Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley Marriage

Separated from her husband, Danny Keough, whom she'd married in 1988, Lisa Marie was in Las Vegas during the taping of the Jackson Family Honors. With her, she'd brought her children, Danielle Riley, born in 1989, and Benjamin, born in 1992

She got a call from Michael inviting her for a date on February 2, 1994 at the Sheraton Desert Inn where The Temptations were performing. Normally, Michael would have slipped into the concert after the lights had been darkened. But he wanted to parade one of America's most famous daughters through the front door with the regular customers. Lisa Marie looked stunning in a low-cut black gown.

During the performance, they were seen holding hands in a section called "King's Row," appropriate seats for the King of Pop and the daughter of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Many observers referred to it as "the romance that never was," but at least the Jackson/Presley alliance had more of a reality bite than Michael's earlier "love affair" with Princess Di.

The outspoken La Toya, when she heard about the date, denounced it as a sham, claiming that Michael was "just kidding the public. It's an obvious public relations exercise aimed at portraying Michael in a more manly, heterosexual light. But girls are not part of Michael's life. He's not interested in them."

Back in California, Michael entertained Lisa Marie and her children at Neverland. He later told the press, "One of the things that most attracted me to Lisa is that she gets along swell with the animals in my own zoo."

Reportedly, staff members at Neverland were surprised at Michael's interest in Lisa Marie. "In all the months I've worked here," said one member of the staff, "I always saw him with young boys-never a gal, particularly one who looked hot-to-trot like that Presley gal."

Regardless of what he might have thought personally, the very hip Donald Trump invited the couple to visit his luxurious estate, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach. He later told the press, "They looked like any other lovey-dovey couple to me."

J. Randy Taraborrelli, in his The Magic & the Madness, reported that the first time Michael made love to Lisa Marie was at Mar-a-Lago. Taraborrelli quotes an unnamed source, identified only as "another one of Lisa's confidantes": She [Lisa] said it was intense, it took her breath away. I have no idea what they were doing, or what he was doing to her but since she gravitates to the unconventional, she was out of her mind over this guy. Maybe its hard for some to believe, but true, just the same

The unnamed source was right on at least one point-"it's hard for some to believe."

Taraborrelli later wrote that Lisa Marie's "sexual chemistry" was so intense with Michael that she "wasn't about to give it up."

The author, who would later write a biography of Elizabeth Taylor, found himself standing virtually alone in the world with that point of view. Years previously, close to Lake Tahoe, a seven-year-old Lisa Marie Presley had first laid eyes on Michael Jackson during one of his performances with The Jackson 5.

She came back into Michael's life through the intervention of a mutual friend, an artist from Australia, Brett Livingston-Stone, who had painted a portrait of Michael that had sold for $2 million.

Strong called Michael to ask him if he'd listen to a tape of Lisa Marie singing, hoping that he might produce an album for her. "Send it over," Michael said. Lisa Marie did better than that. With her tape in hand, she showed up in person to see Michael.

Accompanying her was her husband, Danny Keough. After listening to the tape, Michael told Lisa Marie that she had "promise." During her meeting with Michael, the star is alleged to have told both Lisa Marie and her husband, "Listen, I'm not gay! Don't let these false eyelashes and red lipstick fool you."

Lisa Marie later admitted that she was impressed that "Michael could curse just as good as the rest of us cotton pickers."

It has been alleged that Michael shared with her some indiscreet gossip he'd picked up when attending President Clinton's inaugural in Washington. They both acknowledged that the new president was a rabid Elvis fan. Clinton, or so it was rumored, once told some cronies that one of his greatest dreams in life "was to fuck Elvis's daughter."

"A lot of people have that fantasy," Lisa Marie was alleged to have said. "Let them dream on," Danny interjected.

When Lisa Marie later confessed to Michael that her marriage to Danny was falling apart, Michael actively pursued her with flowers and presents.

Privately she told friends that "even though Michael is a little bit cute, he's very immature compared to Danny. I still love Danny. I will always love Danny even though we might divorce."

Divorce Danny she did, rushing into a secret marriage to Michael Jackson. Far from the paparazzi and the ravenous tabloids, the wedding took place on May 26, 1994 in La Vega, an obscure village in the Dominican Republic.

Two months would go by before the world learned of this bizarre marriage. None of the Jacksons had been invited. Lisa Marie's divorce papers had arrived only on May 6. Seemingly she was rushing impulsively from one marriage into another. Before flying to the Dominican Republic, Michael and Lisa Marie signed a prenuptial agreement. Civil Judge Hugo Francisco Alvarez conducted the wedding in Spanish but with an interpreter.

Michael tried to use more flaming red lipstick than his bride, or so it was reported. His face was partially hidden under a wide-brimmed black hat, the type worn at ferias in Seville. His ponytail was slicked back, and his cowboy belt would have made John Wayne proud. Lisa Marie also wore a black hat evocative of a flamenco dancer

"Michael looked like a little boy lost," said Judge Alvarez. "He stared at the floor throughout the ceremony." Alvarez called the ceremony "surprisingly without any passion. When I asked him if he'd take Lisa Marie for his lawfully wedded wife, he turned to me and said, 'Why not?'

