Colonel Tom Parker

1 week ago - After a lifetime that saw him earn in excess of $100 million, Parker's estate was worth barely $1 million when he died. "Colonel Tom Parker rubbed my head in Vegas", Eddie Murphy stated in 1989. "A couple times he set me up in the Elvis Presley suite on top of the Hilton, and I would go play Elvis for a week...

November 15, 2024 - Colonel Tom Parker remains, 25 years after his death, and nearly half a century after the death of his only client, the most memorable and divisive manager in the history of show business. It was the Colonel who propelled his “boy”, as he would refer to him, from being a local celebrity in Memphis to being the most famous and successful performer on the planet. But the Colonel was also the man who most hold responsible for Elvis’ stagnant years making appalling movies in Hollywood.

Although comedian Nipsy Russell stated that "Every entertainer should go to bed at night and pray he finds a Colonel Tom Parker under his bed when he wakes up in the morning" - is that really the truth · It is a fact that after Elvis' death an official investigation found that "both Colonel ...

February 22, 2024 - After Elvis' death, Colonel Tom Parker continued to manage and make money from Elvis' estate, until a case between him and the Elvis Presley Estate resulted in him receiving $2 million in exchange for all Elvis audio recordings or visual images ...

Calling the shots in Hollywood, Parker made Presley a #1 box-office star and kept the entertainer's career alive during his two-year stint in the Army. Did you see it?' the old man asked, shifting his mountainous heap of flesh to the edge of the chair, his eyes open wide and twinkling. 'What a hell of a thing! Unbelievable!' It was June 18, 1994, the day after O. J. Simpson's infamous Bronco run, and Colonel Tom Parker, with his attentive wife, Loanne, at his side, held court for two visitors at the N'Orleans Restaurant, a meat 'n' two joint in a run-of-the-mill strip mall named Lucky's on the outskirts of the gambling capital of the world.

November 13, 2024 - Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley revisits the lead-up to the event, and the tensions between Elvis Presley and Tom Parker. As depicted in other media focused on Elvis' life, the pair's relationship was often tempestuous. Nevertheless, both men had a profound influence on each other. Despite Parker's influence on suspending his stage career, Presley had much to thank the Colonel for and knew it.

August 3, 2023 - For the most part, these details did not emerge until the 1980s, years after Presley’s death and well into the Colonel’s semi-retirement (he eventually died in 1997). But when they did they seemed to explain why, throughout his life, Parker had taken such enormous care to keep his past hidden—why he had settled a lawsuit with Elvis’ record company when it became clear that he would have to face cross-examination under oath, and why, far from resorting to the sort of tax-avoidance schemes that managers typically offered to their clients, he had always let the IRS calculate his taxes.

They were Priscilla Presley, Elvis’ accountant Joe Hanks, and the National Bank of Commerce in Memphis. Three days after Vernon’s death, the co-executors asked Colonel Parker to carry on his management of the estate as he had under Vernon.

Colonel Thomas Andrew “Tom” Parker (Born Andreas Cornelis van Kuyk) was an enigma from the day he arrived on a freighter in Tampa Bay, Florida, as an illegal immigrant at about the age of 20 until his death at the advanced age of 87 in 1997. Colonel Parker is of course best known as the manager of Elvis Presley, who was probably instrumental in making Elvis the superstar he became.

June 30, 2022 - That never happened—Elvis died not knowing of Parker’s illegal status—but he would have had to have had a tin ear not to pick up on an accent as obvious as Hanks’s. The Colonel had a highly developed sense of humor that enthralled members of Elvis’s entourage as well as actor Hugh O’Brian, whose Wyatt Earp tour Parker promoted in 1957.

September 26, 2023 - After Elvis died, the probate judge appointed a Memphis lawyer Blanchard Tual, whose report accused the Colonel of "self-dealing and overreaching” and of having "violated his duty to Elvis and the estate".

July 7, 2024 - He had made an estimated $100 million from Presley’s career, surely the richest haul made by any carny in history, but the audacious imposter who gained worldwide renown as “Colonel” Tom Parker gambled most of it away. Bob Kealing is the author of four books on Florida history and culture, including “Elvis ignited, The Rise of an Icon in Florida.” He is a six-time regional Emmy Award-winning journalist and two-time recipient of the Edward R.

May 19, 2022 - Colonel Tom Parker managed Elvis Presley’s career from 1955 to 1977, overseeing almost every aspect of the star’s life.

August 16, 2022 - The journalist who wrote Parker’s definitive biography says Elvis’s manager kept deep dark secrets that may have contributed to the death of his most famous client. The biopic “Elvis” is one of the biggest movies of the year, starring Oscar winner Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker, the promotional genius who guided Elvis Presley’s meteoric career.

August 1, 2022 - Played by Tom Hanks in the Elvis film, Parker allegedly stole over half of the King’s millions, but he’s also credited with reinventing American popular culture …

September 2, 2025 - Colonel Tom Parker helped Elvis Presley become an international celebrity, arranged his legendary appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s, and marketed Elvis-related merchandise.

Answer (1 of 10): Clearly Rom Parker LIED. His business with Elvis was structured to give him a 50% of everything Elvis earned. Sadly, Elvis was surrounded by ignorant enablers who kept the status quo going. By the early 1970s Elvis wanted to and should have fired Tom Parker, but the Colonel did ...

February 26, 2024 - When Col. Tom Parker passed away Tuesday at the age of 87, it marked the death of a super-salesman whose one and only product -- Elvis Presley -- became the catalyst for a worldwide cultural revolution.

The Colonel continued to make money off Elvis for the next 20 years. When RCA sued him in 1982, he finally revealed his identity in court, saying, “. . . the court lacks jurisdiction, since I am not a citizen of the United States or any foreign country.” · He died in 1997. Of the estimated $100 million he had made from Elvis, he left less than $1 million behind. The rest he had gambled away. Col. Tom Parker and Elvis Presley in a 1956 file photograph taken at Parker's residence in Madison, Tn.