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Larry Geller

American writer and speaker

b. 1939age 87Living

An American hairstylist who became Elvis Presley's personal stylist and, unexpectedly, his closest spiritual confidant after Presley hired him in 1964 during the filming of Roustabout. Geller is credited with shaping the singer's signature hairstyles while also introducing him to meditation, philosophy, and comparative religion, becoming, in his own account, the person Presley most trusted with questions about the meaning of his own fame.

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