1. Lisa Marie Presley was an American singer and songwriter.
58 Facts About Lisa Marie Presley
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Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate after her grandfather and great-grandmother died.
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Lisa Marie Presley's memoir, titled From Here to the Great Unknown, was released posthumously in October 2024.
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Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1,1968, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, nine months to the day after her parents' wedding.
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When her father died in August 1977, nine-year-old Lisa Marie became joint heiress to his estate with her 61-year-old grandfather, Vernon Presley, and Vernon's 87-year-old mother Minnie Mae Presley.
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Lisa Marie Presley sold 85 percent of Elvis Lisa Marie Presley Enterprises in 2004.
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Lisa Marie Presley gave Freddie Mercury a scarf of her father's after the show, and expressed her love of theatrics.
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Lisa Marie Presley has a half-brother, Navarone Garibaldi, from her mother's 22-year relationship with Marco Garibaldi.
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Lisa Marie Presley made a video of "Don't Cry Daddy" as a posthumous duet with her father in 1997.
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Lisa Marie Presley released her debut album, To Whom It May Concern, on April 8,2003.
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Lisa Marie Presley wrote all the lyrics and co-wrote every melody.
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Lisa Marie Presley collaborated with Billy Corgan for a co-written track called "Savior", which was included as the B-side.
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Pat Benatar and Lisa Marie Presley performed at VH1 Divas Duets, a concert to benefit the VH1 Save the Music Foundation held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 22,2003, in Las Vegas.
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Together they sang Benatar's hit "Heartbreaker", which Lisa Marie Presley frequently performed at her own concerts on tours afterward.
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Also in 2003, Lisa Marie Presley contributed a recording of "Silent Night" for the NBC Holiday Collection, Sounds of the Season.
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Lisa Marie Presley co-wrote 10 songs, which she received credit for, and recorded covers of Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry", and the Ramones' "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow".
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Lisa Marie Presley covered Blue Oyster Cult's "Burnin' for You" as a B-side.
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Lisa Marie Presley appeared in the music video for Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut You Down" in 2006.
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Lisa Marie Presley appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to perform the song with the Harlem Gospel Choir, using vintage footage of her father.
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Lisa Marie Presley joined singer Richard Hawley on stage in London in October 2009.
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Lisa Marie Presley sang vocals on a song the pair had been working on called "Weary".
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AllMusic described the album as "a stronger, more mature, and more effective work than one might have expected" and noted "Lisa Marie Presley is finally developing a musical personality that truly suits her".
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In 2018, Lisa Marie Presley was featured on the title track of the compilation "Where No One Stands Alone", a collection of her father's gospel songs, which sold over 300 million copies.
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Lisa Marie Presley Place provides homeless families with up to one year of rent-free housing, child day care, career and financial counseling, family management guidance, and other tools to help them break the cycle of poverty and regain self-esteem and independence.
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Lisa Marie Presley joined Oprah Winfrey and her Angel Network and was active in the relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas.
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Lisa Marie Presley was involved with the Grammy Foundation's Gold Grammy Signature Schools program, which recognizes top US public high schools that are making an outstanding commitment to music education during an academic school year.
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On October 22,2005, Lisa Marie Presley presented a special award to Isaac Hayes at the Memphis Recording Academy Honors.
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On November 11,2005, Lisa Marie Presley participated in a Grammy SoundCheck at LA's House of Blues, during which she and other industry professionals met with a group of music students to discuss career opportunities available to them within the music industry.
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On June 24,2011, Lisa Marie Presley was officially honored by the governor of Tennessee, Bill Haslam, who proclaimed a day of recognition for her charitable efforts.
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Lisa Marie Presley received a proclamation from the city of Memphis on June 28,2011, for her philanthropy there.
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Between 2010 and 2016, Lisa Marie Presley lived in a 15th-century manor house in Rotherfield, East Sussex, England, 15 miles east of Saint Hill Manor, the British headquarters of the Church of Scientology.
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Lisa Marie Presley penned a foreword for a book titled United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain ; in the foreword, she stated that she was prescribed opioids following the birth of her twin daughters in 2008 and became dependent upon them.
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Lisa Marie Presley had been using opioids again in the weeks prior to her death on January 12,2023.
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Lisa Marie Presley obtained a quickie divorce in the Dominican Republic on May 6,1994.
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Later that year, Keough considered seeking custody of their two children due to child molestation charges against Michael Jackson, whom Lisa Marie Presley married after their divorce.
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Lisa Marie Presley still regarded him as a close friend, and he lived in the guest house on Lisa Marie Presley's property.
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Lisa Marie Presley was distraught by her son's death, and was never the same afterward.
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Lisa Marie Presley remained close friends with Danny Keough until her death in 2023 at the age of 54.
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On May 26,1994,20 days after her divorce from Keough, Lisa Marie Presley married singer Michael Jackson.
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Lisa Marie Presley was concerned about his faltering health and his drug addiction.
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Lisa Marie Presley appeared in Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" video in June 1995, directed by Wayne Isham.
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In January 1996, citing irreconcilable differences, Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce, according to legal papers.
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Jackson's make-up artist, Karen Faye, later claimed that Jackson had originally planned to file for divorce first and had relented after Lisa Marie Presley begged him not to.
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Lisa Marie Presley clarified some points about her relationship with Michael Jackson during her 2010 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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Lisa Marie Presley talked about the years she was with him after their divorce.
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In May 1999, Lisa Marie Presley met musician John Oszajca and got engaged to him two days before Christmas.
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Lisa Marie Presley broke off the engagement in March 2001, some five months after meeting Nicolas Cage at a party.
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On January 22,2006, in Kyoto, Japan, Lisa Marie Presley married for a fourth time, to Michael Lockwood, her guitarist, music producer, and director.
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The couple had a home in England at Coes Manor, Rotherfield, East Sussex, where Lisa Marie Presley enjoyed life out of the limelight.
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In 2016, Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Lockwood after ten years of marriage.
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In February 2017, the couple's children were placed in the temporary care of Priscilla Presley after Lisa Presley alleged she found inappropriate images of children on Lockwood's personal computer in a divorce court filing challenging Lockwood's request for spousal support.
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Later in 2017, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations closed its investigation of the allegations made by Lisa Marie Presley, citing no evidence of a crime.
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Lisa Marie Presley received her award from Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, and Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lisa Marie Presley left Scientology in 2014, though she had been experiencing growing discontent with the organization as early as 2008.
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However, her mother Priscilla challenged a 2016 amendment that Lisa Marie Presley had made to her estate, removing Priscilla as trustee and naming her two oldest children.
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The loan documents purportedly signed by Presley had purportedly been acknowledged before Kimberly L Philbrick, a Florida notary public.
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Lisa Marie Presley's heart was restarted after CPR was administered en route to West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles, but she died later that day at the age of 54.
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Lisa Marie Presley was interred in the Graceland Meditation Garden, next to her son Benjamin and adjacent to her father Elvis.