Lisa Marie Presley

About Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. She is the only child of the late Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley.

Lisa Marie Presley was born in Memphis, Tennessee, exactly nine months after her parents' May 1, 1967, wedding. Until her parents' divorce, she lived at Graceland, Elvis' Memphis estate. She was very pampered and indulged by her father—he dressed her in fur coats, showered her with jewels, provided her with her own golf cart to ride around the estate, and once flew her to Idaho aboard his private jet named "Lisa Marie" so she could play in the snow. After her parents' 1973 divorce, she divided her time between living at Graceland with her father and his girlfriend, Linda Thompson (whom she is still close with) and Beverly Hills, California, with her mother, Priscilla, until her father died in 1977, after which she lived exclusively in Beverly Hills.

After her father's death, Presley was having serious problems with her mother Priscilla, particularly because of Priscilla's live-in boyfriend Mike Edwards, whom Presley despised. Her mother was often away due to the schedule of her television series, Dallas, while Presley was left with Edwards. By age fourteen, she had started taking drugs. Presley's mother sent her to several boarding schools, the last being the Scientology-affiliated Apple School (later known as Los Feliz Hills School) in Los Angeles. However, she did not graduate, having been expelled for drug use. This led to her being thrown out of the house by her mother. She has admitted to experimenting with drugs as a teenager but said in her Biography Channel interview that she has not done any drugs since she was 17. She repaired her relationship with her mother after getting sober, and they are now on excellent terms.