In his book, The Untold Story: My 20 Years Running the National Enquirer, former Executive Editor Iain Calder recounted how the tabloid paid one of Elvis' many cousins $18,000 to snap the picture. Displayed on the cover, the issue sold a record-setting 6.5 million copies and became part ...
but that was extended by an hour and a half. He always could please a crowd. This picture of Elvis in his casket has been floating around for years. Couldn’t tell you if it’s authentic or not.
000 a night) or schedule another recording session (each new album would mean at least $250,000 in royalties) or line up another film (usual fee per picture: $1 million).
In 1984, a picture ran in the papers of Muhammad Ali with Jesse Jackson and sports agent Larry Kolb. When people starting saying Kolb was actually Elvis, Ali — much to his credit, I think — confirmed to an interviewer that it was, in fact, Elvis. Popular stories of Elvis being seen...
, Col. Tom Parker, as well as “Elvis and the Memphis Mafia,” she sounds like someone well connected in the Presley world. So it is only a little bit worrisome to see her identified in the jacket copy for her new book as “the first journalist to see Elvis Presley in his casket....
Like the publication, "Funerals of the Famous Volume 3" (undated) from Kates-Boylston Publications, this is a solid, serious account of how logistical issues were handled for Elvis' funeral. It answers questions about Elvis' casket and offers clues about his autopsy 2001 "The Truth About ...