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On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 10:04:12 PM UTC-5, Fujikawa Yamamoto wrote:
> Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, has died at 54 after
> being hospitalized for cardiac arrest, her mother Priscilla Presley said.
>
> “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my
> beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a
> statement Thursday evening. “She was the most passionate, strong and
> loving woman I have ever known.”
>
> Presley was taken to hospital Thursday after suffering full cardiac
> arrest, multiple news outlets are reporting. Presley’s mother, Pricilla
> Presley, also confirmed she was in the hospital and receiving care.
>
> Priscilla Presley
> @Cilla_Presley
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> 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 during this
> time.
> -Priscilla Presley
>
>
>
> A police spokesperson told Entertainment Tonight that police were called
> to Presley’s Los Angeles home Thursday morning. When they arrived, they
> found paramedics working on Presley, 54, who was experiencing cardiac
> arrest.
>
> The spokesperson confirmed that paramedics were able to help Presley
> regain a pulse before she was taken to a nearby hospital.
>
> According to Craig Little, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire
> Department, paramedics were dispatched to a Calabasas home at 10:37 a.m.
> following the report of a woman in full cardiac arrest. Property records
> indicate Presley was a resident at that address.
>
> Paramedics arrived about six minutes later and Presley was taken by
> ambulance to the hospital, Little said. Her condition was not immediately
> available.
>
> The city of Calabasas is nestled between the foothills of the Santa Monica
> and Santa Susanna mountains about 50 kilometres northwest of downtown Los
> Angeles.
>
> TMZ, which first reported the news, said paramedics performed CPR.
>
> Her condition remains unclear and a rep for Presley told Deadline they
> have “no comment at this time.”
>
> The songwriter’s health emergency comes just two days after Presley –
the
> daughter of Priscilla Presley and the late Elvis Presley – attended the
> Golden Globe Awards to watch Austin Butler win the award for Best
> Performance in a Motion Picture (Drama) for his role as the late King of
> Rock ‘n’ Roll.
>
> She praised the actor’s portrayal, telling ET that after watching the
> biopic, “I didn’t really know what to do with myself.”
>
> “I had to take, like, five days to process it because it was so incredible
> and so spot-on and just so authentic that, yeah, I can’t even describe
> what it meant.”
>
> Just days before that, she was in Memphis, Tennessee, at Graceland — the
> mansion where Elvis lived — to celebrate her father’s birth anniversary
on
> Jan. 8.
>
> Presley had recently penned an essay published in People about “the
> horrific reality” of her grief following her son Benjamin Keough’s death
> by suicide in 2020. Presley is also the mother of actor Riley Keough and
> twin daughters.
>
> “I’ve dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old.
I’ve
> had more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I’ve
> made it this far,” she wrote in August.
>
> Presley released her own rock albums in the 2000s and appeared on stage
> with celebrities like Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley during her musical
> career.
>
> She also formed direct musical ties with her father, joining her voice to
> such Elvis recordings as “Don’t Cry Daddy,” a mournful ballad which
had
> reminded him of the early death of his mother — and Lisa Marie’s
> grandmother — Gladys Presley.
>
> When Elvis died at the age of 42 in August 1977, Lisa Marie was nine years
> old. She was staying Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing
> her goodnight hours before he would collapse and never recover. When she
> next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.
>
> “I just had a feeling,” she told Rolling Stone in 2003. “He wasn’t
doing
> well. All I know is I had it (a feeling), and it happened. I was obsessed
> with death at a very early age.”
>
> After her father died, Lisa Marie became the sole heir of the Elvis
> Presley Trust. Along with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the trust managed
> Graceland and other assets until she sold her majority interest in 2005.
> She retained ownership of Graceland Mansion itself, the 13 acres around it
> and items inside the home. Her son is buried there, along with her father
> and other members of the Presley family.
>
> Lisa Marie and her mother would often make regular trips to Graceland
> during huge fan celebrations on the anniversaries of Elvis’ death and
> birthday.
>
> One of the two airplanes at Graceland is also named Lisa Marie.
>
> Lisa Marie would later make headlines of her own. Struggles with drugs and
> some very public marriages. Her four husbands included Michael Jackson and
> Nicolas Cage.
>
> Lisa Marie also became involved in numerous humanitarian causes, from
> anti-poverty programs administered through the Elvis Presley Charitable
> Foundation to relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. She would receive
> formal citations from New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee for her work.
>
> — with files from The Associated Press
>
>
looked like she was doped up at the golden globe.
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