Lisa Marie Presleythe only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley died in January 2023, at the age of 54, from complications “complications linked to obstruction of the small intestine”. Sad consequence of bariatric surgery that she had undergone years earlier to lose weight, as was clarified six months later. And almost two years after her death, her memoirs, on which she had been working for months, have just been published. It was his daughter, Riley Keough, who took over and completed the writing of this book entitled From Here to the Great Unknown.
Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson, from friendship to love
In this autograph, Lisa Marie returns in particular to her relationship with Michael Jackson. We may not remember it, but these two were married from 1994 to 1996. They actually knew each other for several years, before their friendly relationship took a romantic turn. It was at the end of 1993, during a getaway to Las Vegas that the singer confessed his love to her… while she was still married to her first husband, Danny Keough (the father of her daughter Riley and her son Benjamin, died in 2020).
In her memoir, Lisa Marie remembers Michael telling her: “I don’t know if you noticed, but I am completely in love with you. I want us to get married and for you to have my children.”she writes. An admission that left her speechless. “I didn’t say anything immediately, but then I said, ‘I’m really flattered, I can’t even talk.’ At that moment, I felt that I too was in love with him.” In the process, Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough separated by mutual agreement.
Michael Jackson, still a virgin at 35
But Lisa Marie, 26, got another shock when the King of Pop “told me he was still virgin“. He was then 35 years old. “I think he kissed Tatum O’Neal, and he had an affair with Brooke Shields, but there was nothing physical other than a kiss. He said Madonna tried too to go out with him, but nothing happened I was terrified because I didn’t want to do anything wrong. When he decided to kiss me for the first time, he just did it. was the instigator of everything. Physical things started happening, which shocked me. I had thought we wouldn’t do anything until we got married, but he said, ‘I won’t wait. !relate-t-elle.
Small digression: as Tatum O’Neal assured, her relationship with the singer in the 70s (who was five years older than her) was never anything other than platonic. Brooke Shields assured that she and Michael were just friends, that they had never dated. But he would have liked them to adopt a child together! As for Madonna… If the rumor of a relationship between the two pop stars was alive (they went hand in hand to the Oscars in 1991), the singer admitted that they had kissed only once, on her own initiative.
Not even two years of marriage…
Anyway, back to Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson. Her divorce with Danny Keough was pronounced on May 6, 1994, and as they had no time to lose, she and Michael said yes… twenty days later in the Dominican Republic, during a ceremony that only lasted 15 minutes. And they waited almost three months to announce it to the whole earth.
“My married name is Mrs. Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson. My marriage to Michael Jackson took place in a private ceremony outside the United States a [11] weeksthe young woman then explained in a press release. It hasn’t been officially announced until now for several reasons, the biggest being that we are both very private people living under the media gaze. We both wanted a private wedding ceremony without the media circus. I am very much in love with Michael, I dedicate my life to being his wife. I understand and support it. We both look forward to starting a family and living a happy, healthy life together. We hope our friends and fans will understand and respect our privacy.”
Post-Michael by Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie appeared alongside her husband in the music video for his song You Are Not Alone released in August 1995 (and where they almost got naked…). But their union will not last, and they will not have children. By the end of that year, Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson separated. Their divorce for “irreconcilable differences” was recorded in August 1996. Three months later, the interpreter of Thriller married Debbie Rowe. In 2010, Lisa Marie told Oprah Winfrey that she and Michael had continued to see each other discreetly for four years, an “on/off” relationship… In her posthumous memoirs, she admits, when she was in a relationship with Michael Jackson, “I was really very happy. I have never been so happy again”. Subsequently, she remarried twice, first to Nicolas Cage (2002-2004) and then to Michael Lockwood (2006-2016).
