Hold on ....where was Elvis's cut ? The colonel was a piece of work... Giving everyone and himself a piece of Elvis's pie .

I love a great story about men who do business on a smile and a handshake. Who keep their word. That's Magic Man!

The sad part is that Jerry and the Colonel made more money then Elvis actually ended up with at they end of that tour - Parker was a manager - manager's are supposed to get 20 percent - but Parker took 50 percent from Elvis and probably more then that. Billy Joel who got robbed blind by managers stopped having one decades ago and manages himself - smart!

Legend has it that Col. Tom Parker sold "I hate Elvis" buttons just so he could make money off the haters too.

This sounds extremely unfair to Elvis. Elvis gets maybe 25% while Weintraub becomes a millionaire off of Elvis' talent and sweat.

That story is priceless!!

Jerome Charles Weintraub (September 26, 1937 - July 6, 2015) Rest in peace, sir. Say hi to Elvis for us.

Jerry's book is really great.

I love this story, thanks for sharing

Legendary!!!!

What a great story...Elvis was the Man...

What a story! These were just regular guys doing business based on a gentleman's agreement. That would never happen today.

Great story😊Thanks Jerry❤️ I Love Elvis❤️❤️

what an amazing story

Big Elvis fan , Elvis killed himself 🤔 no one else ! he was an compassionate man and an addict on everything he did 😔 He was the Greatest entertainer the world has ever seen 🤩

A true phenomenon. Jerry, we should have meet during your lifetime, shame you left the party too early, would have been very fun to meet you ;)

Its great to hear true stories like that😊

That was a perfect ending.

my favorite story maybe all time!!!!!

Mind-blowing!

Awesome story.. thanks!

Miss you Jerry. Good man.

Exactly 💯

Well Jerry Weintraub has some good instincts and it paid off! I love the story a promise like Elvis was a good luck charm everything turned to Golden around him that was a gift from God to Elvis and to us. Thank you for a great story! Would love to hear more if you can

Superb story on arguably his greatest achievement. I spoke about this at length in the animated review I did of his book.

What a great story

Elvis got ripped off so bad from his manager its sickning.i can't understand why Elvis didn't figure this out. Elvis should have been 2 to 3 times richer than he was.such crookedness.

The story of this Sir is something. I highly recommend to check his biography.

After Elvis died, Parker reworked the contract and was getting 80% of Elvis profits. Priscilla had to take him to court to get back to 50%.

All this story really does is just reinforce how taken advantage of Elvis truly was.

Freaking amazing story!

The real GIANT was ELVIS🕺🏆🤩

Elvis's mum Gladys did not like or trust Colonel Tom Parker and the Colonel knew that, that is why in the early beginning days of Elvis's career, the Colonel made Elvis's dad Vernon, Elvis's manager to please Gladys that he's not in it solely for the money. That came later.

I read his autobiography "when I stop talking you'll know I'm dead" This man is a man of action. I believe the turning of Jerry Weintraub's life was when he met with Jane Morgan and eventually married her. That and when Jerry worked for Lew Wassman as well at MCA.

Pity he didn’t manage Elvis as well ...

Jerry was going to take Elvis on world tour just before he died according to James Burton, Elvis guitar player. Jerry would've done a great job for Elvis and with some new challenges might have changed Elvis's early demise.

What did the initial investor with the million get? He certainty didn't just give them that money.

most interesting story ive heard in a while

my god what a story !

This is most inspiring story I ever heard. Thanks to Tai Lopez !

I believe Elvis would have made the big time,with Sam Phillips it would have taken a bit longer.but it would have happened..

I've still got my ticket stubs that say "Jerry Weintraub presents An Evening With Led Zeppelin" (saw them 3 times". And I saw Elvis twice in the 70's but I'm not sure where those ticket stubs are..pretty sure they're tucked away somewhere. I'd love to see if the wording is the same.💙🌿

Everybody took a piece of Elvis. 🐍

So, Jerry Weintraub got half of the merchandising money and didn't even work for it? That sounds like one crooked deal for Elvis in my book.

Unlike some of his colleagues. Gosh what an elegance!

It is estimated Elvis bought over 250 cars in his lifetime. His dad Vernon did his books. For him ..

He changed his story a bit. In other interviews he said the Colonel had two briefcases full of cash and told him to pick one. When he hesitated the colonel hit one of the briefcases with his cane and said this one is for me and Elvis and the other one is yours.

So many people, even those who had nothing to do with music, became rich and known because they had met or worked for a while with Elvis.For years. Especially his guys with interviews and books not always sincere and true.Some of them, if they wanted to be independent and start their own activity, a s for example Joe Esposito ,hoped that the important relashionship they had been connected with while working for Elvis, would be useful , but the calls never returned and Joe came back to Graceland broken, and as always Elvis hired him again.

The more elvis would have made the more he would give.

