Tragedies The life of Lisa Marie Presley: four marriages, drug addictions, Scientology and the suicide of a son
Controversy The fortune of Lisa Marie Presley, divorce proof
Music Priscilla Presley, Elvis's widow who is still living on the king of rock (and she was not his widow)
The future of
Graceland
, Elvis's mansion in
Memphis, Tennessee,
was left up in the air after the sudden death of his only daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, from cardiac arrest at age 54.
The legendary house-museum, where
more than 600,000 fans
of the king of rock make a pilgrimage each year, is one of the
most iconic real estate properties
in the United States and the only, albeit juicy, inheritance
of Elvis's three granddaughters
.
According to People
magazine
, citing a representative of the Memphis estate, the mansion, which is managed by a trust and passed on to Elvis's daughter after his death in 1977, will benefit Lisa Marie's daughters:
Riley
, of 33 years old, and twins
Harper and Finley
, 14.
Elvis is buried there and the remains of Lisa Marie will also rest there along with those of her son Benjamin, the result of her first marriage to musician Danny Kenough, who committed suicide in 2020 at the age of 27.
According to
ABC News,
she will be buried next
Sunday, January 22, in the Meditation Garden
.
In 2003 Lisa Marie herself in an interview with
Playboy
joked that when she died, she would inevitably be buried at Graceland.
"I don't plan anything. I'm sure I'll end up there. Or
I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room,
so more tourists will come to
Graceland
," she said.
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His family has asked that those who want to pay tribute to him not send flowers and instead make a donation to the charity, the Presley Charitable Foundation, created by Priscila Presley (77) and her daughter in his name, which provides
housing, childcare
or career and financial advice for homeless families.
Despite being the only heiress and having received a fortune, Lisa Marie's finances do not seem very clear.
According to the
Daily Mail
, she was spending
$92,000 a month
shortly before she died.
Beyond
Graceland
, which generates a lot of money from the visits it attracts, the daughter of the king of rock received
100 million dollars in 1993
, when she turned 25, but years later she assured that
this money had almost completely disappeared
due to a terrible
management and bad investments.
Her husband, guitarist
Michael Lockwood,
to whom she was married for 10 years, managed a portion of her wife's finances during that time, according to
TMZ.
To make sure the same thing didn't happen to
Graceland
, Lisa Marie set up a new trust with her mother.
Meanwhile, with Lockwood she got into a tough fight.
legal battle for the custody of her twin daughters and their support.
He
demanded $40,000 a month
for the girls.
Lisa Marie Presley with her mother, Priscila, and her daughters
Harper and Finley's custody battle will escalate as they have become their mother's heirs.
According to the TMZ
portal,
Riley and her father,
Danny Keough,
could fight for custody, as well as
Priscilla, the girls' grandmother.
Although part of the inheritance has been squandered, Lisa Marie's daughters have a
secure future
as
Graceland
operates as a well-run company with a cash register at full throttle thanks to the enthusiasm that the mythical figure of Elvis and all that he continues to generate. surrounds.
Items related to him continue to sell like hotcakes.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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