I’ve always been slightly fascinated with Lisa Marie Presley, particularly as a result of her heavy-duty public involvement with Scientology, which her father so famously described as “that s.o.b. group — all they want is my money.” Now of course, the cult is getting a lot of his money since both Lisa Marie and Priscilla are followers. Not that the CO$ and all of its glorious “tech” has helped Lisa Marie endure lasting, healthy marriages unless one considers “healthy” to mean “plentiful.” At this point, she’s in the midst of her fourth marriage to musician Michael Lockwood and was previously married to Danny Keough, Michael Jackson, and Nicolas Cage. According a story in this week’s edition of The Enquirer, Lisa Marie is well on her way to a fourth divorce:
Lisa Marie Presley is strugglng to keep her marriage to fourth husband Michael Lockwood from falling apart, sources tell The ENQUIRER.
Lisa Marie and Michael have been butting heads over her relentless determination to become a singing star, her role as sole heir to her father Elvis’ estate and how to best parent their 3-year-old twins as well as her adult children from her first marriage, say sources.
She married Michael in 2006 and gave birth to twin girls Harper and Finley in 2008. Although they’ve argued before, sources say their conflicts appear to have escalated over recent months as Lisa Marie prepares to promote her new CD and tour.
According to the friend, Lisa Marie has been working on her “do-or-die” third album for several years and has enlisted Grammy-winning producer T-Bone Burnett to guide her through the recording process. Meanwhile, she’s had husband Michael — her longtime guitarist and musical director — take a minimal role in the project.
“She’s made him more of a sideman, and it’s hurt his feelings,” the friend explained. “Right now she’s planning on relegating Michael to playing guitar on some songs, handling tour arrangements and taking care of their twins. Michael is an easy-going guy, but when she told him to like it or lump it, he brooded for days.”
But Lisa Marie’s career isn’t the couple’s only problem. The two can’t agree on how best to raise their daughters, or how involved they should be in the lives of Lisa’s older children, actress/model Riley, 22, and musician Benjamin, 29.
“Michael is much more of a ‘take it as it comes’ dad and stepfather, while Lisa Marie plays the overly concerned parent,” the source said.
“Sometimes during heated arguments with Michael, Lisa Marie has said she wants out,” the friend confided. “But divorce is out of the question. Lisa Marie doesn’t want to be a four-time loser and is committed to making her marrige to Michael work.”
[From Enquirer, print edition, February 6. 2012]
The article also mentions that Lisa Marie has upset Michael by leaving him out of plans for the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of Elvis’ death, and she also completely “keeps him completely removed from anything to do with the Presley finances.” On that end, I certainly can’t blame her because she’s the sole heir of the Elvis fortune. Then again, she’s turning so much of it over to Scientology, so if I were Michael, I’d probably feel slighted too. Unless he’s a member of the CO$ as well, which he probably is.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN
She’s so gorgeous.
She WAS gorgeous. Now looks like old fat hoe.
I agree…the pic of her in the shorts and the tank top looks fab!
I’m sure it’s definitely not been easy for her growing up in her “bubble.” And I will say that she SERIOUSLY needs to get a stylist and GET RID OF her make-up artist, if she even has one. Her dark make-up crap all over her eyes is horrible!! And please smile once in a while, okay?? I don’t think I’ve ever seen her smile!
How is Ben 29? He is younger than Riley.
Yeah, no way is her son 29, maybe 19. I am 44 and she is 6 months younger than me. She couldn’t have been 15 when she had him.
Bad typo, he’s not 29. He was born in 92 so he’s 20.
That’s funny that the Enquirer talks about Lisa Marie’s “relentless determination.” She’s pretty darn talented, but in her entire life, she’s managed to finish recording only 2 albums. Considering that she (apparently) always wanted to be a musician, has unlimited funds, and that almost anyone in the industry would roll out the red carpet to work with her, that’s not so relentless. I don’t get the feeling that Lisa Marie has a ton of self-discipline. But then again, she has probably never really needed it.
Eye shadow goes on the TOP lid, silly.
She always looks unhappy to me. She obvs has issues – come on, four marriages and one was to Nick Cage – if that doesn’t say issues I don’t know what does.
The whole SciTi thing creeps me out – is it that hard to recognize a cult – esp. one your father hated?!
Living in someones shadow cannot be easy. Money does not guarantee happiness!
You think the marriage to Nick Cage is the one which was problematic? HAH!
Ditto!
LOL!
I was thinking the same thing. I never see her smiling.
She keeps trying to fill the void with husbands, children, and music. At least as far as we know it is not with drugs the way Elvis did.
Hope she finds her way.
I have never seen her smile – unless you count when she was a little girl, before CO$.
I don’t think she had a choice with that cult. I’ve read bios where Priscilla literally dragged her kicking and screaming into the cult. That is a shame. All of Elvis’ money going to the midget tyrant.
