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Priscilla Presley (born Priscilla Ann Wagner on
May 24, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an United
States|American actress and the only wife of
singer Elvis Presley. 

Her biological father, James Wagner, was a United
States Navy pilot who was killed in a plane crash
when Priscilla was just an infant. Her mother
remarried to Paul Beaulieu, a United States Air
Force officer and they called her "Priscilla Ann."
The Beaulieus were stationed in West Germany at
the same time Elvis was there during his stint in
the United States Army. Priscilla was 14 years old
when they met. 

Elvis managed to talk the extremely reluctant
Beaulieus into allowing Priscilla to live with his
father (Vernon Presley) and step-mother at a home
Elvis purchased on Heritage Drive in Memphis,
Tennessee|Memphis. The seventeen-year-old
Priscilla Beaulieu "worked" on her mother to get
her support but before finally agreeing, her still
reluctant and protective step-father flew with her
to Los Angeles where Presley was filming Fun in
Acapulco. After discussing the "rules," she and
her father flew to Memphis where they met with
Vernon Presley, made arrangements for Priscilla's
enrollment in the Immaculate Conception school and
her step-father confirmed her living arrangements
at Vernon Presley's house.

Once living in Memphis in 1962, Priscilla Beaulieu
says she moved into Graceland bit by bit, at first
spending occasional nights with Presley, later
moving in and sleeping together every night. In
her 1985 autobiography, Elvis and Me she describes
Presley as a very passionate man with a
Pentecostal upbringing plus his generation's
double standard that cheered men for their sexual
prowess with women, insisting a girl should remain
a virgin until married and if she did not, she
would be labeled a "slut." Presley told her that
they had to wait until they were married before
having actual intercourse (p.130) but they could
do "other things." She writes, "we had a strong
connection, much of it sexual. The two of us
created some exciting and wild times." Beaulieu
also recounted how Elvis would stay up all night
and sleep most of the day. If he wanted to go out,
he would rent out the venue so no fans would
bother him, or arrange with store owners to shop
after hours when the store was closed. She also
talked about the prescription sleeping pills that
were present from the very first night she spent
with him and how their usage and variety escalated
dramatically during the years they were together.

She and Presley were married on May 1, 1967 and
daughter Lisa Marie Presley|Lisa Marie was born
nine months later on February 1, 1968. They
separated in February of 1972 and were divorced in
October of 1973. Their divorce povided for mutual
custody of Lisa Marie who lived with Priscilla in
Los Angeles and with her father at Graceland.

Priscilla Presley made her television debut in
1980 as a co-host of the American Broadcasting
Company|ABC series Those Amazing Animals. She went
on to  portray Jenna Wade on the soap opera Dallas
(TV series)|Dallas from 1983 to 1988, and starred
opposite Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun gag movie
trilogy.

She has lived with Brazilian writer-director Marco
Garibaldi since 1984; their son, Navarone, was
born on March 1, 1987.

==Bibliography==
*Elvis and Me (1985), ISBN 0399129847
*Elvis by the Presleys with Lisa Marie Presley
(2005), ISBN 0307237419

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0001636|name=Priscilla Presley