Lisa Marie Presley Laid to Rest Ahead of Public Memorial Service


Lisa Marie Presley.
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Lisa Marie Presley has been laid to relaxation at Graceland forward of her public memorial service, Us Weekly confirms.

The late singer was buried subsequent to her son, Benjamin Keough, within the Meditation Backyard on Thursday, January 19. Her father, Elvis Presley, and his mother and father, Vernon and Gladys, are additionally buried on the Tennessee location. Lisa Marie may also be honored with a public memorial service on Sunday, January 22.

Us confirmed that Lisa Marie was hospitalized on January 12 after going into cardiac arrest at her Calabasas house. In accordance with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, paramedics have been in a position to assist the songwriter regain a pulse and took her to a close-by hospital the place she finally handed away at age 54.

“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I need to share the devastating information that my lovely daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley, who shared daughter Lisa Marie with the late Elvis, informed Individuals in an announcement on the time. “She was probably the most passionate sturdy and loving girl I’ve ever recognized. We ask for privateness as we attempt to take care of this profound loss. Thanks for the love and prayers. At the moment there can be no additional remark.”

The Tennessee native’s stunning passing got here two days after Lisa Marie made an look on the 2023 Golden Globes. A supply completely informed Us that Lisa Marie appeared “in good spirits” whereas exhibiting her assist for Austin Butler on the ceremony.

After strolling the pink carpet, Lisa Marie gushed concerning the actor’s nomination for his efficiency as Elvis in Baz Luhrmann‘s musical biopic.

“I’m so excited and I hope he wins,” she informed Leisure Tonight about Butler’s “really mind-blowing” method within the movie. “I actually didn’t know what to do with myself after I noticed it. I needed to take, like, 5 days to course of it as a result of it was so unbelievable and so spot on and simply so genuine that, yeah, I can’t even describe what it meant.”

The Zoey 101 alum, for his half, talked about Lisa Marie throughout his acceptance speech after profitable the Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Drama Movement Image trophy. “Thanks for opening your hearts, your reminiscences, your property to me,” he stated. “Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I like you perpetually.”

Lisa Marie is survived by her three daughters: Riley Keough, whom she shared with first husband Danny Keough, and twins Harper and Finley, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Michael Lockwood. Forward of her demise, the actress mourned the lack of son Benjamin, who died by suicide at age 27 in July 2020.

Lockwood, 61, spoke out on his ex-wife’s demise shortly after the information broke. “Michael had been hoping for a speedy and full restoration as a result of her youngsters wanted her,” his legal professional, Joe Yanny, stated in an announcement to Leisure Tonight. “It is vitally unhappy it didn’t end up that means. Michael’s world has been turned on its ear. He’s with each of his daughters now.”

Lisa Marie was additionally publicly mourned by ex-husband Nicolas Cage. “Lisa had the best chortle of anybody I ever met. She lit up each room, and I’m heartbroken,” the actor, 59, who was married to Lisa Marie in 2002, informed The Hollywood Reporter. “I discover some solace believing she is reunited along with her son Benjamin.”