Lisa Marie Presley dead at 54

"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us," her mother Priscilla Presley said in a statement on Thursday.

"She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known."

Lisa Marie Presley suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday in her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, according to entertainment website TMZ. She was then taken to hospital.

She attended the Golden Globes awards show in Beverly Hills earlier this week, where actor Austin Butler won the best actor award for portraying her father in the film Elvis.

Butler paid tribute to Lisa Marie Presley and her mother during his acceptance speech.

Elvis Presley died of cardiac arrest in August 1977 at the age of 42.

Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee and became the owner of her father's Graceland mansion a popular tourist attraction in the city. She was nine years old when Elvis died there.

Her own music career began with a 2003 debut album To Whom It May Concern. It was followed by 2005's Now What, and both hit the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart.

A third album, Storm and Grace, was released in 2012.

She was married four times. She wed pop star Michael Jackson in 1994, just 20 days after her divorce from her first husband, musician Danny Keough.

The high-profile couple divorced in 1996 as Jackson was battling child molestation allegations.

Presley married actor Nicholas Cage, a huge fan of her father, in 2002. Cage filed for divorce four months later.

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Her fourth marriage was to her guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood. Their divorce was finalised in 2021.

She had four children. Her only son, Benjamin Keough, himself a musician, died in 2020 at age 27, a death ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner. Daughter Riley Keough, 33, is an actor.

Her two other daughters are twins Harper and Finley Lockwood, 14.

On Tuesday, Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley attended the Golden Globes ceremony in Beverly Hills, where Austin Butler won best actor in a drama film for his leading role in last year's Elvis biopic.

As he accepted the award, Butler thanked both of the women, saying, "I love you forever".

Butler's acceptance speech left Priscilla, 77, and Lisa Marie in tears.

On her Instagram page, Priscilla praised Butler who she said studied Elvis for two years and "simply became him in his performance".

"I'm so proud of you, Austin. I only wish that the genius that Baz Luhrmann captured was also recognized," she wrote.

Just last week thousands of Elvis fans flocked to Parkes in the NSW Central West to celebrate the King at the annual five-day-long Parkes Elvis Festival.

Back in 2014 Canberra Times sat down with Lisa Marie ahead of her Australian tour.

They talked about Peppa Pig - of all things as well as her life in England.

For a woman with a extraordinary life, from being the only child of a music icon, in Elvis, to the one-time wife of another, in the form of Michael Jackson, Presley sounds remarkably down-to-earth. She says moving to East Sussex, England several years ago is a big part of that.

''I wanted to be normal. I'd just had enough, I'd been through a lot,'' she said. ''I'd experienced a lot of betrayal, a lot of things around me I thought were something and they were different to what they were and they were just too much. So we kind of went from ground zero, I wanted to start over somewhere. I needed to get as far away as I could to get my head together. I wrote the record and I fell in love with it and then we bought the house.''

Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, shared her father's brooding charisma - the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice - and followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s.

She even formed direct musical ties with her father, joining her voice to such Elvis recordings as In the Ghetto and Don't Cry Daddy, a mournful ballad that had reminded him of the early death of his mother, Gladys.

"It's been all my life," she told the Associated Press in 2012, speaking of her father's influence. "It's not something that I now listen to and it's different. Although I might listen closer. I remain consistent on the fact that I've always been an admirer. He's always influenced me."

Her birth, nine months after her parents' wedding, was international news and her background was rarely far from her mind. With the release last year of Baz Luhrmann's movie Elvis, Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley had been attending award shows alongside stars from the film.

She was at the Golden Globes on Tuesday, celebrating Austin Butler's award for playing her father. On January 8, she was in Memphis at Graceland - the mansion where Elvis lived and died - to celebrate her father's birth anniversary.

Presley lived with her mother in California after her parents split in 1973. She recalled early memories of her dad during her visits to Graceland, riding golf carts through the neighbourhood and seeing his daily entrances down the stairs.

Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was 42 and she nine years old. Lisa Marie was staying at Graceland and recalled him kissing her goodnight hours before he collapsed. 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."

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She would later make headlines of her own. Struggles with drugs and some very public marriages. Her four husbands included Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.

Jackson and Presley were married in the Dominican Republic in 1994, but the marriage ended two years later and was defined by awkward public appearances, including an unexpected kiss from Jackson during the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint TV interview in which she defended him against allegations of child sex abuse.

Cage filed for divorce after only four months of marriage in 2002.

"I had to sort of run into many walls and trees," she told the AP in 2012. "... it was a growing process ... It was just out in front of everybody all the time."

Lisa Marie became involved in numerous humanitarian causes, from anti-poverty programs through the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation to relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.

Presley had two children, actor Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, with her former husband Danny Keough. She also had twin daughters with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.

Benjamin Keough died by suicide in 2020 at age 27. Presley was vocal about her grief, writing in an essay last August that she had "been living in the horrific reality of its unrelenting grips since my son's death two years ago".

Lisa Marie was 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. Her son is buried there, along with her father and other members of the Presley family.

Lisa Marie was a Scientologist but later left the religion.

After her first album To Whom It May Concern, in 2003, some fans went to see her perform just out of curiosity, she told the AP in 2005.

"First I had to overcome a pre-speculated idea of me," she said about becoming a singer-songwriter.

"I had to sort of burst through that and introduce myself, and that was the first hurdle, and then now sing in front of everybody, and then that was the second one, and I'm the offspring of - you know, who I'm the offspring of - I had a few hurdles to get through, no doubt about it.

"But the scales never tipped in the other direction too much."

with Australian Associated Press