Priscilla Presley showed off her glamorous sense of style as she arrived for the 66th Vienna Opera Ball as the guest of honour on Thursday.
The former wife of Elvis Presley, 78, put on a dazzling display in a stunning sequinned gown as she headed into the event with billionaire Richard Lugner.
Priscilla’s eye-catching dress boasted an oversized black bow as she posed for snaps at the ball.
Her dress was adorned with an array of metallic sequins and boasted elegant wide sleeves with a fitted skirt.
Earlier in the day, Priscilla was in high spirits as she conducted a brass band and signed autographs in Vienna.
Priscilla Presley, 78, showed off her glamorous sense of style as she arrived for the 66th Vienna Opera Ball as the guest of honour on Thursday
The former wife of Elvis Presley put on a dazzling display in a stunning sequinned gown as she headed into the event with billionaire Richard Lugner
On Tuesday, Priscilla spent the day sightseeing in Vienna, walking around the city with her camera.
The Vienna Opera Ball [Wiener Opernball] is a spectacle which sees 5,000 glamorous guests don their best attire.
The upper echelons of politics, business and society are invited to indulge in an evening of champagne buckets – where the opera house is transformed into a giant ballroom.
A tradition of the event is to have a celebrity guest in attendance, with Priscilla the chosen star for 2024.
Past star guests paid by Lugner to attend as his guest have included Kim Kardashian, Goldie Hawn, Pamela Anderson and Lily James, with Jane Fonda taking the place as last year’s invitee.
American actor Jane said she accepted the Austrian building tycoon’s invitation to attend the Vienna Opera Ball because he offered to ‘pay me quite a bit of money.’
Debutantes from across the world take to the ballroom floor in white gowns to perform an opening procession, accompanied by their partners in black tails and white waistcoats. In 2022, the ball had its first same-sex couple – two women from Germany.
Lugner famously called Kim Kardashian ‘annoying’ after she and her mother Kris Jenner attended as his double date to the bash in 2014.
Priscilla’s eye-catching dress boasted an oversized black bow and was covered in metallic sequins as she posed for snaps at the ball
Earlier in the day, Priscilla was in high spirits as she conducted a brass band and signed autographs in Vienna
Kim claimed she fled the event because she was reportedly offended following a reported racial slur from a guest.
After the ball, Lugner claimed he branded the star ‘annoying’ because she would not dance with him despite being paid a jaw-dropping $500,000.
But Kim claimed she was approached by a white male who was working at the event in ‘blackface’ and began to mimic her fiance Kanye West, which was why she ran away.
Despite calling the Vienna Ball ‘super glamorous’, Kim admitted she had been already suffering anxiety largely because the event was ‘super claustrophobic’.
Then reality TV cameras then caught her shock at seeing the guest in blackface calling out ‘Kim I’m here’ – clearly pretending to be Kanye.
Priscilla’s outing ahead of the ball comes after she paid an emotional tribute to late daughter Lisa Marie on what would have been her 56th birthday on February 1.
Lisa Marie died aged 54 on January 12 2023 – with Priscilla sharing a poignant snap of the pair in Lisa’s teenage year as she marked her birthday.
She wrote: ‘I miss you ‘Yisa’. You would have been 56 today. Still young at heart and yet an old soul. Mom.’
The daughter of Elvis Presley was rushed to hospital on January 12 2023 after going into cardiac arrest – with an L.A. County Coroner report revealing the star died from sequelae (a condition which is the consequence of a previous disease or injury) of small bowel obstruction.