When I pronounced him and Lisa Marie man and wife, he was reluctant to kiss her. She had to pull his face to hers to kiss him on the lips. There were no tears of happiness-no joy, no laughter. I felt I was presiding over a funeral-not a wedding." The only enthusiasm Michael showed was for the judge's tie which depicted Fred Flintstone. "It's a great tie," Michael told him. "I love Fred Flintstone." "Although he complimented my tie, I never heard him say he loved Lisa Marie," the judge claimed.

Judge Alvarez was "loose-lipped" and informed a Dominican newspaper about details associated with the wedding. However, his observations were dismissed by the press at the time as "some of the most ridiculous rumors ever spread about Michael Jackson."

For their honeymoon, the couple retired to Casa de Campo in the south, a resort built by the now-defunct Gulf + Western. On their honeymoon night, Michael stayed in a villa on the grounds of the resort, with Lisa Marie occupying a less opulent lodging, known locally as a casita, some five miles away

OP believe this was a real marriage with bona fide "man going up into the woman sex."

If any man was going up into Mrs. Jackson, it certainly wasn't Mr. Jackson.

Mr. Jackson was too busy going " in-and-out" of the Neverland Clientele.

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"The Jackson Family Honors"--honors WHAT exactly?

During the course of his wedding night, away from any potential interference from his bride, according to the staff, he placed a call to Elizabeth Taylor, informing her of the marriage.

For reasons known only to herself, Elizabeth was said to have broken into tears. Sobbing, she is alleged to have said, "Michael, how could you? Her, of all people. She'll ruin your life!"

When confronted by a reporter two days later in Los Angeles, Elizabeth snapped, "That's the most ridiculous rumor I've ever heard. Michael Jackson is a sane and reasonable man. Marrying Lisa Marie Presley would be an insane act. He is not crazy!"

After their "wedding night," Lisa Marie and her new groom were seen leaving the Punta Aguila airport (which was renamed in 2000 as La Romana International Airport) in a private jet. Their flight plan listed their final destination as Los Angeles.

But instead of California, they landed in Orlando where Michael, in a Fu Manchu disguise, was seen escorting his new bride around Disney World.

After that, they flew to New York where Donald Trump housed them in a luxurious twelve-room complex on the 65th floor of the Trump Tower. The apartment normally rented for $125,000 a month, but its occupancy was presented as a gift to the newly married Jacksons. Obviously, Trump knew about the secret marriage, but wasn't talking. "I know how to keep a secret," he later said.

At the Trump Tower, photographer Dick Zimmerman snapped pictures of the newlyweds. In his review of the body language of the two subjects, writer Nick Bishop said:

"In the photos, Michael and Lisa Marie are draped all over each other, but Michael's eyes are always focused on the camera. He plays exclusively for the lens. He touches Lisa Marie when they're draped all over each other, but he does it lightly and tentatively. She, on the other hand, is obviously into it. She touches Michael with real enthusiasm. She throws herself toward him. He merely leans into her, holding back, watching the camera."

During their honeymoon in Budapest, Michael was working on shooting a video for his new album, HiStory. On many a night, Lisa Marie was said to have eaten Hungarian goulash on her own.

When asked months later to comment on her marriage, Lisa Marie ducked the question. "Elvis liked to wear uniforms, so does Michael. Elvis loved amusement parks. My Daddy used to rent out Memphis's Liberty Land. Michael has his own amusement park."

Back in Los Angeles, Lisa Marie began married life by going to her own plastic surgeon. Press reports claimed that her "breasts looked perkier" when she recovered.

She may also have had her thighs trimmed. Earlier she'd complained that child birth had caused her breasts to sag. As for her thighs, she told friends that they "looked like two blobs of Jell-O that Elvis was so fond of eating." She may also have had some acne scars removed.

In the aftermath of the wedding, Elizabeth Taylor invited Lisa Marie and Michael to her lush home in Bel Air. While strolling with Lisa Marie through her luxuriant gardens, Elizabeth reportedly advised her "to go for the diamonds. I never turned down emeralds either."

When Lisa Marie told her she didn't like expensive jewelry, the world-class gem collector informed her, "Then put the gems in your safe for your old age. "'

She also gave Lisa Marie a fashion tip. "Always find out what outfit Michael is wearing when he takes you out. Top him! Dress even more glamorously than he does."

Lisa Marie later reported Elizabeth's comments to Michael. "How retro this woman is. She belongs back in my daddy's heyday."

On August 1, 1994, Lisa Marie herself, through a press agent, announced that she had become "Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson." She promised to "dedicate my life to being the wife of Michael Jackson. We both look forward to raising a family and living a happy, healthy life together."

In her statement, she claimed that she was very much in love with Michael. She said that news of their marriage was kept a secret to avoid turning the "happy occasion into a media circus."

"People wouldn't think I was so crazy marrying Michael if they saw who the hell he really is," she said. "That he drinks and curses and is funny and doesn't have that high voice all the time. I once had this romantic idea that I could save him and we could save the world. But then I realized Michael was constantly at work, calculating, manipulating. He scared me like that."

From New York, Lisa Marie called her mother, Priscilla, in Los Angeles to tell her she'd married Michael. "Yup, I did it!" Lisa Marie said. Her mother's screams could be heard all the way from Los Angeles to the Trump Tower in New York. "Are you crazy?"

