In the second half of June, Amazon released a 3-part documentary about “King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley, titled Elvis’s Women (rough translation: The women of Elvis).
The series caused a stir when accusing the legendary male singer of being a minor sexual predator, and at the same time claiming that his sudden death at the age of 42 was actually an act of evasion. Daily Mail Elvis’s Women could be the moment #MeToo destroys Elvis’ illustrious musical legacy.
Elvis Presley exposed as a sexual predator of minors in new documentary. Photo: Bettmann Archive.
Juvenile sexual predator
His favorite saying, repeated by Elvis throughout his life, is “You’ll be 20 years old when you’re 14.”
The meaning of this sentence is that if he is found to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, he faces 20 years in prison.
However, despite the prohibition of the law, Elvis is said to have engaged in erotic relationships with teenage girls, from his early days of fame in the 1950s until his He passed away in 1977.
Production team Elvis’s Women interviewed women who had been with the male singer. For many of them, vocals Burning Love first love. Some give him the first of a girl, often after only a few dates. They all believed when he said his love for them was special, different from anything he had felt before. Some still hold that mindset to this day.
Letitia Kirk, a nurse who cared for Elvis during the 1970s, said she saw so many teenage girls being brought to the Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, by staff that she couldn’t count. According to Ms. Kirk, the matchmaker for Elvis was a man named DJ George Klein. He was supposed to bring underage girls to Elvis to check.
Usually, Mafia Memphis – the media used to call Elvis’s entourage – hangs out in the area of the Graceland gate, which is crowded with groups of young fans. They chose a young and beautiful girl and invited her into their house to meet their idol.
Kathy Tatum is one of them. When she was selected by the Memphis Mafia in 1969, she was 16 years old, and Elvis was a father for the first time at the age of 34.
Kathy said at first, Elvis just cuddled, sniffed and kissed her, giving her compliments. But then he took her to the motel room he rented for a long time.
Kathy started skipping school so she could be with Elvis every day. He doesn’t want to have sex outright but will cuddle her constantly while talking to his friends in the room.
Elvis promised to marry Kathy if she waited a few more years until he divorced. However, Kathy realized he lost interest in her when she was no longer a maiden.
Many women consider Elvis as their first love, not afraid to give themselves after a few dates. Photo: Bettmann Archive.
Many other female students were also absorbed in the glitz of the musical icon and were hurt when he shattered their illusions.
Kay Wheeler was 16 years old when she first saw Elvis on TV in 1956. Fascinated by her looks and vocals, she founded a fan club in her hometown of Texas.
“We are ready for him. We are women waiting,” she said.
As the club grew into a nationwide organization, Kay was invited to meet Elvis at a press conference in San Antonio. In the dressing room, Elvis (then 22 years old) immediately put his arm around her.
“He started getting friendly, hugging and kissing. You wanted to run away because you knew you were in danger,” she recalls.
The photo from the press conference shows Elvis wrapping his arms around the little girl from behind. When asked if he had plans to get married, Elvis replied: “Why buy a cow when you can milk it over the fence?”
Kay was then taken to the hotel room and told to wait. She panicked and tried to leave, then heard the idol shouting behind her: “Where are you going?”. He grabbed the female fan, started bumping her legs and back, performing the same moves he performed on stage.
“He came as the monster Godzilla. Elvis Presley is the most dangerous thing for any woman,” Kay described.
Jackie Rowland had a similarly terrifying experience, in the presence of her own mother.
Seeing Elvis for the first time on TV at the age of 13, Jackie quickly developed feelings of love.
At the time, Jackie was severely overweight. She made a pact with her mother that if she lost weight successfully, she would be taken to see her idol perform.
Thanks to that motivation, in a year, Jackie successfully lost 36 kg. Her mother wrote to Elvis about his influence on her daughter. The family was then delighted to receive an invitation to meet the star with his parents, Gladys and Vernon Presley. They didn’t expect Mrs. Presley to know about her son’s preference for minors and to enjoy observing potential girlfriends.
When the two families met, Elvis immediately pulled Jackie close, nibbling her ears and licking her neck. When she asked to stop, the singer even complained to her mother: “Oh, Mrs. Rowland, what’s wrong with your daughter? She’s not normal.”
Meanwhile, Mrs. Gladys clearly liked Jackie for inviting her to live with them. However, that crazy idea is prevented thanks to Jackie’s grandfather, a police officer. He reminded the Presley family that sexually abusing a minor is punishable by imprisonment.
Jackie revealed that at that time Elvis used amphetamines (psychostimulants) to cope with the hectic schedule of performances. The side effect is aggravation of an already existing temper.
Elvis used his fame to approach and abuse underage girls. Photo: Bettmann Archive.
Obsession about mother
Within a few months of Jackie, Elvis met Frances Forbes, 14 years old. Frances was one of the male singer’s regular girlfriends for the next 5 years.
Frances has dark hair like her mother Elvis. He called her “Little”, a nickname used by many other girls, and “brown-eyed baby”.
“I was very young then. He’s attracted to little girls and 14 is the magic age. He said 13 years old is too young. He’s not really grown up, he’s a childish, capricious and spoiled man,” Frances described.
