Remembering Lisa Marie Presley

Ashley Ore of Las Vegas and Hannah Mathis of Memphis pay their respect in memory of Lisa Marie Presley outside of Graceland on Friday.

Crowds of people are paying tribute Friday to Lisa Marie Presley at Graceland in Memphis.

“I never thoughts we would see Lisa die so young,” one fan told CNN affiliate WHBQ. She said she happened to be visiting West Tennessee for a few days when the news of her death broke and decided to visit Graceland.

Stephanie Inge of Dallas, Texas, arrives outside of Graceland in Memphis on Friday, January 13.

Other people strolled down the long driveway carrying flowers, laying them outside of the mansion in Presley’s memory.

Graceland was the home of music legend Elvis Presley and belonged to his daughter after she turned 25. She will now be buried on the property next to her son, Ben.

Presley died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest.

Film director Baz Luhrmann shared a message on Instagram honoring Lisa Marie Presley.

“Over the last year, the entire Elvis movie family and I have felt the privilege of Lisa Marie’s kind embrace,” Luhrmann wrote Friday. “Her sudden, shocking loss has devastated people all around the world. I know her fans everywhere join me in sharing prayers of love and support with her mother, Priscilla, and her wonderful daughters Riley, Finley and Harper. Lisa Marie, we will miss your warmth, your smile, your love.”

The message was accompanied by a picture of Presley and actor Austin Butler, who played her father in Luhrmann’s 2022 biographical film.

This week, Butler took home a Golden Globe award for best actor in a dramatic motion picture for his portrayal of Elvis.

Presley, who died on Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest, attended Tuesday’s award ceremony.

Elvis Presley strolls the grounds of his Graceland estate circa 1957.

Lisa Marie Presley’s final resting place will be Graceland, the legendary mansion that was home to her father, Elvis Presley, in Memphis, Tennessee.

But what is the historic estate?

Her father purchased Graceland in 1957 for $102,500 when he was 22 years old, according to Graceland’s website – and he lived there until his death on Aug. 16, 1977.

The music legend’s only daughter was only 9 years old at the time.

His father, Vernon Presley, was appointed executor and trustee of the estate per Elvis’ will, the website states. And Lisa Marie Presley became the sole heir upon turning 25 years old on Feb. 1, 1993.

More than 10 years earlier, due to the cost of maintaining the estate, Priscilla Presley and the estate’s executors had decided to open Graceland to the public.

Since June 7, 1982, more than 20 million visitors from across the world have visited Graceland, according to the website.

The estate is one of the most visited houses in the country and a pilgrimage of sorts for musicians and rock ‘n’ roll fans, including a number of celebrities and heads of state. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Lisa Marie Presley will be buried next to her son, Ben, who died in 2020. Her father is also buried on the 13.8-acre estate.

Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.

Graceland will be the final resting place for singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the late Elvis and Priscilla Presley, according to a family spokesperson.

Elvis Presley once lived in the sprawling Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, and his daughter inherited the property after his death. It now serves as a museum.

Presley died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest.

Tom Hanks, who starred as Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the biographical film “Elvis,” posted a tribute message to Lisa Marie Presley.

“We are heartbroken over the loss of Lisa Marie Presley. Absolutely broken…,” Hanks wrote in a caption of a photo of Presley, signed by Hanks and his wife, actress Rita Wilson.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley with daughter Lisa Marie in 1968.

Born at the height of Elvis’s fame in 1968, Lisa Marie Presley was seen as the princess to the man celebrated as “the King of rock ‘n’ roll.”

Elvis and Priscilla Presley separated in 1972 when their daughter was four years old, and she was only nine when her father died in 1977. He was 42.

Soon, she began acting out and experimenting with drugs, resulting in her mother sending her to a series of private schools, including a boarding school in Ojai.

Lisa Marie Presley noted to the Los Angeles Times in 2003 that as a child, she “was kind of a loner, a melancholy and strange child.”

“I had a real self-destructive mode for a while,” she told the publication. “I never really fit into school. I didn’t really have any direction.”

Lisa Marie Presley was seen at Tuesday’s Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

She was there with her mother, Priscilla, as actor Austin Butler won an award for best actor in “Elvis” for his portrayal of Presley from adolescence to his untimely death at age 42. 

Butler thanked the Presley family in his speech.

“Thank you guys for opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me. Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever,” he said.

From left, Priscilla Presley, Austin Butler, Lisa Marie Presley and Baz Luhrmann attend the Golden Globe Awards on January 10.

Lisa Marie Presley arrives at the Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley in 2001. 

Parallel to her musical pursuits, Lisa Marie Presley was married four times, including to music superstar Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage.

She wed musician Danny Keough in 1988, with whom she had a daughter, Riley Keough, and son Benjamin Storm Keough.

The pair divorced in May 1994, and roughly three weeks later, Lisa Marie married Jackson in a ceremony that made headlines worldwide.

She noted of Jackson in a 2003 interview with ABC News and Diane Sawyer: “When he wants to lock into you, when he wants to intrigue you or capture you, or you know, whatever he wants to do with you, he can do it.” She added that she “fell into this whole, ‘You poor, sweet, misunderstood man, I’m going to save you.’ … I fell in love with him.”

Their marriage ended in January 1996.

Two years later, she wed Cage after meeting him at a party, but only stayed married to him for three months, from August to November of 2002. The divorce was finalized in 2004.

