As theories last night swirled over what caused Lisa Marie’s premature death, one author has blamed it on a genetic curse from the marriage of Elvis’s first-cousin grandparents.
Citing the King’s own early demise - also because of heart problems - writer Sally Hoedel believes the deaths were not mere coincidences.
Elvis’ death had already been compared to that of his mother, Gladys Smith Presley, 19 years earlier - also from heart failure and at the age of just 46.