Lisa Marie Presley alleged that her mother’s boyfriend sexually assaulted her when she was only 10 years old.
She revealed the bombshell allegations posthumously, in her memoir “From Here to the Great Unknown,” according to People. Presley said her mother Priscilla dated actor and model Michael Edwards, and claimed he repeatedly came into her room and molested her. Presley alleged that he would “touch me and spank me” as she grew older, and claimed she was left with bruises, according to People.
LAS VEGAS, NV – APRIL 23: Actress Priscilla Presley (L) and singer Lisa Marie Presley attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony during the grand opening of “Graceland Presents ELVIS: The Exhibition – The Show – The Experience” at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino on April 23, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bryan Steffy/WireImage) Getty Images
Priscilla and Edwards were in a relationship for roughly six years in the 1970s and 1980s, People noted. Presley said Edwards had a “horrible temper,” and accused him of launching a dining room chair toward her, striking her in the back.
Nothing could prepare her for the alleged sexual assaults that began in the most shocking way.
Presley wrote in her memoir that she “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,” according to People.
Priscilla Presley and Mike Edwards, circa 1980’s (Photo by Ralph Dominguez/MediaPunch via Getty Images)
He said he was “going to teach me what was going to happen when I got older,” Presley alleged, according to People.
She went on to write that he placed a hand between her legs and “gently kissed” her.
Presley said she told her mother, and wrote that Edwards explained away his behavior.
NASHVILLE, TN – SEPTEMBER 20: Lisa Marie Presley performs at 3rd & Lindsley during the 14th Annual Americana Music Festival & Conference – Day 3 on September 20, 2013 in Nashville, United States. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Americana Music Festival)
“He said, ‘I’m so sorry, but in Europe that’s how they teach the kids, so that’s what I was doing.’ I didn’t know what to say. I would always feel bad for him when he apologized,” Presley wrote in her memoir, according to People. (RELATED: Celebrity Memoir Reveals Lisa Marie Presley Kept Her Son’s Deceased Body In Her Home)
“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,” Presley claimed.
Presley passed away in 2023. Her memoir was completed by her daughter Riley, and was published in October 2024.
