Elvis Presley's life is the stuff of
legend. That being said, the singer led a life plagued by scandals, including
allegations of racism, sexual misconduct, and infidelity. After his death, it seems
as problems only continued for his family. Here are the biggest scandals
in Elvis Presley's family. With that face, that voice, and those hips, Elvis
Presley could have enjoyed the attention of almost any grown woman on the planet. However, it
was a 14-year-old girl who stole his heart, and, well, that's pretty weird. Presley served with Priscilla Beaulieu's father in
the US Army in West Germany, and they first met at a party in 1959 when Priscilla was 14 and Elvis
was 24. She recalled to People that her parents initially forbade her from seeing the star, but
eventually allowed Elvis to court her, at which point her grades dropped dramatically, and she
revolved her entire life around the singer. Elvis tried to mold her into the woman he wanted her to
be, down to telling her to wear more eye makeup. Priscilla also wore her mother's clothes to
look older so that no one would suspect him of being with someone so young. In
a 2016 interview with Loose Women, Priscilla explained what it was
like to be married to Elvis: "You lived his life. You honestly didn't
have your own life. You lived his life." Priscilla wasn't the only young teen that
Elvis Presley reportedly romped around with. In the book Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, author Joel Williamson alleges that Presley
had a group of three 14-year-old girls whom he would inappropriately engage with while at
Graceland, ranging from tickling, wrestling, pillow-fighting, and kissing. One of the
girls, Frances Forbes, told the Daily Mail, "He didn't pay any attention to me
[when I was 13], but when I was 14, he noticed me. Fourteen was a magical
age with Elvis. It really was." According to Williamson, in 1954, Presley cheated
on 15-year-old girlfriend Dixie Locke with a fan. The Daily Mail also reported that when Presley
was performing in Florida in 1956, 14-year-old fan Jackie Rowland's mother found Presley
kissing Rowland, quote, "in a grown-up way." Additionally, after Presley's split from wife
Priscilla, he is accused of pursuing another teen girl. In Alanna Nash's book, Baby Let's
Play House: Elvis and the Women Who Loved Him, she writes that Presley moved on with
a 14-year-old girl named Reeca Smith. Prior to meeting Priscilla, Elvis, who was already
one of the most famous people in the world, had quite the active sex life. However,
the rock icon basically forbade Priscilla from doing the same until after they tied
the knot. While he had rumored dalliances with Nancy Sinatra and other stars during
their courtship, he refused to consummate his relationship with Priscilla until their
wedding night. As the Daily Mail reports, her perceived "purity" was integral for
him to maintain his attraction to her. In a piece for People penned by Priscilla,
she claimed that they conceived daughter Lisa Marie on their honeymoon and that after
Lisa Marie's birth, Elvis had no sexual interest in her anymore. She also claimed
that when she was seven months pregnant, Elvis suggested a trial separation
but changed his mind within days. For as much as Elvis was obsessed with virginal
women, he certainly didn't limit his own behavior at all. In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life,
author Joel Williamson reported that Elvis installed two-way mirrors in his homes to spy
on party guests having sex and women undressing. Elvis Presley wasn't the only cheater in
his marriage, however. After Elvis stopped being intimate with Priscilla following
the birth of their daughter, Lisa Marie, she understandably sought satisfaction
elsewhere. In a 1985 interview with Barbara Walters, Priscilla explained that
her relationship with Elvis was more of a father-daughter companionship as
opposed to a functional marriage. "Elvis had a hard time dealing with the
mother, and the little girl that I was to him." Priscilla says she turned to hobbies
to keep herself busy while Elvis worked and entertained other women. She took
karate lessons from stuntman and martial arts expert Mike Stone and eventually
had an affair with him. Ultimately, Priscilla's lack of an intimate life with Elvis
reached a tipping point. In 1972, she told Elvis she was having an affair with Stone and wanted
to end their marriage, sending Elvis into a rage. She went on to date Stone, during which
they enjoyed various hobbies together. Despite the bitter ending of their marriage, Priscilla and Elvis remained close
friends until his death in 1977. In August 1977, Elvis’s girlfriend Ginger Alden
found him dead in their bathroom — specifically and infamously on the floor in a locked
position that indicated he had fallen to the ground while sitting on the toilet. The
King was just 42 years old. The singer had grown overweight and was long-dependent
on several prescription drugs, including opiates, tranquilizers, sleeping
pills, and hormones. People reported that he'd been prescribed nearly 12,000 pills
within less than two years before his death. Quaaludes and various opiates were reportedly
found in his system after his death, creating a perfect storm for a heart attack.
The singer also suffered chronic constipation, a common side effect of opiates, so he frequently
abused laxatives as well. The circumstances of his untimely passing were, of course, humiliating,
but actually aren't too uncommon. Straining to defecate can put real pressure on the aorta and
heart and is likely what ultimately killed him. Presley's personal physician,
George "Dr. Nick" Nichopoulos, was accused of overprescribing drugs to Presley
as well as singer Jerry Lee Lewis for years. Dr. Nick insisted he was being careful and
that he often gave Presley placebos in an effort to quell his addictions and that the
reason he gave him prescription drugs was to prevent him from buying them on the street.
