The late Lisa Marie Presley has revealed shocking details about her marriage to Michael Jackson. Her posthumous memoir From Here To The Great Unknown, completed by her daughter Riley Keough using recordings made before Lisa Marie’s death in January 2023, claims that Jackson confessed to Lisa Marie that he was “still a virgin” when they began dating.
At the time, Jackson was 35 and Lisa Marie was 25, as reported by Daily Mail. The couple wed in May 1994, just months after they started dating. Lisa Marie recounts how Jackson professed his love for her while she was still married to her first husband, Danny Keough.
The couple married in May 1994 but split shortly after Jackson expressed his feelings for Lisa Marie during a trip 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,”‘ Lisa Marie wrote.
“I didn’t say anything immediately, but then I said, ‘I’m really flattered, I can’t even talk,”‘ she continued. “By then, I felt I was in love with him too.”
Lisa Marie said that Jackson surprised her early in their relationship by claiming he was “still a virgin.”
She also noted that Jackson shared details about his past romantic history, indicating that none of his previous relationships were significant.
“I think he had kissed Tatum O’Neal, and he’d 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,” she recounted.
“I was terrified because I didn’t want to make the wrong move,” Lisa Marie admitted in her memoir.
She revealed that just 20 days after divorcing Danny Keough, she married Jackson on May 26, 1994, following a friendship that began in 1992.
Their relationship dates back to 1974 when Lisa Marie attended one of Jackson’s concerts. Despite their initial affection, their marriage was tumultuous, particularly as Lisa Marie became embroiled in Jackson’s child sexual abuse scandal.
She supported Jackson but eventually urged him to settle lawsuits filed by families of his alleged victims, as detailed in J. Randy Taraborrelli’s biography of Jackson.
Jackson also started abusing drugs amidst the stresses of his child sexual abuse scandal. This created significant conflict between them, leading Lisa Marie to file for divorce in January 1996, citing irreconcilable differences.
Despite their separation, Lisa Marie admitted to attempting to reconcile with Jackson several times in the following years before parting ways permanently.
The couple did not have children together, but Lisa Marie had two children from her first marriage to Danny Keough: actress Riley Keough and son Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020 at age 27.
She married her third husband, Nicolas Cage, in 2002, but he filed for divorce after just over three months, with the split finalized in 2004.
Her final marriage was to Michael Lockwood from 2006 until their divorce in 2021.
The couple had fraternal twin daughters, Finley and Harper, born in 2008. Jackson’s life ended in controversy, dying on June 25, 2009, from cardiac arrest caused by extreme doses of sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs, including those used in surgical anesthesia.
In 2011, Jackson’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for his role in Jackson’s death and served two years of a four-year sentence. Lisa Marie herself passed away on January 12, 2023, after suffering cardiac arrest at home.
Though she was revived and taken to a hospital, she died later that day. While multiple opioids were found in her system, they were not considered a factor in her death.
Instead, it was attributed to a small bowel obstruction caused by bariatric surgery she had undergone years earlier.
