Lord Fan said: Money curse?
Last week, Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of a generation of rock star "Elvis", died suddenly in California due to cardiac arrest at the age of 54.
Her mother, 77-year-old actress Priscilla Presley, "shares this devastating news with a heavy heart." Just before the tragedy, the mother and daughter also appeared on the Golden Globe red carpet together to stand for the biopic "Elvis". Now it is embarrassing that white-haired people send black-haired people.
Left: Mom; Right: daughter
The memorial service was scheduled for the morning of January 22 on the front lawn of the Graceland Building in Memphis, Tennessee, where she was buried with her father, Elvis Presley and son Benjamin, and the outside was already filled with flowers and messages that had come to mourn the public.
As the second generation of top stars, Lisa was born with a Mary Sue script: as a child, she was the daughter of a much-loved superstar, and the 4-year-old gift was a private jet with her own name on it, Convair 880, full of father's (rich) love formula.
When she grew up, she was the wife of the king, and after bidding farewell to the second marriage object Michael Jackson, the "next stop" was still the king - the third marriage and the actor Nicolas Cage flashed and divorced.
However, behind the shining starlight, her life is also full of misfortune.
He lost his father at a young age, lost his son in middle age, 4 marriages and 4 divorces, chicken feathers, hundreds of millions of families lost their lives, drunk and depressed for many years, and was brainwashed by Tom and the same cult... The misfortunes of life are written on her face, and she looks even older and haggard than her mother, who is 23 years older than her (left).
Now suddenly passed away, the tragic color of the Elvis family has added another weight. History is always strikingly similar, lack of love, emptiness, willful profligacy, overmedication, sudden death at a young age... Tragedy continues to unfold in this family like a reincarnation.
Others think of the Kennedy family and the Getty family, whose members also died various unnatural deaths. For a while, the "money curse" was popular. Today, Lord Fan will use the story of Elvis Presley's family to tell you why it is still not good to live a life if you have money~
Life is luxurious, and financial intelligence is in a hurry
Father, daughter, son-in-law, all of them are all losers
Although they have huge wealth in their hands, Elvis and his daughter Lisa are both masters who spend money without blinking, or they will only spend the kind that will not be ignored, and the financial intelligence is urgent. Even the two sons-in-law of the king (Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage) are more than a loser, what is the law of attraction...
Rock stars can earn and spend, and middle-aged women can be petted
Elvis Presley, regarded as the cultural icon of the last century, won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 36 and is recognized as the king of rock and roll.
His performance style is bold and controversial, and the stage style is even more avant-garde, all kinds of gorgeous rhinestones, rivets, and gemstones are like "gorgeous peacocks", and the Nudie Cohn gold thread suit in the middle was priced at as much as 10,000 US dollars (about 250,000 US dollars today) ↓
He is also fond of Bling Bling's jewelry, and his style of dressing and life painting is all kinds of drunken gold fans.
Superstars naturally have superstar rows, and after soaring into the sky in 1957, Elvis spent more than 100,000 US dollars to buy Graceland, a 5.5-hectare white-colonnaded mansion in Tennessee, USA
Another $500,000 was spent on additional land to expand and renovate to make it easier for families and friends to gather. Today, it is one of the most visited private homes in the United States, with more than 600,000 visitors each year.
With mansions, luxury cars will naturally not fall, and Rolls-Royce and other luxury cars have a collection of more than 200 vehicles.
As the world's most well-known Cadillac enthusiast, his most classic car is the pink "Elvis Rose" 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood 60↓ given to his mother
Interestingly, Elvis did not buy Cadillac for collection, but to give to colleagues, friends, and even passers-by on the street. What is it called rich and willful, you taste ...
Treat his friends so trenchly, middle-aged and girly, for his only bone and blood Lisa, he even wants the stars and the moon to be taken off. When my daughter was still babbling, she gave diamond rings, furs, big-name bags... Throwing money is never soft~
When he was a little older, he bought a private jet, printed his daughter's name, and took her all over the world.
In Little Lisa's world, everything you want is easy to get. She has ponies, private amusement parks, and a legion of domestic employees to satisfy her every whim. When Elvis discovered that Lisa wanted to see the snow for the first time, he immediately took her to Idaho on a private jet, played in the snow for twenty minutes, and flew home.
The rock "princess" is financially worried, and the billionaire becomes a loser
However, the good times of childhood came to an abrupt end with Elvis Presley's sudden death, leaving an inheritance of about $1 million - if not for his spendthrift, the inheritance would have been at least $5 million, when Lisa was only 9 years old.
Fortunately, she also had a capable mother, turned Graceland into a tourist attraction, and established Elvis Presley Enterprise. By the time her daughter inherited the family business at the age of 25, the assets had increased to $100 million. However, Lisa, who grew up rich and doted, has no concept of money. After the establishment of the trust, it was handed over to the business manager, Barry Siegel, who was responsible for playing music and buying and buying.
Chanel, a favorite of everyday things, has decent clothes that combine rebellion and elegance.
Attendees like a variety of diamond-set or gold-plated dresses, especially Schiaparelli, Anna Sui and other more design styles.
