These Little-Known Facts About Elvis Presley Will Change How You See Him

Ginger Alden was just 20 when she met Elvis, and barely older when he proposed with a diamond as large as her knuckle. They’d only been dating a few months, yet she was suddenly cast as his fiancée and live-in nurse. Friends were skeptical. She was young, compliant, and conveniently photogenic.

Elvis, increasingly erratic and paranoid, clung to her like a lifeline. She claims he was planning a wedding. Others say it was a delusion—another fantasy he’d never follow through on. Whether she was a true love or a final distraction, Ginger was the last woman to see him alive.