Priscilla Presley, 80, the mother-in-law of the late pop star Michael Jackson and the ex-wife of Elvis Presley, claimed that her daughter Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson's marriage was bizarre.
According to the New York Post on the 21st, Priscilla, in her soon-to-be-published memoir Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, spoke about the marriage of her daughter Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson and described her former son-in-law Michael Jackson as a "manipulative person."
Priscilla said, "I was stunned by the news of my daughter's marriage to Jackson. I was painfully aware that he was not marrying Lisa Marie, but the Presley dynasty." She then argued that Michael Jackson, who at the time was embroiled in a child molestation scandal, contacted Lisa Marie because he needed "good publicity" to cover it up and used her. She added, "Michael was manipulative, and the childlike innocence he showed was essentially a mask."
Priscilla, suspicious of the relationship between Michael Jackson and her daughter Lisa Marie, said, "I asked my daughter if the two had a physical relationship," adding, "Like many people, I was not sure." She continued, "My daughter Lisa Marie said, 'Yes.'" She added that she was relieved when her daughter Lisa Marie filed for divorce two years into the marriage, saying, "It was as if I could hear Elvis letting out a sigh of relief."
Earlier, in 1993, Michael Jackson was accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, and in 1994, he reached a settlement to pay about $15.3 million (about 21.3 billion won at current rates) to the boy who claimed to be the victim. At the time, Michael Jackson did not admit wrongdoing. Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of singer Elvis Presley, married Michael Jackson in 1994, shortly after divorcing her first husband, musician Danny Keough, but divorced in 1996, two years later.