Here's The Truth About Elvis Presley's Manager

Elvis Presley entertained millions throughout his brief but iconic career as the King of Rock and Roll. Throughout his music career, however, Elvis' shady and distrustful manager "Colonel" Tom Parker was secretly calling the shots. Here's the truth about Elvis Presley's manager.

One of the most surprising things about Colonel Tom Parker is that he wasn't an American, and that his real name wasn't Tom Parker. Parker was actually born in the city of Breda in the Netherlands, making him Dutch. His real name was Andreas van Kuijk. When he was still in his teens, Andreas fled the Netherlands by ship, arriving in Canada and making his way to Hoboken, New Jersey.

He worked with traveling carnivals and eventually got into music promotion, changing his name to Tom Parker, and erasing any mention of his true origins. Parker entered the country illegally and never took any steps to correct his status, despite the fact that it would have been relatively easy to do so. As Smithsonian Magazine points out, the Alien Registration Act of 1940 basically offered amnesty to all illegal aliens, so becoming a naturalized citizen would have been pretty easy.

And even if there were difficulties, by the 1960s, Parker was rich and famous and probably had the connections to get any problems smoothed out. Yet he never bothered and, thus, remained an illegal immigrant his entire life.

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The Colonel was not American | 0:13
Lied about his past | 1:07
Went AWOL during military service | 2:05
Dodged the draft by eating | 2:52
Terrified to leave the U.S. | 3:40
May have murdered someone | 4:43
Parker was a compulsive gambler | 5:50
Held back Elvis' movie career | 6:56
Made more money than Elvis | 8:03
Parker was finally exposed | 9:06

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