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Death of a KinG
Elvis Aaron Presley was murdered, and the killing was disguised to look
like an accident! That’s the chilling conclusion of an all-new, exclusive
investigation by the editors and reporters of The National ENquirEr,
who are presenting their findings in this explosive Special report. After
reviewing a mountain of classified FBi documents, never-before-seen
photos, interviewing key witnesses, crime analysts and forensic experts,
The ENquirEr blows the lid off a massive cover-up and reveals who
killed The King – and why – as the world prepares to celebrate the 79th
anniversary of his birth on Jan. 8, 1935.
★ Elvis Presley
still casts a
long shadow
over his
hometown,
Memphis,
Tenn., where
his memory
is honored by
a statue and
a magnificent
boulevard
CONTENTS
editor in chief
Tony Frost
executive editor
Dan Dolan
3-6 Elvis was
murdErEd 7 managing editor
Larry Haley
7-15 sin City
design director
16-22 drug
Martin Elfers
nightmarE
photo director
23-29 hEartbrEak
Ray Fairall
hotEl
news editor
30-35 arE you David Gardner
lonEsomE
photo editor
tonight?
Christine Visoke
36-39 Elvis’ littlE
senior reporter
blaCk book John Blosser
40-41 livin’ thE designer
high lifE Nicole Perron
contributors
Susan Baker
Gary Greenberg
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chief copy editor
Debbie Ryan
copy editor
Evan Karlan
assistant photo editor
Rochelle Wagener
research director
Mireya Throop
researchers
Barbara Koskie
Laurie Miller
Alison Rayman
production director
Matt Skowronski
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Weider Publications LLC, a subsidiary of
American Media, Inc.
42-48 bad Company Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
David Pecker
50-52 saint
Executive V.P./Chief Marketing Officer
or sinnEr? Kevin Hyson
53-56 salvation! Executive V.P./Consumer Marketing
David W. Leckey
58-61 thE sting
Executive V.P./Chief Financial
62-65 Elvis knEw Officer/Treasurer
Chris Polimeni
too muCh
E.V.P./Chief Digital Officer
66-71 murdEr Joseph M. Bilman
most foul! E.V.P./Digital Media Operations/CIO
David S. Thompson
72-77 autopsy
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★ A rock ’n’ roll rebel Elvis Presley had a reputation as a
on stage, Elvis Presley
rock ’n’ roll rebel who outraged adults
was a born-again
and sent young female fans swooning
Christian with traditional
with his devil-may-care demeanor and
Southern values
swiveling hips. Although he seemed
to buck the establishment, at heart he
was an old-fashioned southern boy with
a burning love for his country.
Elvis supported the vietnam War and
conservative politician Richard Nixon,
and he blamed anti-establishment celeb-
rities like Jane Fonda and acid rockers for
corrupting the youth of America.
Elvis was
murdErEd!
Elvis was murdErEd 3
★ Elvis was all smiles
during a Dec. 21, 1970,
White House meeting
with President
Richard Nixon,
who appointed the
entertainer a special
government agent.
Elvis’ photo (below)
was taken by the
FBI as part of the
vetting process
★ America’s commander in chief wrote
For Elvis, the “greatest living
to Elvis (left) after a White House visit
American” was J. Edgar Hoover,
where Presley got his federal agent badge
the bulldog director of the FBi,
and credentials (below). Elvis took his
who was feared and reviled in
appointment very seriously
equal measure by the liberal left.
While Elvis was initially at
the cutting edge of the youth
music revolution, his traditional
views – along with a series of
wholesome, but tacky, movies
– left him out of step with his
rock peers in the latter half of the
swinging ’60s.
UNQUESTIONING PATRIOTISM
Elvis made no secret of his
contempt for the anti-war protesters deputies in las vegas and
and hippies who challenged the status Memphis. And he risked his
quo. And it was this sense of unques- life riding with firefighters,
tioning patriotism and his reverence for who were delighted to have
law enforcement agencies that helped The King along with them.
redeem rock ’n’ roll’s first bona fide But it was his federal
superstar just when he appeared to be agent-at-large badge, given
slipping into irrelevance. to him by President Nixon
Friends revealed he would secretly on Dec. 21, 1970, that Elvis
go on patrol with police and sheriff’s treasured above all his other
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★ Presley loved
law enforcement!
