#anyone who has read ‘Elvis: what happened’ knows what’s I’m talking about 🥴

[doll-elvis]

About Marty Lacker, I remember in the Memphis Mafia book he told this story about how Elvis never met Diana Ross until the 70’s and rejected her when she wanted to hangout with him one time and called her ugly. But if you look up Elvis and Diana there’s an audio of him introducing her at one of his Vegas shows in 1969 and saying that he loves her. It’s just stuff like that makes me question if certain members wanted to make Elvis look bad in their books.

thank you for the ask and I’m really glad you brought this up because I think this shows again that all these men have their own personal biases, and with marty lacker, I’ve wondered if anyone else has noticed the comments he has made about black women and elvis, including this story

to give him the benefit of the doubt, elvis could have really said that about diana ross in private, he obviously wouldn’t call her unattractive or say she was too skinny on stage in public, but I’ve only ever heard marty lacker tell that story (despite him saying another memphis mafia guy was there) and I don’t even see why he needed to tell it because it’s just irrelevant imo

Marty Lacker also says this in the Memphis Mafia book right before he tells the Diana Ross story “He never stopped being a flirt, not ’til the day he died. Except with black girls. He never flirted with (them)”

but this is just blatantly untrue!!! for example I have heard every single member of the sweet inspirations talk about how elvis liked to flirt with them (especially with Myrna but Jerry just had to swoop in 😂) and if you have listened to/watched elvis concerts you could see for yourself that he was extremely flirtatious with them (I’m convinced he was going to go in for a kiss during suspicious minds in TTWII 1970 but then she got a lil nervous 😩)

I sometimes forget the majority of these men were born in the mid 30s to early 40s, therefore I shouldn’t be surprised if they harbor some prejudice but I’ve just never understood why Marty made those comments when there is so much evidence that says otherwise