On January 12, 2023, Elvis’ only daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, died at the age of 54 from a small intestine obstruction caused by a previous weight loss operation. A disappearance which shocked the world, the day after a final appearance of the pretty brunette… to attend the coronation of Austin Butler who had won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in the Elvis biopic by director Baz Luhrmann.
Nearly a year after this sudden death, Lisa Marie’s mother, Priscilla Presley remains inconsolable. The King’s former wife has just given an interview to the Talk TV channel in which she confides in journalist Piers Morgan. “It’s unbearable. I lost my mother, my grandson and my daughter.” She then explains that Lisa Marie never managed to get over the death of her own son, Benjamin Keough, who committed suicide in 2020. “Losing Ben was the hardest thing for her, he committed suicide, he was the love of her life. She adored him, she would have done anything for him”.
Against all expectations, Priscilla also assured that her daughter was suicidal a few months before her death. “I knew there was something wrong […] “She often talked about Ben and how she was still grieving,” she recalled. “I wouldn’t wish that on any mother…” she added in tears. As a reminder, opioids had been found in Lisa Marie Presley’s blood at the time of her death.
Finally we note that the death of Lisa Marie Presley gave rise to a dispute between her daughter Riley Keough (34 years old) and Priscilla regarding the property of the deceased. The grandmother would have accepted in an agreement signed recently, the sum of 1.4 million dollars in exchange for her giving up control of her late daughter’s Promenade Trust home, leaving Riley as the sole administrator and manager. An agreement which led to a quarrel born only two weeks after the death of Lisa Marie in January since Lisa Marie’s will indicated the names of the two women as managers.
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