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Priscilla Presley (born Priscilla Ann Wagner on May 24, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress and the only wife of singer Elvis Presley.

Her biological father, James Wagner, was a United States Navy pilot who was killed in a plane crash when Priscilla was just an infant. Her mother remarried to Paul Beaulieu, a United States Air Force officer and they called her "Priscilla Ann." The Beaulieus were stationed in West Germany at the same time Elvis was there during his stint in the United States Army. Priscilla was 14 years old when they met.

Elvis managed to talk the extremely reluctant Beaulieus into allowing Priscilla to live with his father (Vernon Presley) and step-mother at a home Elvis purchased on Heritage Drive in Memphis. The seventeen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu "worked" on her mother to get her support but before finally agreeing, her still reluctant and protective step-father flew with her to Los Angeles where Presley was filming Fun in Acapulco. After discussing the "rules," she and her father flew to Memphis where they met with Vernon Presley, made arrangements for Priscilla's enrollment in the Immaculate Conception school and her step-father confirmed her living arrangements at Vernon Presley's house.

Ann-Margret: "Elvis' reputation will never die!" (Ann-Margaret was Elvis' co-star in Viva Las Vegas)

Cybil Shepherd: "Every time I visit the folks back home I say a prayer over his grave — his spirit is with me to this day." (Cybil, Memphis born actress and former Miss Tennessee)

Linda Thompson: "Once Elvis touched your life you're never the same. (Elvis' live-in-sweetheart for 5 years. She recently made millions selling off the jewelry that Elvis gave her)

Ginger Alden: "Having been loved by Elvis, it's hard to find a replacement." (It was Ginger who discovered Elvis' body in the bathroom, at Graceland)

When Lisa Marie was 8-years-old, her proud father, Elvis, gave his beloved child a mink coat and a diamond ring. Elvis spoiled their little girl so much that Lisa Marie would throw tantrums when she returned to her mother after a Daddy visit, screaming, "I wanna go back to Graceland!"

There, Elvis allowed Lisa Marie to tear around in her own golf cart until 4 a.m. "She was a terror when I got her back," says Priscilla.

When Lisa Marie turned 16, Priscilla handed her a unique gift. "I gave her all the tabloids I had kept, everything that was written about her. And me. She got the message: "No matter what you do-or don’t do-your past will always find you."

Few 58-year-old grandmas look as good as Priscilla. Any woman would be moved to ask: despite all the dramas, no frown lines?

How? "I’ll tell you why I have no lines. Elvis used to slap me in the forehead every time I looked up .

He’d tell me not to use my forehead to look up, only use my eyes. Pow! I still feel his hand there. I’ve never had Botox, any of that, in my forehead."

She simply never furrowed, no matter what. If she hunched over, Elvis would tap her on the back.

Priscilla says she doesn’t regret her days as Mrs. Presley. But she does understand now what made it so unworkable. "I lived somebody else’s life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level."

Priscilla says Elvis brought out the mothering quality in her. "I cut his meat up for him. I tasted it before he ever had it.

I would fix his deviled eggs, cut off the top, put his butter in, and prepare all his food as a mother would for a child. I would test it to see if it was too hot. Even making his coffeeI loved doing it for him. We’d all baby him."

She also tells LHJ that it was hard telling Elvis the truth, even about how he looked in those white jumpsuits.

She reveals that when she told him "you really shouldn’t be wearing those anymoreit’s not looking good," Elvis would turn to his entourage to ask their opinion and they would say he looked "great."

Priscilla wants people to understand, "I have absolutely no anger. I don’t look back and go ▒Oh my gosh, look what happened to us.’

I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.

We had a closer bond, probably because the effort was off and there was just purity.

We realized that we liked each other, and that’s very special."

Lisa Marie Presley Lisa is a close friend of her father's ex-girfriend Linda Thompson. In 2003, after advice from Thompson's record producer and then-husband David Foster, she launched a career as a singer.

Her debut album was called To Whom It May Concern and reached #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. To promote it she performed in a concert in the UK, something her father never did.

Presley released her second album, Now What, in 2005 and it reached #9 on the Billboard 200.

1967

On May 1 Presley married Priscilla at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas

Fearing he had been forgotten, Presley defied Parker and made a comeback television special.

Over the summer he taped the television special that was released on December 3 to high ratings.

It's soundtrack reached #8 and produced his first Top Twenty single "If I Can Dream" (#12, 1968) since 1965.

1968

June 28 Elvis began taping a Christmas special for NBC Television, dressed in his black leather. He returned back to the top of the American Entertainment scene.

With this success Presley turned to performing in Las Vegas.

On October 9, 1973, after 5 years of marriage Elvis and Priscilla were divorced. It was Elvis who filed for the divorce, as token gesture to save Priscilla the embarrassment as she was the mother of his daughter, Lisa Marie, who only 4 years old at the time.

"My worst memory, and the worst day of my life has to be the day Priscilla took Lisa Marie away from Graceland," says Schilling. "To this day, that image still haunts me..."

"It was I very sad day for all of us," says Schilling. "I remember how Elvis just stood in Lisa's bedroom and watched in silence as Alberta (Graceland's cook) helped Priscilla pack Lisa's clothes and toys into several suitcases... Elvis said nothing, but I could the pain in his eyes," recalls Schilling.

