Riley Keough, the 35-year-old actress and granddaughter of Elvis Presley, revealed on the Call Her Daddy podcast that she was never informed about the sexual abuse allegations against her stepfather, Michael Jackson, during his two-year marriage to her mother, Lisa Marie Presley. Keough, who was only ten years old at the time, stated that she simply wasn't aware of the allegations. The actress also discussed her upbringing amidst the complexities of her family life, including her mother's marriage to Jackson and the tragic deaths of her brother Benjamin and mother Lisa Marie.
Riley Keough revealed she was 'never told' about the sexual abuse allegations against her stepfather, Michael Jackson , during his two-year marriage to her late mother, Lisa Marie Presley . She was only about 10-years-old at the time the claims were made, so it's very likely the news did not reach her.
The actress, 35 - who previously addressed a 'family curse' after the tragic deaths of her mother and brother Benjamin - opened up about the late King of Pop during Wednesday's episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast. Presley and Jackson were briefly married from 1994 until their divorce was finalized two years later. In the 90s and early 2000s, the Thriller hitmaker had been accused of sexually abusing minors, but during a 2005 trial, the late singer was found not guilty on a total of 14 charges. \'I was never told anything. It's actually not something I ever asked as an adult,' the star expressed. 'I think it just was what it was. I don't know, it just never came to mind, I guess.' Riley is the daughter of Lisa Marie and Danny Keough - who were married from 1988 until 1994. The former couple had also welcomed son Benjamin, who tragically passed away in 2020 by suicide. 'I would imagine that my dad was really heartbroken and reading the news and I'm sure that - I'm just imagining,' the star said of Keough. She further reflected, 'I would imagine he said all kinds of things to my mom that we didn't know about.' While growing up, both her mother and father had made it important to not 'fight around the kids.' 'We didn't know anything. We didn't know about any allegations. We didn't know. We had no awareness of that.' On Lisa Marie's marriage to Jackson, Riley expressed, 'The one thing I know is that they were in love and that their love for one another was genuine. I was there and I remember. Everything else, I don't know, because I wasn't there for .' During the two years that Michael was her stepfather, the actress recalled how life had become 'bigger.' 'I think when she saw Michael's life, there were things that he had that she didn't have,' Riley said of her late mother - who passed away in January 2023 at age 54. 'She didn't have a plane at the time or things like that. She then was like,'Oh, I should have a plane, and I should have this and that.'' \In the 90s and early 2000s, the Thriller hitmaker had been accused of sexually abusing minors, but during a 2005 trial, the late singer was found not guilty on a total of 14 charges. 'I was never told anything. It's actually not something I ever asked as an adult,' Riley expressed. 'I think it just was what it was. I don't know, it just never came to mind, I guess.'; Comparatively, Lisa Marie's marriage to Keough was more 'simple,' with Riley explaining, 'At home, like, she didn't have 10 million assistants. She didn't need all of that . I think that changed.' The daughter of Elvis Presley had also previously addressed Jackson's sexual abuse allegations. Read More Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough addresses claims her family is cursed In the 2003 book titled The Magic And The Madness written by J. Randy Taraborrelli, a quote from Lisa Marie said: 'I believed he didn't do anything wrong.' 'And that he was wrongly accused and, yes, I started falling for him. I wanted to save him. I felt that I could do it.' The late star also commented on the allegations in her posthumous memoir, From Here To The Great Unknown, which was released last year in October 2024. 'I never saw a godd**n thing like that. I personally would've killed him if I did,' Presley had written, per Us Weekly. During a past interview with T Magazine, Riley recalled her late mother's marriage to Jackson and also spending time at Neverland. 'I loved him,' Keough said of the late singer, and added of Michael's $100 million abode, 'There were toys everywhere, animals everywhere, kids everywhere. It was like being at Disneyland all day.' On Lisa Marie's marriage to Jackson, Riley expressed, 'The one thing I know is that they were in love and that their love for one another was genuine. I was there and I remember. Everything else, I don't know, because I wasn't there for '; seen in 1994 During the Call Her Daddy podcast interview, Riley also reflected on how she raises her daughter Tupelo, two, differently than how she grew up with mother Lisa Marie. The Under The Bridge actress shares her little one with husband Ben Smith-Peterson, whom she tied the knot with in 2015
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