PRISCILLA Presley has told all about her past relationship with Kim Kardashian’s late father Robert Sr. in her new memoir.
Elvis‘ widow Priscilla, 80, is releasing her second book, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, on Tuesday, September 23.
Robert Kardashian and Priscilla Presley posed for a picture during their brief relationship in the mid 1970s.[/caption]
Priscilla and Elvis were pictured together after their 1967 wedding[/caption]
Priscilla Presley attended the photocall for Elvis during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 26, 2022 in Cannes[/caption]
Kim recently posted a throwback of her with her father Robert before his death in 2003[/caption]
After her divorce from Elvis and subsequent relationship with karate instructor Mike Stone, Priscilla claimed she began dating Hollywood attorney Robert in 1975.
She claimed they met through a friend who was dating Robert’s brother Tom at the time.
“Robert was a sweet man, and I liked him,” Priscilla wrote.
However, she claims Robert’s “demanding” job as an attorney and “long hours” at the office didn’t leave much time for romance.
She said Robert also was eager for marriage, and fresh off her divorce, Priscilla wasn’t in the same place.
The pair remained close friends, and Priscilla said that Kim called her from the hospital shortly before Robert’s death from cancer in 2003.
“Robert and I had one last conversation before he died,” she wrote. “He was the kindest of men, and I remember him with great affection.”
Priscilla also claimed Elvis interfered with the relationship, once calling at 2 am while she was in bed with Robert.
The world-famous King of Rock and Roll was eager to talk about a recent performance, totally unaware his ex-wife was with another man.
“He’d have gone ballistic, maybe literally, if he’d known Robert was in my bedroom,” she wrote. “Elvis always carried a loaded gun, sometimes more than one.”
She said Elvis never learned about Robert, and Robert never found out about the late-night phone call.
Of course, Robert famous went on to marry Kris Jenner in 1978, and the couple welcomed four children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Robert Jr. They split in 1990.
HITMAN THREATS
As The U.S. Sun previously reported, Elvis was extremely jealous after Priscilla left him in 1972 and soon got serious with Mike.
According to Priscilla, he even threatened to hire a hitman to kill her boyfriend.
“In the weeks after my departure, he told the guys that Mike
had to die,” she wrote, adding that he consulted his right-hand man Joe Esposito to take action. “He even asked Joe to find a hitman.”
Priscilla claimed Elvis eventually calmed down, and no hitman was ever hired. (He died at just 42 in 1977.)
In her book, Priscilla also wrote about her daughter Lisa Marie’s tragic death at just 54 from a sudden bowel obstruction in 2023.
“It was unbearable. I began to sob. I don’t remember falling. I know that Ivy [Priscilla’s cousin] caught me,” she wrote in an excerpt from People.
“After that, everything went dark. I can’t remember. I don’t want to remember.”
Elvis and Priscilla posed with baby Lisa Marie in 1968[/caption]
Kim Kardashian was seen this year at the Venice Film Festival in August[/caption]
Robert was famously an attorney for O.J. Simpson during his murder trial in 1994[/caption]
Lisa Marie Presley, here in 2015, tragically died at 54 in 2023[/caption]