It cannot be confirmed, but Priscilla was said to have called Michael a "black fagg*t." She was also alleged to have said, "Elvis will rise from his grave. In a life of making stupid decisions, you win the prize for this one. I can't believe you've made me the mother-in-law of Michael Jackson. Weirdo. Wacko Jacko. Just don't have any kids with him, not that I have to worry about that!"

When Lisa Marie slammed down the phone on Priscilla, she told her new husband, "I gave her the finger in marrying you."

Priscilla was distraught at the news. "Picture this, the former wife of Elvis Presley, and now today the mother-in-law of Michael Jackson. What a Thriller!"

In the days and weeks to come, Michael and Lisa Marie would make even more headlines, including one within a tabloid that proclaimed: THE CENTURY'S ODD COUPLE MARRIAGE!

After charges of child molestation were leveled against Michael, and in the wake of his marriage to Lisa Marie, John Evans, a reporter, wrote:

"Priscilla Presley should know all about child molestation from her own life. After all, she was only fourteen when Elvis became smitten with her when he was stationed in Germany. She should identify with her new son-in-law. She is reported to have regular chemical peels to get rid of wrinkles and unwanted brown spots. Maybe she can give Michael tips about how to get rid of that alleged brown spot on his dick."

The media responded in a frenzy of headlines, The London Times calling the secret wedding, "A Marriage from Mars!" TV talk show host David Letterman evoked riotous laughter when he told his audience, "If he comes home with lipstick on his collar, you can be pretty sure it's his

The astrologer for The New York Daily News told her readers that "according to the stars, the marriage has not been consummated." Bulletins were flashed around the world: The King of Pop had taken as his bride the daughter of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. "It wasn't really an interracial marriage," said a TV commentator (in Spanish) in Santo Domingo. "By now, all of us know that Michael Jackson is white."

One journalist went even further. "It could happen only in America. Michael Jackson was born a black boy. Now he's become a white woman. Does that make Lisa Marie a lesbian for marrying him?

Bob Jones, Michael's publicist, alleged that, "the poor girl seemed genuinely smitten with Michael before she realized that she had been the victim of a heartless scam."

He alleged that Michael's real intent in marrying Lisa Marie involved not only adding a "testosterone boost" to his soiled image, but a desire to gain control of the Elvis Presley songbook, evocative of the way he had secured copyrights to The Beatles' songs. Michael, of course, would never own the complete Presley catalogue.

However, unknown to many of Elvis's fans, Michael did own several of the Presley songs as part of his Sony/ATV Music Publishing Company. Jones faced a public relations nightmare.

Even though the press was not fully aware of all of Michael's activities, as they became in the years ahead, reporters knew enough to realize that this bizarre wedding smacked of a publicity stunt. Jones, fending off the vultures, said privately that he knew that Michael "had no desire for a woman-not the natural desires that straight men have."

As the press inquired deeper into how the pop star came to marry Lisa Marie, Michael said, "We were in my living room at Neverland having a glass of wine after we'd watched that old film All About Eve, with Bette Davis. We both love that movie. I just walked over to her, reached into my pocket, and pulled out a knock-you-dead diamond ring. 'You wanna?' I asked her. Other than that, I never popped the question or got down on my knees."

When Michael was asked about the interracial aspects of his marriage to Lisa Marie, he said, "Somehow it seems appropriate. When Elvis was first heard on radio, listeners initially thought he was black."

The marriage was greeted with cynicism in the press, some commentators even suggesting that it was a business move to unite the music houses of Graceland and Neverland. A lavender marriage was suggested: That is, a marriage of convenience wherein one or both of the parties is trying to conceal the fact that one or both of them is gay.

Journalist Nick Bishop claimed that Michael entered into a marriage to Lisa Marie to combat charges of homosexuality with young boys. "Because Michael Jackson settled with the Chandlers, the perception of him on the street among many people is that he is a compulsive pedophile, a sexual addict in a way that most people find repellent. People these days often turn up their noses at the mention of his name. He is reviled by many and seen as decadent and deeply troubled. He didn't take his own marriage seriously and neither did anyone else with an IQ in the double digits. This move was clearly the old wedding bells as the ultimate sexual bearding trick, and of course it didn't work."

A PR agent privately said, "Michael Jackson married Elvis's daughter just to publicize his greatest hits album." He was referring to HiStory. "He needs all the help he can get with that album. I think most of his fans will desert him."

Jack Gordon, La Toya's husband, said that Michael had promised Lisa Marie a music career as a condition of her marrying him. He would never deliver on that promise. Gordon had other comments to make. "It's one thing to get married, but to Elvis's daughter was totally absurd. Something went wrong in that marriage, and Lisa Marie will soon be telling all. Michael will be destroyed."

Maids reported that Michael often left out expensive lingerie in his bedroom to make it appear that he was sleeping with Lisa Marie. It was also alleged that he'd bugged her bedroom and monitored her phone calls, the way his role model, Howard Hughes, used to do with Ava Gardner.

