PRISCILLA Presley has claimed Elvis was so angry when he learned she had a new boyfriend, he planned to hire a hitman to kill him.
In her memoir Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, Priscilla, 80, made shocking claims about the end of her marriage to late King of Rock and Roll Elvis in the early 1970s.
Priscilla Presley spoke onstage during Agent Elvis ATAS Official at Netflix Tudum Theater on March 7, 2023 in Los Angeles[/caption]
Priscilla Presley sat with her boyfriend, karate instructor Mike Stone, at a kung fu tournament at the Beverly Hills in April 1975[/caption]
Elvis and Priscilla celebrated their wedding day on May 1, 1967[/caption]
Elvis and Priscilla cuddled daughter Lisa Marie on February 5, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee[/caption]
During the last days of her tumultuous marriage to Elvis, Priscilla admitted she started an affair with her karate instructor, Mike Stone.
Soon after in 1972, she ended her marriage to Elvis, whom she claimed was repeatedly unfaithful and caused her to feel “loneliness, isolation, jealousy, and guilt.”
Elvis felt “angry and humiliated,” she claimed, and blamed Mike when he learned about their ongoing relationship.
“Elvis found the thought of me with another man unbearable,” Priscilla wrote, claiming he turned to his right-hand man Joe Esposito and other members of his inner circle for help.
“In the weeks after my departure, he told the guys that Mike
had to die. He even asked Joe to find a hitman.”
Priscilla claimed Joe told her to “be careful” and stay away from her ex, though he eventually calmed down and dropped the hitman plan.
Priscilla dated Mike for three more years, and the couple split in 1975. (Elvis famously died just two years later in 1977 at 42.)
She went on to date Kim Kardashian‘s attorney father Robert, and Marco Garibaldi, the father of her son Navarone, 38.
With Elvis, Priscilla shared late daughter Lisa Marie, who died in 2023 at 54 from a small bowel obstruction.
In 2020, Priscilla lost her grandson Ben Keough to suicide at just 27.
PRISCILLA’S HEARTBREAK
Priscilla also described the pain of losing her daughter in her memoir, which hits bookshelves on September 23.
In an excerpt obtained by People, Priscilla wrote: “I knew from the first moment I walked into Lisa’s hospital room that she was already gone.“
“She was hooked to a machine that was breathing for her, and she had a heartbeat. There was little brain activity. Her spirit, always so vital, wasn’t there.
“They had restarted Lisa’s heart, but there was no guarantee it would keep beating.
“I asked the doctor, ‘What kind of life will she have if we keep her on that machine?’
PRISCILLA TELLS ALL IN MEMOIR
Elvis’ first wife shares her story in her new book
Priscilla Presley releases her second memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, on September 23.
In the new book, she discusses her volatile marriage to Elvis, her high-profile romances after their divorce, and Lisa Marie’s tragic death at just 54.
“We were there all day long,” Priscilla told People ahead of the book’s release.
“Lisa really wasn’t breathing, so she was on the ventilator. For hours we were there waiting, hoping and praying until the doctor came in and said, ‘Priscilla, I’m so sorry, she’s gone.’ We just couldn’t believe it, didn’t want to believe it. It was hard on all of us, it still is.”
Priscilla wrote her first book, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N’ Roll, in 1985.
“He looked at me with compassion and shook his head. “No quality of life at all.’
“I thought about my girl, my wild, rebellious, passionate girl, lying in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.
“I said what I had to. ‘Take her off the machine, Doctor.’ My voice was barely above a whisper.”
She said she collapsed from the pain after Lisa Marie was disconnected from life support.
“It was unbearable. I began to sob. I don’t remember falling. I know that Ivy [Priscilla’s cousin] caught me.
“After that, everything went dark. I can’t remember. I don’t want to remember.”
Elvis strummed an acoustic guitar while posing for a portrait in September 1962 in Culver City at MGM Studios[/caption]
Priscilla and Elvis looked happy on their 1967 wedding day- but they split five years later[/caption]
Priscilla lost her daughter Lisa Marie in 2023[/caption]
