Was I leaving Danny or not?"
He saidMadonnahad tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened."
Presley describes being “terrified, because I didn’t want to make the wrong move.”
Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson in 1994.Stephane Cardinale/Sygma via Getty
But “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.
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
The resulting memoir is a weave of Presley’s memories and Keough’s own version of events.
“I think Michael got right at my mom’s core,” Keough writes.
Winfrey raised the virginity question directly during her1993 interviewwith Jackson.
“How could you ask that question?
I’m a gentleman,” Jackson replied, blushing.
He described his sexual life as “something that’s private.
It shouldn’t be spoken about openly.
“So you’re not going to answer?”
Winfrey pressed, and Jackson only demurred, “I’m embarrassed.”
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InFrom Here to the Great Unknown, Presley writes that “the connection was so insanely strong.
No one had ever seen that side of [Jackson].
He wasn’t that high-pitched, calculated thing.
That was an act.”
She also recalls the first round of molestation allegations being leveled against Jackson during their initial courtship.
After approximately five months, Jackson was foundnot guiltyon all 14 counts.
“I personally would’ve killed him if I had.”
Presley and Jacksonwedin 1994 and divorced in 1996, citing irreconcilable differences.
From Here to the Great Unknownis out now.
