The dog is named Sandor, and he was with Bankman-Friend when he greeted a writer for Puck at his parents’ home near the Stanford campus earlier this month. Bankman-Fried “certainly is a young man in need of both defense and a friend,” Theodore Schleifer wrote. He explained how Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of the disgraced FTX founder, are paying for 24-hour security around their house and purchased the dog soon after their son was released on a $250 million bond.

Bankman-Fried has become a “public enemy” and has reportedly faced death threats since the collapse of FTX and his arrest in the Bahamas in mid-November. The 30-year-old mop-haired entrepreneur is charged with eight felony counts pertaining to what federal prosecutors have called “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.”

During his visit to Bankman-Fried’s home, Schleifer said he saw neither Bankman nor Fried, who, up until their son’s notoriety, were popular, longtime professors at Stanford Law School. The couple may have retreated to another part of the house, while Bankman-Fried, wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a GPS monitor strapped to his ankle, escorted the writer into the kitchen.

During the more than two-hour interview at the kitchen table, Bankman-Fried “evinced his loneliness and his isolation, but also a hint of mysterious confidence, as if he could somehow wiggle his way out of his current predicament as he had in the past,” Schleifer said. Bankman-Fried expressed repentance but also seemed incredulous that his $32 billion company had gone bankrupt and that his legal troubles “might bleed his parents dry of cash and ruin the lives of the entire Bankman-Fried family.”

About home confinement, Bankman-Fried said, “It doesn’t feel like being bored during a vacation. It feels simultaneously, very antsy and frustrating and stressful. And a lot of trying to find anything I can do, to the extent there is anything. But what I can do is limited.”

Bankman-Fried spends his days going “stir-crazy,” eating vegan burgers delivered to his home, playing video games, “voraciously consuming Twitter,” and studying up on federal wire-fraud laws ahead of his trial, Schleifer said. Indeed, Bankman-Fried seems more consumed by learning about the law than about the people who lost money on FTX, Schleifer added.

During the interview, Sandor rested near the kitchen table as Bankman-Fried declined to talk about his brother, Gabe, and admitted that he had not spoken to any of his former colleagues at FTX and Alameda Research, his trading firm.

“A lot of the people who I was closest to were my colleagues,” Bankman-Fried said when asked whether he still had any childhood or high school friends living nearby. “Most of the people who I was friends with are not talking to me.”

“For a number of years, I was incredibly lucky and fortunate in terms of a lot of the relationships and support that I had,” Bankman-Fried continued. “Now there’s basically nothing left.”

One of those friends who presumably no longer speaks to Bankman-Fried is Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House spokesperson and founder of SkyBridge Capital. At a crypto panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Scaramucci said that he, Bankman-Fried and Joseph Bankman were once close, but he said he now views Bankman-Fried as a “fraud,” Insider reported.

FTX reportedly bought 30% of Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital investment firm for $45 million, while SkyBridge Capital bought $10 million of FTX’s cryptocurrency; The token’s value has since fallen 90%, Insider reported.

“I made a mistake being involved with Sam,” Scaramucci said, according to Insider. “I thought Sam was the Mark Zuckerberg of crypto, I did not think he was the Bernie Madoff of crypto. And I got that wrong.”

Bankman-Fried confirmed to Schleifer that the only people he talks to are his attorneys and his parents.

“He is a public enemy, defended by a German Shepherd, a few lawyers he will eventually struggle to afford, a pair of loving parents, and basically no one else,” Schleifer said in the conclusion of their interview. “All he has left to bet on is himself, an instinct that worked in the past. Until, one day, it didn’t.”

For example, it can’t buy Eve Jobs a happy love life, at least not at the moment. The 24-year-old model recently broke up with Drew Taggart, and the Chainsmokers DJ has already started a romance with Selena Gomez, an even more famous celebrity who happens to share his musical interests, Us Weekly reported.

This news about Taggart and Gomez, which came via Us Weekly on Monday, apparently prompted Jobs to deactivate her Instagram account, just a few weeks after she posted a tribute to Taggart in December, celebrating his 33rd birthday, Page Six said. She gushed in a caption,  “Happy birthday lover.”

Jobs, an accomplished equestrian whose mother is Laurene Powell Jobs, and Taggart reportedly started what Us Weekly described as a “casual summer fling” last year. The romance supposedly fizzled by the end of the year, though Us Weekly said the split was “totally amicable.”

