Lisa Marie Presley has opened up about her two-year marriage to Michael Jackson, including the “big red flag” that contributed to their divorce, in her memoir.
From Here to the Great Unknown has been released posthumously following her death in January 2023 at the age of 54.
She and Jackson “just clicked” when they began meeting up regularly in 1993, however Presley says they were just friends at first.
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It was in 1994 that Jackson declared his love for her, during a trip to Las Vegas.
“Each night I’d go to his room, and we’d stay up all night, talking like you do when you’re first meeting somebody,” she wrote.
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“Michael had an energy and a presence, and that week he was fully allowing me into his world, into his mind.”
“Michael said, ‘I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m completely in love with you,” she wrote.
“By then, I felt I was in love with him too.”
At the time Presley was still married to Danny Keough, the father of their daughter, actress Riley Keough.
Following her divorce from Keough, Presley and Jackson wed when Jackson was 35.
He told her he was “still a virgin” but that “the physical stuff started happening.”
Riley recalls fights between her mother and Jackson over having children together. Jackson wanted to be a father but Presley was hesitant.
Riley recalls hearing them argue and Jackson saying: “Debbie Rowe told me she would have my children.”
Rowe and Jackson married in 1996 and had two children together, Prince and Paris.
Jackson later welcomed a third child named Bigi via surrogate.
Presley was mum to Riley and Benjamin Keough from her marriage to Danny Keough.
Benjamin died in 2020.
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Following her marriage to Jackson she married actor Nicholas Cage, however the couple didn’t have any children.
Presley welcomed two more children during her fourth marriage to Michael Lockwood – Harley and Finley.
Riley wrote that her mother recognised “behaviours” in Jackson that she saw in her father, Elvis.
Jackson telling Presley he had “his own anesthesiologist” was “a big red flag for her”, as she realised Jackson “needed somebody around who could legally administer the drugs.”
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Presley filed for divorce from Jackson after two years of marriage. She would later struggle with an opioid addiction.
Jackson died of cardiac arrest at the age of 50, caused by a lethal combination of sedatives and propofol, an anesthetic.
It was ruled a homicide and in 2011 Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
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