Lisa Marie Presley claims she was molested by mom Priscilla Presley’s ex-boyfriend, actor Mike Edwards, in her new memoir.
After the loss of life of her dad, Elvis Presley, in 1977, Lisa Marie moved full-time to Los Angeles to reside together with her mother, whom she had a tumultuous relationship with all through her life.
She alleged in “From Here to the Great Unknown,” out now, that whereas she was dwelling there, Edwards — who appeared within the 1981 film “Mommie Dearest” as Joan Crawford’s lover — got here into her room in the course of the evening and ran his finger up her leg.
“He said he was going to teach me what was going to happen when I got older,” Lisa Marie, who was 10 on the time, wrote in her tome. “He was putting his hand on my chest and saying a man’s going to touch here, there, he put his hand between my legs, and he said they’re going to touch you here. I think he gently kissed me and then left that night.”
She allegedly advised her mother the following day, recalling within the e book how Priscilla “flew into her room and slammed the door. Eventually she called me in and said that Edwards wanted to apologize.”
“Edwards was sitting on their bed looking very sullen and sulky … he said ‘I’m so sorry, but in Europe that’s how they teach the kids so that’s what I was doing.'”
She claimed within the e book, nevertheless, that the alleged abuse didn’t finish there.
“Eventually it became that he would touch me and spank me, telling me not to look [at him],” Lisa Marie wrote. “I assume he was jerking off. He wouldn’t be mad at me — he did it very calmly, just sitting in a chair, whacking my ass. My butt would be black, blue, orange, green.”
After she confirmed Priscilla the bruises, Lisa Marie claimed her mom mentioned, “Well, what did you do to cause that?”
When reached for remark, Edwards denied the allegations, telling Page Six, “I’m in shock, that’s untrue…I was like a father to Lisa Marie.” He claimed nobody known as him from the e book’s publishing firm for remark and alleged, “I don’t think Lisa was that stable during that period of time.”
In one other assertion to Page Six, Edwards mentioned: “These claims are completely unfaithful. I by no means molested Lisa Marie and am shocked on the suggestion that I did. I used to be inspired to decorate a innocent anecdote about Lisa Marie in my memoir from the Nineteen Eighties and now remorse that I did. I perceive that these tales promote books, however the notion that I molested Lisa Marie is only a fabrication.’’
Edwards’ daughter, Caroline Van Zandt, additionally addressed the allegations.
“Lisa Marie and I were close friends throughout my father’s relationship with Priscilla. We were confidants, like sisters, sharing all our secrets and complaining about our parents as typical teenagers do,” she shared in an announcement to Page Six.
“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. When she told me about my dad walking into her room, we then addressed and resolved the issue as a family.”
She continued, “Those who know Priscilla and her fierce protectiveness of her household perceive she by no means would have tolerated any form of habits like that. I’m disillusioned and unhappy that these claims are being made.’’
In his 1988 e book, “Elvis, Priscilla and Me,” Edwards wrote how he “was craving Lisa sexually” — writing, “Where Priscilla and I had once been inseparable, it was now Lisa and I who were together almost every day. Soon I found I was looking at my watch, waiting for Lisa’s school to let out, just as Elvis had once eagerly awaited Priscilla’s return to Graceland from school each day.”
Lisa Marie wrote that when Priscilla did confront Edwards, he would say, “I was drunk” or “She was flirting with me.”
In his e book, Edwards mentioned, “Once, when Priscilla and I were sitting at the dinner table and Lisa was sitting between us, Lisa got up to get something from the refrigerator and her bare knee accidentally brushed against my hand. It sent waves of desire through me. I looked at Priscilla and thought, Can’t you see what’s happening — I’ve fallen in love with your daughter.”
Lisa Marie claimed the abuse went on for just a few years. Edwards was with Priscilla for seven years, from 1977 till 1984, and their relationship was stuffed with violence, in accordance with the e book.
Lisa Marie died in January 2023, forsaking hours of tapes that her daughter Riley Keough, an actress who starred in “Daisy Jones & The Six,” changed into a biography.
The Post has reached out to Priscilla for remark.
