He had no children, and he treated his wife as a companion, not as a lover. But, backed by some members of the Van Kuijk family, Nash still believes it more likely than not that Colonel Parker was a killer. It could have been a coincidence, yes, of course. I cannot say without reservation that he killed this woman.
The death of Colonel Tom Parker
Presley's manager died in 1997 in Las Vegas from a stroke at age 87. According to Smithsonian magazine, he had no children and his wife was more of a companion than a lover.
The Colonel himself ended up being the greatest sucker of them all, giving back almost his entire fortune to the Hilton croupiers.
More still went to RCA records, sole owner of all of Elvis' music before 1973, thanks to a $5.4-million deal Parker arranged in that year. It is a deal that severed the Presley estate from the royalties for more than 700 songs and put $2.6 million in the colonel's pocket.
He had no children, and he treated his wife as a companion, not as a lover. But, backed by some members of the Van Kuijk family, Nash still believes it more likely than not that Colonel Parker was a killer. It could have been a coincidence, yes, of course.
Yes, Colonel Tom Parker did go to Elvis' funeral.
Colonel Parker agreed to turn over all of Mr. Presley's master recordings to RCA for $1 million. The rest of the payment was for movies, television clips and Colonel Parker's rights to a 1977 videotaped Presley concert.
Lisa Marie Presley retains 100% sole personal ownership of Graceland Mansion itself and its over 13-acre original grounds and her father's personal effects - meaning costumes, wardrobe, awards, furniture, cars, etc.. She has made the mansion property and her father's personal effects permanently available for tours of ...
No, Elvis Didn't Fire Colonel Tom Parker From the Stage at Las Vegas. In the later years of his life Elvis performed several Las Vegas residency shows after the Colonel made a deal to keep him there in order to pay for his large gambling debt.
In 1983, during her 25th birthday, Lisa Marie finally inherited her father's entire estate, which had grown to about $100 million.
But in 1973, the Colonel committed the ultimate betrayal, selling Presley's entire back catalog to RCA for $5.4 million, a gross undervaluation for one of the most substantial catalogs in music history.
After a lifetime that saw him earn in excess of $100 million, Parker's estate was worth barely $1 million when he died.
It's been estimated that the deal earned Parker $100 million. Although Parker himself would live for another 20 years after Presley, dying at 87 in 1997, a big part of him died with Elvis. “He was mainly living in the past,” said Dickerson.
Among those who participated in the public memorial service at Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tenn., were musicians Billy Corgan, Alanis Morissette and Axl Rose, as well as Priscilla Presley.
The only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie was the sole inheritor of her father's famed mansion.
After Lisa Marie's death in 2023, Graceland and her trust were inherited by her daughters, Keough and Harper and Finley Lockwood, a representative for Graceland confirmed to People. Lisa Marie shared Riley with her ex-husband, Danny Keough, whom she divorced in 1994.
They went motorcycle riding together in Nashville. Parker used Jimmie to sidle up to Elvis and form a friendship to get Elvis to sign with Parker and the elder Snow, who were then business partners. But then Colonel cheated Hank out of half of Elvis and that was that.
At the time of Elvis' death in 1977, his estate was worth about $5 million (roughly $25.4 million in today's dollars). Lisa Marie Presley inherited her father's estate when she turned 25 years old in 1993.
Col. Tom Parker, 87, a onetime carnival pitchman who shrewdly guided singer-actor Elvis Presley's career for 22 years, died here Jan.
After Elvis' death, Colonel Tom Parker continued to manage and make money from Elvis' estate, until a case between him and the Elvis Presley Estate resulted in him receiving $2 million in exchange for all Elvis audio recordings or visual images that he owned, as well as the termination of his involvement in any Presley ...
That never happened—Elvis died not knowing of Parker's illegal status—but he would have had to have had a tin ear not to pick up on an accent as obvious as Hanks's.
The two men remained estranged until Parker's death in 1997. “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann's interpretation of the life of the King, is currently box office gold, with over half a million viewers. There were many issues between Colonel Parker and Elvis, and their relationship was contentious.