What Killed Lisa Marie Presley? Her Broken Heart
We saw Lisa Marie Presley just before her death: The daughter of Elvis; she married Michael Jackson, Nicholas Cage and died at 54
The power of Elvis Presley, all felt we knew him — and so it was with his only child, Lisa Marie Presley, who spent 54 years in the American version of royalty: our cruel, often cold culture of celebrity.
Culture means the cult of what we worship, and the Western world turns leaders and celebrities into false idols with god-like expectations for our icons and their offspring.
She called the culture of fame “a monster,” adding, “Something happens to people around fame and power and money — it can bring out the worst and best in people; it’s a monster you have to tame.”
“I’ve been through so much in my life,” she once said. “ I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.”
Lisa Marie, her dad, and her grandma all died young, brokenhearted
Like her father, Elvis (who died at 42), and her grandmother Gladys Love Presley (who died at 46), she died of a broken heart. She was just 9 when she found her father in his Graceland bathroom after he…
