Linda Thompson stepped out for a very rare appearance on the red carpet this week.
The songwriter and former actress, who previously dated music icon Elvis Presley, was photographed at the 2025 BMI Pop Music Awards on Tuesday, May 13, marking what appears to be her first red carpet appearance in years.
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Thompson, 74, was dressed in a sophisticated white midi-length gown at Tuesday’s event, which was held at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif., She smiled for the cameras while putting on a busty display in the plunging gown, which also featured a pleated skirt.
Thompson accessorized her look with silver bracelets, a large cross pendant necklace and another statement necklace layered on top. The former beauty pageant star also accessorized with a pair of sparkly nude pointed-toe heels.
Thompson dated Elvis for four years between 1972 and 1976, and she later opened up about their relationship in her 2016 memoir, A Little Thing Called Life. In the book, Thompson reflected on the downfall of her relationship with the King of Rock and Roll around late 1976, in the height of his prescription drug addiction.
“When I looked at all the pieces of myself that I had given up on Elvis’s behalf, increasingly I saw that staying with him would demand a sacrifice that I was unwilling to make,” Thompson wrote in her pages. “I’d always wanted to be a mother, but I could not bring a baby into my life with Elvis.”
“As much as I loved him,” she wrote, “I knew I wanted more—and motherhood was just the start.”
Less than a year after his breakup from Thompson, Elvis died at the age of 42 in August 1977.
Following her relationship with the late “Kentucky Rain” singer, Thompson married Caitlyn Jenner in 1981, and the pair welcomed two sons together, Brandon, 43, and Brody, 41.
Thompson was also previously married to David Foster for over ten years before they divorced in 2005.
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