Lisa Marie Presley’s Cherished Ones — Priscilla, Daughters, Austin Butler and Extra — Attend Memorial
Lisa Marie’s followers and family members gathered at Elvis Presley’s dwelling at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, for the late singer’s memorial on Sunday morning.
Forward of this system, throughout which her mom Priscilla Presley, daughter Riley Keough, Axl Rose and extra will have fun her life, Lisa Marie’s household and mates have been seen embracing on the service.
Elvis star Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber arrived collectively and have been seated within the second row, with director Baz Luhrman settling in a single row behind together with his spouse.
Shortly later, Priscilla, Riley, half-brother Navarone Garcia, ex-husband Michael Lockwood, their 14-year-old daughter Finley and late son Benjamin’s girlfriend Diana Jay all arrived collectively.
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Butler gave Finley a protracted hug minutes earlier than the beginning of the memorial.
Throughout his opening remarks, Joel Weinshanker advised the viewers that Lisa Marie had requested for just one factor at her funeral in the future: “Do not make it unhappy.”
“Lisa, we are going to attempt to honor your want in the present day,” added Weinshanker.
On Jan. 12, Presley was rushed to the hospital for a possible cardiac arrest. Hours later, Priscilla confirmed in a press release the demise of her and Elvis’ solely youngster collectively.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I have to share the devastating information that my stunning daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” stated Priscilla in a press release.
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Together with her father’s smoldering eyes and signature pout, Lisa Marie was beloved by followers from the second she was born. After Elvis’ demise when she was 9, she weathered additional hardships within the public eye, together with high-profile divorces and struggles with habit. However her greatest heartbreak got here when Benjamin died.
“Grief is one thing you’ll have to carry with you for the remainder of your life,” she wrote final August in an emotional essay for Folks about navigating grief. “You don’t ‘recover from it,’ you don’t ‘transfer on,’ interval.”
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Elvis died in August 1977 when Lisa Marie was 9 years outdated, making her the joint inheritor to his property alongside grandfather Vernon Presley and great-grandmother Minnie Mae Hood Presley. Following their respective deaths in 1979 and 1980, she grew to become the only real inheritor and likewise inherited her father’s Graceland residence, which is able to now move right down to her daughters.
As a recording artist, Lisa Marie launched three albums: 2003’s To Whom It Could Concern, which went on to turn out to be gold-certified for over 500,000 items bought in america, in addition to 2005’s So What and 2012’s Storm & Grace.
Lisa Marie was additionally a devoted philanthropist, as she lengthy oversaw the Elvis Presley Charitable Basis, which advantages homeless households and provides rent-free housing, daycare for kids and different providers to households in want. She additionally labored with Oprah Winfrey‘s Angel Network to offer aid to these affected by Hurricane Katrina, in addition to the Dream Manufacturing facility to learn youngsters with life-threatening sicknesses or disabilities.