Lisa Marie Presley dishes on daughter Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s infamous marriage to Michael Jackson in her upcoming memoir.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked her if they had a physical relationship,\u201d Priscilla, 80, writes in \u201cSoftly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis<\/a>,\u201d according to an excerpt published by the Sun<\/a> on Saturday. \u201cLike so many people, I wasn\u2019t sure.\u201d<\/p>\n Priscilla adds, \u201cShe said yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n Elvis Presley\u2019s ex-wife divulges that she was unimpressed when her daughter tied the knot with the King of Pop in 1994 \u2014 a union that only lasted until 1996. \u201cI was appalled by the marriage,\u201d she writes, per the outlet. <\/p>\n Priscilla Presley writes she was \u201cappalled\u201d by daughter Lisa Marie\u2019s marriage to Michael Jackson, according to a new book excerpt. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cI asked her if they had a physical relationship,\u201d she writes, according to the Sun. dpa\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cI knew in my bones that Michael wasn\u2019t marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty.\u201d<\/p>\n Priscilla also claims that the 80s icon sought \u201cgood publicity\u201d following claims of child molestation at the time, which he strongly denied. Priscilla claims her daughter \u2014 whom Jackson reached out to during the scandal \u2014 believed in his innocence. <\/p>\n \u201cMichael was a manipulative man, and I think he had his sights set on her long before she realized it,\u201d she writes, according to the Sun. \u201cThe childlike innocence he projected was part of his public mask.\u201d<\/p>\n Priscilla also claims the \u201cBeat It\u201d hitmaker avoided meeting her, and called the relationship \u201cbizarre.\u201d At family events, she claims he opted to mingle with children rather than spend time with the adults. <\/p>\n \u201cHe was marrying the Presley dynasty,\u201d Priscilla writes of Jackson, per the outlet. <\/p>\n Lisa Marie and Jackson married in 1994 and divorced in 1996. Sygma via Getty Images<\/p>\n While Priscilla claims Lisa Marie said Michael wanted to have a child, she pleaded with her daughter to put off starting a family. When Lisa Marie filed for divorce in 1996, Priscilla writes that she \u201ccould practically hear Elvis sigh with relief.\u201d<\/p>\n A rep for Priscilla did not immediately return Page Six\u2019s request for comment on the excerpt. <\/p>\n In October 2024, an excerpt from Lisa Marie\u2019s own memoir \u201cFrom Here to the Great Unknown\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 written from tapes compiled by her daughter Riley Keough \u2014 claimed the pop legend said he was a virgin when they began dating. <\/p>\n Priscilla also writes in \u201cSoftly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis\u201d that Jackson began reaching out to Lisa Marie amid his child sexual abuse scandal. FilmMagic<\/p>\n Priscilla claims Lisa Marie believed in Jackson\u2019s innocence of child molestation allegations, which he strongly denied. WireImage<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cHe told me he was still a virgin,<\/a>\u201d Lisa Marie wrote. \u201cI think he had kissed Tatum O\u2019Neal, and he\u2019d had a thing with Brooke Shields, which hadn\u2019t been physical apart from a kiss. He said Madonna had tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened.\u201d<\/p>\n She wrote, \u201cI was terrified, because I didn\u2019t want to make the wrong move. When he decided to first kiss me, he just did it. He was instigating everything. The physical stuff started happening, which I was shocked at. I had thought that maybe we wouldn\u2019t do anything until we got married, but he said, \u2018I\u2019m not waiting!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Following their divorce, the Grammy winner would ultimately go on to welcome son Prince, 28, and daughter Paris, 27, with second wife Debbie Rowe, as well as son Bigi, 23, with a surrogate. He died in 2009 at age 50 following a propofol overdose.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Priscilla writes that she could \u201cpractically hear Elvis sigh with relief,\u201d when Lisa Marie filed for divorce. Bettmann Archive<\/p>\n Priscilla\u2019s upcoming memoir reportedly also contains new details of her daughter\u2019s death. Getty Images for Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach<\/p>\n Lisa Marie, meanwhile, welcomed daughter Riley, 36, and son Benjamin \u2014 who died from suicide<\/a> at age 27 in 2020 \u2014 with ex-husband Danny Keough. She divorced Danny in 1994 before her marriage to Jackson.<\/p>\n After a two-year marriage to Nicholas Cage, she married Michael Lockwood in 2006, with whom she shared twin daughters, Harper and Finley, 16. They finalized their divorce in 2021<\/a>, just two years ahead of her 2023 death<\/a> at age 54 after cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n Priscilla also reportedly shares new details of her daughter\u2019s death<\/a> and intimate memories of her romance with Robert Kardashian<\/a> in her upcoming memoir, which hits shelves Sept. 23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Marie Presley dishes on daughter Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s infamous marriage to Michael Jackson in her upcoming memoir.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,9477,1857,572,55384,172,171,85458,1018,975,9475,75799,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-243082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity-children","10":"tag-celebrity-families","11":"tag-celebrity-marriages","12":"tag-celebrity-memoirs","13":"tag-celebrity-news","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-lisa-marie-presley","16":"tag-michael-jackson","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-parents","19":"tag-priscilla-presley","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115240419111208926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}