Wrong. I read her bio a few years ago. Elvis didn't "go down" on her. He told her "white men don't eat p*ssy" and only blacks did that. She just told him that "he didn't know what he was missing" and that that was the very first thing most guys she was sexually intimate with went for. Elvis was a fat, neurotic junkie by the time she went out with him in the early 70s and although she still found him very sexy as a man, he did not even remotely live up to his "loverboy" reputation at all.
Elvis was a bizarre character, especially when it came to black people. He wasn't an outright racist and hired and was friendly with many blacks, BB King and his back up singers, one of whom was Thelma Houston, for example. However, he didn't like them having relations with white women and made his viewpoint known by joking about it more in an almost self-mocking way than any way that could be construed as mean and nasty. In addition to the oft-repeated Cybil Shepherd story, there's this hilarious passage from the autobio of the famous drug-addict-musician Papa John Phillips who had a disgusting 'consensual incest' relationship with his own daughter, Mackenzie Phillips, mostly known for her role in "American Graffiti."
"Gen always found Elvis something of a flirt. 'He loves to tease and make me giggle,' she would say. He especially liked to give her a hard time for having a black lover, Calvin Lockhart, in 'Joanna.'
He and Gen took trips into the desert on his cycle. She came back once with another story. 'We were out in the middle of nowhere, just us and the cactuses, and he said all of a sudden, 'Get off my back, man. I don't want people on my back who have been screwin' n**g*rs. He likes to tease me so much. And I said, 'Elvis, I'm South African! How can you say this to me? ' I thought he was going to leave me there. I said, 'Elvis you can't strand me here.' So I said to him, 'I swear to God I never screwed a n*g*er. He smiled and said, 'Get down on your knees and kiss my boots if you haven't screwed a ni**er'" --- excerpt from "Papa John, the Autobiography of Papa John Phillips"
note: the 'Gen' in the above passage is Genevieve Waite, John Phillips's wife at the time, a South African model / actress / singer and mother of the well-known actress Bijou Phillips.
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