Lisa Marie Presley death: Nicolas Cage ‘heartbroken’ by news Elvis’s daughter has died

Throughout her music career, Presley released three original albums.

She dropped her debut record To whom It May Concern in 2003, followed two years later by Now What.

Her third and final album, Storm & Grace, was released in 2012.

Presley’s latest record Where No One Stands Alone (2018), featured 14 original performances recorded by Elvis including a reimagined duet, in which she sang alongside her father, who died at the age of 42 in 1977.

Not only was Presley at the Golden Globes days before her death, in support of Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis, but even before that she had joined the director and star Austin Butler in celebration of her late father’s birthday.

On 8 January, Presley and her daughter Riley Keough joined the film’s cast to commemorate what would have been Elvis’s 88th birthday.

At the celebration, Presley shared a few words of “gratitude” for the film and “the effect that it’s had”.

Presley will be laid to rest beside her late son Benjamin Keough, her eldest daughter Riley Keough has confirmed.

The Independent’s Tom Murray has the details here:

‘Lisa Marie’s final resting place will be at Graceland, next to her beloved son Ben,’ daughter said

Linda Thompson, Elvis’s last major girlfriend after his divorce from Priscilla, is “devastated and shocked” by Presley’s recent death.

Speaking to People, Thompson said that she and Presley had remained “in touch, off and on for all these years – most recently by text”.

“In fact, the very last text to me was a simple ‘Love you Linda’ with a heart emoji,” she added.

Elvis and Thompson began dating in 1972, a month before his divorce from Priscilla was finalised. Their relationship lasted for four years. Thompson eventually ended it in 1976.

“Lisa Marie was so much like her daddy it was uncanny,” the songwriter and actor said.

“She had his deep, soulful eyes, his pouty lip, and his raucous, irreverent sense of humour. She was a beautiful contradiction like Elvis… complicated in her simplicity,” Thompson remembered. “She was brutally honest, straightforward, loving and loyal. I don’t think there was a phoney cell in her body. I believe she lived her life authentically.”

Thompson went on to marry Caitlyn Jenner in 1981, before they divorced in 1986. They share two sons Brody, 39, and Brandon, 41. She was later married to Canadian singer David Foster for 14 years between 1991 and 2005.

Last year, Presley wrote an emotional essay about the death of her son Benjamin Keough.

The 27-year-old, who was the grandson of Elvis Presley, died by suicide in 2020.

Presley, who said her life was “detonated and destroyed” by Keough’s death, urged people to join support groups, writing: “Nothing, absolutely NOTHING takes away the pain, but finding support can sometimes help you feel a little bit less alone.”

You can read the essay here:

The actor Nicolas Cage has responded to the news of Presley’s death, calling it “devastating”.

The pair were married for two years between 2002 and 2004.

“This is devastating news,” Cage’s statement read. “Lisa had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met. She lit up every room, and I am heartbroken. I find some solace believing she is reunited with her son Benjamin.”

“These tragic scenarios illustrate the misinformation, disinformation and just plain confusion which has clouded our lives during the past three years,” she writes.

“While there have been reports that mRNA vaccines and Covid-19 infections can lead to cardiac complications, one study’s lead author stresses that, ‘the risk of myocarditis following Covid-19 vaccination was quite small compared to the risk of myocarditis after Covid-19 infection’.

“In another study, published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine in August 2022, researchers found that the risk of myocarditis is more than seven-fold higher in persons who were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, than those who were vaccinated.”

At a roundtable interview with fellow actors for The Hollywood Reporter, Butler recalled meeting Presley for the first time at Graceland.

The Elvis star said, “she hugged me with tears in her eyes and she just said, ‘Thank you’,” before taking him to her father’s bedroom where they sat on his bed and talked for hours.

Presley made her final public appearance just days before her death on Thursday (12 January).

Alongside her mother, Priscilla, the two women were in attendance at the 80th Golden Globes on Tuesday (10 January), in support of Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis.

Actor Austin Butler won Best Actor in a Motion Drama for his portrayal of the late King of Rock.

During his acceptance speech, he shouted out Priscilla and Presley, saying: “Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever.”