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Elvis Presley was best-known for having a glowing career in music as the King of Rock 'n' Roll, but now there are questions surrounding the relationships he had with young women while he was in his twenties.
In a three-part documentary – which is titled Elvis' Women – Elvis' love life is explored as his former girlfriends tell all about their experiences with the heartthrob who was adored – and still is – by the masses.
Elvis was known for dating young women at the start of his career, with him aged 24 at the time, even meeting future wife Priscilla when she was 14.
The docuseries, which dropped onto Prime Video in January, is three hours long in total, and features no narrator – just the womens' voices who tell their own lived experiences with the rocker.
A group of women, who are now in their 60s, 70s and 80s, all recall their romances and love affairs with Elvis – with each of their experiences happening when they were very young teenagers.
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Elvis had masses of female fans throughout his career (Getty Images)Barbara Shearer is the director of the three-parter, with her admitting that the situations and relationships are more nuanced, with her urging "it's complicated".
The director, who produced Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell, spoke with more than 50 of Elvis’s ex-girlfriends, with 19 of them making it onto the docuseries.
Speaking to The Times in a new interview, she urged that she believes "Elvis wasn’t a groomer," adding: "He wasn’t abusive. The relationships had very little to do with sex. There was not a lot of sex full stop."
Barbara went on to note how all of the women she spoke to are "still in love" with the rocker, with them all admitting that they would "do what they did again".
She added that it "wasn't a cult" and that "no one was forced into anything".
The rocker's relationships with young girls came under a microscope in a series in January (Michael Ochs Archives)In the series the viewer hears from the 19 women who all had romantic relationships with Elvis while they were in their teens.
Jackie Rowland, is one of the many women who recalls her story in the series, with her telling of how she was 13 when she became besotted with the singer.
Overweight at the time, Jackie went on an "Elvis love diet" and then asked her mum to take her to Memphis to meet the rocker.
She then got taken to meet Elvis when she had shed 80lbs, and recalled how the rocker made her feel uncomfortable.
In the series she recalls: "He immediately put his arm around me, began nibbling on my earrings, then stuck his tongue in my ear. I was 14, I did not like it."
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Although she did urge that he was "not intimidating" and was "never aggressive".
This comes as a new film is set to come out, which is titled Priscilla, and is written and directed by Sofia Coppola.
The move was allegedly produced "without the Estate's knowledge or consent", according to TMZ.