The tragic life story of Lisa Marie Presley: She lost her father at the age of nine, and her son committed suicide at the age of 27
The musician Lisa Marie Presley died on January 12, at the age of 54, as a result of a heart attack. She was the only daughter of the "king of rock and roll" and the fruit of a great love between them Elvis и Priscilla Presley. Lisa inherited the talent for music from her father, and the incredible beauty from her mother. In other words, she was the perfect combination, but life was not serving her good things.
The news of Lisa Marie's death was confirmed by her mother Priscilla.
"It is with a heavy heart that I have to share the sad news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us. She was the most passionate, strongest and most loving woman I have ever known. We request privacy as we try to cope with this profound loss. Thank you for your love and prayers. For now, there will be no further comments," said Priscilla.
Two days before she was hospitalized, Lisa appeared at the annual Golden Globe Awards, along with several members of her family. They were present at the event in support of lead actor Austin Butler and director Baz Luhrmann, who made the Elvis Presley biopic - "Elvis".
Childhood under the spotlight
Elvis Presley lived the greatest popularity in 1968, when he had his only daughter - Lisa Marie. And while the whole world perceived him as a "king", he kept his daughter as a real princess.
Priscilla and Elvis Presley separated in 1972.
Lisa Marie was only nine years old when Elvis died at the age of 42 in 1977.
In her teenage years, she began to behave problematically and experiment with drug consumption. As a result of her problematic behavior, her mother had to re-enroll her in several private schools.
In 2003, Lisa Marie said that she was a "lonely, melancholic and strange child" as a child.
"At one point in my life, I was really self-destructive. I never fit in at school. I just didn't want directions," she told the Los Angeles Times.
Your own music label
Lisa Marie began her music career in 2003 with the release of her debut studio album, To Whom It May Concern, which peaked at number five on the Billboard 200.
She wrote almost all the lyrics on the album and contributed to the creation of every melody. At the time, Lisa Marie said that she had to face the pressure and comparison with her legendary father.
"If I thought about it and worried about it, I would never do what I really wanted to do. Well, I had to stop worrying about the comparison," Lisa Marie said on The Larry King Show.
Love life
Parallel to her musical career, Lisa Marie was also interesting to the public because of her love life. Namely, as an incorrigible romantic, she got married four times.
Lisa Marie married the musician Danny Keough in 1988, with whom she had a daughter Riley and son Benjamin Storm.
The couple separated in May 1994, and just two months later Lisa Marie married the singer Michael Jackson, something that became a major topic in all the pop articles. In 2003, she stated that the main reason she fell in love with Jackson was that she "experienced him as an emotional and misunderstood man who I wanted to save". Lisa Marie and Michael ended their marriage in 1996.
Then Lisa Marie married the actor Nicolas Cage, but their marriage lasted only three months, from August to November 2002.
In 2006, she got married to the producer Michael Lockwood. A year later, they became parents of twins Finley и Harper. But this marriage of Lisa Marie also ended in divorce in 2016.
The tragic loss of the son
In 2020, her son Benjamin Keough committed suicide at the age of 27. This, undoubtedly, was the greatest tragedy of her life.
Last year, she wrote an essay in which she opened up about the loss of her son.
"Our lives have been forever ruined by his death. We live with it every day. Grief is something you carry with you for the rest of your life. And contrary to what some people say, it's not something you just get over," Lisa Marie wrote.
In the essay, she shared that she was greatly helped by the support she received from people who had faced similar tragedies.
“I had to move on because of my daughters. I continue because I know that my son let us know in his final moments that taking care of his sisters was his most important thing. "He absolutely adored them and they adored him," she wrote.