Lisa Marie Presley
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| Birth name | Lisa Marie Presley |
| Born | February 1, 1968 (age 39) Memphis, Tennessee USA |
| Spouse(s) | Danny Keough (1988-1994) Michael Jackson (1994-1996) Nicolas Cage (2002) Michael Lockwood (2006- Present) |
Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer, daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley and former wife of both pop icon Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage.
Lisa Marie is a close friend of her father's ex-girlfriend Linda Thompson. In 2003, after advice from Thompson's record producer and then-husband David Foster, she launched a career as a singer. Her debut album, To Whom It May Concern, reached #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold. To promote it she presented a concert in the UK, something that her father never did. Presley released her second album, Now What, in 2005 and it reached #9 on the Billboard 200. It was certified gold in November 2005. Unlike her first album, Now What included a Parental Advisory sticker. Both albums as of 2007 have been certified Platinum.
Lisa Marie attended a variety of schools, mostly boarding schools, a few in Los Angeles County (among them the John Thomas Dye School[1]), and also in Ojai, Ventura County, California. She was expelled from at least one boarding school due to illegal drug abuse, especially cocaine. She was briefly a student at a Church of Scientology school in Los Angeles.
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[edit] Presley heritage
As Elvis' only child, Lisa Marie eventually inherited his estate at the age of 30. In August 2005, she sold 85 percent of the estate's business holdings to CKX, Inc., excluding Graceland itself and the property within it.
[edit] Marriages and divorces
- Marriage: Danny Keough, October 3, 1988
- Notes: They had two children together, Danielle Riley, born May 29, 1989 and Benjamin Storm, born October 21, 1992
- Divorce: Lisa Marie divorced Keough on grounds of irreconciliable differences on May 6, 1994 but they still remain friends.[citation needed]
- Marriage: Michael Jackson, May 26, 1994, in the Dominican Republic.
- Notes: The marriage lasted 21 months.
- Divorce: The two divorced on January 18, 1996 on grounds of irreconcilable differences.
- Marriage: Nicolas Cage, August 10, 2002
- Notes: Cage, the Academy Award-winner, is someone well-known for his Elvis Presley obsession[citation needed].
- Divorce: Cage filed for divorce after just three months in November 2002 on grounds of irreconciliable differences.
- Marriage: Michael Lockwood, January 22, 2006, in Kyoto, Japan
- Notes: Lockwood is her guitarist and music producer. Keough served as best man at the couple's wedding.
- Engagement: In 2000 she was briefly engaged to rocker John Oszajca
[edit] Scientology
Presley and her mother were both introduced to the Church of Scientology by John Travolta. For two years prior to her marriage to Michael Jackson, Presley lived near the Scientology Celebrity Center in Clearwater, Florida while taking courses there with her children. She later sold her house in Clearwater to fellow Scientologist Kirstie Alley. Her first husband, Danny Keough, is an avid member of the Church of Scientology and they have raised and home-schooled their children in the religion.
In 2002, she and businessman Neil Bush (brother of President George W. Bush) testified together before a hearing of the United States Congress to speak out against medicating children for mental disorders, a practice which is forsworn by the Church of Scientology. [2]
In December 2005, Presley and her mother both appeared at the gala opening of Scientology's controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum, which puts forth a conspiracy theory connecting Adolf Hitler to the psychiatric profession. [3]
[edit] Trivia
- Her father, who called her Injun, Yisa, and Buttonhead, named one of his private aircraft, a converted CONVAIR 880 jet (original passenger capacity, 100), after her. The airplane "Lisa Marie" is currently on exhibit at the Graceland mansion museum of Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee. The rock band Queen also used this for a flight, and Lisa gave Queen vocalist, Freddie Mercury, a scarf which belonged to her father.
- She recently stated, on The Oprah Winfrey Show, that she is 5'2" tall. Lisa Marie Presley on Oprah. On the same show, she acknowledged that she had consumated her marriage to Michael Jackson.
- She has suffered from depression in the past.
- She has a half brother, Navarone, from her mother's 22-year (ended in April 2006) relationship with Marco Garibaldi.
- In 1995, she appeared nude, with then husband Michael Jackson in his music video for "You Are Not Alone".
- She attended the 10th grade at an alternative boarding school in Ojai, California, called Happy Valley School
[edit] Charities
Lisa Marie Presley supports several charities, including:
- Presley Place, which combats homelessness in Memphis.
- CCHR, a Scientology-connected group that opposes psychiatry and psychiatrists.
- LEAP, Literacy, Education and Abilities Program, a Scientology connected group affiliated with Applied Scholastics that promotes L. Ron Hubbard's studying techniques.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
[edit] Singles
- 2003 "Lights Out" #16 UK
- 2003 "Sinking In"
- 2005 "Dirty Laundry" #36 Adult Contemporary
- 2005 "Idiot"
- 2007 "Tennessee Tide"
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- Official MySpace site
- Lisa Marie Presley at the Internet Movie Database
- Interviews with Lisa Marie
- Genealogy
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