Remembering Lisa Marie Presley

By Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt and Tori B. Powell, CNN

Updated 10:33 a.m. ET, January 17, 2023
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10:33 a.m. ET, January 17, 2023

Fans visit Graceland to pay tribute to Lisa Marie Presley

Ashley Ore of Las Vegas and Hannah Mathis of Memphis pay their respect in memory of Lisa Marie Presley outside of Graceland on Friday.
Ashley Ore of Las Vegas and Hannah Mathis of Memphis pay their respect in memory of Lisa Marie Presley outside of Graceland on Friday. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Reuters)

Crowds of people are paying tribute Friday to Lisa Marie Presley at Graceland in Memphis.

“I never thoughts we would see Lisa die so young,” one fan told CNN affiliate WHBQ. She said she happened to be visiting West Tennessee for a few days when the news of her death broke and decided to visit Graceland.

Stephanie Inge of Dallas, Texas, arrives outside of Graceland in Memphis on Friday, January 13.
Stephanie Inge of Dallas, Texas, arrives outside of Graceland in Memphis on Friday, January 13. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Reuters)

Other people strolled down the long driveway carrying flowers, laying them outside of the mansion in Presley's memory.

Graceland was the home of music legend Elvis Presley and belonged to his daughter after she turned 25. She will now be buried on the property next to her son, Ben.

Presley died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest.

5:21 p.m. ET, January 13, 2023

"We will miss your warmth, your smile, your love." Director of "Elvis" posts tribute

From CNN's Alli Rosenbloom

Film director Baz Luhrmann shared a message on Instagram honoring Lisa Marie Presley.

"Over the last year, the entire Elvis movie family and I have felt the privilege of Lisa Marie’s kind embrace," Luhrmann wrote Friday. "Her sudden, shocking loss has devastated people all around the world. I know her fans everywhere join me in sharing prayers of love and support with her mother, Priscilla, and her wonderful daughters Riley, Finley and Harper. Lisa Marie, we will miss your warmth, your smile, your love."

The message was accompanied by a picture of Presley and actor Austin Butler, who played her father in Luhrmann's 2022 biographical film.

This week, Butler took home a Golden Globe award for best actor in a dramatic motion picture for his portrayal of Elvis.

Presley, who died on Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest, attended Tuesday's award ceremony.

5:09 p.m. ET, January 13, 2023

Graceland was bought in 1957 by Elvis Presley for $102,500. It will be his daughter's final resting place

Elvis Presley strolls the grounds of his Graceland estate circa 1957.
Elvis Presley strolls the grounds of his Graceland estate circa 1957. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Lisa Marie Presley's final resting place will be Graceland, the legendary mansion that was home to her father, Elvis Presley, in Memphis, Tennessee.

But what is the historic estate?

Her father purchased Graceland in 1957 for $102,500 when he was 22 years old, according to Graceland's website – and he lived there until his death on Aug. 16, 1977.

The music legend's only daughter was only 9 years old at the time.

His father, Vernon Presley, was appointed executor and trustee of the estate per Elvis' will, the website states. And Lisa Marie Presley became the sole heir upon turning 25 years old on Feb. 1, 1993.

More than 10 years earlier, due to the cost of maintaining the estate, Priscilla Presley and the estate's executors had decided to open Graceland to the public.

Since June 7, 1982, more than 20 million visitors from across the world have visited Graceland, according to the website.

The estate is one of the most visited houses in the country and a pilgrimage of sorts for musicians and rock ‘n’ roll fans, including a number of celebrities and heads of state. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Lisa Marie Presley will be buried next to her son, Ben, who died in 2020. Her father is also buried on the 13.8-acre estate.

3:32 p.m. ET, January 13, 2023

Lisa Marie Presley's final resting place will be Graceland, her father's former mansion

From CNN’s Steve Forrest

Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. (Edwin Remsberg/VWPics/AP)

Graceland will be the final resting place for singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the late Elvis and Priscilla Presley, according to a family spokesperson.

“Lisa Marie’s final resting place will be at Graceland, next to her beloved son Ben,” the representative said in a statement Friday.

Elvis Presley once lived in the sprawling Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, and his daughter inherited the property after his death. It now serves as a museum.

Presley died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest.

