The belatedly Lisa Marie Presley was honored Thursday nighttime in the town erst ruled by her daddy. Following word of the singer-songwriter’s death from a nerve attack at eld 54, fans left wing flowers and candles outside the Graceland Wedding Chapel, on with a sugariness photo of Elvis Presley doting on his youth daughter in the early ’70s.

Graceland Wedding Chapel is i of only a fistful of chapels sanctioned by the Elvis Aron Presley land to exercise Elvis impersonators. Brendan Paul, its possessor and himself an impersonator, told FOX5/Las Vegas: “It was a invariable reminder of the King when you looked at her. People had a subdued discern for Lisa Marie.”

Heartbroke Hotel

Ground cipher for Elvis history in Las Vegas is, of course, the Westgate Las Vegas Resort. On July 31, 1969, Elvis began what would go a seven-year abidance in the saleroom of what was then known as the International Hotel. Only Wed morning, the Westgate unveiled a playfulness display celebrating capital of Texas Butler’s Golden Globes win for last year’s Elvis movie.

”All of us at Westgate are deeply saddened by the intelligence of Lisa Marie Presley’s tragic passing,” read a financial statement released Thursday by Westgate founding father and chairperson St. David Siegel. “Our thoughts and prayers turn to our heartfelt friend Pricilla and the total Elvis Presley family.”

Lisa Marie spent many weekends at the International – and the Las Vegas Hilton, as it became known in 1971 – inward the keep company of Elvis, who resided inwards the 30th flooring Impersonal Suite. During ace of those weekends, either inwards belatedly Aug or ahead of time Sept 1974, Lisa Marie asked her begetter to make her to see to it and come across the Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson 5. They were in town performing at the MGM Grand, the hotel that would later be known as Bally’s, and today, the Horseshoe.

Historic Meeting

The group meeting that transpired backstage after the Michael Jackson 5 show was wildly historical for deuce reasons, neither of which its participants realized at the time. Not only if was it the only when clip the man dubbed “the king of stone n’ roll” by the pressing would fit the boy who would produce upwards to call himself “the king of pop,” it was also the firstly time Lisa Marie would foregather her future tense arcsecond husband. She was Captain Hicks at the time, he 16. They were married from 1994 to 1996.

Unfortunately, no photos are known to survive of that meeting.

Lisa Marie returned to the Westgate on April 23, 2015, on with her mother, Priscilla Presley. They slice the typewriter ribbon curtain raising “Graceland Presents: The Elvis Elvis Presley Experience.” That exhibit included a 30,000 square-foot museum with hundreds of Elvis artifacts, its own hymeneals chapel, and an Elvis testimonial demo inward the original Elvis showroom. Tours were also precondition of the former site of the Imperial Suite, which was dismantled inward 1995 and replaced past troika VIP “sky villas.”

“This is an important building to my family,” Lisa Marie said at the time. “It’s powerful to follow endorse in Las Vegas.”

Unfortunately, the exhibit was shuttered within a twelvemonth because of underwhelming attendance. This resulted inward a leasing conflict 'tween Elvis Elvis Aron Presley Enterprises and a third-party manipulator that briefly held the artifacts for ransom.

Her Other Vegas Connections

On Sept. 13, 2003, Lisa Marie chose Las Vegas to boot away her first off headlining solo tour. It was at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. During the playful show, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, she curled her lip and shook her hips and introduced herself as “Macy Gray.”

Lisa Marie returned to the House of Blues two years later, and also performed inwards 2006 at the now-defunct Empire Ballroom.

More often, though, Lisa Marie visited Vegas inwards the fellowship of her mother. In Dec 2009, the duo attended the grand opening of the Cirque show, “Viva Elvis,” at Aria. (That was also canceled due to poor attendance, after a two-year run.)

The Elvis Presley women returned to Aria inward January 2011, when Priscilla was honored as Nevada Ballet Theatre’s Woman of the Year at the 27th yearly Black and Patrick White Ball.