She smiled plenty when she was first married to Michael Jackson, and actually looked happy a LOT when she was with him. I believe that MJ was the love of her life, and that is probably a problem for her and Lockwood ( as she is famously known to call him because Michael Jackson will always be Michael to her) as well. I wish Lisa health and happiness, she deserves it after all that she has been through.
Wow, got to admire Scientology relationships!! Such “religious” focus on the institution of marriage…..they need to revoke their “church tax exempt” status & call them the cult they are.
Feel bad for Lisa Marie, she never seems happy
You never seem to see any happy pictures of her. She always looks so bitchy. She looks like hell.
I don’t think she looks bitchy, she just looks liker her father. Check out old pictures of him, he always had the same expression.
she just has bitch face. I have it and unless I am smiling 24/7 people think i am mad or upset.
I am not, but I won’t wonder the streets with a smile on my face to appear not bitchy. It’s unfortunate but at least it keeps away the creepers on the train and pushy sales people. : )
At least botox helps though.. hahaha
Oh no, she’s a cold hearted bitch..you don’t want to get on her bad side. She always has had such a chip on her shoulder too…like, she couldn’t embrace the fact she is Elvis’s daughter. She’s grown up enough now to let go a bit….
Go on youtube and look up videos of her and Michael Jackson. She never looked happier. He was the love of her life.
Benjamin Keough is not 29! That would make Lisa Marie, what, 14 when he was born? 19 sounds more like it.
with all the money her and her mother have, you would think they could get better stylists. they both look like ten kinds of hell.
Priscilla was pretty. I’m talking circa Dallas years, not the shellacked Elvis years. She had to ruin it all by using that quack surgeon who filled her w/ car fluids and god knows what.
ya, priscilla use to be really pretty.
Lisa’s daughter Riley looks exactly like Priscilla when she was younger.
If T-Bone Burnett is going to produce my album…all jokes aside, my musician husband is just gonna have to take that back seat and CHILL!!
I mean…it’s T-BONE!!!
I agree! T-Bone is fantab!
I thought she wasn’t involved with CoS anymore and I thought she was going to write one hell of a book about her life and her Mom was trying to block it.
I thoght her moving to England was beacause she was ‘moving away’ from Cos and her Mom.
From what I understand, the Scientologists are taking over the area of England that she moved to and the English don’t seem to happy about it.
Is that Tom Cruise in the background of the last photo?
As weird as it might seem, she actually looked happy when she was married to Michael Jackson. That was the only period in her life when she was always smiling in pictures and looked at ease. She looks miserable and stressed out these days. It has to be hard to make a marriage work when one of the people is rich and famous and the other isn’t. I wish she’d stop wasting her dad’s money on that cult…
Very true. And strange. He was so fey and she seems very direct, like a “no bullshit” type of person. Maybe they balanced each other out.
Did you guys watch that Oprah interview where she talked about Michael? She actually left her first husband for MJ and kept in touch with him for years after they divorced. The way she talked about him I honestly thought she was still hung up on him. I think that could have had a huge affect on her current marriage. WEIRD!!!
I think she’s a beautiful woman, but the top getup has her looking like the Corpse Bride. Her groom seems to be a pimp from a Tim Burton movie.
The buzz in the Scientology world is that she has been quietly extricating herself from their grasp, It was really strong shorty after MJ died. She removed Scientology mentions from her web page or MySpace and, from what I’ve heard, she hasn’t been at Scientology events. There were also rumors that the “church” was trying to get Priscilla to disconnect from Lisa.
I hope it’s true. She’s actually always seemed kind of independent to me.
she was the common answer to blinds about a CO$ moving away, leaving the church and planning an explosive tell all about her CO$ member parent
If she’s trying to extricate herself and he’s still immersed, that will cause problems. She’s the one with the name and $ my guess is that CO$ will use him and her kids to control and manipulate her
someone needs to tell this chick that eyeshadow goes on the eyelid, not under the eye.
First of all, marriage to Nick Cage doesn’t count..
Now, this marriage. Think of it this way; she lost her dad when she was very young, and to her, he must be even larger than life than he is to everyone else. Why that HAS to manifest as a singing career is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. I know she can sing, but can she really sing? Talent does skip generations. Maybe it’s time to just let go.
As for her new hubby, why does he have to be a “step-dad” to 20 year olds? A good friend and source of support would be more appropriate.
No, the sham marriage to the gloved freak doesn’t count.
Watch the Oprah interview Lisa makes it clear she loved MJ and was still in love with him up until the day he died.
As for Nic he married her simply because of his Elvis obsession.
which one the one she just recently did where played the fake “grieving widow” roll and lied half way through it to try and win his fans over so her upcoming album doesnt bomb like the rest of them or the one back in 05(and the countless others i might add) where she trashed him left and right telling oprah when asked bout the marriage to mj and i quoute: “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD WHAT WAS I THINKING”… yeah she was deffinatly in love w/ him up until the day he died LMAO!!!
