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Linda Thompson

Linda Diane Thompson is known as a former American actress and beauty pageant winner. She is most famous for being a girlfriend of Elvis Presley.

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Background and Age

Linda Diane Thompson was born on May 23, 1950.

Marriage, Husband, and Kids

In 1972, Linda was tagged as Elvis’ lover for almost five years. After starting the relationship with Elvis in 1972, she moved in with him. She lived with her superstar boyfriend for three and a half years. She was 22 years old when she started dating Elvis. She said that Elvis liked his women to be very young. There were a lot of rumors that Lind was the reason why Elvis left his wife. The timeline showed that Linda and Elvis met each other when his marital relationship was almost over and was separated from his wife. He was separated from his partner since January 1972 and Linda met him later in July.

Lind said that although her first fate with Elvis was a total disaster, Elvis called her, the moment she reached her home. This was Linda’s first serious romance and she wanted to take it to the next level and she talked about the wedding and he agreed. However, Elvis secretly did not want to get married. He started seeing other women after she talked about the wedding. The problem for him was that whenever he cheated on her, he would be caught by the media. Elvis would apologize to Linda every time he got caught. However, he never became committed to the relationship and the frequency of the cheating increased. Linda wrote a letter to him, breaking up the relationship.

After Linda broke up with Elvis, she met an Olympic athlete named Bruce Jenner. Bruce met Linda in 1980 after divorcing his previous wife, Chrystie. They lived together for five years and Linda said that it was a great relationship Linda got married to Bruce Jenner in 1981. She has two children out of this marriage. The names of her sons are Brandon Jenner and Brody Jenner.

Linda divorced her husband, Bruce in 1984. After the divorce, Bruce went on to marry Kris Jenner. Just before the separation from Kris Jenner, Bruce was spending a lot of time with his former spouse Linda and her sons. Though they no longer had a romantic relationship, Kris was very jealous of Linda. Linda and Bruce always wanted to be friends even after the separation, but Kris was against it.

In 1991, Linda got married to a music producer, David Foster. They got divorced in 2005. Her relationship with David ended when David filed for separation from her. He wanted to end it so that he could start his new life with Yolanda Foster. He ended up marrying Yolanda. When Linda and Yolanda met each other in a show, she said that Yolanda stole her spouse.

Career and Net Worth

After winning beauty parents, Linda Thompson went on to try her hand at acting. Her most known role is playing Hee Haw on "Hee Haw Honeys".

 


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 23 May, 1950
Age: 69 yrs
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Memphis
Education: University of Memphis
Gender: Female
Description: Actress, songwriter
Spouse: David Foster[1991-2005]
Caitlyn Jenner[1981-1984]
Net Worth 2021: 25 million
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Last Modified: Aug 9 2020
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