Priscilla Beaulieu was born in 1945, Brooklyn, NY. Priscilla’s father was an Air Force officer and her family was stationed in Germany when she was a teenager.
She met Elvis Presley in 1959, when she was fourteen, and he was serving with the U.S. Armed Forces. She eventually followed him to the U.S. & eight years after they met, they were married in Las Vegas, Nevada 1967 when Priscilla was 21. Daughter Lisa Marie was born the following year,in 1968.
Although their marriage didn’t last (they divorced in 1973), Elvis and Priscilla remained friends, and raised Lisa Marie together, until his death in 1977.
Priscilla had begun to study acting during their marriage She turned down a part as one of the Angels in the 1979 TV series, 'Charlie's Angels', but then forged her career by winning a Soap Opera Digest award in 1984 for her role as Jenna Wade Krebbs on Dallas (1983-1988). She starred in three Naked Gun movies with Leslie Nielsen between 1988 and 1994.
Priscilla became the executor of Elvis’ estate,Graceland, in 1979. (then Lisa Marie eventually took over Graceland)
In the late '90s she started a line of fragrances, and developed a line of clothing and skin care products.
Priscilla has lived with Italian screenwriter Marco Garibaldi since 1984, (they reportedly broke up sometime in April 2006) and they have a son, Navaronne, who was born in 1987.
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