Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock and roll legend Elvis Presley, died Thursday at age 54.
Presley, who led a tumultuous life in the sprawling shadow of her world-famous father, and who attended an awards ceremony last week, was rushed to a California hospital’s intensive care unit for a cardiac arrest.
Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie’s mother and the iconic crooner’s wife for six years until their divorce in 1973, said in a statement to People magazine: ‘It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us’.
Entertainment website TMZ reported that Presley was in an induced coma on life support; she had been “unresponsive” when her housekeeper discovered her at her home on Thursday morning in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas.
Her ex-husband, Danny Keough, who also lives at the property, performed CPR until paramedics arrived and transported her to the hospital.
Mother and daughter were seen together on Tuesday at the Golden Globe awards in Beverly Hills, where Austin Butler was awarded Best Actor in a drama for his turn as the rock and roll legend in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic “Elvis.”
Butler, whose performance has earned wide praise, thanked the two women during his acceptance speech.
Lisa Marie Presley was Elvis’s only child. She had previously controlled Elvis Presley Enterprises, but sold the bulk of shares in the company to a private equity firm in 2005.
She retained control of Graceland, the Memphis, Tennessee estate her father owned, and where he was found unconscious in August 1977.
He was taken to the hospital but pronounced dead from a heart attack. Toxicology reports found high levels of prescription drugs in his system.
In addition to Danny Keough, whom she divorced in 1994, she has also been married to Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and actor/composer Michael Lockwood.