{"id":166228,"date":"2025-09-24T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166228\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:08:08","slug":"priscilla-presley-claims-elvis-hired-a-hitman-to-kill-her-karate-instructor-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166228\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley claims Elvis hired a hitman to kill her karate instructor lover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Priscilla Presley<\/a> has shed light on her tumultuous relationship with Elvis<\/a> in her new book and claimed he wanted her karate instructor killed after learning of their affair.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Sofia Coppola on baring Elvis\u2019 ugly side in \u2018Priscilla\u2019: \u201cI never wanted him to be a villain\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

In her upcoming memoir,\u00a0Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, she shared that she had an affair with her karate instructor, Mike Stone, during her marriage to Elvis.\u00a0In a portion of the book obtained by Fox News Digital<\/a>, Priscilla wrote of the irony of the affair, given she\u2019d started taking karate lessons to impress her husband after learning about his own infidelity.<\/p>\n

She discovered this after finding their mailbox \u201cstuffed full of letters from girls\u201d, and wrote: \u201cI finally held written proof of what I\u2019d always feared. I was deeply hurt, but I was also furious. I called Elvis and demanded an explanation. When that tactic failed, he resorted to saying the girls were all lying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time, though, turning the tables didn\u2019t work. If Elvis was having affairs that were none of my business, then it was none of his business what I was doing. The close friendship that Mike and I had developed turned into an affair.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday (September 22), she reflected on the mutual cheating in an interview with Today<\/a>, and said there were \u201ctoo many of us\u201d in the marriage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThey would go and meet Elvis at the house on weekends when he went, and it was another life. Now, he would come home great and wonderful. He was still a good husband, but it was just too many of us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Priscilla claimed her affair with Stone infuriated Elvis to such a degree that he contemplated hiring an assassin to kill him.<\/p>\n

\u201cElvis found the thought of me with another man unbearable. In the weeks after my departure, he told the guys that Mike had to die. He even asked Joe [Esposito] to find a hit man,\u201d she revealed, referring to Elvis\u2019 longtime road manager, who she added was also famously known as a member of the \u201cMemphis Mafia\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe warned me to be careful. When I offered to bring Lisa [Marie Presley] to Vegas for one of Elvis\u2019s shows, Joe advised against it. Seeing me might set Elvis off. Over time, and with a lot of persuasion from his father and the guys, Elvis gradually calmed down and gave up the idea of killing Mike, thank God,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, in her book, Priscilla claimed that when Elvis learned of the affair, he\u2019d \u201cforcefully\u201d had sex with her, but made it clear that it wasn\u2019t the reason she decided to file for divorce in 1972.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t leave because of Mike Stone. And I didn\u2019t leave because Elvis had forced himself on me when he found out about Mike. He had not. Elvis had felt emasculated. He\u2019d needed to prove to himself and to me that he could make love \u2018like a real man,\u2019 the way he imagined a karate master doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cElvis made love to me forcefully, not forcibly. His usual tenderness and consideration for me were missing. It was emotionally hurtful, and it left me with an unhappy memory of my last experience of sexual intimacy with Elvis. But it was not the reason I left,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Other recent revelations from her book include her strong disapproval of Lisa Marie Presley<\/a>\u2018s relationship with\u00a0Michael Jackson<\/a>. In a newly shared excerpt, she said their brief marriage in the \u201990s \u201cappalled\u201d her<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley has shed light on her tumultuous relationship with Elvis in her new book and claimed he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-166228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}