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Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) was an American singer and songwriter. She was the daughter of singer and actor
Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one of the most significant cultural figures of the ...
, who is referred to as "The King of Rock and Roll" and actress
Priscilla Presley Priscilla Ann Presley (née Wagner, formerly Beaulieu; born May 24, 1945) is an American businesswoman and actress. She is the ex-wife of American singer Elvis Presley, as well as the cofounder and former chairperson of Elvis Presley Enterpris ...
, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate after her grandfather and great-grandmother died. Her musical career consisted of three studio albums: ''
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'' (2003), ''
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'' (2005) and '' Storm & Grace'' (2012), with ''To Whom It May Concern'' being certified gold by the
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. Presley also released non-album singles, including duets with her father using archival recordings. Her memoir, '' From Here to the Great Unknown'', was released posthumously in October 2024.


Early life

Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, at
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in
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, nine months to the day after her parents' wedding. After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother in Los Angeles, and frequently stayed with her father Elvis at
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in
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. Presley's parents separated when she was four years old. When her father died in August 1977, nine-year-old Lisa Marie became joint heiress to his estate with her 61-year-old grandfather, Vernon Presley, and Vernon's 87-year-old mother Minnie Mae (Hood) Presley. Through Vernon, Lisa Marie was a descendant of the
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. Upon the deaths of her grandfather in 1979 and her great-grandmother in 1980, she became Elvis' sole heir; on her 25th birthday in 1993, she inherited the estate, which had grown to an estimated $100 million. Presley sold 85 percent of Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2004. In the late 1970s, a year or two after her father's death, she attended her first rock concert when she saw
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at The Forum in
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. She gave
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a scarf of her father's after the show, and expressed her love of theatrics. Shortly after her father's death, her mother began dating the actor Michael Edwards. In an interview with ''
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'' in 2003, Presley said Edwards would enter her room intoxicated and was sexually inappropriate with her. In '' From Here to the Great Unknown'', Presley repeated this allegation and stated that Edwards
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her starting in 1978. She has a half-brother, Navarone Garibaldi, from her mother's 22-year relationship with Marco Garibaldi. Presley made a video of "
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" as a posthumous duet with her father in 1997. This video was presented on August 16, 1997, at the tribute concert that marked the 20th anniversary of Elvis' death. The video contains Elvis' original vocal to which new instrumentation and Lisa Marie's vocals were added.


Career


2003–2005: ''To Whom It May Concern''

Presley released her debut album, ''
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'', on April 8, 2003. It reached No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart and was certified gold in June 2003. Presley wrote all the lyrics (except "The Road Between", which was co-written with Gus Black) and co-wrote every melody. To promote it, she presented a concert in the UK. The album's first single, " Lights Out", reached No. 18 on the ''
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'' Hot Adult Top 40 chart and No. 16 on the UK charts. Presley collaborated with
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for a co-written track called "Savior", which was included as the
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. In his review of the album, the ''
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'' critic Robert Hilburn wrote that it had a "a stark, uncompromising tone" and that "Presley's gutsy blues-edged voice has a distinctive flair".
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and Presley performed at '' VH1 Divas Duets'', a concert to benefit the VH1
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held at the
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on May 22, 2003, in
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. Together they sang Benatar's hit " Heartbreaker", which Presley frequently performed at her own concerts on tours afterward. Also in 2003, Presley contributed a recording of "
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" for the NBC Holiday Collection, Sounds of the Season.


