In her recently published memoir, singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of famous singer Elvis Presley, tells about her marriage to pop star Michael Jackson and the secrets of her bedroom.
Lisa Marie Presley wrote in her memoir that Michael Jackson had never had sex with anyone before they started dating in 1994. “He told me he was a virgin,” Lisa said in her book From Here to the Great Unknown . “I think he kissed Tatum O’Neal and had something with Brooke Shields, but nothing physical. He also said Madonna had made out once, but nothing happened.”
Lisa revealed that the Thriller singer initiated a kiss and made love to her. At that time, Lisa was 26 years old and Michael Jackson was 35 years old, according to Page Six.
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley in the 1990s. Photo: ZUMAPRESS
The Rock & Roll legend’s daughter first met Michael Jackson at his Las Vegas show when they were both very young. They met again in the early 1990s. During a trip to Las Vegas, Michael confessed his love to Lisa. “Michael said, ‘I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I love you very much. I want us to get married and have children together,'” Lisa said, adding that she was speechless when Michael Jackson suddenly expressed his feelings. But she knew she loved Michael Jackson from that moment.
Upon returning home, Lisa split from her husband, actor Danny Keough, and moved in with the pop singer. The couple married on May 26, 1994, in the Dominican Republic, less than three weeks after Lisa finalized her divorce from Danny, with whom she had two children during their six-year marriage.
Lisa Marie Presley was Michael Jackson’s first wife. Photo: ZUMAPRESS
Looking back on her honeymoon at Disney World in Florida, Lisa said she had “never felt happier”. “There was this special energy about him that I had never felt in my entire life, except with my dad. I loved him because he was so down to earth.”
In her memoir, Lisa also mentioned that Michael Jackson faced child molestation charges. The singer went to trial but was acquitted in 2005. “I’ve never seen anything like it. If I had, I would have killed him,” she wrote.
Lisa and Michael Jackson kiss on stage in 1994. Photo: AFP
Their marriage lasted two years. After their separation, Michael Jackson married nurse Debbie Rowe, with whom he had two children, Paris Jackson and Prince Jackson. The King of Pop also had a third child, Blaket Jackson, via surrogate. Meanwhile, Lisa was married for the third time to actor Nicolas Cage from 2002 to 2004 and was last married to guitarist Michael Lockwood from 2006 to 2021.
Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest in 2009 at the age of 50. Lisa Marie Presley died in January 2023 at the age of 54 from a bowel obstruction – a complication after a surgery a few years earlier – and the pain of her son Benjamin Keough’s suicide in 2020 .
After Lisa’s death, her daughter, actress Riley Keough, listened to her mother’s tapes and completed the memoir as she wished. Riley said her mother always wanted to write a memoir to share with people her life experiences: love, pain, loss, her battle with addiction and family life. “She wanted to write a book in the hope that someone would read her story and know that they were not alone in this world. Her desire was just to connect with people,” Riley Keough shared in People magazine in early October.
