Pregnant Lisa Marie sues London newspaper

March 11, 2008 at 12:20a.m.

LONDON — Lisa Marie Presley has sued a British newspaper for alleging that she was piling on the pounds because of her unhealthy appetite, her lawyer said Monday. Presley, who is pregnant, alleges in a suit filed at London’s High Court on Friday that the story in Britain’s Daily Mail was slanderous and degrading. The newspaper has since reported on the 40-year-old singer’s pregnancy. “Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight,” she said on her blog. The daughter of the late singer Elvis Presley claims the pictures taken at a Hollywood restaurant last week forced her to go public about the baby she is having with her fourth husband, music producer Michael Lockwood. Paton said Presley was seeking an apology and damages. The child will be Presley’s third.

She has an 18-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son from her first marriage to musician Danny Keough, which ended in 1994. She was briefly married to Michael Jackson and to actor Nicholas Cage. She married Lockwood in January 2006.

Today’s birthdays

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is 77. ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson is 74. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is 72. Rock singer-musician Mark Stein (Vanilla Fudge) is 61. Singer Bobby McFerrin is 58. Country singer Jimmy Fortune (The Statler Brothers) is 53. Singer Lisa Loeb is 40. Singer Pete Droge is 39. Actor Johnny Knoxville is 37. Rock singer-musicians Benji and Joel Madden (Good Charlotte) are 29. Actress Thora Birch is 26.