Still, it must be disconcerting for Jobs to have her private life caught up in the maw of celebrity news, especially as Taggart and Gomez, 30, started their romance so quickly and are not “trying to hide” it, a source told Us Weekly.

Gomez is “so affectionate” with Taggart and “can hardly keep her hands off him,” the source also said. Still, the two are trying to keep the relationship “very casual and low-key” while they are “having lots of fun together.”

Gomez’s love life has been the subject of celebrity gossip for years. The singer has experienced her shares of high and lows when it comes to her love life, particularly her high-profile, on-off romance with Justin Bieber from 2011 to 2018. On one of her breaks from Bieber, she dated The Weeknd for nine months in 2017. She’s also been linked to Niall Horan, Zedd and Charlie Puth.

“I feel like giving myself completely to something is the best way I can love,” Gomez said in an interview in November for Jay Shetty‘s “On Purpose” podcast. “But I never wanted the pain that I endured to put some sort of guard on myself — an armor if you will — and I never let that happen because I still believe and I still hope. … I would rather continue to get my heart broken than to not feel at all.”

Eve Jobs previously dated singer-songwriter Harry Hudson, who’s pals of Kylie Jenner and Jaden Smith.

Renner, 52, tweeted Monday night that he watched the Season 2 premiere of his show “Mayor of Kingstown” at home, TMZ reported, instead of in a Reno hospital. Renner was transported to the hospital on New Year’s Day after being run over by his own 14,000-pound snowplow while helping a family member whose car was stuck in the snow near his Lake Tahoe home.

“Outside my brain fog in recovery, I was very excited to watch episode 201 with my family at home,” Renner tweeted.

It’s not clear if “at home” means what Renner calls his “special place,” his property in the mountains between Lake Tahoe and Reno, or if the actor is recovering elsewhere. And even if the Hawkeye actor has been released from the hospital, he still has a long recovery due to the severity of his injuries, according to the Daily Mail.

Shortly after the accident, Renner’s representatives said he suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries. Friends said that Renner’s injuries were much worse than feared and that he “nearly bled out” and “almost died” while waiting for help to arrive the morning of Jan. 1, the Daily Mail said, citing a report in RadarOnline.

“The right side of Jeremy’s chest was crushed, and his upper torso had collapsed,” a friend said. “He also had a bad head wound that was bleeding and a leg injury.”

The actor is aware of the extent of his injuries and knows he has a long recovery ahead of him, with friends saying it could take up to two years “before he is back in fighting shape,” the Daily Mail said.

Despite his injuries and the need for multiple surgeries while in the hospital, Renner has posted on social media a few times, last week thanking fans for their “kind words.” He also shared a video of him getting a head massage while in the intensive-care unit. He acknowledged last week on Instagram that he was “too messed up to type. But I send love to you all.”

A “not no great” ICU DAY, turned to amazing spa day with my sis and mama. Thank you sooooo much pic.twitter.com/pvu1aWeEXY

— Jeremy Renner (@JeremyRenner) January 5, 2023

Renner’s family members have been by his side, including his mother Cearley and sister Kym, the Daily Mail said. Last week, his sister Kym told People that the actor is working hard to recover with the help of physical therapy.

“If anyone knows Jeremy, he is a fighter and doesn’t mess around,” Renner’s sister told People. “He is crushing all the progress goals. We couldn’t feel more positive about the road ahead.”

The host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has produced two bits since last week that make fun of Harry’s discussion about how he suffered a frostbitten penis while participating in a trek to the North Pole with other military veterans in 2011. The segment from Monday night also zeros in on Harry’s need in his book to regularly connect events, including his frostbite woes, to his late mother, Princess Diana, as if to emphasize how much of a presence she remains in his life.

Indeed, Kimmel has Harry invoke the name of Sigmund Freud — the author of the Oedipus complex psychoanalytic theory — in the bit that has the duke thinking about his mother while seeking relief from his frostbite. For the segment, Kimmel introduces “a new children’s book” that he said was inspired by the blockbuster success of Harry’s book and particularly the popularity of his frostbite story.

“It’s a twist on “The Princess and the Pea,” Kimmel joked. “It’s called ‘The Prince and the Penis.’ The kids will love this. It’s time to gather them around because I have the honor of sharing the first read of the new book.”

Prince Harry’s book is so popular, they made a version for kids! #ThePrinceAndThePenis pic.twitter.com/mV0Sfy4REL

— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) January 17, 2023

Thereupon, Kimmel produced a faux children’s book, with brightly colored illustrations and a rhyming, “The Night Before Christmas”-style tale about “a silly young codger” who suffers frostbite on a trip to the North Pole.