2005–2012: ''Now What'' and further singles

Presley's second album, ''
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'', was released on April 5, 2005, and reached No. 9 on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart. Presley co-wrote 10 songs,which she received credit for, and recorded covers of
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's " Dirty Laundry" (the album's first single, which hit No. 36 on the ''Billboard'' 100 AC singles chart), and the
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' "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow". The song "Idiot" is a jab towards different men in her life. Unlike her first album, ''Now What'' included a Parental Advisory sticker. Presley covered
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's "
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" as a B-side.
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made a guest appearance on the track "Shine". The video for "Dirty Laundry" was directed by Patrick Hoelck and singer
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made a cameo appearance in it. ''Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone'', a documentary about
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of the rock group
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, was released in 2006. Directed by
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, the film shows
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,
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, X,
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, Presley, and
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as they stage a benefit concert to celebrate the Ramones' 30th anniversary and raise money for Cancer research. Presley appeared in the music video for
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's "
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" in 2006.
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produced the record and Tony Kaye directed the video which featured multiple celebrities and won a 2008
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for Best Short Form Music Video. Her single "
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" was released in August 2007 as a virtual duet with her father, who had originally recorded the song in 1969. It was released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of her father's death. The video, simultaneously released with the single, reached No. 1 on the
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sales and No. 16 on ''Billboard''s Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles chart. The proceeds from the single benefited a new Presley Place Transitional Housing Campus in
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. Presley appeared on ''
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'' to perform the song with the Harlem Gospel Choir, using vintage footage of her father. Presley joined singer
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on stage in London in October 2009. She sang vocals on a song the pair had been working on called "Weary". Hawley wanted to help Presley relaunch her music career, and the two embarked on a songwriting partnership in which she wrote the lyrics and Hawley the music. In an interview with
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, Presley said that she was currently recording a new album in London, which was due to be released in 2011.


2012–2018: ''Storm & Grace'' and final releases

Her third album, '' Storm & Grace'', was released on May 15, 2012. She said: "It's much more of a rootsy record, organic record, than my previous work." It is produced by Oscar and Grammy winner
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.
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described the album as "a stronger, more mature, and more effective work than one might have expected" and noted "Presley is finally developing a musical personality that truly suits her". Spinner.com described it as "the strongest album of her career" and ''
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'' praised the "smoky, spooky" single "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet".
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said of collaborating with Presley on ''Storm & Grace'' (2012): "When songs from Lisa Marie Presley showed up at my door, I was curious. I wondered what the daughter of an American revolutionary music artist had to say. What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected and soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her. The more I listened to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be. Listening beyond the media static, Lisa Marie Presley is a Southern American folk music artist of great value." In 2018, Presley was featured on the title track of the compilation "Where No One Stands Alone", a collection of her father's gospel songs, which sold over 300 million copies. The song was reworked into a duet between Presley and her father. A music video for the song was released in which Presley is incorporated into scenes of her and her father.


Memoir

Prior to her death, Presley had recorded audio tapes for a memoir. Her daughter, Riley Keough, completed writing the details on the tapes in book form following her mother's death. In addition to preparing the memoir, Riley narrated its audiobook version, which includes “Never-before-heard recollections” through Presley's voice. The cover of the memoir, titled ''From Here to the Great Unknown'' features a photo of a young Presley with her father on the cover. Presley and her daughter Riley are both credited as the book's authors. ''From Here to the Great Unknown'' was released on October 8, 2024, through Random House.


Charity work and humanitarian efforts

Presley Charitable Foundation (PCF) was formed by Presley in 2007. It was reincorporated from Presley Charitable Foundation to The Presley Foundation Inc. on November 10, 2022, and registered as a public benefit and grantmaking foundation on February 13, 2023. In 2001, Presley Place opened to its first residents. Presley Place provides homeless families with up to one year of rent-free housing, child day care, career and financial counseling, family management guidance, and other tools to help them break the cycle of poverty and regain self-esteem and independence. It is also funded by the PCF the Elvis Presley Music Room, where the children of Presley Place and others enjoy access to musical instruments and instruction and participate in special related programs. Her father's foundation The EPCF created the Elvis Presley Endowed Scholarship Fund at the College of Communication & Fine Arts at the
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to assist students majoring in areas of the arts. Presley joined
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and her
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and was active in the relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina devastated
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and surrounding areas. Presley gave a helping hand in Memphis, Tennessee. "I'm here", she said, "because I definitely needed to do something, and it just so happens this is where I'm from. I'm going to do everything I can. People need help—this is a huge catastrophe and everyone needs to stand up." Her first stop was a food bank, where, with the help of
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and
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, Presley loaded a truck with groceries. Then it was time for a pit stop at
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for toiletries and clothes. "I thought I was going to grab a couple things at the store", Presley said, "and I ended up filling up a truck. I went a little crazy." Presley's final destination was the Grand Casino Convention Center in Mississippi to distribute the supplies to people who had lost everything. One evacuee said, "I really appreciate everything Ms. Presley is doing for us. We have nothing, so we're very grateful for everything she's doing." In 2011 Presley became a patron of the Dream Factory, a charity based in
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.


