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00:01The Presley family is among Hollywood's most respected broods, but things aren't always
00:05what they seem.
00:06Drugs, money problems, and plastic surgery snafus are just some of the dark secrets behind
00:10the family of this musical legend.
00:12Few women have had a track record of marriages like Lisa Marie Presley.
00:16In 2016, news broke that Presley was ending her union with guitarist Michael Lockwood,
00:20her husband since 2006.
00:22This breakup marked Lisa Marie's fourth failed marriage.
00:25Elvis' only child was first married to Danny Keough from 1988 to 1994 before famously
00:31marrying the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, the same year she split from her first husband.
00:35He's amazing, I really admire him, I respect him, I admire him, I'm in love with him.
00:40Presley and Jackson's marriage lasted until 1996 when Presley filed for divorce, citing
00:45irreconcilable differences.
00:47Presley then went on to endure another short-lived and highly publicized marriage, to actor Nicolas
00:51Cage from 2002 to 2004 before marrying Lockwood in 2006.
00:55In 2007, while she was still married to Lockwood, Presley explained her many relationship woes
01:00to Marie Claire.
01:01She said her first union to Danny Keough failed in part because she was very, very young, and
01:05because Keough had resentment about who she was.
01:08Presley added that her first marriage became a power struggle because it is hard for a man
01:12to be with a woman who is stronger, wealthier.
01:15And as for her rocky marriage to Cage, Presley revealed,
01:18Marrying him was a wild flurry, a crazy idea, and being young.
01:22While she's obviously had her share of breakups and heartache, Presley's eventual disunion
01:26from Lockwood was arguably the most difficult.
01:28Following their split after 10 years together, the exes locked horns in one of the most bitter
01:32custody and spousal support fights ever seen in Hollywood.
01:36According to Radar Online, court records obtained from her fourth divorce showed that
01:40Lisa Marie Presley struggled for years with addiction to cocaine and prescription pills.
01:44This meant that her twin daughters were often left in the care of Michael Lockwood
01:47in the couple's nannies, while Presley stayed in bed, suffering from drug-fueled hallucinations.
01:52Elvis' daughter eventually got help and had several rehab stints.
01:56During her 2016 stay in rehab, Lisa Marie's twin daughters went to live with their grandmother,
02:00Priscilla Presley, who posted a photo of the girls playing in her pool with the caption,
02:04"...there's lots of confusion, commotion, and concern from all the talk circulating.
02:08Let me put this to rest.
02:09The girls have not been in foster care and never will be.
02:12The girls have been with me and will be until all this is sorted out."
02:15In August 2018, Lisa Marie opened up to The Today Show about her addiction struggles,
02:20telling The Morning Show that her therapist finds it remarkable that she's even still alive.
02:24"...I was not happy.
02:26And by the way, the struggle in addiction for me started at, you know, 45 years old.
02:32It wasn't like it was happening all my life."
02:34Thankfully, in December 2018, sources told The Blast that Presley had been sober for over
02:38two years and that she'd even maintained custody of her kids for months.
02:42Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Lockwood's messy divorce also ended up revealing that Presley
02:47had been dealing with some pretty serious financial issues.
02:50According to a February 2017 ABC News report, she rejected Lockwood's request for $40,000
02:56per month in spousal support because her $300 million fortune was gone, reportedly thanks
03:01to debts owed to the IRS and various creditors.
03:04Billboard dug deeper into Presley's finances and discovered that her lawyer claimed that she
03:08owed the government a million dollars in back taxes and was, quote, "...deeply in debt on
03:13a property in England."
03:14Presley had moved to the UK from Los Angeles in 2010 following the turmoil in her personal
03:19life.
03:20"...and a lot of things in my life changed and I just needed to sort of get away as far
03:24as I could."
03:25However, Lockwood's lawyers countered Presley's claim of being over her head in debt, claiming
03:29Presley earns about $5.6 million annually from her late father's estate.
03:33An additional report by the Associated Press revealed that Presley receives a monthly inheritance
03:38check for $100,000 from Elvis Presley's estate, which also pays her directly with $4,300 per
03:44month.
03:45These monthly payments are the cherry on top of the 15 percent stake she holds in Elvis
03:49Presley Enterprises, which the Associated Press claims earns millions of dollars a year.