Presley married her first husband Danny Keough on October 3, 1988.

They had two children together, Danielle Riley (born May 19, 1989) and Benjamin Storm (born October 21, 1992). Presley divorced Keough on May 6, 1994.

Two weeks later she shocked the world by marrying Michael Jackson on May 18, 1994. The marriage lasted 18 months. There was speculation that Jackson, who owns The Beatles catalog, wanted to buy Elvis's catalog too. There was also wide speculation Jackson married Presley for various public relations purposes. The two divorced on January 18, 1996.

On August 10, 2002 she married Nicolas Cage, someone well-known for his Elvis-obsession. They were together for only three months and divorced in 2002 (Cage later remarried).

In 2005 Presley was said to be dating her guitarist, Michael Lockwood.

The story of her parents' life together and her birth and childhood until her father's passing in 1977 was recounted in her mother's 1985 book, Elvis and Me.

In a world obsessed with her father — to the point that many refuse to believe he is dead -Lisa Marie Presley finds his name more of a curse than a blessing.

Elvis' only daughter will chat happily about her family — daughter Danielle, Son Ben, ex-husbands Danny Keough, Michael Jackson and mum Priscilla.

She'll talk freely about her work, her attempts at acting and her recent efforts in the recording studio.

But the mere mention of her dad, who died nearly 15 years ago when she was only nine, and Lisa Marie's responses come through gritted teeth. "I am aware of being born famous.

All my life I've had strangers asking me about my father and what it's like to be his daughter, I'm sick of it!"

Now 24, Lisa Marie is still the spitting image of the king of rock, but her voice is an assertive Californian rasp, rather than an echo of his southern drawl.

And Lisa would rather talk about the things that distance her from Elvis than the endless comparisons that are inevitably made whenever she appears in public.

"For a long time I used to believe I would never be anything but Elvis' daughter, never having my own identity. Now I am determined to make a life for myself.

I can't live my life in the shadow of my father's image forever. I want to do my own thing ... I want to have my own success.

Maybe as an actress, maybe as a singer, maybe as a mother. Whatever it is, I want to be totally in control of my own destiny."

What she calls "just being a mother" seems to have been the making of Lisa Marie.

The birth of Elvis' grand daughter Danielle, now almost three years old, has forced maturity onto the former wild child.

"Becoming a mother and facing the everyday problems of a demanding child — and believe me, Danielle can be very naughty at times — I have grown up.

My mother warned me having kids makes you face yourself ... know your limitations. Now I know what she means. And before you ask , my mother does not rule my life.

She offers advice, but only when I ask. Danny and I are new parents, so we have spoiled our baby terribly. I suppose I'm only doing the same my daddy did with me.

Staying at home with my baby has made me think about many things... like what I was put on this earth for."

While her belief in Scientology appears to answer the " why? " in her life, what Lisa Marie does is easily dealt with.

For the past year she has spent six hours a day, three days a week studying stage and screen acting at the reputable Wilshire Theatre. But despite her clear commitment, her father's name closes more doors than it opens.

I have auditioned for movie roles, just like the rest of my drama class, but it seems that my name has been a setback.

I've had my share of disappointments ... because many producers don't believe I'm taking acting seriously.

They think I'm just riding on the name Presley. But then I think about how my daddy was criticized at the beginning, and it gives me the willpower to keep going.

I'm no wimp, and I'm not about to give up after the first obstacle," says Lisa Marie.

"Even as a child, Lisa Marie would sit by the stereo and quietly listen to her father's recordings, over and over again.

She has certainly inherited an ear for music from Elvis. Lisa Marie has a very sharp sense when it comes to music, " says Charlie Hodge. " If she doesn't make it as a singer, she would make a great record producer."

Over and above her ambition to become an actress, Lisa Marie is trying her hand at recording an album in Nashville, in the very studio where her father played his last session in 1971.

∙ Her debut album To Whom It May Concern was certified Gold.

∙ Her father called her Injun, Yisa and Buttonhead.

∙ She is a member of the Church of Scientology (John Travolta introduced her and her mother to the religion).

∙ She has suffered from depression.

∙ She recently stated on Oprah she is 5'2. [[1]]

∙ She is a recovering drug addict who began using drugs at thirteen, but with active help from the Church of Scientology was reportedly free of drugs by the age of seventeen.

∙ In 2002 she testified before a hearing of the United States Congress to speak out against medicating children for mental disorders (the practice is also condemned by the Church of Scientology).

∙ Her second album,Now What was her first album to have a Parental Advisory sticker. Although, an edited version of the album is available.

Charities

Lisa Marie Presley supports several charities, including:

∙ Presley Place, which combats homelessness in Memphis.

∙ CCHR, a Scientology connected group that opposes psychiatry and psychiatrists.

∙ LEAP, Literacy, Education and Abilities Program, a Scientology connected group affiliated with Applied Scholastics that promotes L. Ron Hubbard's studying techniques.

Discography

Albums:

∙ 2003 To Whom It May Concern #5 U.S.

∙ 2005 Now What #9 U.S.

Singles:

∙ 2003 "Lights Out" #16 UK

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