Born at the height of Elvis’ fame in 1968, Lisa Marie Presley grew up in the limelight as the daughter of the man celebrated as “the king of rock ‘n’ roll”.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley separated in 1972 when their daughter was 4 years old, and she was only 9 when her father died in 1977.
Soon she began acting out and experimenting with drugs, which led to her mother sending her to a series of private schools, including a boarding school in Ojai, California.
Presley later launched her career in 2003 with a debut studio album, “To Whom It May Concern”, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold that summer. She wrote almost all the lyrics on the album and co-wrote every melody.
Parallel to her musical pursuits, Presley was married four times: first to musician Danny Keough, then to singer Michael Jackson, Nicholas Cage, and then Michael Lockwood. She had four children: Riley Keough, Benjamin Keough, Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood.
In 2020, Presley’s son Benjamin Keough committed suicide at the age of 27. Last July, she marked the second anniversary of Keough’s death on Instagram, sharing a photo of their matching foot tattoos.
In September, Presley wrote an essay for National Grief Awareness Day, in which she talked about the loss of her son.
“My lives and those of my three daughters as we knew them were completely exploded and devastated by his death. We live in this every. Single. Bye,” she wrote. “Grief is something you have to carry with you for the rest of your life, despite what some people or our culture would have us believe. You can’t get over it, you can’t move on, period.”