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Elvis Presley final years: ‘King wanted very few people around' says Memphis Mafia member

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Elvis Presley dated his final lover Ginger Alden, who he proposed to and who would tragically find him dead on August 16, 1977, after a heart attack on the toilet.

Physically out of shape and doped up on too much prescription medication, The King, who was 42 when he died, struggled through his final concerts, with his dire state on full display in the never officially released Elvis in Concert film from his last summer.

Howard Hughes-like, the star would spend much of his finals months hidden away in his bedroom upstairs at Graceland, buried in his spiritualism books and paranoia.

Memphis Mafia members Red and Sonny West and David Hebler had been fired the previous year, with the reason given being to save money.

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