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Lisa Marie Presley dies at 54 after hospitalization

JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP / 2022
                                Priscilla Presley, former wife of the late singer Elvis Presley, left, looks on as her daughter Lisa Marie Presley, speaks during a hand and footprint ceremony in their honor at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
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JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP / 2022

Priscilla Presley, former wife of the late singer Elvis Presley, left, looks on as her daughter Lisa Marie Presley, speaks during a hand and footprint ceremony in their honor at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.

JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP / JUNE 21, 2022
                                Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the late singer Elvis Presley, poses during a handprint ceremony honoring the Presley family at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
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JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP / JUNE 21, 2022

Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the late singer Elvis Presley, poses during a handprint ceremony honoring the Presley family at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2012
                                Lisa Marie Presley stands next to her childhood crib displayed with other mementos in the new exhibit “Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes,” at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. She was born on Feb. 1, 1968. Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, after a hospitalization, according to her mother, Priscilla Presley. She was 54.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2012

Lisa Marie Presley stands next to her childhood crib displayed with other mementos in the new exhibit “Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes,” at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. She was born on Feb. 1, 1968. Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, after a hospitalization, according to her mother, Priscilla Presley. She was 54.

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1968
                                Lisa Marie Presley poses for her first picture, in the lap of her mother, Priscilla, with her father, Elvis Presley. Lisa Marie Presley — the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer herself — was hospitalized Thursday, Jan. 12, her mother said in a statement.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1968

Lisa Marie Presley poses for her first picture, in the lap of her mother, Priscilla, with her father, Elvis Presley. Lisa Marie Presley — the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer herself — was hospitalized Thursday, Jan. 12, her mother said in a statement.

JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP / 2022
                                Priscilla Presley, former wife of the late singer Elvis Presley, left, looks on as her daughter Lisa Marie Presley, speaks during a hand and footprint ceremony in their honor at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP / JUNE 21, 2022
                                Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the late singer Elvis Presley, poses during a handprint ceremony honoring the Presley family at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2012
                                Lisa Marie Presley stands next to her childhood crib displayed with other mementos in the new exhibit “Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes,” at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. She was born on Feb. 1, 1968. Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, after a hospitalization, according to her mother, Priscilla Presley. She was 54.
ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1968
                                Lisa Marie Presley poses for her first picture, in the lap of her mother, Priscilla, with her father, Elvis Presley. Lisa Marie Presley — the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer herself — was hospitalized Thursday, Jan. 12, her mother said in a statement.

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LOS ANGELES >> Lisa Marie Presley — the only child of Elvis Presley — died today after being hospitalized earlier that day, her mother said in a statement. The singer was 54.

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

The announcement came just hours after Priscilla Presley had confirmed that Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to the hospital earlier today.

Los Angeles County paramedics were dispatched to a Calabasas home at 10:37 a.m. following a report of a woman in full cardiac arrest, according to Craig Little, a spokesperson for the county’s fire department. Property records indicate Presley was a resident at that address.

Paramedics arrived about six minutes later, Little said. A subsequent statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said paramedics performed CPR and “determined the patient had signs of life” before taking her to a hospital in nearby West Hills immediately.

The city of Calabasas is nestled between the foothills of the Santa Monica and the Santa Susanna Mountains, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

News of Presley’s hospitalization was first reported by TMZ and later confirmed by People magazine.

Presley, 54, attended the Golden Globes on Tuesday, on hand to celebrate Austin Butler’s award for playing her father in “Elvis.” She called his performance “mind-blowing” during a red carpet interview with “Entertainment Tonight.”

“I really didn’t know what to do with myself after I saw it,” she told ET of Baz Luhrmann’s movie. “I had to take, like, five days to process it because it was so incredible and so spot on and just so authentic that, yeah, I can’t even describe what it meant.”

Just days before that, she was in Memphis, Tennessee, at Graceland — the mansion where Elvis lived — to celebrate her father’s birth anniversary on Jan. 8.

Kristen Sainato and her husband were visiting Memphis from Cleveland when she heard the news of Presley’s death today. She wore a black jacket with the well-known TCB lightning bolt (shorthand for (taking care of business in a flash) on the back as she described meeting Presley at a celebration of her father’s birthday on Jan. 8 at Graceland. Sainato set down a bouquet of flowers at the front gate of Graceland.

“Those are for Lisa,” she said.

She said Lisa Marie Presley was one of the last connections to her famous father.

“Everyone is shocked over this. Why? Why did this have to happen?” Sainato said, wiping tears from her eyes as she stood in front of the stone wall that borders the home-turned museum. “She deserved a long, happy life.”

Presley had recently penned an essay published in People about “the horrific reality” of her grief following her son Benjamin Keough’s death by suicide in 2020. Presley is also the mother of actor Riley Keough and twin daughters.

“I’ve dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old. I’ve had more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I’ve made it this far,” she wrote in August.

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