1:56 p.m. ET, January 13, 2023

Tom Hanks posts tribute to Lisa Marie Presley: "We are heartbroken"

Tom Hanks, who starred as Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the biographical film "Elvis," posted a tribute message to Lisa Marie Presley.

"We are heartbroken over the loss of Lisa Marie Presley. Absolutely broken…," Hanks wrote in a caption of a photo of Presley, signed by Hanks and his wife, actress Rita Wilson.

11:02 a.m. ET, January 13, 2023

Lisa Marie Presley's childhood was lived in the spotlight of the "king of rock and roll"

Elvis and Priscilla Presley with daughter Lisa Marie in 1968.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley with daughter Lisa Marie in 1968. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Born at the height of Elvis’s fame in 1968, Lisa Marie Presley was seen as the princess to the man celebrated as “the King of rock ‘n’ roll.”

Elvis and Priscilla Presley separated in 1972 when their daughter was four years old, and she was only nine when her father died in 1977. He was 42.

Soon, she began acting out and experimenting with drugs, resulting in her mother sending her to a series of private schools, including a boarding school in Ojai.

Lisa Marie Presley noted to the Los Angeles Times in 2003 that as a child, she “was kind of a loner, a melancholy and strange child.”

“I had a real self-destructive mode for a while,” she told the publication. “I never really fit into school. I didn’t really have any direction.”

10:33 a.m. ET, January 13, 2023

Lisa Marie Presley attended the Golden Globes on Tuesday, 2 days before her death

Lisa Marie Presley was seen at Tuesday's Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

She was there with her mother, Priscilla, as actor Austin Butler won an award for best actor in "Elvis" for his portrayal of Presley from adolescence to his untimely death at age 42. 

Butler thanked the Presley family in his speech.

"Thank you guys for opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me. Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever," he said.

From left, Priscilla Presley, Austin Butler, Lisa Marie Presley and Baz Luhrmann attend the Golden Globe Awards on January 10.
From left, Priscilla Presley, Austin Butler, Lisa Marie Presley and Baz Luhrmann attend the Golden Globe Awards on January 10. (Shutterstock for HFPA)

Lisa Marie Presley arrives at the Annual Golden Globe Awards.
Lisa Marie Presley arrives at the Annual Golden Globe Awards. (Todd Williamson/NBC/Getty Images)

6:48 p.m. ET, January 13, 2023

Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage were among Lisa Marie Presley's high-profile nuptials

From CNN's Dan Heching

Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley in 2001. 
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley in 2001.  (Lucy Nicholson/AFP/Getty Images)

Parallel to her musical pursuits, Lisa Marie Presley was married four times, including to music superstar Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage.

She wed musician Danny Keough in 1988, with whom she had a daughter, Riley Keough, and son Benjamin Storm Keough.

The pair divorced in May 1994, and roughly three weeks later, Lisa Marie married Jackson in a ceremony that made headlines worldwide.

She noted of Jackson in a 2003 interview with ABC News and Diane Sawyer: “When he wants to lock into you, when he wants to intrigue you or capture you, or you know, whatever he wants to do with you, he can do it.” She added that she “fell into this whole, ‘You poor, sweet, misunderstood man, I’m going to save you.’ … I fell in love with him.”

Their marriage ended in January 1996.

Two years later, she wed Cage after meeting him at a party, but only stayed married to him for three months, from August to November of 2002. The divorce was finalized in 2004.

"This is devastating news," Cage said Thursday in a statement provided by his manager. "Lisa had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met. She lit up every room, and I am heartbroken."

Her fourth marriage came in 2006, to her guitarist, music producer and director Michael Lockwood. The pair welcomed twins Finley Aaron Love Lockwood and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood in 2008. They divorced in 2016.

Presley died Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest. She was 54.

Read more here.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the year Finley Aaron Love Lockwood and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood were born. It was 2008.

9:37 a.m. ET, January 13, 2023

John Travolta, Pink and other celebrities remember Lisa Marie Presley

Actor John Travolta, singer Pink and fashion designer Donatella Versace were among the celebrities who paid tribute to Lisa Marie Presley after she died Thursday. Here's what they said.

John Travolta

Donatella Versace

Pink

Corey Feldman