“Oh Mummy, oh Mummy, he cried with a scream and from then up on high, she appeared with some cream,” Kimmel read from the faux book, with an illustration of Diana up in a cloud, wearing her famous black “Revenge Dress.”

Kimmel clearly believes that Harry has opened himself up for such lambasting, given what the duke writes in “Spare” about seeking relief from his frostbite by using a cream by Elizabeth Arden — a brand he notes that his late mother used.

In “Spare,” Harry (or his ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer) describes how the frostbite left him “oscillating between extremely sensitive and borderline traumatized.” To Harry’s credit, his tone is somewhat humorous. “The last place I wanted to be was Frostnipistan,” Harry also said, explaining how a female friend suggested he try the Elizabeth Arden cream.

“My mum used that on her lips,” Harry said, expressing discomfort at the idea of applying it “down there.” Harry said his friend  replied, “It works, Harry. Trust me.”

Harry said he acquired a tube and opened it. He also writes, “The smell transported me through time. I felt as if my mother was right there in the room.” He said he applied a “smidge” and acknowledged, “‘Weird’ doesn’t really do the feeling justice.”

In Kimmel’s version of Harry’s “story,” the Harry figure similarly expresses discomfort with the idea of using his mother’s favorite cream. “But Mummy, did you not put this on your lip. … But Mummy, have you not hear about Sir Sigmund Freud?” That line is a reference to Freud’s theory about a young male’s attachment to the parent of the opposite sex.

Kimmel’s children’s book shows an illustration of Diana coming down from her cloud and applying the cream on her son, leaving “everyone living happily ever after.”

Last week, Kimmel mined comedy and audience laughs from actually playing the audiobook version of “Spare,” with Harry reading from the passage about his use of the Elizabeth Arden cream and how it evoked “weird” thoughts about his mother.

Prince Harry truly TELLS ALL! pic.twitter.com/MCWUchCAYE

— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) January 13, 2023

Kimmel’s children’s book bit provoked a mix of reactions. Many people left tweets with laughing emojis and praised Kimmel for offering an example of how Harry plays “the Mummy card” — aligning himself with the legacy of his popular mother in interviews and in his book. Others shared GIFs that showed they enjoyed the bit but also recognized that Kimmel was getting to the edge of what’s considered politically correct.

Oh my pic.twitter.com/h2oDtSDrgB

— Sabirah Lohn (43% Whatever I decide) (@SabirahLohn) January 17, 2023

Others, though, scoffed at Kimmel’s “amateurish” humor. One person suggested he was jealous because his late-night rival, Stephen Colbert, got an interview with Harry last week on his show. Others took offense with how they thought Kimmel disparaged the memory of Diana, who died in 1997 in a car accident in Paris.

Other comedians also have had fun with Harry’s North Pole story, including Chelsea Handler. However, she used her opening monologue at the Critics Choice Awards Sunday night to suggest that the public is both scintillated by also weary from Harry’s oversharing about his frostbite, which left him uncomfortable while attending the royal wedding of his brother, Prince William, to Kate Middleton.

At the awards show, Handler said, “Niecy Nash-Betts is nominated for ‘Dahmer.’ ‘Dahmer’ became the third highest viewed show on Netflix, which a combined watch time of 1 billion hours.”

She continued: “Which, apparently, is the same amount of time we’re going to have to listen to Prince Harry talk about his frostbitten penis. Enough already.”

The girls, Finley and Harper, are too traumatized to return to the Calabasas home where their mother suffered a fatal cardiac arrest Jan. 12, TMZ reported. Meanwhile, their father, Michael Lockwood, may be gearing up to go to court to demand full custody, TMZ also reported. If so, he would reignite a bitter years-long custody battle that involved a trial, ferocious disputes about money and allegations about Presley’s acknowledged substance abuse problems and mental anguish following the 2020 suicide of her 27-year-old son Benjamin Keough, as the Daily Mail reported.

Praying for Priscilla Presley, Riley, Finley and Harper pic.twitter.com/9IgDowCdmD

— Ms. Venable (@FrozenInScream) January 13, 2023

These contentious legal issues may be temporarily put aside as Presley’s family prepare to honor her with a public memorial service Sunday at Graceland, the Memphis, Tennessee estate that Presley inherited from her father, Elvis Presley. “Riley, Harper, Finley and Priscilla are grateful for the support, well-wishes, and outpouring of love honoring their beloved Lisa Marie,” a representative for Riley Keough said in a statement to People.