He rode police
motorcycles,
carried badges and
was almost always
packing heat
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★ In 1976, Elvis hooked up with Denver’s narcotics squad (above) – and even
wore a local police uniform. He was a deputy sheriff (right) in Shelby County,
Tenn., where he lived. He prowled the roads around Graceland at night, using a
powerful flashlight to flag down speeding cars!
possessions. And his determination to With Elvis’ fortune draining
honor the shining shield turned him into away, his father vernon, who
a real-life hero. watched over his son’s financial
Despite earning millions through- affairs, suggested selling off a rarely-
out his career, Elvis was faced with the used lockheed Jetstar aircraft to
prospect of going broke in the summer pick up some quick cash.
of 1976. The bighearted star had spread THE FRATERNITY
his wealth, giving cars and other gifts vernon quickly grew suspicious
to loved ones and hangers-on. He also of one batch of potential buyers and fraudsters in the world – and part of a
spent a ton on luxury items for himself. told Elvis he thought they were up Mob-connected gang who called them-
to no good. For Elvis, selves The Fraternity.
it seemed the perfect Elvis risked his life by green-
opportunity to fulfill lighting the FBi’s undercover Operation
★ With Elvis as the pledge he made to Fountain Pen, playing a dupe as he
bait, the star Nixon to do anything and vernon dealt with The Fraternity.
and his father he could to uphold the He eventually signed over the plane
Vernon helped nail
law. so he went to the to the crooks – knowing they’d be
dangerous Mob-
Feds as an undercover arrested by the FBi almost as soon
connected outlaws
agent and agreed to as the deal was done.
use the plane as bait sadly, the undercover operation may
to reel in some of the have sealed Elvis’ fate. While some
bad guys. people believe the superstar died at age
As it turned out, the 42 as a result of his own indulgences,
scam artists seeking explosive evidence shows that he was
to con Elvis out of really a super patriot who sacrificed
his plane were his celebrated life for the good of
among the biggest his country. ★
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Elvis was murdErEd
★ At the height of his
reign, The King was
honored at a Jan. 16,
1971, Memphis bash
as one of the Jaycees’
“Ten Outstanding
Young Men of
America.” But he died
disgraced a little more
than six years later
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hen Elvis first arrived in Vegas in 1956 as a wide-eyed, hip-gyrating 21-year-old, he was
virtually ignored by a casino crowd that favored older crooners and big band jazz.
But after hitting it big in Hollywood, he returned in the summer of 1969, a motorcade of
20 limousines raising a cloud of dust in the desert as it bore The King to what would become
his new realm.
Over the next seven years, Elvis sold out 837 consecutive shows, basking in the idolatry of
his devoted fans, raking in millions and changing Sin City forever.
On opening night at the newly built International hotel – later to become the Hilton – Elvis
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★ Sin City wasn’t kind to Elvis when the young rock star made his first stage appearances there in 1956 (right). But 13 years later, he
changed the city forever and sold out an incredible 837 shows!
celebrated the 10 standing ovations planet. And Elvis indulged in it all –
he received by buying all 30 members drugs, women, food – the only thing he
of his entourage diamond-studded lacked was privacy.
Rolex watches. He also bought 14 “Elvis became a prisoner of his own
Cadillac cars for friends back home career,” said his close friend and long-
in Memphis. time bodyguard Red West. “Even stars
But behind the seemingly endless like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.
supply of cash, amazing generosity could mingle with the crowd and do
and the bright lights, Las Vegas brought some gambling, but Elvis tried it once
out the violent, dark side of and everybody stopped what they were
the restless entertainer. doing and came around him to see what
And it took a tragic HE was doing.”
toll barely eight It was a far cry from his first appear-
months after he’d ance in a Vegas casino, opening for
left the Hilton comedian Shecky Greene in the New
for good, when Frontier’s Venus Room in 1956.
The King was “For the teenagers, the long, tall
found dead on Memphis lad is a whiz; for the average
Aug. 16, 1977, Vegas spender or showgoer, a bore,”
at his Grace- “Las Vegas Sun” reviewer Bill Willard
land mansion. No wrote at the time. “His musical sound
doubt his outra- with a combo of three is uncouth,
geous antics in Vegas matching to a great extent the lyric
were a contributing factor content of his nonsensical songs.”
in his deadly decline. ★ Comic Shecky Greene (left) got top But his 1964 movie, “Viva Las
Sin City comes by its name honestly. billing during Elvis’ first Nevada shows. Vegas,” helped Elvis win the city’s
It’s a place where any diversion, legal But after the 1964 flick “Viva Las Vegas” heart. And he returned in May 1967 to
or otherwise, is just a phone call away, co-starring Ann-Margret (above), he get hitched to Priscilla Ann Beaulieu
conquered the desert playground
particularly for the biggest star on the in the owner’s suite at the Aladdin.
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