Lisa Marie Presley claimed that she was molested by her mother Priscilla Presley’s ex-boyfriend, actor Mike Edwards, in her new memoir.
After the death of her dad, Elvis Presley, in 1977, Lisa Marie moved full-time to LA to live with her mom, with whom she had a tumultuous relationship throughout her life.
There, she alleges in “From Here to the Great Unknown” (out now), Edwards — who appeared in the movie, “Mommie Dearest” as Joan Crawford’s lover — came into her room in the middle of the night 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 at the time, writes. “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 told her mom the next day and, she writes, 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.’”
But, she claims in the book, the abuse didn’t end there.
“Eventually it became that he would touch me and spank me, telling me not to look [at him],” Lisa Marie writes. “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 showed Priscilla the bruises, Lisa Marie claims, her mother said: “Well what did you do to cause that?”
In a disturbing passage in his 1988 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 writes that when Priscilla did confront Edwards, he would say, “I was drunk” or “she was flirting with me.”
In his book, Edwards said, “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 a few years. Edwards was with Priscilla for seven years from 1977 until 1984 and their relationship was full of violence, according to the book.
Lisa Marie died in January 2023, leaving behind hours of tapes that her daughter Riley Keough, an actress who starred in “Daisy Jones & The Six,” turned into a biography,
The Post has reached out to Edwards and Priscilla for comment.