The childhood ache of discovering Elvis useless that Lisa Marie Presley might by no means escape

All the celeb and money on the planet couldn’t save Elvis Presley’s daughter from a lifetime of ache and anguish or from squandering quite a bit of her father’s $100 million fortune.

The solely infant of the individual generally called The King died from cardiac arrest Thursday at age 54.

Those who knew Lisa Marie paint a picture of a woman trapped by her birthright — and the demons of behavior — regardless of a quantity of bids to fight the burden of every.

It all started, apparently, collectively together with her father’s demise — moreover from a coronary coronary heart state of affairs — at age 42 in 1977. Lisa Marie, then merely 9 years outdated, was at Graceland on the time and reportedly seen her father’s lifeless physique.

Karen de la Carriere, a former top-ranking Scientologist who was tasked with counseling Lisa Marie shortly after Elvis’s demise, acknowledged that Lisa Marie later “drowned herself in drugs for years” because of this of sustained trauma of his passing.

“Lisa Marie had such a tough life. Broken marriages, corrupt money managers who ripped off a lot of her fortune at Elvis Presley Enterprises,” de la Carriere instructed The Post. Not to say 4 broken marriages and the tragic suicide of her son, Benjamin, in 2020, which turned Lisa Marie proper right into a heartbroken recluse in her Calabasas, Calif., mansion.

Lisa Marie Presley 1968-2023

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“I’ve dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old,” Lisa Marie wrote in an essay printed in People in August 2022. “I’ve had more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I’ve made it this far.”

Lisa Marie was born on February 1, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., 9 months to the day after her dad and mother’ marriage ceremony ceremony. Elvis and Priscilla divorced when their daughter was 4.

After Elvis’ demise, Lisa Marie grew to turn into joint heir to his property alongside collectively together with her grandparents Vernon and Minnie Mae Hood Presley. When they every died only some years later, a pre-teen Lisa Marie grew to turn into the one heir and inherited Graceland, her father’s well-known Memphis home.

By then, she was already being indoctrinated into the Church of Scientology along with Priscilla, who reportedly grew to turn into involved with the group after being introduced to it by John Travolta.

This made for a tortuous childhood, in response to de la Carriere, who was the ultimate explicit individual educated by Scientology’s founder. L. Ron Hubbard. In 1979, she began spending as quite a bit as two and a half hours a day with an already rebellious Lisa Marie on the church’s providers.

“Priscilla would show up and drop her off with two words: ‘Handle her!” claimed de la Carriere, who defected from the church in 2008. “No child wants to be dropped off at a strange place and sit in a room with a stranger holding soup cans for hours and months.”

“Soup cans” is a reference to the E-meter, a lie detector-style gadget utilized by Scientologists for “auditing” counseling.

“Some people want to go to a therapist and tell them every last thing. Lisa Marie did not. She did not want coaching or therapy. But she had to go to Scientology,” de la Carriere acknowledged.

“Karen de la Carriere would have no first-hand knowledge of Lisa Marie or her relationship with the Church. The Church does not comment on parishioner counseling,” a Scientology spokesperson instructed The Post. “The Church’s relationship with Lisa Marie was one of warmth and care. We are saddened by Lisa Marie’s passing. Our thoughts are with the family during this difficult time.”

“She found her father’s useless physique. She was 9 years outdated. That was one amongst her first traumas, de la Carriere acknowledged of Lisa Marie.

Entering her teen years, the lady grew to turn into far more of a “renegade and a rebel,” de la Carriere added. “She drowned herself in drugs for years and years. She underwent three Scientology Purification rundowns [vitamins and sauna treatment for detox] but it didn’t work. She would always relapse.”

Lisa Marie instructed the Los Angeles Times in 2003 that she “was kind of a loner, a melancholy and strange child … I had a real self-destructive mode for a while. I never really fit into school. I didn’t really have any direction.”

She began relationship musician and fellow Scientologist Danny Keough as a teen and the two obtained married in 1988. They shared two children, Benjamin and Riley, now 33 and a revered actress.

On her twenty fifth birthday in 1993, Lisa Marie was given administration of her father’s full property — which had grown to an estimated $100 million as a result of cautious work of Priscilla, who had turned Graceland proper right into a enterprise and an infinite vacationer trip spot.

Lisa Marie, in flip, created her private revocable dwelling perception, appointing others to behave as trustees over her inheritance. Ten years later, she appointed enterprise supervisor Barry Siegel as a co-trustee and explicit individual primarily answerable for managing the idea belongings.

