As the only child of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley was always going to have her personal life looked at with a fine-toothed comb. In her adult years, the American star has had a few marriages that have claimed headlines. Just a few years after divorcing the King of Pop Michael Jackson in 1996, Lisa Marie started a relationship with Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage. Two years into their “intense” relationship the pair married on August 10, 2002.

Lisa Marie, 34 at the time, and Nic, 38 at the time, eloped to Hawaii where they finally tied the knot.

Both parties had been married before, but were optimistic about their newfound marriage, despite the arguments that were reported beforehand.

Unfortunately, the relationship wasn’t what they dreamed it would be. They grabbed various headlines throughout their time together before the divorce was filed on November 25, 2002 – just three months after getting hitched.

The divorce was finalised in 2004, but not before they had one of their biggest fights on an enormous yacht.

The couple reportedly set sail into a fierce battle with one another, which resulted in Lisa Marie’s $65,000 six-carat yellow diamond engagement ring being thrown into the ocean. (Via InStyle)

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After the fight had come to an end Nic reportedly hired a team of divers to find the ring in the water.

But the Leaving Las Vegas star was unsuccessful. Now his wife was missing her engagement ring, he decided to make it up to her wife with an even bigger trinket – this time a ten-carat version of the rock.

On top of the couple’s reported numerous fights, Nic was also under the microscope for apparently being an Elvis fanatic. Further claims surfaced he was only with the young woman because of his obsession with the King of Rock and Roll.

Nic went on to dispel these rumours, saying: “There’s no answering machine with my voice on it as Elvis.” (Via Barbara Walters)

Nic told Walters: “Oftentimes when you have two people who are very strong and their own personalities and rather intense, sometimes you can have a hard time meshing.

“It’s sad and I miss her every day. And sometimes I wish we couldn’t have rushed the marriage and sometimes I regret rushing the divorce, but it just seemed like it wasn’t going to change.”

While Lisa Marie did seem filled with regret also, she did have some pointed words to say about Nic.

She told press years later: “The most upsetting thing was when he called to say he was sorry, wish he hadn’t done it [filed for divorce], things like that.”

Lisa Marie went on: “You can’t have a temper tantrum and then call me four days later and expect, you know, everything to be fine again … so, it was like that … We were both like two 12-year-olds in a sandbox, basically.”

She added: “We’re both so dramatic and dynamic that when it was good, it was unbelievably good, and when it was bad, it was just a f*****g b****y nightmare for everybody.” (Via Rolling Stone)

She later told Larry King: “I adore Nic. We had a connection. We’re sort of these gypsy-spirited, you know, tyrannical pirates. And one pirate marries another they will sink the ship basically is what it comes down to.”

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