'He was fascinated with the idea of real young teenage girls,' said Lamar Fike, a former member of his entourage. In fact, it was just one of Presley's many unsettling liaisons with minors in the years following his rise to fame. Although sexual from the start, their relationship was portrayed as a sweet and innocent triumph of love across the age divide. Most famously there was his future wife, Priscilla Beaulieu, who was just 14 - ten years his junior - when they met in September 1959. Shockingly, he preferred girls who were barely more than children. As a disturbing new biography of the 'King' suggests, the 18-year-old siren was simply too old for Presley. She should not have taken Presley's lack of ardour so personally. Never lonesome: The King lapped up attention from his young female fans
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