Lisa Marie Presley lived an incredible life as the daughter of the late King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, and Priscilla Presley. However, her posthumous memoir, ‘From Here to the Great Unknown,’ reveals her wildest and darkest secrets and details never publicly shared. Her marriage to Michael Jackson may be the most bizarre of all.
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley had a lot in common. They were not ordinary people, so it makes sense that their brief marriage would also be far from ordinary. Sadly, both Lisa Marie and Michael have passed. However, their fans can look in-depth into the couple’s brief marriage via Lisa Marie’s memoir.
Presley and Jackson fans worldwide likely never expected to hear that Lisa Marie and Michael had gotten married. However, from May 26, 1994, to August 20, 1996, that is exactly what happened. Lisa Marie goes into great detail about her time with Michael, and some of those details are rather shocking, according to People.
Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson became romantically involved and married only twenty days following her divorce from Lisa’s first husband, Danny Keough. Presley was still married when she became involved with MJ. The memoir details Lisa Marie sharing how Michael confessed his love for her during a trip the two took to Las Vegas.
“Michael said,’ I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m completely in love with you. I want us to get married and for you to have my children,’” Presley writes in From Here to the Great Unknown, which was released on Tuesday, Oct. 8. “I didn’t say anything immediately, but then I said, ‘I’m really flattered, I can’t even talk.’ By then, I felt I was in love with him too.”
Michael Jackson Was A Virgin When He Begin Dating Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie states, “He told me he was still a virgin. I think he had kissed Tatum O’Neal and had a thing with Brooke Shields, which hadn’t been physical apart from a kiss. He said Madonna had tried to hook up with him once, too. But nothing happened. I was terrified because I didn’t want to make the wrong move.”
Even with all the celebrity temptation, Michael Jackson had remained a virgin until he was 35 years old. Meaning that Lisa took more from Michael than his last name. She took something special to him that he had never given to any other woman: his virginity.
Lisa Marie Presley even admitted that her marriage to Michael Jackson was a mistake in many ways. First, she claims Michael never meant to propose to her. She claims that Michael was very high on drugs and didn’t even know who she was. He believed she was his close friend and drug connection and the future mother of his children, Debbie Rowe. Even so, Lisa agreed to marry the singer.
Jackson’s drug problem became so out of control within just two years that she was forced to issue Michael an ultimatum. She recalls telling him it was her or the drugs —” and he pushed me away,” she said. Jackson’s drug problem continued to escalate. Six years later, Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 from propofol intoxication. It was also one year after Lisa Marie admitted that she had also started using drugs again.
If you want more juicy details on Lisa Marie Presley’s life, be sure to check out her memoir, ‘From Here to the Great Unknown,’ which is now available in bookstores.
