The 9 biggest revelations from Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir

Priscilla and Edwards dated for six years, and Lisa Marie described him as “an actor and a model, a dramatic guy with a horrible temper.”

Lisa Marie also said that Priscilla and Edwards got into physical fights “constantly.”

She alleged that Edwards first molested her in her room when she was 10 years old.

“I woke up to find him on his knees next to my bed, running his finger up my leg under the sheets, and if I moved, he stopped — so I moved,” Lisa Marie said.

She alleged that Edwards told her he was teaching her about what would happen when she got older. Lisa Marie said that she told her mom the next day, and Edwards apologized.

“Edwards was sitting on their bed looking very sullen and sulky,” Lisa Marie recalled. “He said, ‘I’m so sorry, but in Europe, that’s how they teach the kids, so that’s what I was doing.'”

Lisa Marie said that the sexual abuse continued.

“Eventually, it became that he would touch me and spank me, telling me not to look — ‘Don’t look at me,’ he’d say, ‘Don’t turn your head.’ I assume he was jerking off,” she wrote.

In the memoir, Riley said that what happened to her mom was “one of her deepest childhood traumas.”

Following the release of the book, Edwards denied Lisa Marie’s allegations.

“These claims are absolutely untrue,” Edwards, now 80, said in a statement to Us Weekly. “I never molested Lisa Marie and am shocked at the suggestion I did.”

Michael Edwards’ daughter, Caroline Van Zandt, also denied Lisa Marie’s claims.

“I have kept many notes and letters from Lisa Marie during those years and she never stated or insinuated that my dad touched her inappropriately,” she told Us Weekly. “When she told me about my dad walking into her room, we then addressed and resolved the issue as a family.”

“I’m disappointed and sad that these claims are being made,” Van Zandt added.

Presley first met Jackson in Vegas when she was about 6 years old and he was 16. She was in town for one of her dad’s performances.

She and Jackson reconnected in 1993 through a mutual friend. Presley was married to Keough at the time and according to her, Jackson pursued her.

Presley said that she and Jackson “just clicked” and talked on the phone for “long periods of time.”

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

Presley said she ended up visiting him in Vegas and staying for eight days, during which “nothing happened physically, but the connection was so insanely strong.”

During her final night, Presley said that Jackson told her, “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m completely in love with you. I want us to get married and for you to have my children.”

“By then, I felt I was in love with him, too,” she said. “I had told him that my marriage was in serious trouble.”

Upon her return to Los Angeles, Presley told Keough about her conversation with Jackson. She and Keough broke up and she went on to date Jackson, who told her he was still a virgin at the time.

Presley and Jackson got married in the Dominican Republic 20 days after her divorce. Riley said they enjoyed marital bliss for a year, “then things went downhill.”

Jackson started being secretive about his drug use and Presley’s distrust grew. She filed for divorce in January 1996 after 20 months of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.

They started talking again later, but Presley cut Jackson out of her life after watching him perform in South Africa in 1997. Years later, Jackson told her that he suspected that people around him were trying to kill him.

Jackson died of cardiac arrest in June 2009.

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

In the memoir, Keough said that Lisa Marie prided herself on being a good mother. When she fell short of that, she was hard on herself. She and the kids frequently traveled to Graceland seeking solace in Elvis’ bedroom, which was preserved after his death.

“When she lived in Nashville, in the depths of her addiction, my mom would often drive the two hundred miles southwest to Graceland to sleep in her dad’s bed,” Keough said. “It seemed like the only place she found any comfort.”

Keough said that the family would sleep in Elvis’ bed while tours of Graceland took place downstairs.

“I wish this was a magical time in a magical family place,” she said. “But the truth of it was, she was in the house desperate to feel protected, desperate to connect with her father. She would lie in his bed, lie on his floor, anything to feel some comfort.”

Prior to his death, Benjamin had the word Riley tattooed on his collarbone and his mom’s name on his hand. To honor him, Presley and Riley decided to get matching tattoos of his name in the corresponding areas of their bodies.

Riley said that her mom was “adamant” about getting her tattoo exactly where Benjamin had his. When the tattoo artist asked if Presley had any reference photos for him to match, she said: “No, but I can show you.”

Presley took the artist to the room, opened the casket, and grabbed Benjamin’s hand to show him the tattoo and its placement.

“I stood there aghast, watching him try to engage in the conversation and pretend this was fine,” Riley recalled.

After seeing the body, the tattoo artist proceeded to ink Presley precisely as she wanted.

“I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,” Riley said.