An army of other sources-named or unnamed-could probably be summoned to claim that Michael never had sex with Lisa Marie during their entire marriage. The obvious conclusion is that no one really knows for sure except Lisa Marie and Michael. But whatever evidence there is suggests that even though Lisa Marie may have been infatuated with Michael, sexual play wasn't part of the equation.

Unlike most of his extended family, whom he could control financially, Michael could not dominate Lisa Marie by tightening the purse strings.

In time, she would have far more money than he did. To make himself appear wealthier in front of his new bride, Michael had his publicists exaggerate the terms of his contracts. For example, one-million dollars on paper became fifteen or twenty million dollars when reported in the press

If reports are to be believed, Michael might not have wanted Lisa Marie, but he wanted to adopt her children, Danielle Riley and Benjamin. It is alleged that he offered their father, Danny Keough, $1 million if he'd allow Michael to adopt the children, but the offer was rejected

Michael resented Lisa Marie driving over to Encino without him to introduce herself to her in-laws at the Jackson compound. Lisa Marie became friends with Rebbie, the older sister, and also bonded with Janet.

Michael told his staff that he didn't want Lisa Marie associating with her in-laws. She and Michael couldn't agree on much, including food. Like her father, Lisa Marie preferred such soul food as collard greens in bacon fat, corn bread, Southern fried chicken, and sweet potato pie.

Apparently, Michael preferred not to be reminded of his own humble origins, preferring a plate of steamed fresh organic vegetables from his own gardens at the ranch.

In one of their talks, according to a friend of Lisa Marie, Michael told her that "the ghost of Elvis haunts me. He's a white person with a black person's voice. I want to make films like he did-only good films, not bad films like he did. But I won't play Vegas. I'm offered millions but I won't perform in his old stamping ground. I'm bigger than Elvis. That's why I can't perform in Vegas."

On another occasion, he told his wife, "Nobody in the music business understands me because I'm a genius. At least thousands of my fans understand that. But the people who control the industry don't give me my due because I'm black. So I decided to become white to get my due."

Their first official appearance as man and wife came on September 8, 1994 at New York's Radio City Music Hall on the occasion of the 11th Annual MTV Video Music Awards. Before the world, Michael said, "Just think, nobody thought this would last." Then he grabbed Lisa Marie and gave her a lingering kiss in front of 250 million viewers on television. The next morning, one headline proclaimed: LIPLOCK PROVES MICHAEL JACKSON STRAIGHT SHOOTER

Lisa Marie had her own reaction. Before the applause died down, she walked off the stage and was seen wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. She later said, "I thought the kiss was stupid. I hated it. I felt used. All of a sudden, I've become part of a public relations campaign for Michael. What am I? Just some prop?"

From all reports, she felt that she'd been "callously used" to help her husband's seriously damaged public image. Her belief that she was being used for promotional purposes was soon reinforced. "It would be 'come and meet me here,' and when I turned up there would be photographers everywhere."

Soon after, Michael asked Lisa Marie to join him in a video, entitled "You Are Not Alone" in which it would appear that Michael was genuinely attracted to women

Within it appeared a provocative semi-nude scene of the two of them within a pink-and-lavender landscape inspired by the 1920s illustrator Maxfield Parrish. There have been many published reports that Michael showed his genitals in this video and that, prior to its release, a computer process blurred his privates.

That report was probably untrue. "There's no way that Michael's going to show his dick," said an employee of MTV who saw the original video. "He's spent a few million trying to get those nude pictures of himself returned from the Santa Barbara DA's safe to Neverland. He's never going to show the full monty to the world. Who do you think he is? Richard Gere?"

Security guards at Neverland reported that whenever Lisa Marie came to visit, she always left the property before midnight to drive her children back to their own $4 million home in Hidden Hills.

Even after the passage of many weeks, reporters continued to speculate about the state of the marriage. One particularly outrageous rumor making the rounds asserted that Michael wanted a child with Lisa Marie, and that he had a candidate in mind as the secret father.

That candidate was Michael's long-time friend and traveling companion, Frank Cascio. Michael, according to the rumors, was committed to witnessing the moment of conception wherein Frank, without a condom, would penetrate Lisa Marie.

Neither Lisa nor Michael ever commented on this outrageous rumor.

According to the staff member, Michael was "filled with anxiety and tension whenever Lisa Marie came to visit. He was particularly irritable on those days, and obviously didn't welcome her presence, especially when he was keeping boys in his room, which he continued to do even after the Jordie Chandler fiasco."

Occasionally they would talk, usually in the presence of others, as it seemed that Michael sometimes didn't want to be alone with his new wife. He warned her that if she attempted a musical career, she would inevitably be compared to her father, perhaps unfavorably.

"I think that there is that huge mountain to climb," she told him. "Oh, people always think about him when they think about me. There will always be some of that, and I must embrace it and understand it. I have to find a good balance between my own identity and the role of always being the daughter of Elvis Presley."

In one bizarre story that may have only the slimmest basis in truth, Michael was said to have promised Lisa Marie that he'd build a replica of Graceland in the greater Santa Barbara area. But then the pop star changed his mind. He came up with the idea of moving into the actual Graceland. To do that, however, he would have to get the approval of his mother-in-law, Priscilla, who runs the board that controls Graceland. "She would never have gone for that," reported a publicist.

