Par Louise Ginies
Published yesterday at 8:31 p.m., Updated yesterday at 9:19 p.m.
Lisa Marie Presley et Michael Jackson.
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In her posthumous memoir published on October 8, 2024, Lisa Marie Presley shared intimate details of her relationship with the King of Pop. They married in 1994 before separating shortly after in 1996.
Nearly two years after her death at just 54, Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir, titled From Here to the Great Unknownwere published this Tuesday, October 8. Her father’s fame, addiction to opioids after her pregnancy, death of her son… Elvis Presley’s only daughter addresses many subjects, including her brief but intense marriage to Michael Jackson.
While she was still just a child, Lisa Marie Presley was one of the most loyal admirers of the singer, 10 years her senior. But it was not until much later that Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson began to become friends, initially in 1992, then dating a few months later. The young woman was then married to her first husband and father of her eldest daughter, Danny Keough. A first marriage which shatters when the King of Pop declares his love for the young woman during a trip to Las Vegas.
Also read: A look back at the very controversial marriage of Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson in 1994
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“Michael said to me, ‘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 bear my children,’” she wrote in her memoir. “I didn’t say anything immediately (…). But at that moment, I felt like I was in love with him too. »
“I didn’t want to do anything wrong”
The very beginning of a whirlwind marriage. In May 1994, Lisa Marie Presley, 25, and Michael Jackson, 35, said yes during a discreet ceremony in the Dominican Republic. “I was really, really happy. I have never been happier since,” she says of the start of her marriage. They nevertheless divorced two years later in August 1996.
But at the start of their relationship, the young woman had to face an announcement that she did not expect. “He told me he was still a virgin,” she remembers. I believe he kissed Talum O’Neal and had a relationship with Brooke Shields, which wasn’t physical other than a kiss. He said Madonna tried to hit on him once too, but nothing happened.
But with her, the king of pop does not seem to have asked any questions. “I was terrified because I didn’t want to do anything wrong. When he decided to kiss me for the first time, he started it all. I had thought we wouldn’t do anything until we got married, but he said, ‘I’m not waiting,'” she continued.
