{"id":32192,"date":"2025-09-23T03:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/32192\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:34:08","slug":"priscilla-presley-was-appalled-by-lisa-maries-marriage-to-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/32192\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley was ‘appalled’ by Lisa Marie\u2019s marriage to Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Priscilla Presley<\/a> is sharing how she really felt about her daughter Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s marriage to Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n

In her new memoir, \u201cSoftly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis,\u201d Priscilla called Jackson a \u201cmanipulative man\u201d attempting to trade on her family\u2019s famous name.<\/p>\n

“I was appalled by the marriage,” she wrote, according to excerpts given to The Sun<\/a>. “I knew in my bones that Michael wasn\u2019t marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty.”<\/p>\n

She continued, “Michael was a manipulative man, and I think he had his sights set on her long before she realized it. The childlike innocence he projected was part of his public mask.”<\/p>\n

Priscilla claims Jackson needed \u201cgood publicity\u201d after he was accused of child molestation, which he had always denied. She says Lisa Marie believed his innocence.<\/p>\n

In her memoir, Priscilla said her relationship with Jackson was \u201cbizarre\u201d and claimed he avoided her at all costs, preferring to spend time with children rather than adults at family gatherings.<\/p>\n

According to her, Lisa Marie<\/a> said Jackson wanted a baby, but Priscilla urged her to wait.<\/p>\n

Priscilla said she also asked her daughter about having a physical relationship with Jackson.<\/p>\n

“I asked her if they had a physical relationship. Like so many people, I wasn\u2019t sure,” she wrote. “She said yeah.<\/p>\n

Lisa Marie and Jackson married in 1994 and later divorced in 1996.<\/p>\n

When Lisa Marie filed for the divorce, Priscilla said, \u201cI could practically hear Elvis sigh with relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cSoftly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis\u201d is available Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley is sharing how she really felt about her daughter Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s marriage to Michael Jackson.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,10946,146,85,46,1798,27188,3192,14218,24905,1796,363],"class_list":["post-32192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-divorce","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lisa-marie-presley","tag-manipulative","tag-marriage","tag-memoir","tag-michael-jackson","tag-priscilla-presley","tag-publicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192","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=32192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}