Lisa Marie Presley, only child of Elvis, dies aged 54
Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock and roll legend Elvis, has died, her mother has said in a statement.
The 54-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, California, on Thursday morning.
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.
“She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”
Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley place their handprints in cement at LA’s Chinese theatre last summer
It followed an earlier statement in which the 77-year-old asked people to “keep her and our family in your prayers”.
She said her daughter had been “rushed to hospital”, with paramedics called shortly before 10.40am.
Presley’s family, including Priscilla and daughter Riley Keough, were pictured outside a hospital in Los Angeles before her death was announced.
Lisa Marie Presley with her children Riley and Benjamin Keough in 2010
Her cardiac arrest came just two days after she attended the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, where she celebrated Austin Butler winning best actor in a drama film for playing her father in the biopic Elvis.
She gave interviews on the red carpet, where she told Entertainment Tonight she had been left stunned by the star’s “mind-blowing” performance.
And just last weekend, Presley was at her father’s old Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, to mark the anniversary of his birth on 8 January 1935.
Elvis, widely considered to be the greatest rock and roll artist in history, died on 16 August 1977, aged just 42.
His daughter was nine years old at the time. She was four when Elvis and Priscilla Presley were divorced in 1972.
Elvis with wife Priscilla and daughter Lisa Marie in 1968
Three albums
Lisa Marie Presley followed in her father’s footsteps by pursuing a music career, starting in 2003 with her debut album: To Whom It May Concern.
It charted in the top 10 on the US Billboard album chart, as did follow-up record Now What in 2005.
Fans had to wait seven years for her third album, Storm And Grace, which released to positive reviews.
Her solo career bad begun eight years after she appeared in her then-husband Michael Jackson’s music video for the 1995 song You Are Not Alone.
Presley performs at the M Bar in London in 2003
Four marriages
Presley’s marriage to Jackson ended in divorce in 1996.
It was her second marriage, having been married to musician Danny Keough from 1988 to 1994.
They had two children together – daughter Riley Keough, who became an actress and model, and son Benjamin – and remained close friends.
She got married to Jackson within three weeks of divorcing Keough.
Her third marriage was to actor Nicolas Cage, which lasted from 2002 until a divorce in 2004.
Presley married again in 2006, to her guitarist and producer Michael Lockwood. They had twin daughters together, named Finley Aaron Love Lockwood and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood.
She filed for divorce 10 years later, and it was finalised in 2021.
Michael Jackson and his bride Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson in 1994
Nicolas Cage with then-girlfriend Lisa Marie Presley in 2002
Dealing with grief
In 2018, Presley featured on a new record, titled Where No One Stands Alone, which was released to celebrate her father’s love of gospel music, and featured 14 original performances recorded by him.
The title track was a reimagined duet, in which Lisa Marie performed a duet with her father.
Last year, she wrote an essay for People magazine about the death of son Benjamin, who took his own life in 2020.
“I’ve dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old,” she said.
“I’ve had more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I’ve made it this far.”
A woman who was charged with selling Friends star Matthew Parry the dose of the drug that killed him has agreed to plead guilty.
Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen”, is the fifth and final defendant to strike a plea deal with prosecutors, avoiding a trial that was set to take place in September.
The 42-year-old agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry’s death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
She agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry’s death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors had cast Sangha, a dual US and UK national, as a prolific drug dealer known to her customers as the “Ketamine Queen”, often using the term in court documents and even including it in the official name of the case.
Actor Matthew Perry in 2015. File pic: Reuters
She agreed to plead guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Sangha will officially change her plea to guilty at an upcoming hearing, where sentencing will be scheduled, prosecutors said.
Dr. Mark Chavez, a physician from San Diego, who is charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s fatal overdose. Pic: AP
She is facing up to 45 years in prison.
Sangha and a doctor named Salvador Plasencia, who signed his own plea deal in June, had been the primary targets of the investigation.
Three other defendants – Mark Chavez, who it was claimed bought the drug from Sangha, Kenneth Iwamasa, and Erik Flemin – agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation, which included statements implicating Sangha and Plasencia.
Friends became one of the most popular TV shows in the world in the 1990s and 2000s
Prosecutors allege Chavez funnelled ketamine to Plasencia, securing some of the drug from a wholesale distributor through a fraudulent prescription.
In one instance, prosecutors allege that Plasencia “charged Perry $2,000 (£1,500) a vial that cost Dr Chavez approximately $12 (£9)”.
Perry died in his home in October 2023, aged 54, after getting ketamine from his regular doctor for treatment of depression, which is an increasingly common use for the surgical anaesthetic.
The actor was taking ketamine six to eight times a day before he died, according to court documents.
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An Ozzy Osbourne documentary has disappeared from the BBC’s schedule without explanation.
The film was billed by producers as “a moving and inspirational account” of the last chapter of the metal legend’s life.
It was meant to air at 9pm on Monday on BBC One – as well as be available on iPlayer – but an episode of Fake Or Fortune? has replaced it.
Sky News has contacted the BBC for comment on why the programme, called Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, has been pulled.
The project was filmed over three years as Ozzy and his family returned to the UK, and was initially conceived as a series entitled Home to Roost.
However, as the singer’s health got worse it morphed into a one-off.
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The BBC reported the show would reveal the “extraordinary rollercoaster” of the Osbournes’ lives as Ozzy tries “heroically” to get fit enough to perform again.
It’s said to feature “unique and intimate access” to the family, including Ozzy’s children, Jack and Kelly, who appeared in the reality series that made them household names in the early 2000s.
The Black Sabbath frontman, who had Parkinson’s disease, died last month – just a few weeks after his final all-star gig at Birmingham’s Villa Park.
Fans packed the city centre and chanted his name when his hearse passed through on 30 July.
His wife, Sharon, was in tears as she got out to see the mass of flowers left for him at “Sabbath Bridge”.
The New York Times said his death certificate gave the cause as cardiac arrest, but the family hasn’t commented.
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