Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of the rock & roll legend, Elvis Presley, shockingly passed away at the age of fifty-four. The music artist had suffered from cardiac arrest at her home on January 12th but no other details has been released to date.
She was only nine years old when Elvis Presley died in 1977, becoming the sole heir to the estate after the passing of her grandfather and great-grandmother by 1980. On her twenty-fifth birthday, Presley inherited the estate, which had grown to over one hundred million dollars. But she decided to turn the funds into the Elvis Presley Trust which continued the management of the estate including Graceland, Presley's mansion in Memphis turned tourist attraction after his death.
After her two high-profile yet short-lived marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage ended, Presley decided to finally venture into a professional music career and at the age of thirty five released her debut album, "To Whom it May Concern" in 2003. This bluesy rock album, with Presley co-writing all of the songs, was a moderate critical and commercial success with the single, "Lights Out" cracking the top forty on the US pop chart. She would release only two more albums during her career in music, the follow-up, "Now What" in 2005 (which featured a cover of Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry") and "Storm and Grace", a roots album produced by T Bone Burnett in 2012, both receiving a warm reception with modest sales.
Presley is survived by her mother, actress Priscilla Presley; her daughter Riley, an actress, from her first marriage to musician Danny Keough and fraternal twins, Harper and Finley Lockwood from her fourth husband, musician Michael Lockwood. Presley's only son, Benjamin Keough died at the age of twenty-seven from an apparent suicide on July 12, 2020.
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