Then he strolled over to the piano and started singing. In a first-person account for People in 1985 coinciding with the release of her memoir, Priscilla recalled being introduced to Elvis at his rental house near the Army base in Bad Nauheim: The star asked her, 'Well, what have we here? What are you, about a junior or senior in high school?' When she told him she was in ninth grade, he chuckled and said, 'Why, you're just a baby.' In my book I wrote 'my God,' because I lived and breathed him.' 'He was such an impact in my life, in every way,' Priscilla told Entertainment Tonight in 2017. Priscilla became a co-executor of the 'King of Rock and Roll's' estate after the death of the singer's father, Vernon Presley, in 1979 and has been instrumental in keeping Graceland up and running as a tourist destination (though pilgrimage site may be more accurate) and her ex one of the highest-earning deceased celebrities of all time.īut even if Vernon had handed the keys to the castle to someone else, it's not as if the experience of being in love with one of the most magnetic people ever to walk the earth was just going to fade away. The film is also nominated for eight Oscars heading into the March 12 ceremony, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Austin Butler, looking to repeat his Globes triumph for his uncanny portrayal of the legendary artist.

Lisa Marie died just two days after attending the Golden Globes in support of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis. For anyone to think anything differently would be a travesty of the family legacy and would be disrespectful of what Elvis left behind in his life. As I have always been there for Elvis' legacy, our family and the fans, I will continue to forge a pathway forward with respect, honesty, dignity, integrity and love.' 'I loved Elvis very much as he loved me,' she said in a statement to E! News last month. 'Lisa is a result of our love. The good times didn't last forever, to say the least, but Priscilla remains the keeper of Elvis' legacy-and intends to be just that for the foreseeable future, the 77-year-old stating that her decision to contest the validity of Lisa Marie's will following the 54-year-old's shocking death on Jan. More than 45 years after his death, Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley remain embedded in our culture as a unit, from the footage of their 1967 wedding, the bouffant-sporting bride's kohl-rimmed eyes gazing at her heartthrob husband, to their family photos with daughter Lisa Marie Presley.

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