Grammy Foundation

Presley was involved with the Grammy Foundation's Gold Grammy Signature Schools program, which recognizes top US public high schools that are making an outstanding commitment to music education during an academic school year. On October 22, 2005, Presley presented a special award to
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at the Memphis Recording Academy Honors. A host of hometown stars gathered to see Presley,
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, Isaac Hayes, and David Porter honored by the Memphis chapter of the Recording Academy. Presley and music producer Jimmy Jam presented the award to Hayes. On November 11, 2005, Presley participated in a Grammy SoundCheck at LA's
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, during which she and other industry professionals met with a group of music students to discuss career opportunities available to them within the music industry.


Awards and honors

On June 24, 2011, Presley was officially honored by the governor of Tennessee,
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, who proclaimed a day of recognition for her charitable efforts. Two days later, she was issued a Certificate of Proclamation by the mayor of New Orleans, Mitchell J. Landrieu, in recognition of her dedication and contributions to the city. She also received a proclamation from the city of
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Personal life

In 2005, Presley allowed the public a brief look into her personal life, appearing in the TV movie ''Elvis by the Presleys''. Between 2010 and 2016, Presley lived in a 15th-century manor house in
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, East Sussex, England, 15 miles east of
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, the British headquarters of the Church of Scientology. Presley publicly acknowledged her struggle with opioid addiction. She penned a foreword for a book titled ''United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain'' (2019); in the foreword, she stated that she was prescribed opioids following the birth of her twin daughters in 2008 and became dependent upon them. She had been using opioids again in the weeks prior to her death on January 12, 2023.


Marriages and divorces


Danny Keough

On October 3, 1988, Presley married Chicago-born musician/actor Danny Keough at the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles. They had dated for three years previously. Their honeymoon was upon a cruise ship owned by the
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. After an early abortion that Presley later claimed was "the stupidest thing she has ever done," the couple had two children: a daughter,
Riley Keough Danielle Riley Keough ( ; born May 29, 1989) is an American actress. Born into the Presley family, she is the oldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley. She initially started her career as a model from 200 ...
(born May 29, 1989, at
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in
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), and a son, Benjamin Storm Keough (born October 21, 1992, at Humana Women's Hospital in
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). Benjamin was delivered according to a Church of Scientology practice called " Silent birth". Presley obtained a quickie divorce in the
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on May 6, 1994. Later that year, Keough considered seeking custody of their two children due to child molestation charges against
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, whom Presley married after their divorce. In a 2003 interview with ''
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'', Presley commented on reports that she and Keough were planning to remarry: "Danny is my best friend, always has been, always will be. I love him unconditionally, but we are not together. It's not like that." Keough and Presley became closer again after Presley divorced Michael Jackson. In 2005, Danny Keough was a bass guitar player in Presley's band, and also served as her musical mentor. Presley still regarded him as a close friend, and he lived in the guest house on Presley's property. Presley described her relationship with Keough after they separated: "I don't know how, but we've managed to stay close. There's others that I have pain or betrayal associated with that I won't have anything to do with. But he and I had a special thing. Unconditional." Presley told
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in 2005 that she and Danny Keough were like brother and sister. In addition, Presley commented on her relationship with Keough: "Ultimately this is a good message to send out to people: You don't have to put your crap on your kids even if you are not together. You can still be civilized." Presley's daughter, Riley, married Ben Smith-Petersen in 2015. In 2022, their daughter Tupelo, Presley's grandchild, was born. Benjamin Keough died on July 12, 2020, at the age of 27 in
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Medical Examiner's Office listed his death as a suicide. Presley was distraught by her son's death, and was never the same afterward. Presley remained close friends with Danny Keough until her death in 2023 at the age of 54.


