How old was Lisa Marie Presley when she started dating Michael Jackson? Singer's memoir claims the King Of Pop was still "a virgin" when they met

Lisa Marie Presley Performs At Bush Hall In London - Source: Getty
Lisa Marie Presley's memoir was her last project before she passed away in January 2023. (Image via Gus Stewart/Redferns via Getty Images

Famous singer Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, wrote her memoir, From Here To The Great Unknown, where she penned down the details of her relationship with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. According to an article published in People Magazine on October 8, the memoir, which was released on the same day, stated that the two met when they were very young.

Additionally, the memoir mentioned that she met Jackson when she was just six years old, they later began dating in 1994. Jackson was 35 years old, and Lisa Marie Presley was 25 at the time. Moreover, according to the memoir, Jackson was allegedly still a virgin at the time.

Addressing the same, she wrote:

"He told me he was still a virgin. 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."

Lisa Marie Presley opened up about her relationships, private life, and addiction in her recent memoir

Lisa was married to Jackson for two years. (Image via Gus Stewart/Redferns via Getty Images)
Lisa was married to Jackson for two years. (Image via Gus Stewart/Redferns via Getty Images)

Lisa Marie Presley's memoir was her last project before she passed away in January 2023. Riley Keough, her daughter from her first marriage and the star of Daisy Jones & The Six, later finished it by listening to the tapes that Lisa had left behind.

In one section of the memoir, Lisa Marie discussed her relationship with Michael Jackson. She also wrote about her early years spent in Graceland, her struggle with opiate addiction, the death of her son Benjamin from her first marriage, and other things.

As per the same article by People Magazine, talking about Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley wrote:

"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.' 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."

Lisa wrote in the book that Michael Jackson told her that he was still a virgin. She then admitted that he had shared a kiss with Tatum O'Neal and had a romantic relationship with Brooke Shields that was not physical.

The singer added that Jackson then told her that Madonna had attempted to hook up with him previously, but nothing happened between the two. Lisa Marie Presley wrote:

"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!'"

Apart from her relationship with the King of Pop, she also opened up about her opioid addiction and wrote:

"It escalated to 80 pills a day. It took more and more to get high, and I honestly don't know when your body decides it can't deal with it anymore. But it does decide at some point."

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on October 8, Riley Keough, Lisa Presley's daughter, described how her mother was unable to envision a life without Jackson.

Riley also remembered how Lisa preserved the body of Benjamin, her son from her previous marriage, for two months using dry ice and later hired a tattoo artist to create a tattoo for herself to help her grieve.


Lisa Marie Presley was already married to Danny Keough when she was in a relationship with Jackson. Only a few weeks after her divorce in May 1994, she and Jackson got married. The couple stayed together for over two years but eventually ended their marriage in August 1996.

Jackson passed away from cardiac arrest in 2009 at the age of 50. On the other hand, Lisa Marie Presley passed away in January 2023 at the age of 54 from small bowel obstruction complications.

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