Three weeks after Lisa Marie and Danny divorced in 1994, she shocked the world by marrying Michael Jackson.

Lisa Marie acknowledged of Jackson in a 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer: “When he wants to lock into you, when he wants to intrigue you or capture you, or you know, whatever he wants to do with you, he can do it.”

She added that she “fell into this whole, ‘You poor, sweet, misunderstood man, I’m going to save you.’ … I fell in love with him.” After quite a bit public mockery, their marriage led to January 1996. Lisa Marie later acknowledged it was attributable to Jackson’s drug behavior, telling Oprah Winfrey that she gave her husband an ultimatum: “The drugs or me.” He chosen drugs. 

In 2002, Lisa Marie wed actor Nicolas Cage after meeting him at a celebration, nonetheless that solely lasted just some months.

Her fourth marriage received right here in 2006 to guitarist Michael Lockwood. They welcomed twins Finley and Harper a yr later and — as Lisa Marie later publicly revealed — a doctor altered the course of her life by prescribing opioids for ache.

“It only took a short-term prescription of opioids in the hospital for me to feel the need to keep taking them,” she wrote of the addictive drugs inside the foreword to the 2019 e-book “The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain.”

She did work alongside sober coaches, The Post is instructed by a provide with direct data of Presley’s ongoing properly being battles, and her family desperately tried to get her help.

Lisa Marie and Lockwood divorced in 2016 with a bitter courtroom battle over custody and cash that was solely settled ultimate October.

It was all through this period that she allegedly misplaced quite a bit of her fortune.

Court paperwork obtained by The Blast revealed that Lisa Marie owed larger than $1 million in taxes on the time of her demise and had squandered her estimated $100 million fortune by means of a sequence of unhealthy enterprise choices.

The paperwork acknowledged that Lisa Marie had declared to have $95,266 in cash and $714,775 worth of shares, bonds and totally different belongings whereas battling Lockwood. However, within the equivalent papers, she moreover cited a $1 million debt to the IRS, clearly inserting her inside the purple.

In 2005, Lisa Marie had supplied off an 85% stake in Elvis Presley Enterprises, allegedly at enterprise supervisor Siegel’s behest — relinquishing almost all administration of the company liable for her father’s legacy.

She later sued Siegel, saying he positioned the payout she acquired “in risky ventures in hopes of attaining his own celebrity in the entertainment industry.” She moreover accused him of “reckless and negligent mismanagement and self-serving ambition.”

Siegel fired once more, telling the Blast in 2019 that the deal to dump her 85% stake “cleared up over $20 million in debts Lisa Marie had incurred.” He moreover claimed it “netted her over $40 million cash and a multimillion-dollar income stream, most of which she managed to squander.”

Amidst the money woes and custody battle, Lisa Marie was moreover battling Scientology, in response to reporter Tony Ortega, who writes regarding the church.

He claimed she had a “showdown” with Scientology chief David Miscavige in 2012, whereas defending Miscavige’s father, Ron, who had defected from the church. It was this argument that led to her supposedly quitting the church, in response to Ortega.

 “That never happened,” acknowledged a Scientology spokesperson.

Lisa Marie then reportedly helped get a story printed about Ron’s situation inside the Los Angeles Times.

“I really liked her. I thought that she had been brought up in almost impossible conditions,” Ortega acknowledged. “Later, she was trying to do something about it. She wanted the world to see, but it’s so sad that so many things seemed to go wrong [for her].”

Still, Ortega acknowledged, “I know that I am critical of Scientology, but I’m afraid her biggest problems were her own.”

After her son Benjamin devoted suicide in 2020, a grieving Lisa Marie not typically left her home. She skipped the Cannes premiere of “Elvis,” the Baz Luhrmann-directed film biography of her father in 2022, nonetheless made it to a selected screening at Graceland that June.

In a video seen by The Post, she instructed the group: “My life is just a little bit bit type of down correct now. You’re pulling me up. so thanks.

“I’m so proud of this movie, I really am … To be honest, I haven’t really left my house for the last two years unless it has to do with my children, so to get me to leave like California and fly to Memphis and be here, aside from coming to visit my [son’s grave, at Graceland], it’s a big deal.”

Lisa Marie will now be laid to leisure at Graceland “next to her beloved son Ben,” a family rep acknowledged Friday.

She repeated the sentiment ultimate week at a Graceland event for what would have been her father’s 88th birthday. “I keep saying you’re the only people that can bring me out of my house. I’m not kidding.”