For hardcore fans, the King is still alive, but for most of the population, they believe Elvis Presley died of addiction problems.
The rock’n’roll legend was said to have health problems as a side effect to being a drug abuser but biographer Sally Hoedel says the health problems were probably from his maternal grandparents, who were first cousins.
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Presley died at 42, on Aug. 16, 1977, with official paperwork stating a heart attack. While his mom, Gladys, died at 46. “They had a similar
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