“This is devastating news,” Cage said Thursday in a statement provided by his manager. “Lisa had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met. She lit up every room, and I am heartbroken.”

Her fourth marriage came in 2006, to her guitarist, music producer and director Michael Lockwood. The pair welcomed twins Finley Aaron Love Lockwood and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood in 2008. They divorced in 2016.

Presley died Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest. She was 54.

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Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the year Finley Aaron Love Lockwood and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood were born. It was 2008.

Actor John Travolta, singer Pink and fashion designer Donatella Versace were among the celebrities who paid tribute to Lisa Marie Presley after she died Thursday. Here’s what they said.

John Travolta

Donatella Versace

Pink

Corey Feldman

Lisa Marie Presley and son Benjamin Presley Keough attend “The Elvis Experience” premiere in Las Vegas in 2015.

In 2020, Lisa Marie Presley’s son Benjamin Keough died by suicide at the age of 27. Last July, she marked the second anniversary of Keough’s death on Instagram, sharing a photo of their matching foot tattoos.

Last September, she wrote an essay for National Grief Awareness Day, in which she opened up about the loss of her son.

“My and my three daughters’ lives as we knew it were completely detonated and destroyed by his death. We live in this every. Single. Day,” she wrote. “Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not ‘get over it,’ you do not ‘move on,’ period.”

Presley also said in the essay that she found comfort in the company of people who have faced similar tragedies adding that her daughters help keep her grounded.

“I keep going for my girls,” she wrote. “I keep going because my son made it very clear in his final moments that taking care of his little sisters and looking out for them were on the forefront of his concerns and his mind. He absolutely adored them and they him.”

Lisa Marie Presley performs in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 2012.

Lisa Marie Presley, who died Thursday at age 54, was the eventual sole heir to her father Elvis’ estate, as well as his sprawling Memphis, Tennessee mansion, Graceland.

Her father’s mighty and ever-looming legacy didn’t, however, steer her away from her desire to pursue a career in music in her own right.

Lisa Marie launched her career in 2003 with a debut studio album, “To Whom It May Concern,” which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold that summer. She wrote almost all the lyrics on the album and co-wrote every melody.

At the time, Lisa Marie told Larry King she had to “park” feelings of pressure and comparisons to her legendary dad.

“If I had been thinking about that, worrying about that, which I kind of had for a long time I would have never done what was sort of innately in my heart, in my soul,” she said. “So I had to stop being worried about that, it was too intimidating otherwise.”

Also around the same time, Lisa Marie reflected on whether her famous name was a hindrance or a help, telling Playboy she didn’t “ask tabloids to chase me around every week.”

But, she added, she “would never take back any part of who I am or where I came from.”

That first record was followed by two additional albums, 2005’s “Now What” and “Storm & Grace” in 2012.

Lisa Marie Presley poses for a portrait during the 2013 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee.

LeAnn Rimes, Octavia Spencer, Seán Ono Lennon and many others are remembering Lisa Marie Presley. Here are some tributes that have come in so far.

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Octavia Spencer

Seán Ono Lennon

Mia Farrow

Andy Cohen

Lisa Marie Presley with her father Elvis Presley in 1973. 

Born at the height of Elvis’s fame in 1968, Lisa Marie Presley grew up squarely in the spotlight as the daughter of the man celebrated as “the King of rock ’n’ roll.” 

Elvis and Priscilla Presley separated in 1972, when their daughter was 4 years old, and she was only 9 when her father died in 1977. 

Soon, she began acting out and experimenting with drugs, resulting in her mother sending her to a series of private schools, including a boarding school in Ojai, California.

Presley later launched her career in 2003 with a debut studio album, “To Whom It May Concern,” which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold that summer. She wrote almost all the lyrics on the album and co-wrote every melody. 

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards.

Parallel her musical pursuits, Presley had been married four times: First to musician Danny Keough, then to Michael Jackson, Nicholas Cage and then Michael Lockwood. She had four children: Riley Keough, Benjamin Keough, Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood.

In 2020, Presley’s son, Benjamin Keough, died by suicide at the age of 27. Last July, she marked the second anniversary of Keough’s death on Instagram, sharing a photo of their matching foot tattoos.

In September, Presley wrote an essay for National Grief Awareness Day, in which she opened up about the loss of her son.

“My and my three daughters’ lives as we knew it were completely detonated and destroyed by his death. We live in this every. Single. Day,” she wrote. “Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not ‘get over it,’ you do not ‘move on,’ period.”

Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the late Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest, her mother said. She was 54.

“Priscilla Presley and the Presley family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Lisa Marie,” Priscilla Presley said in the statement, provided to CNN by a representative. “They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time.”

Lisa Marie Presley had been rushed to the hospital earlier in the day, her mother said on Instagram.

“Please keep her and our family in your prayers. We feel the prayers from around the world, and ask for privacy during this time,” her statement said at the time.

TMZ was first to report the news of Lisa Marie Presley’s hospitalization on Thursday.

LA County Fire Department spokesperson Kaitlyn Aldana told CNN that emergency responders were dispatched to a call in the 5000 block of Normandy Dr in Agoura Hills, California, at 10:37 a.m. local time for a cardiac arrest. Aldana would not confirm the name of the the patient, who could not be identified due to privacy laws, but said the patient was taken to a to a local hospital at 11:17 a.m.

A spokesperson for the LA County Sheriff told CNN they assisted fire officials on a medical call this morning, but also would not confirm the patient’s name.