Lisa Marie Presley was only nine years old when her father died aged 42 in 1977, also from a cardiac arrest.
Through the years, there have been reports that Lisa Marie was at Graceland when Elvis Presley died, and it’s also been reported she saw her father’s lifeless body in the moments after his death.
Following her death on January 13, 2022, Elvis’ step-brother, David E. Stanley, revealed to The Sun he was also at Graceland on the day of Elvis’ death, August 16, 1977, and Lisa Marie came to find him.
Stanley said he was playing pool with a friend when Lisa Marie and her friend, who was the niece of Elvis’ then-girlfriend Ginger, came rushing up to him.
”Daddy is sick… we cannot wake him up,” he claims she told him.
Stanley claimed that Lisa Marie’s proclamation did not come as a shock in the moment, as he had “seen it happen many times before” so he “didn’t panic.”
”She told me people were with him, so I told my friend I’d run him home, because I suspected we may have to cancel a tour or make some arrangements,” he told the outlet.
Stanley then drove back to Graceland, and an ambulance pulled into the estate’s gates before him.
This is when he began to panic. Moments later, he learnt that the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll had died.
Previously, Lisa Marie had spoken out about the hours before her father’s death, revealing Elvis kissed her goodnight and put her to bed the night before, but when she woke up, she knew something was wrong.
“I knew something was wrong, because I was in my room which was right next to his bathroom,” Lisa Marie previously said in a television interview.
“So I knew that something was very wrong. All the commotion and everything. I was a wreck.
“I was a mess, but I was also confused because I was so upset.”
Here, Lisa Marie is pictured months before Elvis’ death in Los Angeles in March 1977.
Read on to remember Lisa Marie Presley’s life in pictures.
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