{"id":30380,"date":"2025-09-22T04:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/30380\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:51:13","slug":"priscilla-presley-blasts-lisa-maries-marriage-to-manipulative-michael-jackson-i-was-appalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/30380\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley blasts Lisa Marie\u2019s marriage to \u2018manipulative\u2019 Michael Jackson: \u2018I was appalled\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Priscilla Presley didn\u2019t approve of her daughter Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s relationship with Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was appalled by the marriage,\u201d Priscilla, 80, writes in her upcoming memoir,\u00a0\u201cSoftly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0according to an excerpt published by The Sun<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked her if they had a physical relationship,\u201d Priscilla adds. \u201cLike so many people, I wasn\u2019t sure. She said \u2018yeah.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Priscilla<\/p>\n

Priscilla Presley speaks during \u201cAn Evening with Priscilla Presley\u201d in Las Vegas in Nov. 2024. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\"Lisa<\/p>\n

Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson in 1995.<\/p>\n

Priscilla and Elvis Presley\u2019s daughter married the King of Pop in 1994, but they got divorced two years later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew in my bones that Michael wasn\u2019t marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty,\u201d Priscilla writes. \u201cMichael was a manipulative man, and I think he had his sights set on her long before she realized it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lisa<\/p>\n

Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson arrive at Budapest Airport in 1994. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThe childlike innocence he projected was part of his public mask,\u201d she claims of the \u201cThriller\u201d singer.<\/p>\n

Priscilla adds that she \u201ccould practically hear Elvis sigh with relief\u201d after Lisa Marie and Jackson\u2019s marriage ended.<\/p>\n

\"Priscilla<\/p>\n

Priscilla Presley attends the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala in New York City. Getty Images for Songwriters Hall Of Fame<\/p>\n

\"Priscilla<\/p>\n

Priscilla Presley\u2019s new memoir. Grand Central Publishing<\/p>\n

Jackson went on to get married to his second wife, Debbie Rowe, and they had two children together: son Prince, 28, and daughter Paris, 27.<\/a> The \u201cBillie Jean\u201d singer welcomed a third child, son Bigi, 23, with a surrogate.<\/p>\n

In 2009, Jackson died by acute propofol intoxication at age 50.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley at the 11th Annual MTV Video Music Awards at New York\u2019s Radio City Music Hall in Sept. 1994. AP<\/p>\n

Lisa Marie, for her part, was married to Danny Keough before her marriage to Jackson. The exes welcomed daughter Riley, 36, and son Benjamin, who died by suicide in 2020 at age 27.<\/a><\/p>\n

After divorcing Jackson, Lisa Marie was married to Nicolas Cage for two years and then to Michael Lockwood, with whom she welcomed twin daughters Harper and Finley, 16. Lisa Marie and Lockwood, 64, got divorced in 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa Marie died in Jan. 2023 at age 54 of cardiac arrest caused by\u00a0a small bowel obstruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Lisa<\/p>\n

Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson in Versailles, France in 1994. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In Lisa Marie\u2019s memoir that was released posthumously<\/a>, she reflected on the origins of her romance with Jackson.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael said,\u2019 I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed, but I\u2019m completely in love with you. I want us to get married and for you to have my children,\u2019\u201d Lisa Marie wrote. \u201cI didn\u2019t say anything immediately, but then I said, \u2018I\u2019m really flattered, I can\u2019t even talk.\u2019 By then, I felt I was in love with him too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael Jackson kisses Lisa Marie Presley at the 1994 MTV Music Awards. AP<\/p>\n

Lisa Marie also claimed that the Grammy Award winner was a virgin<\/a> before they dated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was terrified because I didn\u2019t want to make the wrong move,\u201d she said in her book. \u201cWhen he decided to first kiss me, he just did it. He was instigating everything. The physical stuff started happening, which I was shocked at. I had thought that maybe we wouldn\u2019t do anything until we got married, but he said, \u2018I\u2019m not waiting!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. Sygma via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Priscilla\u2019s memoir, which comes out Sept. 23, also includes new details about Lisa Marie\u2019s tragic death<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley didn\u2019t approve of her daughter Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s relationship with Michael Jackson. \u201cI was appalled by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,1551,146,1077,85,46,1798,24905,26002,1796],"class_list":["post-30380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-elvis-presley","tag-entertainment","tag-getty-images","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lisa-marie-presley","tag-michael-jackson","tag-michael-lockwood","tag-priscilla-presley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}