From the VFArchive: Priscilla Presley helped turn Elvis's legacy into a $50 million empire. After finding solace in Scientology, she turns her gaze to Hollywood.
riscilla Presley will always be our Rock 'n' Roll Widow. The term Rock ’n’ Roll Survivor seems better suited to Yoko Ono, and the only thing one can imagine Jerry Hall ever mourning would be her placement at the wrong table at a dinner party. It is Priscilla—sweet, sensual, goody-noshoes Priscilla—with whom we’ll always have a neo-Nabokovian fascination.
The two finally married at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas in 1967, then borrowed Frank Sinatra’s private plane and flew to Palm Springs for their honeymoon. Elvis took Priscilla, a complete innocent, and transformed her into his own frightening vision of femininity—the infamous architectural wonder of a hairdo, the abundant black eyeliner, the flamboyant dresses.
An important part of Scientology’s doctrine—apart from its devout anti-drug stance—is a system of counseling called “auditing.” A member is hooked up to a lie-detector-like machine which registers electrical changes in the body as he or she is asked questions. The results are then analyzed to enable the member to cleanse the body and mind of “engrams,” which Scientologists equate with negative thoughts. It is an expensive procedure.
“People always ask me how this gorgeous China doll can be the hard-charging backbone behind this business,” says Jack Soden, the executive director of E.P.E., Inc. “Believe me, she is. Priscilla has a remarkable interior gyroscope which keeps her on course. She’s really worked at it. She relies on me and several others to do the day-to-day work, but we rely on her instincts once we lay out the pros and cons of a situation for her. She’s uncanny.
Photographs of Marco and Navarone and Lisa are everywhere in Priscilla’s BelAir house, yet there is not one photo or memento of her Elvis years. “I couldn’t do that to Marco,” she says. “Most men don’t realize theof it all until they’re in it with me. Then there’s no relief. Marco is the first person who is his own man...He’s not interested in my past. He never brought Elvis up. But, you know, I don’t want my son confused right now. I don’t think he can handle it. Lisa is the same way.
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