So...let's see here. He says at the end there that Elvis and the Colonel got 50% and he got 50%, while the Colonel got half of everything Elvis made and Elvis had to pay for the band, singers and orchestra as well as his retinue out of HIS own pocket. That means Elvis, the guy with all the talent and who did the job of making the other two, especially the Colonel, wealthy, got very little after all was said and done. Elvis made far more money for Parker, given all Parker's myriad side deals using Elvis' name, than he made for himself. Only performer I've heard of whose manager got 50% (and so much more) of the performer's intake. Usually we're talking about 20% for management and the rest to the performer. It's been known for decades that Parker, or as he was really known, Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a exploitative scoundrel and worked Elvis like a dray horse making Elvis pay for Parker's inveterate gambling habit. Terrible guy. And that's not including the murder allegations from his homeland in Holland. Back in the very early '70s there were quite a few of Elvis' peers, including Cher, Tom Jones, Wayne Newton, and so many more, urging him to dump Parker and sign on with Kirk Kerkorian who built the International Hotel in Las Vegas where Elvis re-emerged as a live performer again. Would've been the best thing for Elvis had he done that. The story goes, though, that whenever Elvis went to Parker to discuss splitting up their partnership Parker would say, sure. Just have two million in cash to Parker out. Elvis was never about the money and he apparently didn't think he could come up with such a cash amount so they never parted. Thing is, had Elvis realized it he could easily have come up with such amount through Kerkorian and banks, not to mention others who wished to see Elvis parted from Parker. Too bad Elvis remained a slave to Parker's greed and exploitation of him. Elvis was too ignorant of his own real worth and too damned humble and nice for his own good.

This was the business I was gonna ‘run away with the circus’ for, learning EVERYTHING POSSIBLE ABOUT from the time I was a very young kid. For twenty plus years I did just that 89-2009..........but unfortunately it had been corrupted by corporations and wannabes who knew nothing of the magic of show-biz. Things were never the same. I was brought in by some heavy old school legends but as I said, it had changed and that was sad to see....

The artist himself gets 25%. So sad...

And Colonel Parker probably lost the money in the Casino by midnight.

Elvis should’ve been filthy rich even though he spent a lot. They stopped counting his record sales in 1979 after 1,000,000,000 records.

What did ELVIS GET!! NOTHING!!

I dont know how Weintraub made a million on 3 weeks of touring back then. Seems far fetched to me.

It’s fine to become a millionaire promoting Elvis. But anyone who knows the real story knows that col. Parker was nothing but a manipulator. He was a con man from day one and Elvis was too trusting. Story is that the reason NEVER toured overseas was because Parker was wanted for various schemes in Europe and he would not ever go back. Very sad that a good honest man like Elvis was taken advantage of.

tcb jerry

Elvis was so ripped off

Elvis Presley done concerts in Arenas before him, what is he on about nobody done concerts in Arenas before me

Jerry was the hell of a great producer. So filled with integrity. The anti weinstein actually.

Good deal for everyone but Elvis

Also the colonel told Binder you can’t talk to Elvis until you talk to me first and if I like you then you can talk to Elvis he was such a dck

it should have been divided 3 ways 33,1/3% for each man, although the right split would have been Elvis 85%, Parker 15%, and Jerry zero...

Inspiration for Turtletaub in Bojack?

He helped Mr. Papagiorgio get an ID too.

So what i keep thinking about is Jerry said he got 50 percent and Elvis and the colonel got 50 percent. So you mean Elvis got 25 percent

One of the bad points of this interview is that Charles Rose never asked Jerry the right questions, why wasn't the money made split 3 ways? Elvis should have made more the 2 other guys, Jerry and The Colonel? It should have been split this way, Colonel, gets his 10% and Jerry made his part and Elvis got the most of the 3 of them, but he (ELVIS) got screwed. period. Elvis 80%, The Colonel 10%, Jerry, 10%

What a cowboy economy. 😀

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And Elvis got the suitcases. "Col. Tom Parker" was awful.

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DId Elvis know about the money that the Colonel split with Jerry, 2 suitcase full of (Memobliea) money, more then likely a large sum of that money should have gone to Elvis and I'm sure it didn't, the Colonel more then likely took full advantage of the money coming in and of Elvis. These kind of stories Elvis seemed really blind to, and to many of the people around him. If Elvis would have had a manager that cared about him and the job he was suppose to do, Elvis may have lived much longer, then he did, the one person the Colonel cared more about was HIMSELF. Elvis appeared in Vegas a long to pay off the Colonel gambling debts, it a well known story on how the Colonel waa a foolish gambler, and blew millions he took off Elvis. The sad part is how many of the Elvis guys stuck up for the Colonel, apparently they knew exactly what he was doing to Elvis. It a sad story and many of the guys knew about it all along and it seemed at times Elvis felt sorry for the colonel and let him get away with it, surprisingly his fahte ( Elvis's) did step in and break it up??? that in it self is another story.

I just Googled Parkers net worth at his death and its stated one million dollars so what the farq was he doing with his 50% of Elvis's hard earnt money.

Damn did they rip Elvis off. Geez. That's the only thing so far I have against Elvis, why was he a big dumb dumb when it came to the power of money he brought and let it be taken away from him.

I guess its parker who have the blood in hìs hand in Elvis life

Jerry screwed over John Denver

I highly doubt Elvis start his share probably went to the crap tables

Too bad charlie rose wasn't his manager!

Charlie Rose show was great. Sad how we rid the entertainment and news media of some greatest talents...for money purposes. Only the rich and famous get sued...have ya noticed?😁

oh, so this is who's responsible for those awful money-grubbing arena concerts. thanks.

The real enemy was Elvis' doctor. Anybody who puts most of the blame on Parker is only a fool.

charlie looks creepy, oh he is

He was a crook

Young and Nieve! Shame

Did he fart?

How these guys make money without doing a damn thing

His son is biggest of graff writers that there is