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Jeanne LeMay Dumas, Thompson's best friend, recounts this first meeting with Elvis in an interview for her book, Elvis, Linda and Me [9]" and later became Elvis' personal secretary. [10] Dumas said: Like most people, I was a huge Elvis fan and never dreamed I'd get to meet him, much less have the experiences I ended up sharing with him and Linda.
Six months after Priscilla left, Presley dated Linda Thompson. Later on, Ginger Alden became his final serious girlfriend and his fiancee before Presley’s death. She was the person who found his unresponsive body when he died. Elvis had given Ginger Alden a diamond engagement ring [62] and presumably planned to marry her, though this is debated.
Linda Thompson (née Pettifer, born 23 August 1947) is an English singer-songwriter.. Thompson is one of the most recognised names and voices in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with fellow British folk rock musician, guitarist Richard Thompson, to whom she was married for ten years, and later as a solo artist.
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about Elvis's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for four of the last five years of his life. [1]
Elvis gave his final performance just weeks before his shocking death in August 1977 ... just gut-wrenching,” Elvis’ ex-girlfriend of four years Linda Thompson said in the ... to pay their ...
Five months later, Presley's new girlfriend, Linda Thompson, a songwriter and one-time Memphis beauty queen, moved in with him. [230] Presley and his wife filed for divorce on August 18. [231] According to Joe Moscheo of the Imperials, the failure of Presley's marriage "was a blow from which he never recovered". [232]
[3] [4] After Presley's death, Ginger Alden made a career in modeling and acting. [7] She later married Ron Leyser in 1991, and they have one son: Hunter. In 2014, Alden released "Elvis and Ginger", a memoir detailing her relationship with Presley. [8] [9] [10] Ron Leyser died on August 16, 2015, exactly 38 years after Elvis Presley. [11]
Johnny Harra as Presley at age 42 (Opening credits, August 16, 1977 death scene from extended version) Other narrators provided voice-over narrations for Vernon Presley, Gladys Presley, and Priscilla Presley. Presley's former road manager Joe Esposito and girlfriend Linda Thompson provided their own narrations. Presley receives credit only in ...