When the married couple traveled to Memphis for a Pay-Per-View tribute concert to Elvis on October 8, 1994, they stayed at the Adam's Mark Hotel, but in separate suites. Michael even refused to visit Graceland, where he once said he wanted to live. When Priscilla asked him to perform as part of the evening's entertainment, reports say that he refused, declaring, "I'm not appearing on a bill with other singers, especially one called Dwight Yoakam."

Priscilla later told friends in Memphis, "Lisa Marie is married to a jerk." Within Michael's presence, Lisa Marie once spoke candidly about her role as one of the most famous offspring in music history.

"I could capitalize off Elvis in a zillion cheesy ways. Just look at Natalie Cole for example. She raised daddy from the grave for a hit song. I might not be the greatest of singers, certainly no female Elvis, but I plan to bring a sense of my own identity to my music. I'm not going to go through life singing 'Hound Dog' to a bunch of drunks at a night club in Memphis."

Michael and Lisa Marie agreed to a joint appearance on ABC Television just before the release of his HiStory album. The host was a very friendly Diane Sawyer, who didn't ask the really tough questions. At the appointed time, Michael and Lisa Marie showed up at ABC with a phalanx of attendants, including attorney Johnnie Cochran.

Eventually aired on June 14, 1995, the Sawyer interview took place on the old MGM set on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City.

The world was watching as Michael and Lisa Marie faced Diana Sawyer on Prime Time Live. "I was seventeen," Michael said in a voice evocative of a little girl, "when I first met Lisa Marie. And she was seven.

It was obvious that they hadn't rehearsed their stories enough, since there were contradictions. Michael claimed that he'd kept in touch with her over the years. Lisa Marie said they had not been in contact

At one point she said that children "won't leave him alone-they follow him into the bathroom." As claimed by some members of Michael's staff at Neverland, that even included young boys taking off their underwear and join- ing Michael in the shower. "Didn't it ever occur to Michael Jackson to lock the bathroom door if he wanted privacy from young kids?" a commentator asked after viewing the show

Cynics had their tongue in their cheek when the couple discussed their dream of having children-something that would never happen. They even talked about leaving America, possibly moving to Switzerland. Lisa Marie denied that her marriage to Michael was one of convenience.

"Why would I marry somebody I didn't love? I admire him, I respect him, and I love him. He's in the studio, I'm in the kitchen. We run around the same house and we're normal people. And we don't sleep in separate bedrooms."

Actually, Lisa Marie was not being truthful. Michael's staff leaked news to the press that they not only slept in separate bedrooms, but in separate houses.

Michael also denied that the drawings made by Jordie Chandler matched police photographs of his genitalia. "There was nothing that matched me to those charges," Michael alleged. He was backed up by Lisa Marie, who said, "There was nothing." When Michael told Sawyer that "The whole thing is a lie," he breached his confidential settlement with Jordie Chandler.

At one point the question-and-answer session went like this: SAWYER: What is a thirty-six-year-old man doing sleeping with a twelve year-old boy or a series of them?

MICHAEL: Okay, when you say "boy, " its not just boys. I never invite just boys to come in my room. Thats ridiculous. And thats a ridiculous question. (The question was not ridiculous but rather pertinent, and Michael's answer was an obvious lie.)

MICHAEL: I guess you want to hear it, the answer I'll be happy to answer it. (He obviously was anything but happy.) MICHAEL: I have never invited anyone into my bed, ever Children love me, I love them. They follow me, they want to be with me. But anyone can come in my bed-a child can come in my bed if they want. "

(Critics, who mocked Jackson, later cracked, "I bet many a kid has cum in Michael's bed.") Observers who had expected Sawyer to be confrontational later asserted that "she had all the fierceness of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man."

A hesitant Sawyer was edging up to the big question of the night. "I didn't spend my life as a serious journalist to ask these kinds of questions, but I'm not oblivious to the fact that your fans have one question they most want ..."

With defiance on her face and disgust in her voice, Lisa Marie interrupted, "Do we have sex? Okay. Go ahead. Is that what you were going to ask? Yes! YES! Yes!"

Sawyer was called a "wimp" by Brad Dilford, a journalist, who later said that "Sawyer did not challenge Michael on any of his more questionable claims." Sawyer was also accused of several misstatements, including that Michael had been cleared on child molestation charges. Actually, the DA was officially keeping the case open until the statute of limitations would take effect in 1999

On the show, Michael denied that the police in their raid on Neverland and on his secret condo had seized books with pictures of nude boys. The police, however, maintained that they did confiscate such materials

Actually, Michael left himself an out. When Sawyer asked if material depicting young, undressed boys had been found among his personal effects,Michael replied, "No, not that I know of, unless people sent me things that I haven't opened."

After the interview was aired, Tom Sneddon, the Santa Barbara DA who had been involved in the Jordie Chandler controversy, claimed that Michael had lied.

"His statement on TV is untrue and incorrect and not consistent with the evidence in the case."

An enraged Evan Chandler witnessed the interview in which his son was virtually called a liar. Michael also claimed that the settlement is "not about all this crazy, outlandish money. No, it's not at all." There was no suggestion that the settlement was in the millions.