Michael Jackson

On May 26, 1994, 20 days after her divorce from Keough, Presley married singer
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. Keough's younger brother Thomas Keough was an official witness at Presley's wedding to Jackson. They had first met in 1974 when a six-year-old Presley attended his concert at the
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. According to a friend of Presley's, "their adult friendship began in November 1992 in L.A."Taraborrelli, p. 518–520. Presley explained, "I believed he didn't do anything wrong, and that he was wrongly accused and, yes, I started falling for him. I wanted to save him. I felt that I could do it." Shortly afterwards, she successfully persuaded Jackson to settle the allegations out of court and go into rehabilitation to recover. Presley appeared in Jackson's "
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" video in June 1995, directed by
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. In January 1996, citing irreconcilable differences, Presley filed for divorce, according to legal papers. Jackson's make-up artist, Karen Faye, later claimed that Jackson had originally planned to file for divorce first and had relented after Presley begged him not to. The following day, Jackson discovered that Presley had filed for divorce herself. In an October 2010 interview with
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, Presley revealed that she and Jackson had attempted to reconcile intermittently for four years following their divorce and that she had traveled to different parts of the world to be with him. After Jackson's death in 2009 at the age of 50, Presley was reported to have "felt shattered". Presley clarified some points about her relationship with Michael Jackson during her 2010 interview with Oprah Winfrey. Talking about the years she was with him after their divorce, she stated: "We again, were going to get back together, we spent four more years after we’d divorced getting back together and breaking up and talking about getting back together and breaking up." During the same interview she also said about Jackson: "I felt like I just always wanted to be around him, always wanted to be part of – I felt so high. I’ve never felt like that around another human being..." Presley said she was the last person standing over Michael's casket: "Well, most people had left and I was the last one standing over him. I didn’t want to leave him." In 2014, Lisa Marie Presley said in an interview with
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: "With MJ ichael Jackson unfortunately, too much happened, too much got between us. There was a very deep strong love there; intense. But people got in the way, on my end and his end. We had so many people telling us what to do and intercepting and speaking on behalf of the other. Had it been just he and I, towards the end, I don't think we would have divorced." In her 2024 published memoir, ''From Here to the Great Unknown'', Presley states, "I've never been that happy again", referring to her time with Jackson.


John Oszajca

In May 1999, Presley met musician John Oszajca and got engaged to him two days before Christmas. She broke off the engagement in March 2001, some five months after meeting
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at a party.


Nicolas Cage

Presley's third marriage was to Nicolas Cage, who she had met while in a relationship with Oszajca. They married in
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, on August 10, 2002, and Cage filed for divorce 107 days later on November 25, 2002. The divorce was finalized on May 24, 2004.


Michael Lockwood

On January 22, 2006, in
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, Presley married for a fourth time, to Michael Lockwood, her guitarist, music producer, and director. Danny Keough served as best man at the wedding. In March 2008, Presley announced that she was pregnant. Her husband was a first-time father. On October 7, 2008, Presley gave birth to
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girls Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood, via
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, at Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in
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. The couple had a home in England at Coes Manor,
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, East Sussex, where Presley enjoyed life out of the limelight. In 2016, Presley filed for divorce from Lockwood after ten years of marriage. In February 2017, the couple's children were placed in the temporary care of
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after Lisa Presley alleged she found inappropriate images of children on Lockwood's personal computer in a divorce court filing challenging Lockwood's request for spousal support.> The
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investigated the allegations, examining over 80 electronic devices, and found no criminal activity and referred the matter to investigators in Tennessee. Later in 2017, the
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s closed its investigation of the allegations made by Presley, citing no evidence of a crime. The divorce was finalized on May 26, 2021.


Scientology

Presley, along with friend and fellow Memphian and Scientologist
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, opened the Literacy, Education and Ability Program (LEAP) in October 1997. LEAP is run by
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, a group run by Scientologists. For her efforts to help US children learn study skills, Presley received the Humanitarian Award from the Church of Scientology-supported World Literacy Crusade on January 5, 2002. Presley received her award from Isaac Hayes,
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, and
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, daughter of
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World Literacy Crusade is regarded by critics as a front group for the
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. On September 26 of that same year, Presley addressed a
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ional hearing in opposition to the use of medication in treating
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, stating: "I have spoken to children who have been forced to take a cocaine-like stimulant to control their behavior. I have shared their sense of sheer desperation. Children have been wrenched from their family's care simply because their parents favored an alternative, drug-free approach to addressing educational and behavioral problems. The psychotropic drugging of millions of children has to stop." Addressing the committee as the International Spokesperson for Children's Rights, for the
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(CCHR), a group run by Scientologists, Presley expressed her view that parents should be informed about alternatives to drugs so they may "make an informed choice about their child's educational and medical needs". Presley left Scientology in 2014, though she had been experiencing growing discontent with the organization as early as 2008.


