ELVIS • “Gingersnatch” Ginger Alden Interview

ELVIS • “Gingersnatch” Ginger Alden

George Klein, Elvis’s main girlfriend-finder through the years introduced 19-year-old Ginger Alden to Elvis at Graceland in November 1976, shortly before Linda Thompson’s relationship with Elvis ended.

“I don’t know that there was any way that relationship could work,” noted Marty Lacker.

“Ginger wanted to go out and party all the time and show Elvis off. And she wanted him to socialize with her group of friends—all sorts of things that Elvis wouldn’t do.”

Elvis’s pet name for his last girlfriend was “Gingerbread.”

Billy Smith’s alternate nickname for her, however, reflected how much the guys disliked her.

“Elvis didn’t know it,” says Billy, “but I always called her ‘Gingersnatch.’

And I didn’t stop there.

I called her sister, Rosemary, ‘Poundcake,’ which was really crude of me, but I couldn’t help it.

I was so pissed off at that family.”

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