In the aftermath of the airing of the interview, Evan Chandler filed a $60 million lawsuit against Michael. In the suit he named not only Michael, but Lisa Marie Presley, Diane Sawyer, and ABC News. Attorneys for Lisa Marie eventually got her dropped from the suit, claiming that she had never been a party to the Chandler settlement.

And eventually, a judge dismissed charges against Sawyer and ABC. Matters were settled privately between Evan and Michael's lawyers. The terms would never be made public, but as regards the Chandler affair, Michael would never again utter a statement such as "the whole thing was a lie."

During the Sawyer interview, Lisa Marie had burst into anger when questioned about whether her Church of Scientology may have urged her to marry Michael, perhaps as a means of gaining a rich convert. "This is crap," she said. "I'm sorry. It's, like ridiculous. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I'm not going to marry somebody for any reasons other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period. And they can eat it if they want to think anything different!"

Lisa Marie did make an attempt to convert Michael to her cult religion, though he found some of her conspiracy theories bizarre, including the church's attempt to link Adolf Hitler to the psychiatric profession. Tom Cruise might have fallen for that, but not Michael. Lisa Marie's attempts to convert Michael to Scientology failed miserably.

On the Sawyer show, Lisa Marie claimed she was sharing Michael's bed at Neverland. Actually, following the show, she left for Hawaii and a family vacation with her ex-husband Danny and her two children.

They shared a suite on the Big Island. Her publicist maintained that Lisa Marie was involved in a "family reunion trip. They're the best of friends." That was evident to guests of the 3,200-room Mauna Lani Bay Resort who saw her walking about the gardens, holding hands with Danny and kissing.

Whenever Lisa Marie came back to Neverland, she inevitably got into an argument with Michael. It became obvious that this surreal marriage was heading for the divorce courts.

Michael went "ballistic" when little Benjamin accidentally pulled off his wig. In anger, Lisa Marie took her children and fled from Neverland, vowing never to return

Not that it isn't interesting, but what brought all this on, OP? And where's it from?

In August of 1995, when Lisa Marie was spilling her woes to Priscilla, her mother urged her to "Dump the jerk! You should never have married the selfish bastard in the first place. Come to your senses and kick this freak out before these allegations of child molestation taint you too."

For a change, Lisa Marie decided to take her mother's advice, even though it would take her a few months. It was obvious to the entire staff that Lisa Marie's days at Neverland were numbered.

She was particularly incensed when she learned that Michael was planning to build a villa on the grounds of Neverland to house Macaulay Culkin.

Her patience with Michael and his obsessions with boys was running out. Constantly she complained that she was living in a zoo, with screaming children racing about with no one to discipline them.

Michael confronted her with evidence from a private investigator he'd hired to tail her. The detective reported on "many liaisons with Danny" which had taken place throughout the course of her marriage to Michael.

Lisa Marie allegedly screamed back at him, "I had to get it from somebody." In anger, Michael deserted his "fairytale marriage" and flew to Europenot with Lisa Marie but with his eternal favorites, Eddie Cascio, now 11, and Frank Cascio.

The trio was seen at Euro Disney. Lisa Marie had also flown out of Los Angeles, heading for another reunion with Danny in Hawaii and another "family vacation." All she would say to reporters was, "I'm a chip off the old block. Elvis liked Hawaii too."

At the release of HiStory, Michael made a number of commitments, which for reasons of his own he decided not to honor. One involved an HBO special, One Night Only, that had promised to rope in a global audience of some two-hundred-fifty million viewers.

During rehearsals for the HBO event, Michael collapsed. By ambulance he was rushed to Beth-Israel Medical Center where doctors reportedly found an "irregular heartbeat and dehydration."

Michael, however, resisted his advisers when they urged him to allow Lisa Marie into his hospital room. He relented when told that his refusal to see her would be a disastrous public relations move. Among the other visitors rallying to his side was Diana Ross.

Consequently, Lisa Marie was allowed to call on Michael at the hospital to discuss the terms of their impending divorce. Michael agreed to a payment of $15 million, but in exchange for that, he wanted some sort of guarantee that Lisa Marie would not speak about their marriage. . .ever. He most definitely didn't want her writing a tell-all autobiography.

"I'm far too young to record my life," she responded. In addition, she asked for ten percent of the royalties on Michael's HIStory album, which he conceded. The actual terms of the divorce would be ridiculed across America. On the Tonight Show, host Jay Leno quipped, "This is going to get ugly. According to divorce lawyers, you know, Lisa Marie is entitled to half of all the noses Michael acquired."

According to a nurse, who overheard the famous pair fighting, part of their argument involved their continuing debate over Danny. Michael, apparently, still had his private investigator following them. Not only that, but having bugged her private quarters at Neverland, where she stayed only during daylight hours, he claimed that on several occasions he had heard her having "phone sex" with Danny.

He confronted her with this, and she responded in fury, enraged not so much by the fact that Michael knew details associated with her involvement with her former husband, but because of the fact that her phone had been bugged. Lisa Marie denounced Michael in his hospital bed, accusing him of having spent their marriage "locked up in his bedrooms with young boys," instead of trying to be a husband to her.

Often when Lisa Marie had called Neverland, he refused to take her calls. But she learned from the maid, Adrian McManus, that if Frank Cascio called, he was to be connected immediately.