43 years old and on her 4th marriage. Not a good sign. I hope they work it out for the sake of their kids. Oh, and her son is 19.
She is still very pretty but I find her personality always so grumpy.
Prescilla ruined her body to produce THAT? No wonder Elvis didn’t want her to get pregnant.
I don’t want to dog on Lisa Marie Presley’s looks, because that is cruel and unnecessary — she’s looked kind of cute in the past. But isn’t it funny how two beautiful parents do not ensure beautiful offspring? Lisa Marie, Willis girls, etc. I wonder how the Jolie-Pitt bio-kids and Halle Berry’s daughter will turn out?
She needs to stop trying to cram herself as a singer down everyone’s throats. Her last musical venture seemed not to work out the way she wanted.
Stop trying to be something you’re not right now, and be what you are: a married (4X!) mother of four. Work on your marriage and raising your 3-year-old twin daughters.
Wauw, at least Elvis was smart about CO$ and saw a duck for what it was. A sham.
She looks like Drew Barrymore got Tim Burton’d.
I admire her humanitarian efforts, The Presley Charitable Foundation which helps a lot of people and she’s donated some of her money to other organizations. She’s a good person and a generous one.
She needs to get her ring finger removed and get it replaced with a clue. Show business doesn’t have to be a family business, why is she only one who doesn’t see it? No one’s buying it, literally or figuratively. Entertaining’s not a birthright, especially if you’re not very good at it. Are we going to be hearing big things from Frank Stallone, now? Stop wasting your father’s money on odious cult garbage antifreeze for Priscilla’s face, and stop expecting that your career can be powered by the extending grace of a person who has been dead for 35 years. Lineage only means so much, the entertainment industry doesn’t wait around for decades while you sort stuff out. This petulant shiftless is way past old if this is the career she wants. I don’t wish her any ill will, I just think her career’s gone a bit ‘strike while the iron’s 25 years ago’, and no one’s been wondering what she’s been doing.
Thanks, Jo ‘Mama’, this made me laugh.
Also, I think you’re right on the money.
She looks absolutely frightening!
It’s about time she pulls a chaz
Chaz? Her face is very pretty, and she has had several children. I guess when you have inherited several million dollars, you can afford to get divorced over and over. Despite all the money, it must be difficult being Elvis` daughter. I would always wonder if men loved me for me, or my money & legacy.
But didn’t Lisa tell Oprah she will not bash *sorry* speak about Michael Jackson again ? .. I wonder then who wants to interview her anymore ? She’s thinking now to promote her new album ??? have a seat , Lisa ..!! Back then , when Lisa promoted her albums she used to speak ill about MJ and mocked her marriage(which is 10000% the best thing happens to her ) just to get people’s attention . Suddenly after his death , when people started to feel sympathy for him , she wants to make herslef that women who was very important in his life and played a great role in his life ( like srsly dude that marriage doens’t even count it’s barley lasted 18 months ).. Her interview with Oprah was an attempt to play the ‘widow’ role like her mom did with Elvis ..it’s all for attention ..
Lisa neede help :/
Lisa removed/deleted her myspace blog after some cruel/hataful comments she received from Michael Jackson’s fans ..
She wrote some blogs about MJ after his death , but his fans didn’t like them AT ALL .. I read one of them and I can tell it’s unnecessary to do and fake as hell ..
They felt she was trying to act like her mother “Me and Elvis” “Elvis and Me”
First photo: I didn’t know LMP was that close with Diane Keaton.
lol…my exact thought when I saw that picture…
I’ve never understood why Lisa Marie wears so much heavy eye make up underneath her eyes? Whenever I see pictures of her, she is always unsmiling, with dark eye make up.
NEVER HAD BEEN MORE HAPPY THAN WITH MICHAEL, OF COURSE, JACKSON HER REAL LOVE UNTIL NOW AND FOREVER.
LMP + MJ = BLANKET
LOCKWOOD ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE A CLOWN. MUST BE A ONE REAL?
To have the combined genes of EP and Prisilla you’d think she’d be more photogenic?
She always looks like she is sniffing in a bad fart
lisa always smiled when with michael jackson he too give him credit they were together 10 years no one knows why the final breakup. thier affair after divorcing was astounding.
She seems to be looking for something. The speed with which she gets married again is amazing. She seems to be looking for that something in a man for some reason. Men cannot fill that gap deep down. Her choice of men says a lot. The last time i saw her singing, she looked fed up and as if she was not making much effort at all. There is a vacant look in her eyes all the time and i cannot see her being happy at all.
Lisa Marie Presley is a love addict. She is looking for her dad Elvis in all the men she has dated or married. Michael Jackson reminded her the most of her father Elvis that’s why she was obsessed with him. She needs therapy to help her deal with her daddy issues (she is still angry that her father Elvis died and abandonned her when she was still a little girl and needed him).