03:53Her father's estate also covers Lisa Marie's health insurance.
03:56Despite that seemingly steady stream of reported income in 2017, Presley claimed just one year
04:02later that she was $16.7 million in debt due to financial mismanagement by her business
04:07manager, according to People Magazine.
04:09The suit
04:10Shortly after giving birth to twin girls in 2008, Lisa Marie Presley acquired the help
04:14of a nanny by the name of Christine White.
04:16According to TMZ, White later sued Presley because she felt she was overworked without
04:20proper compensation.
04:21The suit claimed White was tasked with caring for the babies around the clock, and that she
04:25worked seven days weeks without being granted proper breaks by Presley.
04:29The following year, White dropped her case against the star mom, but not before Presley countersued,
04:34according to a follow-up report by TMZ.
04:36In her suit, Presley claimed White was fired after breaking her contract by allegedly taking,
04:41quote, over 165 unauthorized photos and videos of the babies, thus breaking the confidentiality
04:46agreement.
04:47That case was ultimately dismissed, and it's unclear if it was ever actually settled.
04:51However, Presley seemed to have the last word on the matter, claiming White's original
04:55suit was, quote, born out of utter greed and revenge, because Presley had terminated her.
05:00Priscilla Presley competed on Dancing with the Stars in 2008, but it wasn't her jitterbug
05:06that had viewers buzzing.
05:07Presley's face had changed so much that even columnists for reputable outlets like the Chicago
05:12Tribune were writing hurtful things about her appearance, like,
05:15At once puffy and yanked, Presley's face and its odd relationship to her neck often takes
05:20on the dimensions of a Picasso painting.
05:22Even Len Goodman would never dare to say something that harsh.
05:25As it turns out, the former Dallas star fell victim to a terrible so-called doctor, who
05:30reportedly only wanted her cash.
05:32According to TMZ, Presley allowed an unlicensed physician named Daniel Serrano to inject silicone
05:37into her face at the cost of $300 to $500 per injection.
05:41Even worse, the chemicals Serrano injected into Presley's face weren't even meant to be
05:45used for cosmetic procedures.
05:47Instead, they were meant to be used on vehicles.
05:50According to Fox News, Presley later admitted that she had fallen hard for the scam.
05:53Serrano was eventually slapped with an 18-month prison sentence for importing the dubious
05:58injectables.
05:59While TMZ also reported that Presley had corrective work to reverse the damage done by Serrano,
06:03new cosmetic surgery speculation surfaced in 2016 following Presley's appearance on the
06:08British talk show Lorraine.
06:10Speaking with MSN about Presley's jarring new look, plastic and reconstructive surgeon
06:14Dr. Robert Stephen Mulholland noted,
06:16Her cheeks are a little over-augmented, her mouth is a little pulled.
06:20She has had a good start, but a bad finish.
06:22In her book Elvis and Me, Presley wrote that she had just turned 14 when she met Elvis Presley,
06:28who was 24 years old and already an international superstar at the time.
06:32Despite the fact that Presley was barely into her teens, the pair started an intimate courtship
06:36that lasted seven years before they eventually married in 1967.
06:39He was very lonely, and I occupied a lot of his time, I mean, he had an affinity toward
06:46me, you know, he had a great care for me.
06:49In her book Elvis and Me, the true story of the love between Priscilla Presley and the
06:53king of rock and roll, Priscilla detailed how she wanted to lose her virginity to Elvis
06:57during their early courtship.
06:58However, the rock star refused, telling Priscilla that she was too young.
07:02The fact that Elvis found himself so attracted to the young and virginal Priscilla becomes even
07:06stranger when paired with an anecdote from his ex-girlfriend Linda Thompson's own 2016
07:11memoir titled A Little Thing Called Life, From Elvis' Graceland to Bruce Jenner's Caitlyn
07:16and Songs in Between.
07:17Thompson, who dated Elvis after his marriage to Priscilla ended, was also a virgin upon meeting
07:22the king of rock and roll, but that apparently didn't bother Elvis a bit.
07:25In fact, he seemed to prefer that Thompson retain her virginity for a while, allegedly telling
07:30her he wanted to, quote, preserve her for as long as she needed.
