Lisa Marie Presley dies after apparent cardiac arrest

LOS ANGELES – Lisa Marie Presley passed away on Thursday after an apparent cardiac arrest.

The singer was 54 years old.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the terrible news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”

The announcement comes just hours after Priscilla Presley confirmed that Lisa Marie Presley had been taken to the hospital earlier Thursday.

Los Angeles County paramedics were sent to the Calabasas home at 10:37 a.m. after reporting a woman in complete cardiac arrest, according to Craig Little, a county fire department spokesman. Property records show that Presley lived at this address.

TMZ, which broke the news, reported that paramedics were able to restore her pulse while working with Presley at her home before taking her to the hospital. Citing sources close to the family, TMZ reported that a housekeeper found Lisa Marie Presley in her bedroom in the house she shared with her ex-husband Danny Keogh. According to reports, Keogh returned home around the same time and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until paramedics arrived.

She is the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. She and her mother attended the Golden Globe Awards Tuesday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. During the ceremony, Austin Butler received the award for Best Actor in a Drama Film for his role as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll in director Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

Billy Bush of Extra interviewed Presley at the awards show and noticed some early warning signs from her.

“She was very uneven in her balance, her speech was slow, and definitely when the interview was over, I turned to my producer next to me and said: “Something is not right here.” So it was obvious to me that something was going on with her at the time,” Billy Bush told FOX 11.

The Extra host said he was the last person to interview Lisa Marie Presley before her sudden death.

Just a few days before, she had attended a Graceland celebration celebrating her father’s 88th birthday. She then flew to Los Angeles and attended yet another Elvis birthday party at the Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood, one of Elvis’ frequent hangouts in the area. Butler and Luhrmann attended the event on Sunday evening.

Presley has three children, including actress Riley Keough. Her son Benjamin Keogh died in 2020 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Besides Danny Keough, she was also briefly married to actor Nicolas Cage and music producer Michael Lockwood, and had a highly publicized two-year marriage to King of Pop Michael Jackson.

Her father died when she was only 9 years old. When she was 25, she inherited her late father’s estate, which at the time was valued at $100 million. She later sold most of the estate, but retained ownership of Graceland, her father’s famous estate.

A singer in her own right, she released an album titled “To Whom It May Concern” in 2003 with the hit “Lights Out”. She followed this release with the albums Now What in 2005 and Storm & Grace in 2012, the latter produced by T Bone Burnett.

The Associated Press and City News Service contributed to this report.