EXCLUSIVE: Priscilla Presley 'Kept Romance With Lawyer Robert Kardashian a Secret' Over Fears She Would Lose Her Famous Last Name... As She Finally Reveals Steamy Affair Details
Priscilla Presley admits she hid her romance with Robert Kardashian to protect her famous last name.
Oct. 24 2025, Published 6:30 a.m. ET
Secretive Priscilla Presley kept estranged husband, Elvis Presley, in the dark about her romance with up-and-coming lawyer Robert Kardashian because insiders say she feared losing her famous last name and self-proclaimed title of "Queen of Graceland."
RadarOnline.com can reveal the King's ex-wife lays bare the affair in her new memoir, Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, bragging about getting a secret 2 a.m. phone call from her Love Me Tender ex while Kardashian slept next to her in her bed.
Priscilla's Love Triangle
Priscilla Presley secretly dated Robert Kardashian while still taking late-night calls from Elvis Presley.
"Fortunately, he was a sound sleeper, so I leaped out of bed and grabbed the phone before it woke him," she writes.
"He never knew Elvis had called. And Elvis never knew about Robert."
But an insider told RadarOnline.com the now 80-year-old Priscilla had several encounters with Elvis, who died at 42 in 1977, while she was dating the future dad of the Kardashian clan sisters.
"When Elvis would come by unannounced in the middle of the night to see his daughter, Kardashian would be there asleep and she'd hide him," said the insider, who accused Priscilla of telling only part of the story in the book.
"She didn't want to get Elvis angry because he would still buy her anything she wanted even after the divorce. She kept a lot of secrets from Elvis, and he didn't live much longer after she began seeing Robert."
Priscilla Thought About Marrying Robert Kardashian
Insiders claimed Priscilla refused to marry Kardashian to keep her famous Presley name.
The insider claimed Priscilla considered "marrying Robert, but she didn't want to lose the Presley name and Graceland," the singer's legendary Nashville mansion.
In the book, Priscilla admitted liking Robert – who died in 2003 at 59 after becoming famous for helping O.J. Simpson dodge double murder charges – but felt the romance "wasn't going to work out" because he liked to stay home and rest on weekends after a grueling work week, while she preferred "to be out and about doing something."
As RadarOnline.com has reported, Priscilla is now fighting a $50 million breach of contract lawsuit filed by two former business associates who accuse her of quickly taking daughter Lisa Marie Presley, 54, off life support in 2023 in an attempt to cash in on the estate of Elvis' only heir.
The Shocking Lawsuit Details
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Priscilla is battling ex-associates in a $50 million lawsuit tied to control of Graceland.
In response, Priscilla filed an elder abuse claim against the former business partners, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, accusing them of tricking her into signing over as much as 80 percent of her earnings.
Priscilla's lawyer vehemently denied the charges made against her. But the lawsuit alleges just before Lisa Marie's funeral, the giddy mom exclaimed: "I'm the queen. I'm in charge of Graceland."
