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Presley’s memoir chock full of big bombshells

By Jami Ganz, New York Daily News
Published: October 19, 2024, 5:16am

Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir is chock full of revelations, ranging from heartbreaking to salacious, regarding her own life as well as the private lives of fellow famous faces, including her ex-husband Michael Jackson and late father Elvis.

“From Here to the Great Unknown” hit shelves Tuesday and was co-written by Presley’s eldest child, actress Riley Keough.

Of agreeing to help pen the book, Keough — who became the sole trustee of her mother’s estate, as well as the owner of Graceland, following Presley’s sudden death in January 2023 — says her mom believed she could have a “more holistic view of her life than she could.”

“The last 10 years of her life had been so brutally hard that she was only able to look back on everything through that lens,” Keough writes in the introduction, according to an excerpt published by People. “I agreed to help her with it, not thinking much of the commitment, assuming we would write it together over time. A month later, she died.”

Among the biggest revelations and bombshells revealed: Michael Jackson was a virgin at 35 when he and Lisa Marie started dating.

At the time they got together in 1994, when Presley was 26 and Jackson was 35, the late King of Pop revealed to her that “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,” Presley wrote in an excerpt obtained by People. “He said Madonna had tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened.”

She and Jackson wed soon after, in May 1994, just weeks after Presley divorced Danny Keough, with whom she shared Riley and son Benjamin.

The memoir also details how Presley and Jackson got together, with the “Thriller” singer confessing his love for her during a trip to Las Vegas while she was still married to Keough.

Presley and Jackson were married for just over two years before finalizing their divorce in August 1996.

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