Priscilla Presley is commanding attention as she embarks on a press tour in support of her latest memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis.
The star was a vision of sophistication as she stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, her petite frame slipped into an elegant white blazer and skirt.
Priscilla, 80, arrived in style with edgy black leather boots encasing her feet, along with a semi-transparent scarf cloaked around her neck.
Her fiery red locks were pulled back into a low ponytail with stylish side part.
Priscilla looked happy as she arrived and departed the show, blowing kisses and waving to onlookers waiting outside the New York City studio on Tuesday.
Softly, As I Leave You was officially released on Tuesday, but Priscilla has been dropping hints of what fans can expect in the newly-released page-turner in recent days – including how she saved Elvis’ estate Graceland from being sold off after his death.
Priscilla Presley was spotted departing the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in NYC on Tuesday
Presley has described how she saved Graceland after she was confronted with the prospect of selling it due to it’s enormous expense
Elvis’ dad Vernon gained possession of the estate after his son died in 1977, and Priscilla was appointed as trustee after her father-in-law passed two years later.
The property, however, was a massive expense, with Priscilla recalling in memoir that the estate had drained the money both she and daughter Lisa-Marie Presley had inherited from Elvis down to $500,000.
Priscilla’s legal team then proposed she sell the estate – a prospect she flat-out rejected.
‘After Elvis passed, it went on for about three years until the attorneys brought me in and said, “Priscilla, we’re going to have to sell Graceland. We have no money. We’re not bringing any money in,”‘ she told People.
‘I just looked at them, and I said, “That’ll never happen, ever.” Then, I left,’ she said.
Ultimately, Priscilla was able to save Graceland with the help of the wealthy businessman Morgan Maxfield, with the duo coming up with the plan to open the estate up to the public.
But tragically, Morgan was killed in a plane crash a year before Graceland officially opened it’s doors.
She was a vision of sophistication in an elegant cream blazer, skirt, and black leather boots
The star waved and blew kisses to onlookers
Priscilla was wed to the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll, Elvis Presley, from 1967 to 1973
The former couple pictured in Hawaii
Priscilla refused to sell Graceland and ultimately saved it after opening it up to the public; pictured 2006
‘That was a shock,’ Priscilla told the publication. ‘He was guiding me all the way on opening Graceland. Thank God I was able to fulfill what he had said about making sure I get the right people, the right attorneys, the right bank. It was a trip, but it was a trip worthwhile.’
Elvis was 24-years old and a global star when he met his future wife, then just 14-years of age, at a party in West Germany while seeing out his military service with the United States Army.
The couple wed in Las Vegas in 1967 and welcomed their only child, daughter Lisa-Marie Presley, the following year.
The couple ultimately divorced in 1973 and Priscilla would eventually embark on a 22-year relationship with Brazilian screenwriter Marco Garibaldi, with whom she welcomed son Navarone, her second child, in 1987.
Elvis, of course, died ten years earlier in 1977 at the age of 42 after suffering a fatal cardiac arrest in the bathroom of his legendary Graceland home.
His ex-wife would endure further tragedy in January 2023 when Lisa-Marie also died prematurely, aged just 54.
