Fame and money couldn’t save Elvis Presley’s daughter from a life of misery after she squandered most of her father’s $100 million fortune.

The only child of the “King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley died of cardiac arrest on January 12 at the age of 54.

Those who knew Lisa Marie Presley — a woman caught between her father’s massive inheritance and the “demon of addiction” — made many attempts to fight both.

Lisa Marie Presley with son Benjamin Keough

It all started with her father’s death – also of heart disease – at the age of 42 in 1977. Lisa Marie, then 9 years old, was at Graceland at the time and allegedly saw her father’s body.“Dead in drugs over the years”

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Karen de la Carriere, a former leading figure in the Church of Scientology who was tasked with counseling Lisa Marie shortly after Elvis’s death, said she “died on drugs for years” due to the trauma of her father’s death.

“Lisa Marie has had a difficult life. Broken marriages, corrupt financial managers who took a lot of her assets at Elvis Presley Enterprises,” de la Carriere told reporters. That’s not to mention four broken marriages and the tragic death of her son Benjamin in 2020, which has left Lisa Marie a grieving recluse in her Calabasas, California, mansion.

Lisa Marie Presley is the only daughter of the “King of Rock” Elvis Presley.

“I have dealt with death, grief, and loss since I was 9 years old. I have dealt with it more than anyone else in my life,” Lisa Marie wrote in an article published in People in August 2022.

Lisa Marie was born on February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee (USA), 9 months after her parents’ wedding. Elvis and Priscilla divorced when their daughter was 4 years old.

After Elvis’ death, Lisa Marie became joint heir to his estate along with Vernon and Minnie Mae Hood Presley. When both Presleys died just a few years later, the pre-teen Lisa Marie became sole heir, including her father’s famous Graceland home in Memphis.

With her mother Priscilla when she was 9 years old

At that time, her mother introduced her to the Church of Scientology. She joined the group after being introduced by John Travolta.

This made for a tortuous childhood, according to de la Carriere. In 1979, de la Carriere began spending two and a half hours a day with the already rebellious Lisa Marie at churches.

“Priscilla would come in and drop her off with two words: ‘Deal with it!’” recalled de la Carriere, who escaped the church in 2008. “No child wants to be taken to a strange place and sit in a room with a stranger holding ‘soup cans’ for hours and months at a time.”

“Soup Can” refers to the E-meter, a lie detector-style device used by scientists to test mental health .

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

Married to Michael Jackson

“Karen de la Carriere would not have had direct knowledge of Lisa Marie or her relationship with the Church. The Church does not comment on counseling for parishioners,” a Scientology spokesperson told The Post . “The Church’s relationship with Lisa Marie was a warm and caring one. We are saddened by Lisa Marie’s passing. Our thoughts are with her family during this difficult time.”

As a teenager, Lisa Marie became “a rebel and a traitor,” according to de la Carriere. “She became addicted to drugs for years, undergoing three vitamin and sauna treatments to detoxify, but they were ineffective and she kept relapsed.

Lisa Marie told The Los Angeles Times in 2003 that she “was a lonely, sad, weird kid… I was really self-destructive for a while. I never fit in at school, had no direction at all.”

Lisa Marie began dating musician and fellow scientist Danny Keough as a teenager. The couple married in 1988, have two children, Benjamin and Riley (33), and are both respected actors.

On her 25th birthday in 1993, Lisa Marie was given control of her father’s entire estate, which had grown to an estimated $100 million thanks to Priscilla’s efforts to turn Graceland into a major business and tourist destination .

In contrast, Lisa Marie appointed others as trustees of her estate. Ten years later, she appointed business manager Barry Siegel as co-trustee and the person primarily responsible for managing the estate.

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

“He wanted to lock me up, he wanted to intrigue me, or he wanted to capture me. You know, whatever he wanted to do to me, he could do,” Lisa Marie said of Jackson in a 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer.

She added: “I was like, ‘You poor, sweet, misunderstood man, I’m going to save you’… I love him.” After much public ridicule, their marriage ended in January 1996. Lisa Marie later claimed that Jackson was addicted to drugs, telling Oprah Winfrey that she gave her husband an ultimatum: “Drugs or me,” and Michael Jackson chose drugs.

In 2002, Lisa Marie married actor Nicolas Cage after meeting him at a party, but the relationship only lasted a few months.

Her fourth marriage took place in 2006, to guitarist Michael Lockwood. They welcomed twins Finley and Harper a year later. As Lisa Marie later revealed publicly, a doctor changed her life by prescribing opioids for pain.

“It only took a short prescription for opioids in the hospital for me to feel the need to keep taking them,” Lisa Marie writes about addictive drugs in the foreword to Harry Nelson’s 2019 book The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain .

“Evaporated” assets of 100 million USD

Lisa Marie and Lockwood divorced in 2016 in a bitter court battle over child custody and financial support, which was settled last October. It was during this period that she is said to have lost much of her assets.

Court documents obtained by The Blast reveal that Lisa Marie owed more than $1 million in taxes at the time of her death and squandered her estimated $100 million fortune through a series of bad business decisions.

Documents show that Lisa Marie claimed to have $95,266 in cash and $714,775 in stocks, bonds and other assets while fighting Lockwood in court. However, in a newspaper article, she cited $1 million in debt that put her in financial trouble.

In 2005, Lisa Marie sold 85% of Elvis Presley Enterprises at the behest of Business Manager Siegel. She relinquished almost all control of the company linked to her father’s estate.

Her marriage to Michael Lockwood resulted in a custody battle.

She later filed a lawsuit against Siegel, claiming that he had invested her inheritance “in risky ventures in the hope of achieving his own fame in the entertainment industry .” Lisa also accused Siegel of “mismanagement, recklessness, negligence, and self-serving ambition.”

Siegel pushed back, telling The Blast in 2019 that the deal to sell Lisa Marie’s 85% stake “paid off over $20 million in debt she had.” Siegel also claimed that the deal “gave her over $40 million in cash and another income stream worth millions of dollars. She squandered much of her inheritance.”

According to reporter Tony Ortega, amid her money troubles and child custody battle, Lisa Marie also fought with the Church of Scientology. Lisa Marie had a “showdown” with the Church’s leader, David Miscavige, in 2012. According to Ortega, it was this argument that led to her reportedly leaving the church.

However, a spokesman for the Church of Scientology said: “That never happened.”

“I really like Lisa. I think she was raised in almost impossible conditions. I know that despite my criticism of Scientology, I fear that Lisa’s biggest problem is her own,” Ortega said.

After her son Benjamin committed suicide in 2020, Lisa Marie was devastated and rarely left the house. She skipped the Cannes premiere of Elvis , a biopic about her father directed by Baz Luhrmann that will be released in 2022.

“I’m so proud of this film. Honestly, I haven’t left the house in two years unless it’s for my kids. So to have to leave California and fly to Memphis is a big deal,” Lisa said.

Lisa Marie Presley was laid to rest at Graceland “next to her beloved son Ben,” a family representative said on January 13.