Presley died last week after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital for a reported cardiac arrest. She was 54. People said that Presley’s final resting place will be Graceland’s Meditation Garden, where Elvis Presley and her son, Benjamin, also are buried.

People magazine also confirmed that Presley’s three daughters will inherit Graceland, which Rolling Stone estimated is worth about $500 million, because it is open to the public for tours and other events.

After Elvis died in 1977, the estate was placed in a trust to benefit 9-year-old Lisa Marie, and now that trust will be passed to Riley Keough and teenagers Harper and Finley Lockwood. https://t.co/V5JZcTB9jt

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 17, 2023

Since Presley’s death, Finley and Harper have been spending a lot of time at the Los Angeles home of their grandmother, Priscilla Presley, TMZ said. Their older half-sister, actor Riley Keough, has been spending time there as well, while Lockwood has “been central” to making sure the girls’ needs are met during this difficult time.

However, Lockwood is determined that the girls will ultimately live with him, TMZ said. Presley and Lockwood were married in 2006. After Presley filed for divorce in 2016, the estranged couple became locked in a dispute over custody and money. As recently as November, the exes were in court fighting over financial support and attorneys’ fees, according to The Blast.

Sources connected to the Presley family told TMZ that Lockwood will definitely go to court to get full custody. “It’ll be a cold day in hell before he gives up custody of those children,” a source close to Lockwood told TMZ

Complications could arise if Danny Keough, Presley’s other ex-husband, decides to make a case for custody, TMZ said. Presley and Danny Keough were married from 1988 to 1994, and the couple and the twins were living together at the time of her sudden death, TMZ said. Keough came to regard himself as the girls’ stepfather. Some family members also told TMZ that Riley Keough or Priscilla Presley might make a bid for custody.

Robinson later described that whale-boned corset with a mix of humor and horror: “Armored like a war tank, reaching from armpit nearly to knee, to be laced until your tonsils cracked. I had a 19-inch waist. Where did I put my insides?”

Robinson shed those restrictive garments after she escaped an oppressive marriage to a rich but puritanical Vermont widower. Returning to California in 1912 and forced by circumstances to support herself and her young son by mucking in a gold mine, she donned a loose skirt fashioned from tent canvas, a man’s flannel shirt, boots and sombrero.

After World War I, the newly divorced mom hunted for writing jobs at San Francisco newspapers, joining the throngs of other women on Market Street, who now moved freely in loose-fitting frocks and bobbed hair, “so swift, so sleek, so competent,” as she wrote in her 1934 memoir, “I Wanted Out!”

For biographers Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, Robinson’s evolving fashion sense becomes a metaphor for her lifelong resistance to the restrictions placed on women in the first half of the 20th century. Breaking out against these restraints, the future 20th century icon forged a highly successful career as a fiction writer, children’s author, illustrator, poet, reporter and nationally syndicated columnist for William Randolph Hearst.

Beloved by generations of children for her “Aunt Elsie” children’s pages, which she began at the Oakland Tribune, Robinson became the highest-paid female writer in Hearst’s newspaper empire and America’s “most-read woman,” as the subtitle for “Listen, World!” attests. The book’s title comes from Robinson’s most influential column. Every day, 20 million Americans opened the paper to read what she had to say about current events and culture in her “Listen, World” column.

What’s startling is that Robinson’s groundbreaking legacy has largely been forgotten.

During an authors’ talk at the Oakland Public Library this fall, moderator Liam O’Donoghue, who hosts the East Bay Yesterday history podcast, said he’s familiar with most of the major figures in Oakland history but had never heard of Robinson. Scheeres and Gilbert say she fell prey to the forces that often relegate women’s lives to the bin of “lost history.”

Quoting at length from Robinson’s memoir and other writing in their book, they show that the syndicated columnist wasn’t just a beautiful, thoughtful writer about her own life. She also was ahead of the curve in addressing issues that still occupy us today: racism, antisemitism, the death penalty, labor rights and economic inequality.

More than anything, Robinson challenged her era’s views on women. Decades before Betty Friedan and other second-wave feminists explored the drudgeries of domestic life and wrote frankly about sexuality, Robinson described her sexual curiosity as a teen girl  – once peering into a shack along Benicia’s wharf to see a prostitute servicing a client. She recounted her confusion about her wedding night and the terror of childbirth, when Victorian ladies were given next to no information about the mechanics of reproduction. Throughout her life, she encouraged women to seek personal fulfillment outside the traditional confines of marriage and motherhood.