07:33If two unsettling instances makes a coincidence, how many make a pattern?
07:38Speaking to Jonathan Ross in 2015, Priscilla Presley revealed that her late ex-husband was
07:43a serious germaphobe.
07:44In fact, Elvis Presley was so scared of other people's germs that he reportedly refused to
07:48use anyone else's silverware, even while dining at restaurants.
07:52Priscilla told the talk show host,
07:53He never liked to go to people's homes to eat because he didn't like eating with other
07:57people's silverware, so he would take his own silverware.
08:00And he didn't like drinking out of cups that other people had drunk out of, even restaurants
08:03or other people's homes, so when he drank, he would drink where the handle was, knowing
08:07that no one would ever drink at that side.
08:09Although that interesting tidbit of knowledge had not yet been publicly known, Priscilla
08:13dished that Elvis had actually been that way for the majority of his life, telling Ross,
08:17I think he just didn't like to put his mouth where other people put their mouth, with silverware
08:21and things that you put in your mouth.
08:23What is it?
08:24Considering Priscilla Presley was just 14 years old when her relationship with Elvis Presley
08:28began, it's no surprise that her own life was quickly overshadowed by his spotlight.
08:33In a 2016 interview for Loose Women, Priscilla revealed just how much her relationship with
08:38Elvis affected her sense of self as a young woman.
08:40I didn't have my teenage years as a normal girl, obviously, so I had to, I had to adapt.
08:47Priscilla was willing to do whatever it took to be the ideal wife to Elvis.
08:51In her first ever interview in 1973, she dished to Ladies Home Journal that she'd decorated
08:56the mansion she shared with Elvis exactly how he wanted it, even though his style wasn't
09:00her particular cup of tea.
09:02Priscilla told the publication,
09:03You've got to do what a man likes, and he's not going to be happy with anything feminine,
09:07that's for sure.
09:08Despite Priscilla's efforts at homemaking, she and Elvis inevitably lived separate lives.
09:13Priscilla pursued hobbies like karate and ballet, while Elvis preferred to just stay home when
09:17he wasn't on tour.
09:18According to Priscilla, their conflicting interests and Elvis' intense superstardom caused the couple
09:23to live in what she described as a bubble.
09:24That didn't work very well for a young woman, who never really got the chance to discover
09:28herself.
09:29Priscilla told Ladies Home Journal,
09:30I saw how Elvis had to be, I mean, so publicized.
09:33I could live my life and do what I wanted, but it was not possible for Elvis to do this.
09:38It was a shame.
09:39Though they were seemingly still in love, Elvis and Priscilla Presley just couldn't make their
09:42marriage work.
09:43According to the Memphis Press Scimitar, the couple's divorce was finalized on October 9, 1973.
09:49Fame is a terrible drug that often pushes stars into the oddest methods of trying to stay
09:53thin and beautiful.
09:54As Linda Thompson wrote in her memoir, her ex-lover Elvis Presley had a number of insecurities
09:59regarding his appearance, famously battling both drugs and weight problems in the public
10:03eye.
10:04Presley's weight issues would eventually drive the superstar to bizarre measures in an
10:08effort to keep the extra pounds off, including an alleged two-week period of sedation.
10:12According to Thompson, during his weight-loss sleeping period, Presley mainly stayed in a
10:16slumber except for a few brief periods each day when he'd wake up to go to the bathroom
10:20and eat a small portion of food.
10:22His ex-girlfriend also revealed that Presley was known to crash diet on just 500 calories
10:27a day.
10:28Another alleged secret from Thompson's relationship with the iconic singer is the revelation that
10:32Elvis wore high collars in order to conceal his neck, which he apparently hated.
10:36In her memoir, Thompson revealed that Elvis wore the trademark style to keep his, quote,
10:40skinny little chicken neck hidden from the public.
10:43At the age of 40, after years of wear and tear, Presley allegedly opted for a facelift.
10:48Thompson insists this was the only cosmetic procedure Presley ever had done, writing,
10:52There has been speculation through the years that Elvis had his eyes done or some other
10:56mystery procedure, but that mini facelift was the extent of his plastic surgery.
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