Elvis Presley plotted to hire a hitman to kill wife Priscilla’s lover, book revealsPriscilla Presley said the singer wanted her lover Mike “dead” and even asked his road manager Joe Esposito to “find a hitman”, according to a new bombshell bookView 3 Images Priscilla Presley on her wedding day to Elvis Presley (Image: Popperfoto via Getty Images)Elvis Presley wanted to hire a hitman to kill his wife Priscilla’s lover, she has revealed. ‌During their marriage the couple both had affairs with the actress having a fling with karate teacher Mike Stone. ‌And Priscilla, 80, said the All Shook Up singer wanted Mike “dead” and at one point during the height of his fame asked his road manager Joe Esposito to “find a hitman”. ‌Writing in new book Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis, she said: “Elvis found the thought of me with another man unbearable. “He even asked Joe to find a hitman.”‌View 3 Images Priscilla Presley and lover Mike Edwards (Image: Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)She added that Elvis’s rage “soon passed” and he didn’t go through with the plot.