spokesperson added that the fire department responded and was able to get a pulse on the female and that she was transported to West Hills hospital.

The spokesperson would not confirm if the person was Presley, who will turn 55 next month.

They were both seen breaking down in tears during Elvis star Butler’s touching speech when he won Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama when he said he would love the ladies ‘forever.’

The Presley women had grown close to Butler as he made the epic film directed by Baz Luhrmann.

They often guided Butler, sharing their stories about what Elvis was like, said Butler from the stage on Tuesday night.

Lisa Marie is a singer and songwriter and has three children, including actress Riley Keough.

She owned and operated the immensely lucrative Elvis Presley Enterprises until 2005, when she sold off all of the business.

Lisa Marie is still the owner of Graceland, Elvis’ famed Memphis estate.When her father died in 1977, she was only aged nine.

In August last year, she opened up about life after the loss of her late son Benjamin Keough aged 27, People reported.

The singer penned an emotional essay about the low points she has faced in the time since her son’s death by suicide in 2020.

‘Today is National Grief Awareness Day, and since I have been living in the horrific reality of its unrelenting grips since my son’s death two years ago,’ she wrote.

‘I thought I would share a few things to be aware of in regard to grief for anyone who is interested.If not to help yourself but maybe to help another who is grieving.

She goes on to say that this is not a comfortable subject for anyone and is ‘most unpopular to talk about.’

‘This is quite long, potentially triggering and very hard to confront,’ she said.

‘But if we’re going make any progress on the subject, grief has to get talked about.I’m sharing my thoughts in the hopes that somehow, we can change that.’

She is also known for her high-profile marriages to actor Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and musical companions Danny Keough and Michael Lockwood.

In June 2019, the daughter of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll revealed her ongoing divorce battle to Michael Lockwood, with her addiction to opioids becoming a focal point of the proceedings.

She opened up about her addiction to painkillers in the foreword for Harry Nelson’s book The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain, according to Yahoo at the time and says she is ‘grateful to be alive today.’

‘You may read this and wonder how, after losing people close to me, I also fell prey to opioids,’ she wrote.

‘I was recovering after the [2008] birth of my daughters, Vivienne and Finley, when a doctor prescribed me opioids for pain,’ she added.

‘It only took a short-term prescription of opioids in the hospital for me to feel the need to keep taking them’ due to their dangerous addictive properties.

The divorce was finalized May 2021, following a decade-long marriage.

She was also married to pop idol Michael Jackson from 1994 until 1996.

The 54-year-old has always maintained their relationship was real and that they had ‘a healthy and normal sex life.’

Lisa Marie vehemently defended the Thriller singer who died in 2009 from a drug overdose after he was accused of child abuse.

‘I believed he didn’t do anything wrong, and that he was wrongly accused and, yes, I started falling for him,’ she said.

‘I wanted to save him.I felt that I could do it.’

Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2010, she said that their romance failed because he led an unhealthy lifestyle.

‘There was a very profound point in the marriage when he had to make a decision. Was it the drugs and the sort of vampires, or me?And he pushed me away,’ she said of the two-year marriage.

Inside Lisa Marie Presley’s ‘unrelenting grief’ over son Benjamin’s suicide before her own tragic death: How Elvis’ late daughter confessed to being ‘destroyed’ by tragedy, saying she ‘blames herself every single day’ 

By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com 

Lisa Marie Presley penned an essay sharing her ‘unrelenting grief’ over her son Benjamin’s untimely death just five months before her own death.

The 54-year-old daughter of Elvis Presley was rushed to a hospital after paramedics were able to reestablish her pulse, TMZ reported on Thursday.

But her mother Priscilla Presley shared a statement announcing that her daughter had died later in the day.

‘It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,’ she said, according to People.

‘She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss,’ Priscilla continued.’Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comment.’

Back in August of 2022, Presley penned an essay about her attempts to move on from her son Benjamin’s death to mark National Grief Awareness.

‘I can understand why people may want to avoid you once a terrible tragedy has struck.Especially a parent losing their child because it is truly your worst nightmare,’ she wrote in her essay, which was published by People.

Benjamin Keough was 27 at the time of his death. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office announced following the incident.

Presley shared her son with her first husband Danny Keough, whom she married in 1988 and divorced in 1994.

In the emotional essay, Presley admitted that she had kept her distance from the parents of other people whose children died by suicide, something that seemed to haunt her.

‘I can recall a couple of times in my life where I knew parents who lost their child and while I could be there for them when it happened, I avoided them after and never bothered to follow up with them because they quite literally became a representative of my biggest fear,’ she wrote.

‘I also low-key judged them, and I swore I’d never do whatever it was that I felt they either did or neglected in their parental actions and choices with their child.’

The daughter of Priscilla Presley — who was seen rushing to her side at the hospital after her medical emergency — wrote that she had been ‘living in the horrific reality’ of grief’s ‘unrelenting grips’ ever since her son’s death.

Unfortunately, it was a feeling she was well versed in, having suffered the death of her father Elvis Presley in 1977, which was initially said to be from cardiac arrest, though his prodigious drug use is also believed to have been a factor.

His daughter was just nine at the time of his death.

Presley admitted in her essay that grief is not a ‘comfortable subject for anyone’ and is ‘most unpopular’ to discuss.

But she believed it was necessary to speak openly about grief and tragedy if any ‘progress’ was to be made.

Presley added that her son reminded her of her father, which only troubled her further.

He was ‘so much like his grandfather on so many levels that he actually scared me,’ she wrote, adding that it, ‘made me worry about him even more than I naturally would have.’

Two years after Benjamin’s death, Lisa had not felt much relief from the tragic loss, and even worse, she blamed herself for her son’s death.

‘I already battle with and beat myself up tirelessly and chronically, blaming myself every single day and that’s hard enough to now live with,’ she confessed, adding that, ‘others will judge and blame you too, even secretly or behind your back which is even more cruel and painful on top of everything else.’

She opined that ‘grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss.Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe.

‘You do not «get over it,» you do not «move on,» period,’ she wrote.

Following Benjamin’s death, his friend, the musician Brandon Howard, told People that he had lived with depression for years, while also feeling weighed down by expectations to succeed as much as his famous grandfather.

‘Sometimes he struggled with depression, which is a serious thing with [the coronavirus pandemic] and everything happening right now and everybody being locked in the house,’ Howard said at the time.

‘It’s a tough thing when you have a lot of pressure with your family and living up to a name and an image.It’s a lot of pressure. It’s almost like you’re pressured into having to be a musician, having to be an actor,’ he added.

Following Presley’s health emergency, TMZ reported that she had been found unresponsive on Thursday in her bedroom at her ex Danny Keough’s home, where she had been staying recently.

It was her ex-husband who reportedly performed CPR on her until paramedics arrived on the scene.

A source told the publication that ‘someone administered epinephrine’ — also known as adrenaline — ‘at least once’ in an attempt to revive her.

She was reported to have died just hours later.

Paramedics performed CPR and administered adrenaline shot to jump-start Lisa Marie Presley’s heart after sudden cardiac arrest 

By Mansur Shaheen Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.Com 

Lisa Marie Presley, 54, suffered a ‘full’ cardiac arrest at her California home Thursday and needed CPR and a shot of adrenaline to jump-start her heart.

She later died at the hospital, with her mother Priscilla confirming the news saying ‘my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us.’

The daughter of rock-legend Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla was taken away from her Calabasas home in an ambulance after being resuscitated.

Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating and denies the rest of the body oxygen-rich blood, shutting off supply to the brain and causing someone to go unconscious.