Last night, Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter and only child of Elvis Presley, died after being hospitalized earlier that day. She was 54 years old.
The news of Presley’s death was announced by her mother, Priscilla. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla shared in a statement given Thursday evening. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”
The announcement came hours after her mother confirmed that Presley was rushed to the hospital. L.A. County paramedics were sent to her home in Calabasas at 10:37 a.m. following a report of a woman in full cardiac arrest; they arrived six minutes later, according to a report by the Associated Press.
The news of the singer’s hospitalization was shared by TMZ and confirmed later on by People magazine. Presley was last seen in public while attending the Golden Globes on Tuesday to celebrate Austin Butler’s award for his performance as Elvis in the film of the same name. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, she called the performance “mind-blowing.”
Over her life, Presley shaped a career of her own in the music business, issuing three LPs: To Whom It May Concern (2003), Now What (2005), and Storm & Grace (2012). Her first album reached Gold certification with the RIAA. She also released a handful of singles, including duets with her father using tracks he had released before he died.
Presley was also a published writer who wrote an essay about what she’s learned in the time since her son Benjamin Keough took his life in 2020, nearly five months before her own passing, which was shared by People in honor of National Grief Awareness day.
On Jan. 8., just days before the Golden Globes, she visited Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., to celebrate what would be her father’s 87th birthday.
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