The death of Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie from heart problems at 54 has saddened so many of us.
She was ultimately controversial beautiful, rich and famous. Daughter of The King and wife of Michael Jackson, one of the most disturbing pop music stars ever.
She also ran the grand mausoleum to her Dad, Gracelands.
In fact she told crowds there only a few days ago that they were the ‘only people who can bring me out of the house’ and many saw it as a confirmation of her failing health.
She was marking Elvis’s 88th birthday recently. Fans said she looked ‘incredibly sad’ and ‘really hurting’. It is two years since the death of her son Benjamin Keough who is buried alongside Elvis at Graceland.
Lisa suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on Thursday.
And she is far from the first member of the world-famous family to die from heart troubles.
Elvis died from cardiac arrest when he was 42 years old, and his mother Gladys died from heart failure at 46. She had three brothers, who also died in their forties from heart failure or lung complications.
In the recently published biography, Elvis: Destined to Die Young, author Sally Hoedel argued the deaths of Elvis, his mother, and his uncles were likely caused by a genetic defect.
Hoedel suggested the deaths in Elvis’s family were caused by an Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a genetic disorder that damages the lung and liver and leads to other.
Whatever the cause, it is sad that a family is blighted like this.
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