The jewelry is big, shiny, and has a strong presence. The hobbies are exactly the same as my father, and the habit of spending money like flowing water is also in the same vein, never caring about how much money is in the account, and taking home directly what you like.
She gets about $150,000 a month from her inheritance and Graceland's income, but her monthly basic expenses exceed 92,000. Just being able to buy it may not destroy the family property, once it is superimposed on the work, the lethality is more than doubled, such as flash marriage and divorce, rich children are all costs.
Even if he later fell down, he had to mortgage the mansion and Maserati to support the scene, and the mansion in California where he lived before his death had a monthly rent of up to $23,000.
After the third marriage to Nicolas Cage, the two quarreled for the first two days. Once during an argument on a yacht, the angry Lisa threw a 6-carat Bulgari yellow diamond ring into the sea on the spot, and after the quarrel, Cage bought a 10-carat to make up for it...
The level of defeat of this pair is simply indistinguishable. Cage who spends money without blinking, 200 million Gulfstream private jets, more than 100 million luxury yachts, overseas islands, European castles say buy it.
The world clocks in to buy houses, cars like car shows, messy artworks in piles, and even dinosaur skulls. is that the vision is more strange, and when you buy it, you will fall physically, and finally buy bankruptcy, crazy filming bad films to pay off debts... (Regarding Cage's history of defeat, you can poke → 57-year-old Nicolas Cage and 26-year-old tender wife appeared and were complained about, spending money generously for his ex-wife, but the current one only carries a bag?) ）
The first three terms were all considered peaceful breakups, and the fourth was properly "sucking blood". The divorce lawsuit between the two lasted for a long time, and the lawyer Feisa alone paid $250,000, and the husband insisted on asking for child custody and maintenance. Lisa presented evidence to the court in 2018 and refused to pay on the grounds that she owed more than $16 million.
Lisa and her fourth husband, music producer Michael Lockwood
People found out that the rock "princess" had long been reduced to billionaires, and after losing her father's inheritance of hundreds of millions, she had to rely on her seventy-year-old mother to help pay off her debts. Her mother Priscilla had no choice but to sell her mansion in Los Angeles, and the final sale price of $13 million was several million lower than the market price
In fact, Lisa has not completely made money over the years, in order to make up for the financial hole, she sold Elvis Presley's name and portrait rights for $100 million in 2005; He also made $4 million in memoirs, but it involved MJ's ex-husband whose privacy was consumed by fans.
It is said that MJ was also in debt during his lifetime, with debts as high as $400 million when he died. Because of excessive consumption, life was once so embarrassing that he relied on auction items to make a living and even pay off debts, which is a little not a family, and does not enter a family~
However, the speed of making money can never catch up with spending money, and Lisa perfectly avoids her mother in terms of financial intelligence, and is even inferior to her father, not only can spend and do, but also does not look at people's eyes, and the business manager has been pinched for a long time because of economic disputes. The two sides threw each other, and as a result, before the lawsuit went to trial, Lisa accidentally took the first step...
January 8 is Elvis Presley's 88th birthday, and Lisa is happy to help her father celebrate his birthday
The family of origin is extremely lacking in love
The father died early and the mother did not care, and the "left-behind" children lacked love
Although Elvis and his wife gave their daughter a good material life, they ignored that in the process of growing up, what the children needed most was love, companionship and family warmth. The lack of childhood may take a lifetime to make up.
Her parents divorced and lost her father at the age of 9, and the rock "princess" lacked love since childhood
The king of rock in the eyes of fans, but in terms of feelings, he is a solid scumbag, and he still throws flowers and grass after marriage, and it is said that there are three thousand beautiful harems, and they are all young girls. His wife Priscilla couldn't bear it and fell apart with Elvis when Lisa was four years old.
Little Lisa has since lived a life of frequent travel in two families, her father and daughter are constantly changing, singing night and night, her mother is dedicated to her career, she has no skills, and the lack of love is simply certain. What's worse, at the age of 9, she witnessed Elvis Presley's sudden death at her home at Graceland, and this memory became a nightmare for her life.
Lisa, who has no father, her life has taken a sharp turn, and she was molested and harassed by "stepfather-to-be" Michael Edwards during her life with her mother, and the other party also published a book that "when swimming with Lisa, she will have an impulse on her developing body". While attending boarding school, he was also ostracized by his classmates. In her adolescence, she fully turned on the self-destruction mode, smoking, drinking, drug addiction and other vices.
Because of his poor grades, he dropped out of high school after graduating from high school, and was then sent by his mother to the Scientology Sect (Tom's same "Scientology", there are many scandals of abuse of believers) to detoxify. Later in an interview with USA Today, Lisa described this cult life as a nightmare, "I can't control reality, they took my soul, my money, my everything"... It wasn't until many years later that I reconciled with my mother~
Once again, Lisa looked much older and haggard than her mother
Childhood lacks love, grows up and chases love, 4 marriages and 4 divorces have ups and downs
At the drug rehabilitation center, Lisa met her first husband, rock guitarist Danny Keough, married before the age of 20, had a sweet time after marriage, and had a son and a daughter. However, Lisa wants him to spoil himself as a princess like his father, but Danny does not want to be a "soft rice man", the gap between identity and philosophy is too large, and parting ways is inevitable.
