Besides the fact that Elvis and Michael Jackson were both musical superstars, there were strange similarities between Priscilla and Lisa Marie’s relationships with them. Priscilla was 14 when she first met Elvis, who was 24, per The Guardian. In 1984, when Lisa Marie was 16, Michael Jackson, then 25, unexpectedly invited her and her mother to dinner, according to Radar. At the time, Priscilla believed Jackson was obsessed with Elvis and that Lisa Marie “was being manipulated” by Jackson, an unnamed source told the news site.
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Years later, in February 1993, Lisa Marie again met Jackson at a party in LA and the two hit it off, according to “Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 1958 – 2009.” Over the coming months, they would grow closer and closer. Priscilla, looking back at Lisa Marie’s relationship with Jackson, could see why her daughter might have been attracted to him. “It’s true she grew up in Graceland and then lived with Michael Jackson in Neverland and Michael was like a child and just wanted to have fun all the time,” Priscilla told The Guardian. “How do you not gravitate to that? But it’s not the real world. And maybe she saw something of Elvis in Michael.”
