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Topics: Elvis, Celebrity, Music, Sex and Relationships
Anish Vij
Topics: Elvis, Celebrity, Music, Sex and Relationships
Priscilla Presley first met Elvis at a party in Bad Nauheim, West Germany, when the musician was stationed with the US Army.
Back then, in 1959, he was 24 and she was 14.
After Elvis left Germany a year later, the pair reunited in person in 1962 when Priscilla's parents gave her permission to visit him in LA.
Two months before she turned 18, she was allowed to move to Memphis to live several streets away from Graceland with his dad and step-mum.
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In her new memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, Priscilla said she moved into Graceland in May 1963.
"Though Elvis and I had started a relationship when I was fourteen, it didn’t become a romantic relationship until I was seventeen," the 80-year-old wrote.
"We waited to have sex until he married me at twenty-one. The fact remains, however, that there were ten years between us," she added.
They got divorced in 1973 after Elvis was said to have cheated on Priscilla a number of times, before she had an affair with her karate instructor, Mike Stone.
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The reason why she left him, however, was partly because the 'Suspicious Minds' singer allegedly considered hiring a hitman to take out Stone.
Also, when he found out about the affair, Priscilla claimed Elvis 'forced' himself on her.
"Elvis made love to me forcefully, not forcibly,” she wrote. “His usual tenderness and consideration for me were missing.
"It was emotionally hurtful, and it left me with an unhappy memory of my last experience of sexual intimacy with Elvis.
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"As difficult as it was, I never regretted my decision to leave Elvis. But I never ceased to mourn it."
Despite the separation and divorce, they remained connected until Elvis' death in 1977 via their late daughter Lisa Marie, who died in 2023.
Aged 54, she died of a small bowel obstruction, a complication of prior weight-loss surgery, which led to a fatal cardiac arrest.
The obstruction was caused by adhesions from the surgery, and the death was ruled as a natural cause.
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Opening up about the moment she took her daughter off life support, Priscilla wrote: "I thought about my girl, my wild, rebellious, passionate girl, lying in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.
"I said what I had to. 'Take her off the machine, Doctor'. My voice was barely above a whisper."