Lisa Marie Presley Recalls Michael Jackson Telling Her He Was 'Still a Virgin' at 35 in Posthumous Memoir

Lisa Marie Presley opened up about her relationship with Michael Jackson in her posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown.

The former couple became romantically involved in 1994. Presley was married to her first husband, Danny Keough at the time, though that didn’t stop Jackson from declaring his love for Presley.

“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 in her memoir, per People. “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.”

Presley and Keough subsequently parted ways and she and MJ became an item.

"He told me he was still a virgin," Presley wrote. "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 and Michael wed in May 1994, soon after she had officially divorced Keough. Jackson was 35 years old at the time and Presley was 25; they would later divorce in August 1996.

Both Jackson and Presley have since passed away. In 2009, Jackson died from cardiac arrest and in 2023, Presley died from a small bowel obstruction. Her daughter, actress Riley Keough took it upon herself to finish her late mother’s memoir by listening to tapes her mother recorded before her death.

"Because my mother was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over, and dissected,” Riley told People.

“What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was,” she added. “To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life. I want to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive.”