Lisa Marie Presley: a life of descent into hell

Divorces, bad encounters, addictions. Lisa Marie Presley could have had a dream life. Daughter of Elvis Presley, daughter of a legend, she could have led the life of an artist, heiress of Graceland where she grew up with her father. But when the singer died, Lisa Marie, struck down by cardiac arrest on January 13, 2023, lost a lot. A difficult teenager, her mother Priscilla places her in a school linked to the Church of Scientology. A boarding school that’s supposed to put her back on the right track after she was kicked out of numerous schools in California and dabbled in drugs at just 14. The years that followed were painful. Lisa Marie Presley is plagued by several addictions to alcohol, medication and drugs. The young woman does not manage to get rid of her demons but always tries to reach happiness.

In 1988, she married Danny Keough and had two children with him, Danielle Riley Keough, born May 29, 1989, and Benjamin Storm Keough, born in 1992. In 1994, they divorced. Lisa Marie falls in love with Michael Jackson. They formalize their relationship just days after his divorce. When the pedophilia accusations against Michael Jackson become public, she decides to stay by his side and take care of him: “I think he did nothing wrong and he was wrongly accused and I started falling in love with him. I wanted to save him. I felt like I could do it,” she confided, as reported in the book by J. Randy Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson – The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story. Then, she married Nicolas Cage in August 2002. The actor will file for divorce in November the same year. It is finally, in the arms of Michael Lockwood, guitarist, that she celebrates her fourth marriage during a sumptuous ceremony in Japan. Together, they have twins, Harper Vivienne Ann and Finley Aaron Love, in 2008. After all these breakups, spread out in the press, Lisa Marie thought she had finally found the right one, the one who was going to give her the family life she dreamed of.

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In June 2016, they divorced. If the two former spouses claim that it is “irreconcilable differences“, the daughter of “King“found child pornography images on the guitarist’s computer. She called the Beverly Hills police who seized nearly a hundred hard drives and documents.”I was shocked and horrified and sick. I understood that there was also an investigation in Tennessee [où résidait précédemment la famille, ndlr] in relation to the photos and videos that I have discovered. I have no idea what may be on these devices and I fear there will be more images and evidence yet.”, she confided. Harper and Finley, then eight years old, had to be placed in the care of social services and then their grandmother.

Since then, Lisa Marie Presley was ruined. As a direct consequence, she said, of her last divorce and of “malicious actions” from her last husband who would have contributed to squandering her inheritance. The singer had to resolve to live with her eldest daughter. She had also done several detoxification treatments since 2016 in order to solve her addiction problems.