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   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.   
      
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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   
      
      
      
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