Children of celebrities are often unfairly placed under a public microscope, especially when the celebrity is the subject of salacious tabloid stories. Lisa Marie Presley, who died on Thursday at the age of 54 after reportedly going into cardiac arrest at her home, was acutely aware of this fact from a young age.
The only daughter of Elvis Presley, she was just a child when she recalled fans hiding in the trees and trespassing at her family’s estate, Graceland. Her response was clever and defiant. “People would give me cameras to go and take pictures, and I’d take money and I’d say I was going to take a picture of my dad, and then I’d throw the camera somewhere,” she told Rolling Stone in 2003.
