The Presley Family’s Most Heartbreaking Tragedies Through the Years: Elvis and Lisa Marie’s Deaths and More
usmagazine.comElvis Presley was a music icon through the years, and his family became just as legendary.The “Jailhouse Rock” crooner, who rose to fame in 1950s, died in August 1977 at the age of 42.
His only daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, had been the one to discover his passing before calling his ex-girlfriend Linda Thompson.
The former model recalled via Instagram in August 2022 that Lisa Marie, then 9, had told her: “My daddy’s dead!” “I think it gets locked in forever and nothing can change it,” Lisa Marie, whom Elvis shared with ex-wife Priscilla Presley, told Variety in August 2017 of her father’s legacy. “And then, on the other side, I’m going through what I’ve dealt with, and I know what he’s gone through, and the older I get, the more I can relate to the obstacles that he had and the trepidations that he had.
I can relate to them more, way more. I understand more as I get older. He was quite young [when he passed away]. So I can’t say I knew a whole lot at 42, or that I know a whole lot now.
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