Hundreds of mourners gathered at Graceland on Sunday morning to pay their respects to singer Lisa Marie Presley in a memorial service at the mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, she inherited from her father, rock legend Elvis Presley.
Presley died on January 12 at the age of 54. Earlier that day, she had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest at her home.
“Our heart is broken, Lisa, and we all love you,” her mother Priscilla Presley said at the service on the front lawn of Graceland.
“Lisa Marie Presley was an icon, a role model, a superhero to many people all over the world.”
Singers Alanis Morissette, Billy Corgan and Axl Rose performed.
Presley is survived by her daughters, actress Riley Keough and 14-year-old twins Finley and Harper Lockwood.
Two days before her death, she had appeared with her mother at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, where actor Austin Butler won the best actor award for portraying her father in the film Elvis. Butler paid tribute to both women in his acceptance speech.
‘Our heart is broken’: Lisa Marie Presley mourned at Graceland memorial service
Image: Nikki Boertman/Reuters
Hundreds of mourners gathered at Graceland on Sunday morning to pay their respects to singer Lisa Marie Presley in a memorial service at the mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, she inherited from her father, rock legend Elvis Presley.
Presley died on January 12 at the age of 54. Earlier that day, she had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest at her home.
“Our heart is broken, Lisa, and we all love you,” her mother Priscilla Presley said at the service on the front lawn of Graceland.
“Lisa Marie Presley was an icon, a role model, a superhero to many people all over the world.”
Singers Alanis Morissette, Billy Corgan and Axl Rose performed.
Presley is survived by her daughters, actress Riley Keough and 14-year-old twins Finley and Harper Lockwood.
Two days before her death, she had appeared with her mother at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, where actor Austin Butler won the best actor award for portraying her father in the film Elvis. Butler paid tribute to both women in his acceptance speech.
Image: Nikki Boertman/Reuters
Image: Nikki Boertman/Reuters
Presley began her music career in the 2000s with two albums, To Whom It May Concern and Now What, that made the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart.
She was married and divorced four times, including to pop star Michael Jackson and actor Nicholas Cage.
She was the only child of one of the greatest stars in American music, and was nine when her father died of heart failure at age 42 in 1977 at Graceland. The mansion is a popular tourist attraction.
Elvis Presley and other members of his family are buried in Graceland’s meditation garden.
Image: Nikki Boertman/Reuters
Image: Nikki Boertman/Reuters
Presley was buried there before the memorial service alongside the grave of her son Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020 at age 27, a death ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner.
In a recent essay, she had described herself as “destroyed” by her son’s death.
After the memorial service, friends, family and members of the public formed a procession past her grave.
“Lisa was the last very, very close piece of Elvis left to us and it is so sad she is no longer with us,” said Kimberly Starbuck, a 59-year-old retired baker from Memphis.
Reuters
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