1. Priscilla Ann Presley is an American businesswoman and actress.
66 Facts About Priscilla Presley
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Priscilla Presley is the ex-wife of American singer Elvis Presley, as well as the cofounder and former chairperson of Elvis Presley Enterprises, the company that turned Graceland into one of the top tourist attractions in the United States.
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Priscilla Presley Ann Wagner was born at Brooklyn Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on May 24,1945.
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Priscilla Presley's maternal grandfather, Albert Henry Iversen, was born in Egersund, Norway.
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Priscilla Presley migrated to the United States, where he married Lorraine Davis, who was of Scots-Irish and English descent.
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Priscilla Presley married Ann on August 10,1944, after dating for more than three years.
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Priscilla Presley's surname was legally changed from Wagner to Beaulieu on April 17,1950.
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Priscilla Presley describes herself during this period as "a shy, pretty, little girl, unhappily accustomed to moving from base to base every two or three years".
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Priscilla Presley was "crushed" upon learning this news, as it occurred just after her junior high school years, and was upset about leaving her friends and connections behind.
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On September 13,1959,14-year-old Priscilla Presley met 24-year-old Elvis at a party at his villa in Bad Nauheim, West Germany, which he had rented during his military service.
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Priscilla Presley's presence is said to have made Elvis seem "awkward" and "embarrassed"; however, he composed himself by the end of the evening.
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Priscilla Presley was concerned about Elvis rekindling his relationship with Anita Wood, whom he had been dating before and after his overseas service in West Germany.
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Priscilla Presley was expected to write to her parents every day.
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Elvis agreed to all these demands, and Priscilla Presley flew to Los Angeles.
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Elvis told her they were going to Las Vegas, and to confuse her parents, he had Priscilla Presley write a postcard for every day they would be away, with the intent that each would be mailed daily from Los Angeles by a member of his staff.
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Priscilla Presley was keen to go to Hollywood with Elvis, but he kept telling her he was too busy and had her stay in Memphis.
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Priscilla Presley confronted Elvis, who explained the reports as rumors to promote the film, urging her to not trust the press.
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Shortly before Christmas 1966, Elvis proposed to Priscilla Presley, after being reminded of the record contract's RCA "morals clause" by his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
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Priscilla Presley suggested, in a 1973 interview with Ladies' Home Journal, that she and Elvis were quite happy to just live together, but "at that time, it wasn't nice for people to [just] live together".
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However, this claim is questioned by biographer Suzanne Finstad who claimed that Priscilla Presley had intercourse with Elvis in Germany as well as her teenage boyfriends.
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Priscilla Presley was upset at such an early pregnancy, certain that it would destroy the closeness she had finally found with Elvis.
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Priscilla Presley had asked him earlier if she could take birth control pills, but Elvis had insisted they were not perfected yet.
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Priscilla Presley considered an abortion and had even discussed it with Elvis, but both decided they could not live with themselves if they had gone through with it.
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Priscilla Presley wrote, in Elvis and Me, that she began taking private dance lessons around the time her husband was filming Live a Little, Love a Little.
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Priscilla Presley found herself deeply attracted to the instructor, known simply as Mark in the book, where she confesses to having a short affair.
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Priscilla Presley implies regret stating, "I came out of it realizing I needed much more out of my relationship with Elvis".
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However, when Elvis's career took off again following his 1968 television special, he was constantly touring and playing in Las Vegas and having affairs, while Priscilla Presley stayed at home to care for their daughter.
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Priscilla Presley took up karate after Elvis, a keen karate student, convinced her to do so.
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Priscilla Presley, eager to share her husband's interests, thought it was a good idea to pass the time she spent alone.
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Priscilla Presley soon began an affair with him, stating that, "I still loved Elvis, greatly, but over the next few months, I knew I would have to make a crucial decision regarding my destiny".
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Many years later on the British talk show Loose Women, Priscilla Presley said she and Elvis did sleep together after their daughter Lisa Marie was born.
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Priscilla Presley did not accept offers by his bodyguard to arrange a contract killing.
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Priscilla Presley was keen to make it on her own and prove that her marriage to Elvis was not about money.