She had the attention of 20 million Americans a day, yet no one ever collected her works into an official archive. Scheeres and Gilbert painstakingly built a paper trail by hunting through microfiche copies in libraries and the archives of prominent men she worked for, including Hearst.

That search began more than 10 years ago after Gilbert’s mother died. When Gilbert was going through her mother’s books, a typewritten copy of a breathtakingly honest poem about grief and loss fell out. It was attributed to a writer named Elsie Robinson. Curious, the New York-based Gilbert began looking for more information.

What Gilbert and Bay Area writer Scheeres discovered as they teamed up on the project was the story of a woman who seized on the promise of the California dream. Robinson’s parents were settlers, and her independent spirit was nurtured by the bohemian, frontier-town culture of Benicia and a working class family who valued education, including for their daughters.

Unfortunately, financial hard times made it impossible for her parents to send Robinson to UC Berkeley. At 17, she saw no future for herself unless she married. That’s when she crossed paths with Christie Cowell, a 27-year-old widower visiting from Vermont. Like Jane Eyre, Robinson fell for this sad, handsome man, writing, “Sickly and a widower: Was there ever a girl who didn’t adore tragedy?”

But in Vermont, neither Crowell nor his parents warmed to Robinson’s “uncouth” California ways, and they made her life as a young wife miserable. As much as Robinson later downplayed “the maternal instinct,” she found a purpose when she gave birth in 1907. She adored her blond-haired boy, George. It was for him that she first took up a pen to write and illustrate stories, though she also wanted, she said, “to understand people, to grasp life, to make some ordered pattern out of all this seeming waste and confusion.”

George gave Robinson another reason to leave her marriage: He was diagnosed with severe, debilitating asthma, and she wanted to raise him in California’s warmer climate. But she fled at a time when only one percent of marriages ended in divorce, thereby “taking ownership of her life in a way that few women of the era dared to contemplate,” Scheeres and Gilbert wrote.

Robinson and George were accompanied to the West by Robert Wallace, a darkly handsome writer and former mental patient, for whom she illustrated some children’s books. They likely were lovers, according to Scheeres and Gilbert, although Robinson never copped to it, probably because she feared losing her son if her husband proved adultery.

The three ended up in Hornitos, a once-thriving mining town in the dry, rolling foothills west of Yosemite National Park. Wallace hoped to strike gold and become rich. That never happened, and at some point, he evaporated from Robinson’s life. Left alone to support George, she went to work in a mine, taking up dangerous and backbreaking work that was usually reserved for men.

But the labor and the company of cowboys, gamblers, miners, hobos and others “who traveled fast and light,” was liberating for the writer. At the end of each day, after putting George to bed, she wrote stories by candlelight, using an old typewriter borrowed from a friend, the town’s Black postmistress. Robinson’s stories, which she sold to national magazines, featured free-spirited protagonists, like the socialite who debated whether to tell her new rancher husband she wasn’t a virgin.

When the Hornitos mine closed at the end of World War I, freelancing couldn’t offer Robinson a steady income. Facing starvation, she returned to the Bay Area in the fall of 1918 to find work. After San Francisco’s three main newspapers turned her down, she took the ferry across to Oakland, where she walked into the newsroom of the Oakland Tribune to pitch her services. The editor saw something he liked and offered her $12 a week to write a children’s column.

“I had my first newspaper job!” she proclaimed. “I would not have to go on the streets. And my boy and I could eat!”

Robinson’s column became popular so swiftly, the Tribune soon expanded it into an eight-page section called Aunt Elsie’s Magazine. The magazine soon spawned “Aunt Elsie” clubs in 65 California towns whose members held parades and competed to publish their stories and illustrations in the paper.

Aunt Elsie is the only part of Robinson’s legacy that endured past her 1956 death, when her column was continued by another writer. And Aunt Elsie is still remembered fondly in some quarters today. At the Oakland library event, 76-year-old Diana Sychr stood up to say she grew up reading Aunt Elsie’s columns in the 1950s and delighted in once getting a letter back from the author.

But from that start with the Oakland Tribune, Robinson branched out into homemaking and relationship columns, and became a national figure when she launched “Listen, World!” in 1921. Soon, an editor at San Francisco’s Call and Post, a Hearst paper, lured her away, paying her $95 a week. A year later, Arthur Brisbane, the legendary editor of Hearst’s New York Evening Journal, vastly upped her salary to write for him – her $20,000 a year salary would be equivalent to $350,000 a year in today’s dollars.

