Lisa Marie Presley claimed that Michael Jackson was “still a virgin” when they started dating.
In Presley’s new memoir “From Here to the Great Unknown,” completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, following her death in January 2023, the late singer said that the King of Pop, who passed away in 2009, never had sex before they became a couple in 1994.
“He told me he was still a virgin,” Presley wrote in the book. “I think he had kissed Tatum O’Neal, and he’d had a thing with Brooke Shields, which hadn’t been physical apart from a kiss. He said Madonna had tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened.”
“I was terrified because I didn’t want to make the wrong move,” Presley added. “When 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’t do anything until we got married, but he said, ‘I’m not waiting!’”
Presley, then 26, and Jackson, then 35, got married in the Dominican Republic on May 26, 1994 — less than three weeks after Presley’s divorce to Danny Keough was finalized.
The pair first met in Las Vegas when they were kids, but they didn’t reconnect until the 1990s, when Jackson professed his love for Presley during a trip to Las Vegas while she was still married to Keough.
“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 for you to have my children,’” Presley wrote. “I didn’t say anything immediately, but then I said, ‘I’m really flattered, I can’t even talk.’ By then, I felt I was in love with him too.”
Looking back on their honeymoon to Disney World in Florida, Presley said, “I was actually so happy. I’ve never been that happy again.”
“There was an energy there, something about him that was truly remarkable, something that I’ve never ever seen or felt in my entire life, other than with my dad. … I fell in love with him because he was normal,” she also wrote.
The “Dirty Laundry” singer also addressed the allegations of child molestation against Jackson in her book. Jackson went to trial and was acquitted on four counts of molesting a minor in 2005.
“I never saw a goddamn thing like that. I personally would’ve killed him if I had,” she wrote.
Presley previously called marrying Jackson the “biggest mistake of her life” in an interview with Marie Claire magazine in 2007.
After splitting from Presley, Jackson was married for four years to Debbie Rowe, with whom he had two children, Paris Jackson and Prince Jackson. The late superstar also had a third child, Bigi Jackson.
The “Thriller” singer died by acute propofol intoxication in 2009. He was 50 years old.
After Jackson, Presley was married to Nicolas Cage and then to Michael Lockwood. She welcomed twin daughters Finley and Harper, 16, with Lockwood.
Presley was also mom to Riley, 35, and the late Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide at age 27 in 2020.
In January 2023, Presley unexpectedly passed away at 54 from a small bowel obstruction.
Her book is transcribed from tapes of her discussing her life.
“From Here to the Great Unknown” is out now.