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Priscilla Presley then dated actor Peter Lawford, photographer Terry O'Neill, lawyer Robert Kardashian, hairdresser Elie Ezerzer, and financiers Morgan Maxfield and Kirk Kerkorian.
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At the beginning of their romance, Priscilla Presley ensured Garibaldi sign a promissory agreement that if they should break up, he would not write a book about her.
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Between 2006 and 2009, Priscilla Presley dated British TV executive Nigel Lythgoe.
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Vernon named Priscilla Presley to be his successor upon his death.
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Priscilla Presley hired a CEO, Jack Soden, to turn Graceland into a tourist attraction.
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Priscilla became the chairperson and president of Elvis Presley Enterprises, stating that she would remain in the position until Lisa Marie reached 21 years of age.
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Priscilla Presley has successfully sold her line of products live on the Home Shopping Network and was coached by veteran HSN host Bob Circosta.
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Priscilla Presley partnered with Australian designer Bruno Schiavi for the line.
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Priscilla Presley has helped to produce feature films including Breakfast with Einstein and Finding Graceland.
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In September 2000, Priscilla Presley was elected to the board of directors at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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In 2015 Priscilla Presley became the executive producer of a 14-track album titled If I Can Dream: Elvis Priscilla Presley With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Priscilla Presley said, "If Elvis were here, he would be evolving and taking risks, seemingly like everybody else today".
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Also in that year the US Postmaster General Megan Brennan and Priscilla Presley dedicated an Elvis "forever" stamp, which featured a 1955 black-and-white image shot by photographer William Speer.
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Priscilla Presley was featured as a cast member in the show, voicing her own animation character.
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Priscilla Presley had shown an interest in dancing and modelling and had modeled for a local store once.
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Priscilla Presley was sensitive about Elvis's opinion, because he did not want to let Priscilla Presley have her own career, repeating the then-popular saying, "A woman's place is in the home looking after her man".
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Priscilla Presley neither pursued fashion modelling nor did she sign any exclusive contracts, instead choosing to comply with her husband's wishes.
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Priscilla Presley had originally been offered a role as one of the leads on Charlie's Angels.
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Priscilla Presley turned down the role because she disliked the show.
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Priscilla Presley made her television debut as co-host of Those Amazing Animals in 1980.
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Priscilla Presley then went on to play in a television film titled Love is Forever, starring alongside Michael Landon.
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Critic Roger Ebert praised Priscilla Presley's performance, saying her "light comic touch" helped balance out the film's more over-the-top humor.
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Priscilla Presley made her pantomime debut in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the New Wimbledon Theatre, Wimbledon, London, during Christmas of 2012, starring opposite Warwick Davis.
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Priscilla Presley reprised her role of the Wicked Queen at the Manchester Opera House in 2014.
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Priscilla Presley is the biopic focusing on her relationship with Elvis, which was directed by Sofia Coppola.
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Since 2003, Priscilla Presley has been the Ambassador of the Dream Foundation, a Santa Barbara-based wish-granting organization for terminally ill adults and their families.
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Priscilla Presley joined the Church of Scientology along with her daughter after Elvis's death.
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When Lisa Marie left Scientology by 2016, it was reported that Priscilla had distanced herself from the church at the same time in October 2017 Priscilla Presley's representative denied that she had left the church.
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In 2013, Priscilla Presley spoke out against a 2013 agricultural gag law that would have criminalized unauthorized filming or recording on farms.
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Priscilla Presley was conferred the degree of Doctor of Humanities by Rhodes College in 1998.
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Priscilla Presley was named godmother of the largest river steamboat ever built, American Queen, christened April 27,2012 at its home port in Memphis.
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Since 1979, Priscilla Presley has been portrayed in several screen and TV films focusing on various aspects of her life with Elvis Priscilla Presley, her husband from 1967 to 1973.
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Actresses who played Priscilla Presley include Season Hubley in Elvis, the 1979 TV movie; Susan Walters in Elvis and Me, a 1988 TV miniseries; Kehli O'Byrnein in Elvis and the Colonel, a 1993 TV movie; Alyson Court in Elvis Meets Nixon, 1997; Antonia Barnath in Elvis, a 2006 TV miniseries; Ashley Greene in Shangri-La Suite, 2016; Olivia DeJonge in Elvis, 2022; and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla, 2023.