why wasn’t Elvis, Priscilla, Michael & Me published?
 

Why was this Elvis related book never published?: J. Randy Taraborrelli is one of the most well known celebrity biographers with millions of books sold around the world. Taraborrelli’s usually sensational celebrity biographies read like a ‘who’s who” of the entertainment world. They include books on:

* Frank Sinatra
* Madonna
* Princess Grace
* Michael Jackson
* Elizabeth Taylor
* Cher
* Diana Ross
* Motown Records
* the Kennedy women
* Marilyn Monroe
* Whitney Houston
* Carol Burnett

However, despite his success with these subjects, there is one biography he could not get on the book shelves……….his book about Lisa Marie Presley.

Despite significant pre-publication publicity in tabloid magazines around the world, Taraborrelli’s book: Elvis, Priscilla, Michael & Me, a biography of Lisa Marie Presley, was never published.


Claims in the book, pre-publicised in 1997 in magazines including New Idea in Australia, included that:

1. Michael Jackson proposed to his first wife, Lisa Marie Presley, by mistake – he was allegedly drugged out at the time and thought he was calling his nurse of 15 years (the future Mrs Michael Jackson #2), Debbie Rowe
2. Jackson was suicidal
3. Debbie Rowe became pregnant with Jackson’s child while he was still married to Lisa Marie, however Rowe lost the baby
4. Debbie Rowe, after marrying Jackson, rang Lisa Marie to find out what it was like being married to him. In response, Taraborrelli claims a cutting Lisa Marie said: “Nursey, there’s nothing I can tell you about your husband that you won’t learn on your own. I paid my dues with that guy. Now I’m over him. I wish you luck.”

So why wasn’t Elvis, Priscilla, Michael & Me published?

From what EIN can ascertain, legal action was initiated against the book by unspecified parties (either Lisa Marie/EPE or Michael Jackson) and the decision was taken not to proceed with publication.