“There were times when he would ask me to marry him, and I would say, ‘You have me for the rest of your life, you don’t need to marry me, I’m going to go on and do my own life and have my own marriage and my own kids, and you’ll always have me.’  “I think it made him relax. He didn’t want to lose things that meant something to him.”

….Brooke Shields telling Rolling Stone magazine (for their Michael Jackson tribute edition) that she turned down countless marriage proposals by MJ