Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter. The daughter of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, she became the sole heir to her father's estate following the deaths of her grandfather and great-grandmother. She was also known for her marriage to Michael Jackson, which lasted from 1994 to 1996.

Presley released three studio albums—To Whom It May Concern (2003), Now What (2005), and Storm & Grace (2012). To Whom It May Concern was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. She also released several non-album singles, including posthumous duets with her father created from archival recordings. Her memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, completed by her daughter Riley Keough, was published posthumously in October 2024.

Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. She was born nine months to the day after her parents' wedding.

When Lisa Marie was four years old, her parents separated, and their divorce was finalized in October 1973. She lived with her mother in Los Angeles and frequently stayed with her father at Graceland in Memphis. When Elvis died in August 1977, nine-year-old Lisa Marie became a joint heir to his estate along with her 61-year-old grandfather, Vernon Presley, and her 87-year-old great-grandmother Minnie Mae (Hood) Presley. Through Vernon, she was a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia. After the deaths of her grandfather in 1979 and her great-grandmother in 1980, Lisa Marie became Elvis' sole heir. On her 25th birthday in 1993, she inherited the estate, which had grown to an estimated $100 million. She sold 85 percent of Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2004.

In the late 1970s, a year or two after her father's death, Lisa Marie attended her first rock concert when she saw Queen at The Forum in Inglewood, California. After the show, she gave Freddie Mercury one of Elvis's scarves and expressed her appreciation for theatrical performance.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.