Lisa Marie Presley: Singer ‘died of complications from weight loss surgery’
Lisa Marie Presley – the only child of rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis – died of complications from a weight loss surgery she had several years ago, a post-mortem examination revealed.
The singer died at her home in Calabasas, California, in January this year, at the age of 54, after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest.
However, post-mortem results released by Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner on Thursday ruled her death as being from natural causes due to effects of a small bowel obstruction.
It said the complication was the result of bariatric surgery – a weight loss procedure – from several years ago.
“The obstruction was in the form of a strangulated small bowel caused by adhesions that developed after bariatric surgery years ago,” the examiner said in a report.
“This is a known long-term complication of this type of surgery.”
Ms Presley – who was last seen in public at the Golden Globes two days before her death – had complained of stomach pain earlier in the day, according to the report.
A photo of a young Lisa Marie Presley with her parents, Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, in a bouquet of flowers at her memorial service. Pic: AP
However, there were no further indications of what may have caused the medical issue.
What is bariatric surgery?
In the UK, bariatric surgery, also known called metabolic surgery, can be used as a treatment for people who are very obese – usually those above a body mass index (BMI) of 40.
The surgery can include the use of a gastric band, a gastric bypass or a sleeve gastrectomy.
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However, according to the NHS, it should only be tried if all other weight loss methods, such as dieting and exercise, have not worked, or if the person has a serious condition that may improve as a result of weight loss.
The Mayo Clinic, a not-for-profit medical research centre based in the US, also says the procedure is used when other weight loss methods have not worked.
The only child of ‘The King’
Ms Presley was the sole heir of music legend Elvis, and his wife Priscilla Presley.
Elvis with wife Priscilla and daughter Lisa Marie in 1968
She 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.
She had four marriages, the first to singer Michael Jackson, and the third to actor Nicolas Cage.
Following her death, she was buried during a funeral at Graceland, the home where she lived with her father as a child that has become a museum, tourist attraction and shrine for Elvis fans.
Presley left behind three daughters, 34-year-old “Daisy Jones & the Six” actor Riley Keough, with her second husband Danny Keough, and 15-year-old twins Harper and Finley Lockwood, with her fourth husband, guitarist and producer Michael Lockwood.
Lisa Marie Presley’s first marriage was to Michael Jackson
Lisa Marie Presley with Nicolas Cage
Lisa Marie Presley and daughter Riley Keough. Pic: @rileykeough
Her eldest son, Benjamin Keough, died in 2020.
Legal fight over estate
In the immediate aftermath of her death, it appeared that a major legal fight would ensue over Presley’s estate.
Four days after her funeral, her mother, Priscilla, 78, filed court documents disputing a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie Presley’s living trust that removed her and a former business manager as trustees and replaced them with her two eldest children.
But Priscilla and Riley Keough – acting as the sole trustee of her estate – agreed to a settlement in May.
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
A farmer who fell from a greenhouse roof during an anti-immigrant raid at a licensed cannabis facility in California this week has died of his injuries.
Jaime Alanis, 57, is the first person to die as a result of Donald Trump’s Immigration Compliance and Enforcement (ICE) raids.
His niece, Yesenia Duran, posted on the fundraising site GoFundMe to say her uncle was his family’s only provider and he had been sending his earnings back to his wife and daughter in Mexico.
The United Food Workers said Mr Alanis had worked on the farm for 10 years.
“These violent and cruel federal actions terrorise American communities, disrupt the American food supply chain, threaten lives and separate families,” the union said in a recent statement on X.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it executed criminal search warrants at Glass House Farms facilities on Thursday.
Mr Alanis called family to say he was hiding and possibly fleeing agents before he fell around 30ft (9m) from the roof and broke his neck, according to information from family, hospital and government sources.
Agents arrested 200 people suspected of being in the country illegally and identified at least 10 immigrant children on the sites, the DHS said in a statement.
Mr Alanis was not among them, the agency said.
“This man was not in and has not been in CBP (Customs and Border Protection) or ICE custody,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said.
“Although he was not being pursued by law enforcement, this individual climbed up to the roof of a greenhouse and fell 30ft. CBP immediately called a medivac to the scene to get him care as quickly as possible.”
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Four US citizens were arrested during the incident for allegedly “assaulting or resisting officers”, the DHS said, and authorities were offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a person suspected of firing a gun at federal agents.
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In a statement, Glass House, a licensed Cannabis grower, said immigration agents had valid warrants. It said workers were detained and it is helping provide them with legal representation.
“Glass House has never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors,” it added.
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