Michael Jackson's Marriages

Michael Jackson [King of Pop] was involved in two marriages and ended up divorcing both due to various reasons explained in this article.

First Marriage

Michael married Lisa Marie Presley on 18^th May 1994 in De La Vega, Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. Lisa had two kids from a marriage with Danny Keough, a famous musician. According to many, it’s believed their marriage was a way of casting Michael in a better light after the 13-year boy sexual molestation charges. On January 18^th 1996 Jackson divorced Presley where reasons for the divorce cited as irreconcilable differences between the two. After Michaels death, Presley gave a statement about her former husband "I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much ... I became very ill and emotionally/spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him. I was in over my head while trying ... He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together." [Courtesy of People.com]

Second marriage

Nine months later after Jackson divorced Presley, he married Debbie Rowe on November 15, 1996. She was an adopted daughter of a millionaire from Malibu, California. Debbie was a nurse at Dr. Arnold Klein dermatology office where she met Jackson who used to come for vitiligo treatment. When Debbie was six months pregnant, both got married in Sydney, Australia. Three months later, she gave birth to a boy child who was named Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. on 13^th February 1997. On the following year, Debbie gave birth to her second girl child, Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson born on April 3, 1998. This was Rowe’s second marriage, her first being to Richard Edelman in 1982. The couple divorced on October 8, 1999 where she gave Jackson full custody of the two children. Rowe was awarded $8 million as settlement and a house in Beverly Hills, California. In 2009 after Jackson’s death, she made statements to deny a lot of gossips that she was not the children’s biological mother and that she was attempting to bargain her parental rights for money. In August 2009, Rowe reached a settlement with Katherine Jackson, the children's guardian, under which she has rights to supervised visitations. Mrs. Jackson's attorney stated that the negotiations were "never about money" and the settlement was in the best interests of the children. The children now know that Rowe is their mother and they have visitations with her.