Inside Michael Jackson's marriage to Lisa Marie - 'fake sex' and video
Pop icon, Michael Jackson, was married to Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, for only two years - during which time all sorts of rumours were circulating about their relationship
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley stunned fans when they announced they were hitched in 1994.
The Prince of Pop had kept his private life extremely well hidden until he revealed he had married Elvis' daughter in secret when she was 26 and he was 10 years older.
The curious union seemed unlikely, with some suggesting the marriage was arranged to protect Michael's reputation a year after his out-of-court settlement with Jordy Chandler over child abuse allegations, which he denied.
However, Michael, who died in 2009, and Lisa Marie, whose tragic death was announced in 2023, both insisted the marriage was real, despite curious claims of the couple faking their sex life - as well as the Scream star's 'screeching orgasms'...
Michael Jackson was married to Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, for only two years (
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Corbis via Getty Images)'Fake sex'
Appearing on ABC's Primetime Live in 1994, Michael and Lisa Marie announced they were deeply in love and trying for a baby. When somewhat stunned host, Diane Sawyer, asked if they had definitely consummated the marriage amid reports the nuptials were a sham, Lisa responded: "Do we have sex?" to which both she and Michael eagerly responded: "Yes! Yes! Yes!" "Like we're faking this?" the Smooth Criminal star added, frustratedly.
Lisa, who claimed her husband was still a virgin when he met her in her posthumous memoir, continued: "How can you fake this 24 hours a day - sleeping with somebody, waking up with somebody? I'm not going to marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I fall in love with them."
However, things were said to be less than romantic behind closed doors, with reports Michael was making it look like the couple were sleeping together, even though they weren't.
When the couple's marriage ended when Lisa filed for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, she admitted she'd had a rethink about their romance, telling Rolling Stone: "I can tell you my intentions; I can't tell you what his were."
According to one former employee, Michael would spray Lisa Marie's underwear with perfume and throw it on his bedroom floor to make it look like they'd had sex.
Sandy Domz, who worked as an administrative assistant at the Neverland Ranch, told CBS documentary Inside Edition that "it didn’t seem to be a natural relationship or a friendship."
She claimed: "Michael would get a hold of some underwear and throw them on the floor. They were also sprayed with perfume and it was to make it look like Lisa Marie had been in the bedroom. But to my knowledge, she was never in there. She was either in the Rose Room or had slept on the guest beds.”
And the star's ex-maid, Adrian McManus, alleged her boss even placed broken glasses by the bed to suggest a night of wild passion.
"I had to clean them up and felt it was Michael playing games with me," she told The Sun. It all seemed so set up because that had never happened before. Sure, there were his underpants, shirts and trousers discarded, but nothing belonging to women ever were there.
“I thought that he was trying to make me think that something was going on between him and her. I knew they were dating, but he was trying to make me believe they were sexually close. I always had my doubts."
'Screeching orgasms'
When they were reportedly having sex, Lisa Marie claimed the Billy Jean star like to screech and sing his way to orgasm, leaving the blushing bride in fits of giggles.
The couple allegedly first became intimate at Donald Trump's Florida mansion, with Lisa telling friends they romped 'all night', according to the book Dark Lady by Anthony Gregoreli.
What's more, the Thriller singer apparently had an insatiable appetite for his wife as Lisa reportedly said: "It was absolutely wild. He was slow getting started, then he just wanted more and more."
To make it very clear they were having sex in their marriage, Michael and Lisa decided to writhe around in a temple for the singer's 1995 hit You Are Not Alone (
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Youtube.com)Nude video and 'terrifying' VMA kiss
To make it very clear they were more than just friends in their marriage, Michael and Lisa decided to writhe around in a temple wearing next to nothing in the video for the singer's 1995 hit You Are Not Alone.
It wasn't their first eye-catching PDA, with Michael having snogged his wife in the middle of the stage at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards - a move which Lisa said she was not on board with.
"That was not my idea, by the way," she told Rolling Stone after their divorce, which she described as 'really ugly'. She added: "I was terrified. It was his manager's idea. I thought it was stupid. All of a sudden I became part of a PR machine."
Make-up sex
J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackson's longtime childhood pal, claimed to have been told about the finer details of the couple's marriage by Lisa's friend.
Writing in his book Michael Jackson: The Magic And The Madness, he claimed the couple had an 'intense and active sex life' but that some of Michael's habits were a 'little odd'. Namely that he would wear make-up to bed and 'scream with panic' if it came off during sex.
The pal reportedly told Taraborrelli: "The first time [Lisa Marie] went to turn on the lights afterwards, and [Jackson] leapt out of bed and ran into the bathroom so she wouldn't see his body. He emerged 20 minutes later, in full make-up and wearing a silk robe. Then they went at it again."
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