The daughter of the king did not worry about marrying, and within three weeks of divorce, Lisa married the popular king Michael Jackson, which shocked the entire entertainment industry. In fact, the two have known each other for a long time, but there is not much intersection. When MJ was deeply involved in the "pedophilia" controversy, Lisa publicly spoke up for him, and then the friendship turned into love.
Although the two spread all kinds of dog food, the outside world has never stopped questioning, some say that this is MJ's public relations means to divert the attention of public opinion, some say that Lisa is looking for her father's shadow on MJ, and even say that this is a conspiracy carefully planned by Lisa and her first husband, in order to pull MJ into the Scientology... Conspiracy theories are flying all over the world, maybe this is the trouble of the top class~
The relationship started with a bang, but ended unexpectedly 18 months later. Lisa later mentioned the reasons for the divorce in an interview: first, MJ wanted children and was not ready; The second is that he can't accept MJ's drug addiction, afraid that he will follow in Elvis Presley's footsteps.
Bidding farewell to the king MJ, Lisa married and divorced actor Nicolas Cage, which lasted only 107 days in total.
However, it was Lisa who was divorced this time, and after the breakup, she also issued a statement saying that "you should not have been married in the first place." Cage is known to be an avid Elvis fan, and called Elvis his "hero" in an interview with The Express. Therefore, there are also reports that Cage married Lisa only because of the idol halo, and even to be eligible to visit the idol bedroom, after all, Elvis Presley's master suite on the second floor of Graceland was never open to the public, and even Clinton wanted to visit it was rejected...
Perhaps her parents divorced since she was a child, and Lisa is obsessed with starting a family. However, the fourth marriage still ended in divorce, and after separation, they had to work hard to fight for the custody of a pair of daughters, and the state was visible to the naked eye~
Lisa, who lacked love in childhood, has been chasing love all her life. After Elvis Presley's unexpected death, she "began to deal with death, grief and loss from the age of nine", trying to find her father's shadow in her partner to obtain loving comfort and fill the gap in her childhood, which is obviously unrealistic and can only be failed again and again.
The pressure is high under the halo
Drug abuse, alcoholism, depression... The curse of the giants lingers
Fame and fortune are a double-edged sword, the more dazzling the halo in front of people, the greater the pressure after people, examples of mentality collapse to extremes abound, and wealthy celebrities are "cursed by death" as if it is the norm.
The Kennedy family and the Getty family, well-known in the rich circle, have many examples of abnormal deaths, accidental heart attacks, suicides, overdoses... These are all common diseases of wealthy and wealthy families.
Left: Saoirse, niece of John F. Kennedy (JFK), former U.S. president, died at the age of 22 after allegedly overdosing on suspicious drugs; Right: George, the eldest son of the Getty family, committed suicide by stabbing him with excessive drugs
The Elvis family is also unable to escape the "curse" of excessive medication and sudden death at an early age. On the one hand, because of genetic defects, biographer Sally Hurdle wrote in the book "Elvis: Doomed to Die Young", Elvis Presley's maternal grandparents were close relatives married, which may lead to genetic defects.
On the other hand, there is substance abuse. He is a rock star on stage, but in the eyes of capital, he is just a cash cow, working day and night upside down and overloaded. He was also addicted to a life of drunken money, taking sleeping pills to help him sleep during the day and partying with stimulants at night. The body had long been deficient due to alcohol and drugs, and the two were fat before they died, and finally died suddenly at the age of 42 due to heart disorders.
Elvis' only grandson, Benjamin, is known as the most like Elvis, and even his mother Lisa said, "Benjamin does look very similar to Elvis, and everyone grabs him to take pictures, which is incredible." Although he signed a $5 million record deal with Universal Music as early as 2009, he has never released his own music.
Even though he kept saying, "My music won't be like Elvis, nothing like it," but being born destined to live under Elvis Presley for the rest of his life. Originally suffering from severe depression, drug and alcohol abuse for many years, catching up with the 2020 epidemic with nowhere to solve, and after a spat with his girlfriend, the 27-year-old chose to shoot himself. The last straw that overwhelmed him was precisely the pressure that expected him to reproduce or even surpass the glory of the past Elvis.
The death of her son also gave Lisa a fatal blow. Add to that the unbearable marriage, mountains of debt, and more reliance on drug addiction and alcoholism. The whole person seemed to have been drained of spirit in an instant, and he did not recover his radiance at all.
This sudden death due to cardiac arrest, and being reunited with his father and son in another world may also be a relief. The Graceland she inherited at the beginning has now passed to her three daughters (first from left, second from left, first from right), and the 77-year-old mother (third from left) is old, what will happen to the remaining female dependents of the Elvis family?
Well, the story of the Elvis family will be shared here today. Regarding the "money curse" of the rich and celebrity circle, what do you think, welcome to move to the message area to chat~
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