Priscilla Presley has opened up about her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley‘s relationship with Michael Jackson.
The 80-year-old wrote in her new guide Softly, As I Depart You: Life After Elvis that she was “appalled by the wedding”.
In response to The Solar, which revealed an excerpt of the brand new memoir, Priscilla wrote: “I knew in my bones that Michael wasn’t marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty.”
The couple had began seeing one another in 1994 and stunned everybody with a whirlwind marriage ceremony within the Dominican Republic, simply weeks after Lisa Marie had divorced from her first husband, Danny Keough.
Her and Jackson’s marriage lasted two quick years, finalising their divorce in August 1996.
Priscilla claims that Jackson was attempting to get “good publicity” amid claims of kid molestation on the time.
It was presently that Jackson reached out to Lisa Marie, based on Priscilla.
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“Michael was a manipulative man, and I feel he had his sights set on her lengthy earlier than she realised it,” she wrote. “The childlike innocence he projected was a part of his public masks.”
Priscilla additional claimed that the Beat It singer would keep away from assembly along with her, and when he did attend household occasions, he opted to play with the kids relatively than mingle with the adults.
She stated she begged her daughter to place off beginning a household with the pop icon.
Priscilla penned that when Lisa Marie filed for divorce from Jackson, she ”might virtually hear Elvis sigh with reduction.”
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Lisa Marie additionally spoke about her marriage in her personal posthumous memoir, From Right here to the Nice Unknown, written along with her daughter Riley Keough.
Jackson confessed to being in love along with her on a visit to Las Vegas in 1994, throughout which Lisa Marie was nonetheless married.
“Michael stated, ‘I do not know should you’ve seen, however I am fully in love with you. I would like us to get married and so that you can have my kids,” Lisa Marie wrote, as per Individuals.
“I did not say something instantly, however then I stated, ‘I am actually flattered, I can not even speak.’ By then, I felt I used to be in love with him too.”
Jackson died of cardiac arrest in 2009 at age 50, whereas his ex-wife died of a small bowel obstruction that was a complication of a bariatric surgical procedure finished years beforehand in January 2023, aged 54.
