On January 12, 2023, the news of the death of Lisa-Marie Presley at only 54 years old had the effect of a bomb in the United States but also around the world. Officially the victim of a cardiac arrest, the only child of the King and Priscilla Presley had shortly before made a public appearance at the Golden Globesaccompanied by actor Austin Butler who was crowned best actor during this evening for his incarnation of the king of rock’n’roll in the biopic “Elvis”. Internet users were in shock: the fifty-year-old had shown herself there with a vague gaze, a staggering step, obviously not in a normal state. Today, this Thursday, July 13, 2023, and six months after the tragedy, an autopsy report revealed by the American media TMZ, reveals the exact causes of his death until then unknown. America’s most famous heiress reportedly dead “bowel obstruction caused by scar tissue which developed after bariatric surgery several years ago”. In other words, Lisa-Marie Presley died of complications related to weight loss surgery. A common operation consisting of remove part of the stomach or‘intestine or more simply to the laying of‘a gastric band. A way for people with obesity to lose weight quickly and sustainably. On the toxicology side, traces of oxycodone, a powerful opiate, were found in his body, as well as buprenorphine and quetiapine, an antipsychotic intended to treat psychiatric disorders and illnesses. But these analgesics and antidepressants do not appear in lethal doses. And if it remains unexpected, “the cause of death is natural”according to forensic experts.
An autopsy report learns that Elvis Presley’s only daughter died of complications from weight loss surgery. https://t.co/NouDDv7aKj
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A death amid family disputes
In the Presley family, tensions were at their peak. Lisa-Marie regularly confessed to being ruined in the media, with the question of inheritance dividing the children from the King’s daughter to their famous grandmother Priscilla. Lias-Marie also had to manage a difficult divorce with Michael Lockwood and tore with the latter for the custody of their twins, Harper and Finley. An additional blow for the one who also had to survive the suicide of her son Benjamin, born of her union with Danny Keough. According to the media EntertainmentTonight, Lisa-Marie’s eldest daughter, Riley Keough, 34, would have become her mother’s legatee.
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