Lisa Marie Presley, Ex Wife of Michael Jackson

Presley married singer Michael Jackson on May 26, 1994, in the Dominican Republic.  They had first met when the seven-year-old Presley attended several of his shows in Las Vegas.  According to Yahoo.com, when they met again as adults, “things moved very quickly”, with Jackson proposing over the telephone after four months.   They stayed in contact every day over the telephone. As child molestation accusations became public, Jackson became dependent on Lisa Marie for emotional support; she was concerned about his faltering health and his addiction to drugs.  Lisa Marie explained, “I believed he didn’t do anything wrong, and that he was wrongly accused and, yes, I started falling for him. I wanted to save him. I felt that I could do it.”   Shortly afterwards, she tried to persuade Jackson to settle the allegations out of court and go into rehabilitation to recover. He subsequently did both.

In 1995, she appeared in nothing but a towel around her waist in the music video for his song “You Are Not Alone”. It was one of the few instances where their affection for one another was exhibited in public.[12] The marriage was, in her words, “a married couple’s life … that was sexually active”.   Presley filed for divorce in January 1996, but the couple remained friendly.  In 2005, Presley was considered as a witness for Jackson’s trial after he had been charged with child molestation. She was reported to have said, “I saw things I couldn’t do anything about”. Later she released a statement saying that she never saw her then-husband engage in “improper behavior with children”.   Jackson was found not guilty of the charges.