Elvis Presley estate

After Elvis Presley's death at Graceland on August 16, 1977, his will appointed his father, Vernon Presley, executor and trustee. The beneficiaries of the trust were Vernon, Elvis' grandmother Minnie Mae Presley, and Lisa Marie, whose inheritance was to be held in trust until her 25th birthday. After Vernon Presley's death in 1979, Elvis' former wife Priscilla Presley was named as one of three trustees in his will; the others were the National Bank of Commerce in Memphis and Joseph Hanks, who had been the Presleys' accountant. With Minnie Mae Presley's death in 1980, Lisa Marie became the only surviving beneficiary. In 1993, Presley inherited her father's estate on her 25th birthday, which, thanks largely to the stewardship of her mother, had grown to an estimated $100 million. In 1998, Presley became more closely involved in the management of the Elvis Presley Trust and its business entity, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. and until February 2005 she was owner and chairman of the board, when she sold 85 percent of the estate's business holdings to CKX, Inc., excluding Graceland itself and the property within it. Following Presley's death, her three daughters were expected to inherit Graceland. However, her mother Priscilla challenged a 2016 amendment that Presley had made to her estate, removing Priscilla as trustee and naming her two oldest children. One of these two, Presley's son Benjamin, died by suicide in 2020, leaving Riley as sole trustee. On August 16, 2024, Missouri woman Lisa Jeanine Findley was arrested for a scheme which involved, among other things, using a fradulent claim about Presley owing money in order to illegally force the sale of Graceland. According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs, Findley "allegedly fabricated loan documents" on which she "forged the signatures of Elvis Presley’s daughter and a Florida State notary public. Findley then allegedly filed a false creditor’s claim with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles, and a fake deed of trust with the Shelby County Register’s Office in Memphis" and "allegedly published a fraudulent foreclosure notice." One person involved with the Graceland foreclosure scheme previously acknowledged to the New York Times in May 2024 that the scheme involved a ring of identity thieves based in Nigeria making a claim that Presley owed $2.8 million to Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC. However, Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC was not a real company, and the identity thieves made a habit of using forgeries of recently deceased people in order to make money through fraud schemes. As a prominent figure in facilitating the scheme to force the sale of Graceland from Presley's family, Findley "posed as three different individuals" affiliated with the "fictitious private lender" in order to falsely accuse Presley of borrowing $3.8 million from Naussany Investments in 2018. The loan documents purportedly signed by Presley had purportedly been acknowledged before Kimberly L. Philbrick, a Florida notary public. However, Philbrick sided with Riley Keough in her lawsuit against Naussany, stating in an affidavit, “I have never met Lisa Marie Presley, nor have I ever notarized a document signed by Lisa Marie Presley. ... I do not know why my signature appears on this document.”


"Elvis Through His Daughter's Eyes" exhibit

In February 2012, Presley opened a new exhibit, "Elvis ... Through His Daughter's Eyes". It is included in the Graceland VIP Tour and features 200 items assembled by Presley and the Graceland Archives staff. The personal exhibit looks at Presley's experience of growing up with a famous father. Home movies, toys, and rarely seen family mementos are among the items on display.


Aircraft ''Lisa Marie''

In November 1975, her father named one of his private aircraft, a converted
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jet, after her. He spent more than $1 million refurbishing it to use as his main transport while on tour. The ''Lisa Marie'' and one of his other planes, ''Hound Dog II'', are on exhibit at Graceland.


Death

On January 12, 2023, at around 10:30 a.m., Presley suffered
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at her home in
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was administered en route to West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles, but she died later that day at age 54. According to her autopsy report, Presley died of
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caused by a
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she had undergone. The autopsy stated that the opioids in her system did not contribute to her death. Her last public appearance had been two days earlier at the
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, which she attended with her mother. Hundreds attended Presley's public memorial service that was held at
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on January 22, and more than 1.5 million people watched the service via live stream. Presley was interred in the
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Meditation Garden, next to her son Benjamin and adjacent to her father
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. Among those in attendance (some of whom paid spoken and/or musical tribute) included her mother; surviving children; family friend
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lead singer
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lead singer
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; singer
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; and both the director and star of ''
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and
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. On the CBS primetime special ''The Presleys: Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley'', which aired on October 8, 2024, Presley's daughter Riley Keough provided
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with details about Presley's final years, with the loss of her son Benjamin revealed to have resulted in her losing the will to keep living.


Discography


Studio albums

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Singles

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Tours

*S.O.B. Tour (2003–2004) *Now What Tour (2005–2006) *Storm & Grace Tour (2012–2014)


References


Further reading

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External links

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