When was Michael Jackson married to Lisa Marie Presley and why did they split?
LISA Marie Presley's sudden death shocked the world, when it was revealed she had passed away aged just 54.
The daughter of Elvis led an incredible life, which also included a brief marriage to the late Michael Jackson.
When was Michael Jackson married to Lisa Marie Presley?
It was a romance that dominated the headlines when the daughter of Elvis wed Michael Jackson.
The couple were married in secret on May 26, 1994 in a small, private ceremony.
The pair met in 1975 when a seven-year-old Lisa Marie attended several of his concerts in Las Vegas.
However, they did not get to know each other until nearly two decades later, when they had dinner with a mutual friend in Los Angeles.
At the time of their reunion, Lisa Marie was married to Danny Keough.
Jackson and Lisa Marie quickly became friends and often talked on the phone, but their relationship did not progress beyond that right away.
In the summer of 1993, the singer was accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy named Jordan Chandler, which he denied.
He turned to Lisa Marie for support and proposed to her over the phone later that year.
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Why did Michael and Lisa split up?
In December 1995, the pair announced that they were getting divorced.
The divorce was finalized in August 1996.
At the time, Michael's publicist said that the two "mutually agreed to go their separate ways" but decided to "remain good friends."
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2010, Lisa revealed she and Michael spent four years after their split trying to reconcile.
Michael was Lisa-Marie's second husband.
She went on to marry Nicholas Cage, (2002-2004) and then Michael Lockwood (2006-2016).
After Lisa, Jackson married Debbie Rowe in 1996, who is the mother of his children Paris and Prince Jackson.
They divorced in 1999.
Did Lisa and Michael share a bed together?
Before things went sour, Lisa said she and Jackson had “a normal marriage” and recalled having intimate chats with her husband at all hours of the night
Although she never specifically said they shared a bed, it is implied that they did, as they shared a bedroom.
When asked by Oprah Winfrey in 2016, if he had "trouble sleeping" Lisa said at the time: “Yes. He was like a little gnome.
"I used to tell him he was like a gnome running around the room, because it was hard for me to sleep.
"A lot of times I couldn’t sleep, either, if he wasn’t sleeping … I’d just hear him piddling, and, you know, it was a bit endearing. I didn’t mind it, but he did have a hard time sleeping, yes.”
What did Lisa say about her marriage to Michael Jackson?
During her life, Lisa often talked fondly about her marriage to Michael, insisting she tried to help him "battle his demons", when it came to drug use.
However, speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2016, she recalled why they split.
She said she felt "quite a bit" of pressure to have kids with the star.
"I was looking into the future and was thinking: 'I never want to get into a custody battle with him, I don't want to do this, I don't want to go head to head with him,'" she shared.
Despite the difficulties, they were bonded.
"I loved taking care of him,” said told Winfrey. “It was one of the highest points in my life when things were going really well, and he and I were united.
"It was a very profound time of my life."
But then came a time when it became too much. “He had to make a decision. Was it the drugs and the vampires or me? And he pushed me away.”