Lisa Marie Presley, the smoky-voiced singer and songwriter who led a soap opera existence as the only child of Elvis Presley and the first wife of Michael Jackson, has died. She was 54.
Presley died Thursday at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center after an episode of cardiac arrest earlier in the day at her home in Calabasas, California, her mother, actress Priscilla Presley announced 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 said. “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.”
According to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, deputies and fire department personnel arrived on the scene before transporting Lisa Marie to the hospital.
She and her mother attended the Golden Globes on Tuesday night, when Austin Butler won for his starring turn as her dad in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
In his acceptance speech, Butler said: “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, and your home to me. Lisa Marie and Priscilla, I love you forever.”
Survivors include her three children, model-actress Riley Keough and twins Harper and Finley. Her son, Benjamin, 27, died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in July 2020.
“It’s a real choice to keep going, one that I have to make every single day and one that is constantly challenging to say the least … But I keep going for my girls,” she wrote a month later. “I keep going because my son made it very clear in his final moments that taking care of his little sisters and looking out for them were on the forefront of his concerns and his mind. He absolutely adored them and they him.”