Lisa Marie Presley claimed she was “still a virgin” when Michael Jackson started dating her.
In a new memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, written by Presley’s daughter Riley Keough after his death in January 2023, Presley revealed that the King of Pop, who died in 2009, was married He said he had never had sex until then. Couple in 1994.
“He told me I was still a virgin,” Presley writes in the book. “He once kissed Tatum O’Neal and I think he had an affair with Brooke Shields, but it wasn’t a physical relationship other than kissing. Madonna also tried to contact him once. But nothing happened, he said.
“I was scared because I didn’t want to do the wrong thing,” Presley added. “When he first decided to kiss me, he just did it. He was instigating everything. Physical things started happening and I was shocked. Getting married I thought I wouldn’t do anything until then, but he said, “I’m not waiting!”
Presley, then 26, and Jackson, then 35, married in the Dominican Republic on May 26, 1994, less than three weeks after Presley and Danny Keough’s divorce was finalized.
The two first met in Las Vegas as children, but didn’t remarry until the 1990s, when Jackson confessed his love for Presley during a trip to Las Vegas while she was still married to Keough.
“Michael said, ‘I don’t know if you realized it, but I’m completely in love with you.’ I want us to get married and have my child. ” Presley wrote. “I didn’t say anything right away, but I said, ‘I’m so honored, I can’t even talk about it.’ By then, I knew I loved him too.”
Reflecting on their honeymoon to Disney World in Florida, Presley said: I have never been so happy. ”
“There was an energy there, something about him that was just amazing, that I had never seen or felt in my life outside of my dad. That’s why I fell in love with him,” she also wrote.
The “Dirty Laundry” singer also addressed child molestation allegations against Jackson in her book. Jackson was tried in 2005 on four counts of sexual abuse of a minor and was acquitted.
“I have never seen anything so bad. If I had, I personally would have killed him,” she wrote.
Presley previously described marrying Jackson as “the biggest mistake of my life” in a 2007 interview with Marie Claire magazine.
After breaking up with Presley, Jackson was married to Debbie Rowe for four years and had two children, Paris Jackson and Prince Jackson. The late superstar also had a third child, Bigi Jackson.
The “Thriller” singer died in 2009 at the age of 50 from acute propofol poisoning.
After Jackson, Presley married Nicolas Cage and then Michael Lockwood. She and Lockwood have twin daughters, Finley and Harper, 16.
Presley was also the mother of Riley, 35, and the late Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020 at age 27.
In January 2023, Presley suddenly passed away at the age of 54 due to a small intestinal obstruction.
Her book was transcribed from tapes of her discussing her life.
“From Here to the Great Unknown” is now available.