Elvis’s official girlfriend in the 1950s was singer and actress Anita Wood, who owned her own radio show called Antics Of Anita .
Anita was made public by Elvis to the press, but the two did not have sex, at least early in their relationship. He said he wanted his girlfriend to remain a virgin until the day of marriage.
Elvis’s talent and fiancée status brought Anita a big contract in Hollywood. However, Elvis got jealous. Unable to bear the thought of his lover kissing other men on screen, he begged her to give up her career and return to Tennessee, personally picking her up at the airport.
Notably, Elvis calls Anita “Little Mother”, reflecting his oppressive relationship with his biological mother, an alcoholic.
Elvis bought Graceland to live with her mother. When she died at the age of 46 in 1958, believed to be from cirrhosis of the liver, Elvis buried her mother on the grounds of the house.
A few years later, Elvis flirted with 17-year-old Hollywood high school girl Nancy Czar and invited her to visit Graceland. When she entered the bedroom, she was startled by a photo of Elvis’ mother’s grave on the bed.
“If that’s not enough to make a girl lose interest, I don’t know what’s worse. Posting a picture of the deceased mother is understandable, but what about her gravestone? I walked out and the romance ended,” Nancy said.
At that time, Elvis completed two years in the US Army in Germany. In a foreign land, he met two young women and made them lovers.
Elisabeth Mansfield (then 19) knew she was not alone: “Elvis had many girlfriends. I am just one of them. He was my first love, but if I had an opinion, I might have to pack my suitcase and leave. It’s painful for me.”
Elvis used to have sex with 2 or 3 women a night. After “raining” with Elvis, Elisabeth returned to the next room and heard a lover’s voice with another girl through the wall.
The second girl is Priscilla Beaulieu (14 years old), the daughter of a US Air Force officer. Elisabeth thought Priscilla was too young to be attractive to Elvis, but she was wrong.
Priscilla bears an uncanny resemblance to young Gladys, and Elvis is instantly captivated. After returning to America, Elvis took Priscilla to live in Graceland with him.
They married in Las Vegas in 1967 when she was 21 years old. Nine months later, she gave birth to Elvis’ only daughter, Lisa Marie (died earlier this year). They broke up in 1973.
Elvis fell in love with Priscilla Beaulieu, his only wife, because she resembled his mother in her youth. Photo: Bettmann Archive.
Biographer Alanna Nash said: “The age of 14 was everything for Elvis.”
When he was 16 years old and fell in love for the first time, Elvis was abandoned by his 14-year-old girlfriend. This combined with an unhealthy relationship with a controlling mother created Elvis’s distorted perception.
“He was stuck in a childhood incident and couldn’t get over it. In this day and age, he would be incarcerated with R. Kelly (the R&B singer jailed for more than 20 years for sexual misconduct with a minor),” Nash commented.
Elvis’ military buddy Currie Grant puts it more simply: “He likes young girls because he can control them and he controls his parents with his reputation.”
Another Elvis victim is Reeca Smith Gossan (14 years old). Someone who worked for Elvis approached her and invited her into his white Cadillac in 1974, when Elvis was 39 years old.
Elvis took her shopping, spent $3,000 (more than $18,400 today) on clothes, then returned to Graceland. Here, the male singer took the girl down to the basement room, kissed and cuddled Reeca for hours.
Reeca said Elvis confided to her: “What I love about you is that I get back to my childhood, where I can be innocent and feel young again. You make me forget the title of this entertainment superstar, you just treat me like a normal person.”
To thank Reeca and impress his new lover’s parents, he bought her a Pontiac Trans Am even though she was two years too young to drive in Tennessee.
Elvis also hangs out with adult women, and that type of relationship is troubled in another way.
Elvis met Linda Thompson, former Miss Tennessee, when she was 22 years old, 15 years younger than him.
Linda said she is like a mother in front of her lover. She had to take care of Elvis during drunken times, even having to put her hand over his mouth while sleeping so she could feel his breath.
Elvis’ last girlfriend was Ginger Alden. They met in 1977. Having only known each other for a week, he started talking about marriage. At that time, Ginger was only 20 years old.
He treats his girlfriend like a servant. Once, when she refused to get out of bed to get Elvis some yogurt, he unhesitatingly took his 45 Magnum gun and fired a bullet through the headboard.
The truth about death at the age of 42
David Stanley, Elvis’s step-brother and entourage member during the 1970s, said in the documentary: “His interest in girls, aged 15 or 16, made me sick. I told him it was a miracle he wasn’t arrested. He escaped thanks to what most people can’t do, money, property, fame and power, his prestige and charisma. Elvis can talk in ways that surprise you.”
Stanley was at Graceland when Elvis died aged 42 from a heart attack from a drug overdose in August 1977.
Step brother believes the music legend took his own life out of fear that his obsession with young girls is about to be exposed in a book and is tormented by the guilt of betraying too many lovers. .
“I believe he cannot continue. He had calculated in advance that taking drugs could kill him. The love, the hurt, the pain, the exposure made him unable to bear it anymore,” the 85-year-old emphasized.
Stanley (left) believes that his step-brother committed suicide for fear of his chaotic private life being exposed. Photo: Getty Images.
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