Cultural references - facts
* Her father, who called her
Injun,
Yisa, and
Buttonhead, named one of his private aircraft, a converted
CONVAIR 880 jet (original passenger capacity, 100), after her. The airplane "Lisa Marie" is currently on exhibit at the
Graceland mansion museum of Elvis Presley in
Memphis, Tennessee. The rock band
Queen also used this for a flight, and Lisa gave Queen vocalist
Freddie Mercury a scarf which belonged to her father.
* She recently stated, on
The Oprah Winfrey Show, that she is 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) tall.
*She has a half brother, Navarone Garibaldi (b.
1 March 1987), from her mother's 22-year (ended in April 2006) relationship with
Marco Garibaldi.
* She attended the 10th grade at an alternative boarding school in Ojai, California, called
Happy Valley School.
* On her tenth birthday (1978), her mother Priscilla Presley took her to see actor
John Travolta (then 24 years old); Lisa had a huge crush on him. Today, they remain friends.