While Elvis was filming "G.I. Blues" and having an affair with Juliet Prowse, came the day there was some pounding on the door of his hotel suite. Elvis answered the door himself, though any of the guys could have done so for him.
Frank Sinatra was out there determined to see Juliet. Elvis wouldn't let him in.
Elvis had not long before appeared with Frank on Frank's "Welcome Home Elvis" television special out of Miami but Elvis saw no reason NOT to date Frank's girl.
Understanding Elvis' idea of "boundaries" when it came to women is important to understanding his sense of friendship. No real friend of Elvis would EVER, and I mean EVER, date a woman who was HIS! You had to spend a lot of quality time with Elvis to know which of the many women he remarked upon as "girlfriends" really were! So to be part of his close circle you knew who he was really interested in, even if he was really interested in a FEW women! To be a part of Elvis's circle and start up with a woman he wanted was the fastest way to be excommunicated. I've only heard of one man in his group who in later years very likely had an affair with a woman who was most special to Elvis.
He was territorial. He tested you to see if he could trust you.
Since no one in Frank Sinatra's Rat Park was a real friend to Elvis, since none of them were part of his inner circle, or a member of his entourage, he saw no reason not to date Juliet. He didn't think Frank or any other star owed him in any way for the same reason.
For those of us who really cared about Elvis, we were hands off his women! And being around Elvis meant being around women, women, and more women, most of them beautiful, many of them - not all of them - ready, willing, and able. There were jokes that the Entourage and his friends at the parties got "the left overs." There's truth to it. I can say that I'm not the man who got the most women.
Having met a good number of women that Elvis had affairs with, while he had his type, I wouldn't put a dime on the big deal psychological theories about Elvis Presley's sexuality.
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