But just as Robinson reached the pinnacle of success, George, then a 21-year-old student at Sacramento Junior College, died during an influenza epidemic. Elsie wrote about the “heart-breaking sorrow — fresh-rending pain” in losing her only child and “loneliness beyond all measure of imagining.”

Yet, she kept writing. Through the Depression, Hearst sent her to cover major national news stories, including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and she scripted a popular NBC radio show that depicted fictional couples looking to save their marriages. After securing permission from her editor to work remotely, she wrote from a cabin she bought outside Sonora. She also penned her memoir, which was critically acclaimed by major U.S. newspapers for its frankness and courage and serialized by Cosmopolitan magazine.

“She turned to narrative storytelling as a grief-stricken 46-year-old columnist for the same reason she turned to it as a lonely, 26-year-old wife: ‘To save my life,’” Scheeres and Gilbert wrote.

Robinson concluded her memoir by writing: “Was there ever an adventurer really born ‘brave?’ Was there ever an adventure that was not bought at the price of fear and agony? Are not the bravest also the terrified? I know it was so with me.”

BOOK TALK

“Listen, World!” co-author Julia Scheeres will read from the book and talk about Elsie Robinson’s life and legacy with Bay Area News Group writer Martha Ross at 4 p.m. Jan. 21 at the Book Passage in Corte Madera; www.bookpassage.com/corte-madera-events.

People question whether the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley inherited heart troubles from her father, who also died prematurely of cardiac arrest in 1977 at the age of 42. Meanwhile, Presley herself has been open about how much she had been struggling, certainly emotionally, since the 2020 suicide of her son Benjamin Keough.

In May, she wrote on Instagram, “Navigating through this hideous grief that absolutely destroyed and shattered my heart and my soul into almost nothing has swallowed me whole. Not much else aside from my other three children gets my time and attention anymore.”

Lisa Marie’s words on grief and loss reasonate so powerfully. https://t.co/hBIOVJwtGD

— Lindsey Boylan (@LindseyBoylan) January 13, 2023

Keough died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 27 on July 12, 2020, at his mother’s former home in Calabasas, outside Los Angeles. Marking National Grief Awareness Day in August, Presley wrote an essay for People magazine about the overwhelming grief she continues to feel over her son’s death. She said that her only motivation “to keep going” was her daughters, actor Riley Keough and 14-year-old twins, Harper and Finley.

Grief is known to exact a heavy toll on a person’s health, Time reported in August, citing studies that show that people are more likely to die when they’re in mourning than otherwise. Scientific literature has even given this phenomenon a name — the “widowhood effect.” Grief can activate the nervous system, including the part that triggers the body’s “flight or fight” response. The overstimulation of this response has been linked to heart failure, Time explained.

As recently as Sunday, four days before her death, Presley looked “incredibly sad” as she stood before fans of her late father at Graceland, his legendary Memphis, Tennessee, estate, the Daily Mail reported. Presley and the fans were there to mark what would have been the icon’s 88th birthday.

Presley told the crowd that they were the “only people” who could get her out of the house. Fans also said she seemed to be “really hurting,” the Daily Mail reported.

Still, Presley managed to leave her home on Tuesday night to attend the Golden Globe Awards. She was there to support “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about her father. While she appeared to be in an upbeat mood during a red carpet interview with Extra TV, she also visibly struggled to stand and needed help walking, Entertainment Tonight reported. She also was seen crying with her mother as actor Austin Butler accepted his Golden Globe award for best actor for his portrayal of her father.

Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest. Just two days ago, she appeared a bit unsteady on the red carpet at the #GoldenGlobes.

The latest: https://t.co/juXPWBQj4G pic.twitter.com/mxkEp98rSU

— ExtraTV (@extratv) January 12, 2023

In the wake of Lisa Marie Presley’s death, people may look for clues in the Presley family history. The Daily Mail noted that Elvis Presley’s mother died of heart failure at 46, and several family members also had heart problems. The Daily Mail also quoted the author of a 2021 biography, “Elvis: Destined to Die Young,” who argued that the early deaths of Elvis Presley, his mother, Gladys, and other family members were likely caused by a genetic defect.

There also will be questions about whether Lisa Marie Presley’s admitted struggles with substance abuse and addiction contributed to any health problems she may have been dealing with at the time of her death. She told People magazine in 2003 that she abused cocaine, sedatives, marijuana and alcohol when she was younger — “I just couldn’t be sober,” Entertainment Tonight reported. She later struggled for years with an addiction to prescription opioids that led to her entering rehab in 2016, as she wrote in the forward the 2019 book, “The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain.”