Lisa Marie later said that "the last straw" in her marriage to Michael came when he gave an interview to TV Guide, claiming that she'd told him that Elvis had had a nose job. "This is bullshit!"

On January 18, 1996, in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing "irreconcilable differences," Lisa Marie at the age of 27 filed for divorce from her husband, Michael, who had turned 37. In her petition, Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson also called for the restoration of her original name, dropping the Jackson from it. A sexless, loveless marriage of twenty troubled months was coming to a notoriously publicized ending.

Staff members at Neverland reported that they had heard Michael screaming at Lisa Marie, "Your fame comes from DNA. I'm the genuine star."

In public, at least, Lisa Marie had steadfastly maintained Michael's inno cence in child molestation. Yet Rick Stanley, the stepbrother of Elvis, claimed that she confessed to him that she'd come upon videotapes at Neverland that "caused me great distress."

She refused to discuss the exact nature of those tapes, but Stanley alleged that she learned "the sick truth about Michael and did indeed know that her husband had an unusual interest in young boys."

Lisa Marie later told a friend, "I feel deep guilt over my marriage to Michael. I brought shame on my father. I suppose that's why I'm having these awful dreams."

The story of Lisa Marie's involvement with the Jackson family did not end with her divorce from Michael. Gossips began speculating about the intriguing possibilities when Lisa Marie in 1998 began "dating" Janet Jackson. They were spotted at such New York clubs as Life, allegedly embracing and even kissing. This does not necessarily prove a lesbian involvement.

After their divorce, Michael tried to mend his broken friendship with Lisa Marie, and she eventually accepted an invitation to join him on his HiStory tour in both London and South Africa.

In Johannesburg, Lisa Marie told friends that she hoped to spend some quality time with Michael as a means of re-establishing a relationship with him-"strictly as friends," she hastened to add. But in South Africa, she was disappointed to find Michael spending all his free time with a young boy from Norway, who appeared to be only thirteen years old if that.

"All I remember about the kid is that he was cute and was never seen without a red baseball cap, a gift from Michael," Lisa Marie said.

At the time the press was unaware of the identity of this boy. In time both photographs and his real name would be revealed. In South Africa, Michael-and only when forced to do so-introduced him as his "nephew.

Once again Lisa Marie allowed herself to become a "prop" in a photo opt for Michael when she accepted an invitation to be photographed with him, along with her two children, at a tribal ceremony that took place in the seedy town of Phokeng, some ninety miles to the north of Johannesburg.

At the time he was deep into his second marriage, and Michael shocked the world when he appeared with Lisa Marie on his arm. That naturally led to press speculation that the ill-fated duo were getting back together. Back in Los Angeles, Debbie Rowe, Michael's new wife, reportedly said,

"If Michael Jackson [she always referred to him by his full name] wants to date his ex-wife, and I want to date my ex-boyfriend, that is nobody's business but our own." Under the shade of a red-and-white umbrella at least five feet wide, Michael arrived at the tribal ceremony like a king for his induction into a tribe known as the Bafokeng Ka Bakwena ("People of the Crocodile"). With some 325,000 members, the tribe was not among the poor and needy of Africa, as they owned the second-largest platinum reserve on earth.

On hearing of Lisa Marie's adventures in South Africa with her ex-husband, one underground columnist in Hollywood wrote: "Lisa Marie is back with Michael while still dating Janet. The next thing you'll read in this column is that Elvis's daughter is having a three-way with Jermaine and La Toya. I wouldn't put it past this 'Hound Dog!"'

Even after her friendships with Janet and Michael had cooled, throughout the rest of her life Lisa Marie would be plagued with probing questions about her marriage to Michael.

On The Howard Stern Show, the host asked her to describe Michael's genitalia. She refused. She did answer Stern's question about whether she had "dabbled with chicks?" "Just one," she said. "It's not like I haven't had an urge, but I just . . . I like to keep it at bay."

In a candid conversation with Playboy, she claimed that her preference in sex was "porn style-I am a little dark on the subject. I like it rough, the way they do things in porn movies."

In trying to explain her association with Michael to Playboy-of all magazines-Lisa Marie said, "Yes, there was a physical attraction. He's not sexually seductive, but there is something riveting about him."

If attorney Johnnie Cochran is to be believed--Lisa Marie made an astonishing call to him one night. Reached in New York, he came to the phone to hear the distraught young woman pleading for his intervention in getting Michael back.

"I don't want him gone from my life," Cochran later quoted Lisa Marie as saying. "I know the marriage didn't work out. But we didn't give it a chance. I think I could make him love me. But to do that, you've got to prevent his marriage to that nurse."

Cochran promised to intervene on her behalf. But he told friends in New York that there was really nothing he could do. "Michael wanted someone to make babies for him, and Debbie Rowe seems willing. Lisa Marie wanted romance. Something, in my opinion, I believe she would never have gotten from Michael. I can't believe that after completely ignoring her during the marriage that she could even entertain the idea of wanting him back. She never had him in the first place. Personally, I think it was just one of those crazy ideas that occurs to young people in the middle of the night. Lisa Marie is smart enough to know that the marriage was doomed from the start. Or was she? I know why Michael married her. The reasons were selfish. The question remains, why did she marry him? She's got all the money in the world. Everyone who surrounded Michael wanted his money, Lisa Marie could buy and sell her husband. Surely she didn't want Michael for sex? Not that! Oh, please, never that!"

