LOS ANGELES – Singer Michael Jackson was a “virgin” at age 35, according to his former wife, Lisa Marie Presley, who died in 2023, in her posthumous memoirs.
In “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which came out Tuesday, Elvis Presley’s daughter shares intimate details of her relationship with Michael Jackson, whom she says was “still a virgin” at age 35 when they started dating. and that she felt “terrified” by it.
After meeting for the first time when they were young, Presley and Jackson began a romantic relationship in 1994, according to excerpts from the memoir published by People magazine.
Before they officially started dating, Presley was still married to her first husband, Danny Keough, but they split after Jackson confessed his love for her during a trip they 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 I want you to be the mother of my children,'” Presley wrote.
“I didn’t say anything right away, but I did say afterwards: ‘I’m so flattered, I can’t even talk.’ By then, I felt like I was in love with him, too,” she notes in the book.
When they began their relationship, “she told me she was still a virgin,” Presley wrote in the book. “I think he had kissed (actress) Tatum O’Neal and had had a relationship with (actress) Brooke Shields, which had not been physical, other than a kiss. He said Madonna had also tried to sleep with him once.” , but nothing happened. I was terrified because I didn’t want to make a wrong move,” she says in the memoir, according to People.
The couple married in May 1994 when Jackson was 35 and Presley was 25, just weeks after her divorce from Keough. They were married for over two years before confirming their divorce in August 1996.
Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest at age 50 in 2009. Lisa Marie Presley died in January 2023, at age 54, of a small intestine obstruction, a long-term complication of bariatric surgery she underwent for several years. before, remember the magazine.
After her death, Presley’s daughter, actress Riley Keough, completed the memoir by listening to tapes of memories left by her mother.