Page Six reported that there appeared to be no drugs on the scene of Presley’s medical emergency Thursday, which was her Calabasas home. An official cause of death is pending an autopsy and coroner’s report.

TMZ reported that Presley’s housekeeper found her unresponsive. Her ex-husband, Danny Keough, with whom she has remained close, performed CPR on her until paramedics arrived and took over, TMZ also said. Paramedics administered at least one dose of epinephrine during resuscitation efforts and were able to regain a pulse before she was transported to the hospital. But at the hospital, Page Six said, Presley “coded multiple times” before she died.

In her essay on grief for People, Presley wrote that she had dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9, when her father died. But the death of her “beautiful, beautiful son” was beyond what she thought she could bear. She wrote that being in mourning for him was incredibly lonely, particularly because the sudden death of a child seems “unnatural” and can make a parent “a pariah in a sense.”

“You can feel stigmatized and perhaps judged in some way as to why the tragic loss took place,” Presley wrote. “I already battle with and beat myself up tirelessly and chronically, blaming myself every single day and that’s hard enough to live with, but others will judge and blame you too, even secretly or behind your back which is even more cruel and painful on top of everything else.”

Because of the stigma, missing her son and everything else, Presley wrote that she had to make “a real choice to keep going.”

“Grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss,” Presley said. “Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not ‘get over it,’ you do not ‘move on,’ period.”

The evacuation order for the entire community of Montecito, where Harry lives with his wife Meghan Markle and two children, came at about 1 p.m. Monday, with Santa Barbara authorities telling residents to “leave now.”

Not long after, the Duke of Sussex was photographed arriving at “The Late Show” studio in Manhattan, where the Daily Mail reported that Colbert invited him to down tequila shots, after the late-show host poked fun at him and some of his explosive revelations about his British royal relatives in his memoir, “Spare.”

Prince Harry downs tequila shots as he answers a series of questions on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert https://t.co/Ai3ML6bw9z

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 10, 2023

“I’ve read the book — it’s very enjoyable, quite emotional, quite revealing. I’m going to have so much to talk about with his Harryness,” Colbert quipped in a promotional clip about the memoir, which was published Tuesday.

Harry’s appearance on “The Late Show” airs Tuesday night, as he finishes up a media blitz that also included headline-grabbing interviews over the weekend with British TV and CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

In his teaser clip, Colbert also jokes about one of Harry’s many complaints about his brother, Prince William — about how William said he wanted them to avoid each other when they were students at Eton. Colbert said that move by William is “straight out of the older brother/sibling playbook.”

After playing a clip of Harry describing his pain at being ignored by William, Colbert made a Harry Potter reference as people in his audience roared with laughter: “That’s heartbreaking. To be rejected by his older brother at school even though that magic hat sorted them into the same house. What do you think? Hufflepuff? Gryffindor?”

Meanwhile, images coming from Montecito Monday and Tuesday were far more grim than those leaked of Harry and Colbert together on “The Late Show.” The images, including footage from Harry’s neighbor Ellen DeGeneres, showed torrents of water rushing down swollen creeks and cascading into roadways in affluent Montecito and in nearby communities. Video also showed people escaping in cars and struggling to not be swept away in the floodwaters.

Here’s a look at some storm impacts across Montecito:
1. Road washout of E Mtn Dr just south of Cold Springs Trailhead. This will be a long term repair project
2. Rocks & mud across Romero at E. Valley Rd.
3. Buena Vista Creek Crossing
4. Slide across Mtn Dr above debris basin pic.twitter.com/VwleNTLjwN

— Montecito Fire (@montecitofire) January 10, 2023

Backyard river in Sycamore Hill #Montecito #SantaBarbara #Flooding ⁦@JohnPalminteri⁩ pic.twitter.com/B9C9zcCStX

— Barron Sawyer (@bsawyer) January 10, 2023

DO NOT DRIVE UNLESS CRITICAL #SantaBarbaraCounty #Montecito #Goleta #SantaYnez #Lompoc #SantaBarbara #CAwx pic.twitter.com/qRCntxvlq8

— Santa Barbara (@onsantabarbara) January 9, 2023

Many noted that this pounding storm came five years to the day that another vicious storm hit Montecito and unleashed mudslides that killed 23 people and destroyed more than 100 homes.