In 2003, six years after Lisa Marie filed for divorce, stories about the Jackson/Presley relationship were still generating headlines. It was reported that Michael was trying to reunite with Lisa Marie as a means of retaining custody of his three children.

After divorcing Michael, Lisa Marie drifted from relationship to relationship until she finally fell in love with actor Nicolas Cage, marrying him on August 10, 2002. Michael learned that their relationship was tempestuous, even though they would not finally divorce until May 26, 2004.

In the months that preceded Lisa Marie's divorce from Cage, it was reported that Michael wanted to reactivate the Jackson/Presley alliance.

As reported in the press at the time: "Jackson wants to re-marry Lisa Marie, who divorced her husband, actor Nicolas Cage," one account stated. "Jackson apparently believes he has a better chance of evading an investigation into his suitability as a father-promoted by his dangling of baby Prince Michael II over the balcony of a German hotel last month-if he is in a stable relationship."

In March of 2003, during the course of a particularly candid interview , Lisa Marie-rather unconvincingly-maintained that she did have sex with the pop king. She said that "he was just a normal guy" underneath his eccentric exterior. Reporter Phil Blackman said that "surely Lisa Marie is putting us on with that comment."

She also said that she was "smitten with Michael until the relationship turned ugly at the end. I absolutely fell in love with him. He was just a typical man when I began to date him." Again Blackman found her statement difficult to swallow. "How, even on the darkest night, could she really believe that Michael Jackson by any stretch of the imagination was a typical man? Maybe after having Elvis for a father, Michael Jackson might have been typical but I doubt that."

When Lisa Marie eventually got around to releasing her debut album on April 8, 2003, Bought mostly by Elvis fans, To Whom It May Concern reached number 5 on Billboards Top 200 albums chart.

When Michael first heard her album, he referred to it as having been sung by "a brawny collection of Sheryl Crowish pop rockers."

During her promotion of her album, in references to her previous marriage, Lisa Marie said that she felt "powerless." "I was part of a machine. I saw things going on that I couldn't do anything about. Don't ask me what sort of things, because I'm not going to answer. But just stuff." In an interview with Rolling Stone, she claimed that "I never thought for a moment that someone like him could actually use me for a reason like that. It never crossed my mind, and I don't know why-I'm sure it crossed everybody else's."

Her second album, Now What? In March of 2005, as a means of promoting her album, Lisa Marie appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. "Do you think that he loved you as much as he could?" the talk show diva asked Elvis's daughter in regards to Michael. "Yes, as much as he was capable of loving somebody," she said.

Oprah then asked if Lisa Marie felt that Michael had used her. "All signs point to yes on that. I can't answer for him."

No great fan of her former son-in-law, Priscilla also spoke to Oprah on camera, suggesting that Michael may have used her daughter in the hopes that Lisa Marie would have his children. "That would ensure his connection to Elvis's legacy," she claimed. "There's something very calculating and manipulative about how he does things."

For reasons known only to herself, Lisa Marie continued to issue bizarre statements about Michael that the whole world knows aren't true..

Lisa Marie's final word on both her marriage to Michael and to "hothead" Nicolas Cage was, "I was really into this lioness thing with Michael and wanted to protect him," she claimed. "How could I be so naive? One needs to protect oneself from Michael."

"As for Nick, we're both so dramatic and dynamic that when it was good, it was unbelievably good, and when it was bad, it was just a fucking bloody nightmare for everybody," she said.

"If you lined up all the men I've been with in a row, you'd think that I was completely psychotic."

Neither Nicholas Cage nor Michael had any comment about Lisa Marie's remarks.

On the website, "NNDB: Tracking the Entire World," the sexual orientation of Lisa Marie is listed as "bisexual," her occupation, "relative."

Lisa on Oprah - Before Jacko' death in 2005

Lisa (the grieving widow) on Oprah - after Jacko' death 2010

R35 2010 was Saint Michael Jackson' year

This marriage was fake, fake, fake.

"For reasons known only to herself, Lisa Marie continued/es to issue bizarre statements about Michael that the whole world knows aren't true"

TRUTH

R25 "Lisa Marie allegedly screamed back at him, "I had to get it from somebody."

LAMO

Wow, hit block on the MJ troll and almost comment disappears along with every other thread started about the pedo. Why are they trying to post the entire contents of a book on DL?

^^^every comment

Thanks OP for posting.

Elizabeth was a bitch

Weird how, as striking as Michael was, he gave off no sexual vibe- gay or otherwise.

The LMP troll on DL is really creepy. Why are you so obsessed with her, OP?

No one cares !

Lisa Marie bought the shame on her dead father.

You're putting me to sleep......

Fascinating to think the world was so close to a child being conceived that potentially contained the musical genius of both Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.

What a potential phenomenon!

op thx for all this.

fascinating.

what wicked webs we weave....

Why Lisa Marie was/is so obsessed with MJ???

She still owns some of Jackson's sperm. I think she's too old to carry, but I could see her having one of her girls carry.