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- <title>
- Aug. 15, 1994: People:Royal Wedding
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Aug. 15, 1994 Infidelity--It may be in our genes
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 63
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- <body>
- <p>By Ginia Bellafante
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- <p> ROYAL WEDDING
- </p>
- <p> According to classic psychoanalytic theory, young women unconsciously
- seek husbands who bear profound similarities to their fathers.
- Assuming that is true, LISA MARIE PRESLEY has been looking for
- a rare mate indeed. A man like her father ELVIS PRESLEY would
- be a popular singer who possessed celebrity almost terrifying
- in its scope. He would dress each day as though he were paying
- sartorial homage to Liberace. He would fit the description of
- Elvis offered by a reviewer in 1956 who said the performer resembled
- "an obscene child." And where Elvis was "the King," this perfect
- man would be, say, "the King of Pop."
- </p>
- <p> Despite formidable odds, Lisa Marie Presley has found such a
- partner. Last week she confirmed reports, which had been circulating
- in the press for weeks, that she secretly married MICHAEL JACKSON
- in the Dominican Republic in May. Calling herself Mrs. Presley-Jackson,
- she issued a statement proclaiming devotion to her husband.
- "We both look forward to raising a family and living a happy,
- healthy life together," she said, as if she were just another
- winsome bride embarking on a life of slate-patio, convection-oven
- normality.
- </p>
- <p> The union is perhaps the most remarkable celebrity coupling
- in pop-culture history. Lisa Marie Presley is the daughter of
- the most successful recording artist of all time; her husband
- ranks not far behind. The names to the left and right of her
- fashionable hyphen translate into billions of dollars in record
- sales; together Lisa Marie and Michael are worth an estimated
- $300 million. As occupants of the highest echelon of America's
- show-biz class, they have behaved perfectly sensibly by marrying
- each other. And at the same time the marriage makes no sense.
- Michael Jackson, so disturbingly, aggressively childlike, was
- supposed to languish forever in his curious bachelorhood. He
- was not meant to say "I do."
- </p>
- <p> Of course, the bride and groom may simply be madly in love,
- but the reason for the marriage has been the subject of considerable
- speculation. Michael, some say, hopes to salvage his image,
- sullied last year when a 13-year-old boy accused him of sexual
- abuse. Others theorize that Lisa Marie, whose effort to get
- a record contract failed two years ago, may have wed Michael
- in order to further her career as a singer. But certainly there
- are easier ways for the daughter of Elvis Presley to achieve
- that end than by becoming the wife of Michael Jackson. After
- all, Roger Clinton had a record deal, and he didn't marry Madonna
- to win it.
- </p>
- <p> Lisa Marie and her mother Priscilla are members of the Church
- of Scientology. Danny Keough, the man to whom Lisa Marie was
- until recently married and the father of her two children, is
- a prominent Scientologist. The church makes an effort to attract
- celebrities, but there is no indication that Michael has joined.
- </p>
- <p> As Michael's wife, Lisa Marie will live in her accustomed manner.
- The new mistress of Neverland, the 2,700-acre ranch Michael
- has equipped with a Ferris wheel and zoo, spent her childhood
- at Graceland, her father's pleasure palace. Elvis gave his daughter
- a diamond ring and mink coat on her eighth birthday, and jetted
- her to Utah and back one afternoon so she could see snow. Michael
- will surely deny her nothing. Until last week, the newlyweds
- were staying in a $10,000-a-month apartment in Manhattan's Trump
- Tower.
- </p>
- <p> What does the future hold for Mr. and Mrs. Jackson? They are
- now in Budapest, where Michael is shooting a video. In October
- they will give a concert together at Graceland. There is even
- a rumor of a baby in the offing. May the godfather be Frank
- Sinatra.
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