For Presley’s sake, Wood terminated her contract with Paramount Pictures and reportedly left her husband to give her relationship with Elvis a second chance. After the artist’s husband, soccer player and actor Brewer, sued the publisher that published this information for defamation.
However, Anita never hid the details of her romance with the “king”, talking about it on a television show years later.
An obituary appeared in The Vicksburg Post. The actress herself died at St. Dominic’s Hospital, where she fell ill with pneumonia.
Anita Marie Wood was born in 1938 in Crockett, Tennessee.
He made his screen debut in 1958. He scored hits with Sun, Santo and the Hawaiian Wedding Song, a Top 15 hit in 1959.
Johnny Brewer died in May 2011 in Madison. She and Wood have been married for 46 years.
