PRISCILLA Presley has finally opened up about her late daughter Lisa Marie's bizarre, brief marriage to Michael Jackson.

In her memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis , Elvis ' widow Priscilla, 80, slammed the King of Pop as a "manipulative man" who used Lisa Marie for her family name.

Priscilla claimed she was immediately "appalled" when Lisa Marie called to let her mother know she was marrying Michael in 1994.

"I was appalled by the marriage," she wrote. "I knew in my bones that

Michael wasn’t marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty."

She said he needed "good publicity" after he was hit with child molestation accusations , claims he vehemently denied at the time. (Priscilla claimed Lisa Marie believed in his innocence.)

Priscilla claimed Michael b

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