Michael Jackson told Lisa Marie Presley he was ‘still a virgin’ at 35 when they started dating

Lisa Marie Presley said Michael Jackson told her he was a virgin when he met her.

Lisa Marie Presley revealed Michael Jackson told her he was “still a virgin” when they met.

Presley, who died in January 2023, left behind hours of tapes that her daughter Riley Keough has turned into a memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” out Tuesday.

Presley, then 26, and Jackson, then 35, stunned the world when they wed in the Dominican Republic on May 26, 1994, just 20 days after her divorce from Danny Keough.

Riley Keough says Lisa Marie Presley feared Michael Jackson was using her – after he kissed her on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 1994. AFP via Getty Images

“He told me he was still a virgin,” Presley recalled in the book. “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. 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. I had thought that maybe we wouldn’t do anything until we got married, but he said, ‘I’m not waiting!'”

She said of their romance, “I was actually so happy. I’ve never been that happy again.”

The couple stunned the world when they wed in May 1994. Corbis via Getty Images

Although they first met when Presley was 6 and Jackson was performing with his brothers in Las Vegas, the only daughter of Elvis Presley didn’t actually recall meeting him until 1993 when he wanted to hear her demo tape – and they just “clicked.”

“I just thought that he was lonely and needed a friend. But he was pursuing me,” she said.

Jackson told her that he was “devastated” to see that she had wed Danny — and believed she should have been with him.

Riley wrote, “We called Michael ‘Mimi’ because my brother couldn’t pronounce his name.”

Presley said she was happy to defend her husband from allegations of sexual abuse on the Diane Sawyer interview in 1995. ABC

The actress and producer remembers how Jackson was the only person Presley did not ask to sign one of the stack of NDAs she kept in the kitchen.

Presley, who admitted she did not tell her mother, Priscilla Presley, about the wedding, said Jackson was an “amazing conversationalist” with “something about him that was truly remarkable, something that I’ve never ever seen or felt in my entire life, other than with my dad [Elvis Presley]. I feel really, really lucky that he let me in.

“I fell in love with him because he was normal, just f–king normal. His normal was a side that no one saw. His mom would say, ‘He told you that stuff?’ and Janet [Jackson] would say, ‘I’ve never heard him talk about anything like that.’

Presley said that she saw a side of Jackson that no-one else got to. FilmMagic

“With everyone else, he would snap his fingers if somebody brought up anything he didn’t like — snap, and you’re out. Because he could create his own world. And in that world, everyone had to agree with what he said.

“But in our world, I would say what I felt and he loved that about me because it wasn’t aimed at him. I could be real without hiding anything.”

Riley said Jackson moved into their home in Hidden Hills in Los Angeles and would often bring along a chimpanzee on school runs.

Presley admits she did not tell her mom Priscilla Presley about the wedding. WireImage

“Before you ask, ’twas not Bubbles,” she remarked.

Michael would sing “Happy Birthday Lisa”  from “The Simpsons” to Lisa Marie, “Ben” to Riley’s brother, Benjamin Keough, and “You Are Not Alone” to Riley.

According to the book, Michael called Lisa Marie for advice after being accused of molesting Jordan Chandler in 1993 — and she told him to settle quickly.

She wrote, “As for child molestation, I never saw a goddamn thing like that. I personally would have killed him if I had.”

Presley left her husband Danny Keough, the father of her children, Riley and Benjamin, for Jackson. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

Lisa Marie only did an interview with Diana Sawyer in 1995 to “protect” her husband, she said, which led to her being sued by Jordan’s father, Evan Chandler. But she won in litigation.

She was with Jackson as he recorded his “HIStory” album, but by the time it was released in 1995, it was clear “the pressure was on him.

“I started noticing differences in him,” she remembered.

She said she had never been happier than when she was with Jackson. Corbis Via Getty Images

Riley said that her mom started sensing drug use by Michael and noticing behavior she knew from her own dad, who died in 1977 at age 42.

Lisa Marie also feared that the King of Pop was using her for press when he famously kissed her at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards. He also started to go missing for days and icing her out.

As Lisa Marie tried to find out what was going on, one of Michael’s family members told her he had a pill habit. Another asked her to get a urine sample so they could test for what drugs he was taking.

By this point, he had “feigned” a fall and was in a hospital in New York City, where he had his own anesthesiologist.

She’s buried next to her beloved son Benjamin Keough at Graceland. Getty Images

She said, “Michael was being really awful — he got mad at me for asking questions. I said, ‘What’s really happening here? If you have a problem, I’ll go with you to rehab.'”

She said the doctor “threatened” her for asking questions.

“I said, ‘I’m just trying to find out what’s going on with my husband,'” she retorted.

Shortly after, Michael told Lisa Marie to go back to California.

“So I left. I wanted him to come too, but he didn’t. I filed for divorce very shortly, thereafter,” she said.

She was the only child of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. WireImage

Lisa Marie filed in December 1995, and the divorce was finalized in August 1996.

However, Riley revealed they continued to go to Michael’s home, Neverland, and her mother continued to hook up with her ex.

Lisa Marie added, “We went back and forth for years. He had wanted me to have his children so badly and I didn’t want to.”

She had a fractious relationship with her mother, Priscilla Presley, the book reveals. WireImage

She said she knew he would use her and dump her and get her out of the picture: “I knew his nature and he was very controlling and calculating.”

She told him, “You’re like a snake, I don’t know what you’re going to crawl out from under …”

In 1997, Lisa Marie and her children flew to South Africa to watch Michael perform for the last time.

Riley Keough finished the book after her mother’s death. Getty Images

Riley added, “Years later he called my mom, she said he didn’t sound sober. He said ‘You were right, everybody around me wants to kill me.’ It was their last conversation.”

Lisa Marie was in London when Michael died on June 29, 2005, of cardiac arrest caused by propofol intoxication, but sat with his coffin for hours after his funeral.

“My mother told me that she communicated with Michael through her dreams for months after he died,” Riley said.