Five years ago on this same day, this same city experienced devastating flooding, mudslides, and multiple deaths. The rain California cities are seeing right now is no joke and the evacuation orders are real. https://t.co/4lKbIVSYlQ

— Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) January 9, 2023

The Los Angeles Times said it wasn’t known whether Meghan and the couple’s two children, Archie and Lilibet, were in Montecito when the evacuation order came Monday. Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The evacuation order was lifted 2 p.m. Tuesday, with the Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management saying that people should be cautious while returning home due to debris and slick roads.

Harry and Meghan famously settled in Montecito in the summer of 2020, after their acrimonious flight from the U.K. and royal life earlier that year. They purchased a $14 million, seven-acre estate that includes a 14,500-square-foot main house with nine bedrooms and 16 bathrooms, as well as a teahouse, tennis court and pool.

The evacuation order from Santa Barbara County said that people should leave their homes immediately and offered locations for nearby evacuation centers in Santa Barbara, Carpenteria and Santa Maria. For those who chose not to evacuate, the order said they should be ready to “sustain yourself and your household for multiple days,” as residents “may not be able to leave the area, and emergency responders may not be able to access your property in the event of road damage, flooding or a debris flow.”

In a tweet, DeGeneres said that she had been asked to shelter in place at her home because she’s on higher ground. In a video, she stood next to a gushing creek and said, “We need to be nicer to Mother Nature, ’cause Mother Nature’s not happy with us.”

Montecito is under mandatory evacuation. We are on higher ground so they asked us to shelter in place. Please stay safe everyone. pic.twitter.com/7dv5wfNSzG

— Ellen DeGeneres (@EllenDeGeneres) January 9, 2023

There is expected to be no relief from rain Tuesday as a seventh storm is forecast to bring brief spiraling bands of strong coastal thunderstorms from the  Bay Area to Los Angeles County, with brief and intense rain, wind gusts over 60 miles per hour and potential ‘’waterspouts,’’ or weak coastal tornados.

#TurnAroundDontDrown is the social media message being blasted by the National Weather Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the AAA Northern California. Even seemingly shallow water from an overflowing creek can be deadly, especially if the current is moving swiftly. More than half of flood-related drownings occur when someone drives into hazardous water, the NWS and CDC say.

Know how to drive safely around floodwater:

Don't drive into flooded areas & standing water. #TurnAroundDontDrown
Don't move or drive around roadblocks.
Don't drive over a downed power line.

Learn more: https://t.co/iBzztwnvWJ. #PrepYourHealth #WeatherReady pic.twitter.com/Tf2VdGdwRP

— CDC Emergency (@CDCemergency) January 7, 2023

It appears that a number of motorists haven’t been aware of these dangers since the first of the series of record-setting atmospheric rivers hit on New Year’s Eve. Images of cars, stalled and abandoned in rising waters, have been abundant in the news and on social media over the past week.

The NWS says to “NEVER” drive through flooded roadways, using capital letters to emphasize that message. That’s because a motorist can’t know the condition of the road under the water; it may be washed out.

As few as six inches of water can reach the bottom of most passenger cars and cause drivers to lose control or their vehicles to stall, putting them and their passengers at risk of drowning, the NWS said. Twelve inches of water will float many vehicles, and two feet of rushing water can carry away most vehicles, including larger and heavier SUVs and pickups.

If you end up in a flooded area, and water begins rising around your car, the NWS says you should abandon your vehicle immediately and move to higher ground. Amid rising floodwaters, you’re danger that you and your vehicle will be swept away.

There also are other dangers from going near floodwaters — a reality that seemed lost on people who were recorded climbing on rafts to ride the floodwaters that had suddenly turned their neighborhood streets into rushing rivers.

In fact, those floodwaters may be teeming with household or industrial hazardous waste, sewage and other contaminants — all of which can make people very sick, the CDC said. People also can be injured by branches, lumber, sharp glass or metal fragments and other debris swirling around in the water water. If you must enter floodwater, wear rubber boots, rubber gloves, and goggles, the CDC also said. People also should never go near power lines or drive through standing water if down lines are in the water.

The arrest took place after police received a report at about 3 p.m. that a man had been harassing the girl, in the presence of her mother, in the area of Manor Drive and Palmetto Avenue, police said in a news release. With a description provided by witnesses, police were able to quickly locate the suspect and take him into custody.

Pacifica police are seeking more information about the incident. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at (650) 738-7314. They can also call the Silent Witness Tip line at (650) 359-4444 and leave a message, referring to case #23-0036.