When Michael Jackson Met Lisa Marie
Lisa Marie Presley was the apple of her famous father’s eye: Michael Jackson and Nicholas Cage wanted her to be their bride
Why did Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, marry Michael Jackson? The most unexpected marriage in music history goes back to their first meeting in 1975 when she was seven (and he was 17).
The Lisa Marie/Michael marriage was reexamined when she died broken-hearted last week at age 54. Similarly, Jackson died in 2009 at age 50, just as their own larger-than-life role model, Elvis Presley, died in 1977 at age 42.
“I have so many things against me,” she once quipped, sharing her famous father’s great gift for authentic, soulful, and self-deprecating truth.
Like her father and second husband, Lisa Marie struggled with the aching feeling of being recognized and adored everywhere — yet feeling simultaneously isolated and utterly alone in her own messed up inner world.
Lisa Marie once called her father’s Graceland estate a world “where time and rules didn’t exist.” That comment alone helps show how she’d wind up marrying an idol with a “Neverland Ranch” of his own.
The one way Lisa Marie and Michael were different from Elvis: Elvis’s fame came at age 20…