He also said the high volume of pills was because he prescribed them not just for
Presley himself, but for his entourage. Priscilla Presley was and still is a great beauty,
but her efforts to preserve her stunning good looks backfired in a major way. While competing
on Dancing With The Stars, viewers noticed that Presley's face looked extremely puffy and taut.
We learned why eventually. As it turns out, Priscilla was a patient and victim of Daniel
"Dr. Jiffy Lube" Serrano, who injected several high-profile women with industrial-grade silicone
often used in auto parts — not body parts. According to TMZ, the women held "injection
parties" at their homes for what Serrano called the, quote, "miracle" drug, which
cost them between $300 and $500 per vial. For perspective, The Wall Street Journal
reported that around the same period, Botox treatments cost between $500 and $2,000,
while other fillers would set one back about $300 to $400 per syringe. That said, these women should
have known the price was too good to be true. Serrano's victims alleged that they
suffered lumps, craters, and even paralysis in their faces after his procedures. He eventually
pleaded guilty to conspiracy, smuggling, and using unapproved drugs and was sentenced to 18 months
in prison. A rep for Presley told the Daily Mail, "Priscilla Presley was one of
many documented victims of Dr. [Daniel] Serrano. An investigation which
uncovered his misconduct ultimately led to his imprisonment. Ms. Presley dealt with this
matter years ago and everything is now well." In 1994, Lisa Marie Presley married Michael
Jackson. Presley told Rolling Stone that they met through a mutual friend, and she said that
he insisted the pervasive rumors about him, namely the allegations that
he sexually abused children, weren't true, and that the pop icon was
misunderstood. According to Lisa Marie, this made her into a, quote,
"lioness" who wanted to protect him. Many speculated that the whirlwind marriage was
Jackson's attempt to rehabilitate his own image, but both Jackson and Presley at the
time insisted their love was genuine, even discussing their intimate lives in the
press. However, Presley later told Rolling Stone that their marriage got, quote, "really ugly
at the end," noting that their infamous kiss at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards was a, quote,
"gimmick" and not her idea. Lisa Marie added, "I know that it looks very timely for him,
in retrospect — the record was coming out, that other [stuff] was happening,
and I was too caught up in [it all]." Presley and Jackson divorced in 1996. Shortly after her divorce from Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley met Nicolas Cage. They dated
for two years and tied the knot in August 2002, but divorced by November of that same year. She
told Larry King Live in 2003 of the relationship, "Similar situations, similar backgrounds.
So we connected, we had a great connection. We were both a bit — we're sort of these gypsy
spirited, you know, tyrannical pirates. And one pirate marries another they will sink the
ship basically is what it comes down to." She added that the media's portrayal
of Cage's alleged obsession with Elvis frustrated them both because it denigrated Cage
from Academy Award-winning actor to a fanboy. "I saw this beautiful girl,
I saw Lisa, and I… and… "Not Elvis." "Not Elvis' daughter." "No, no." Lisa Marie told Larry King: "[Cage] was in the tabloids [and] there
was all this Elvis fascination and Elvis obsession and I said, 'I can't believe they
are actually pulling it off with you now too." Still, the former couple remained close friends, with Presley saying she still
"adores" the Con Air star. Tragically, Lisa Marie Presley battled some of
the same demons as her father and struggled with substance abuse throughout her adult life. In June
2019, she opened about her opioid addiction in the book The United States of Opioids: A Prescription
for Liberating a Nation in Pain, writing, "I was recovering after the [2008] birth
of my daughters, Vivienne and Finley, when a doctor prescribed me opioids
for pain. It only took a short-term prescription of opioids in the hospital for
me to feel the need to keep taking them." Presley previously admitted to
abusing drugs and alcohol in a 2017 court deposition from her divorce from musician
Michael Lockwood after 10 years of marriage. In a bitter custody battle over their
young twins, Lockwood accused her of abusing opioids and cocaine, while Presley
accused Lockwood of having inappropriate photos of children on his electronic
devices. Lockwood denied the allegations, but the couple's twins were temporarily
placed in the custody of Priscilla Presley. People reported that it's not uncommon for a third
party to maintain custody in similar situations. Priscilla maintained custody of the girls for
nine months, and an investigation ultimately cleared Lockwood without any charges. Presley was
ordered to pay Lockwood $100,000 in legal fees. "I don't discuss religion,
politics or ex-husbands." Something else was revealed by Lisa Marie
Presley's divorce from Michael Lockwood: her depressing financial state. In a February
2017 filing obtained by the Associated Press, Presley revealed that she was $16 million
in debt, primarily composed of credit card bills and back taxes. In her filing, Presley
said she gets $100,000 of monthly inheritance, plus a $4,300 salary and health
insurance through Elvis' estate, as well as a 15 percent stake in Elvis
Presley Enterprises through a trust. A year later, Presley sued her financial manager, Barry Siegel, for allegedly squandering
her $100 million fortune from Elvis Presley Enterprises until she was left with just
$14,000. In documents obtained by The Blast, Presley alleged that Siegel sold 85 percent of her
interests on a slew of risky and poor investments, then scrambled to liquidate her assets
to replenish the income from her trust. She also accused Siegel of using her trust
to purchase a $9 million home in England, then nearly blowing all of her
cash when he couldn't make the mortgage payments on the property.
For his part, Siegel alleged that Presley was responsible for her financial
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