Priscilla Presley showed off her glamorous sense of style when she arrived at the 66th Vienna Opera Ball as a guest of honor on Thursday.
Elvis Presley’s ex-wife, 78, put on a dazzling display in a stunning sequin dress as she headed to the event with billionaire Richard Lugner.
Priscilla’s eye-catching dress featured an oversized black bow as she posed for photos at the ball.
Her dress was embellished with an array of metallic sequins and featured elegant wide sleeves and a fitted skirt.
Earlier in the day, Priscilla was in high spirits while leading a marching band and signing autographs in Vienna.
Priscilla Presley, 78, showed off her glamorous sense of style as she arrived at the 66th Vienna Opera Ball as a guest of honor on Thursday.
Elvis Presley’s ex-wife put on a dazzling display in a stunning sequin dress as she headed to the event with billionaire Richard Lugner.
On Tuesday, Priscilla spent the day sightseeing in Vienna, walking around the city with her camera.
The Vienna Opera Ball (Wiener Opernball) is a spectacle in which 5,000 glamorous guests wear their best clothes.
The upper echelons of politics, business and society are invited to enjoy an evening of champagne glasses, where the opera house is transformed into a giant ballroom.
A tradition of the event is to have a celebrity guest in attendance, with Priscilla being the chosen star for 2024.
Previous guest stars who Lugner paid to attend as his guest include Kim Kardashian, Goldie Hawn, Pamela Anderson and Lily James, with Jane Fonda filling in as last year’s guest.
American actress Jane said she accepted the Austrian construction magnate’s invitation to attend the Vienna Opera Ball because he offered to “pay me a lot of money.”
Debutants from around the world take to the ballroom in white dresses for an opening procession, accompanied by their partners in black tails and white vests. In 2022, the dance had its first same-sex partner: two women from Germany.
Lugner called Kim Kardashian “annoying” after she and her mother Kris Jenner attended the party as her double date in 2014.
Priscilla’s eye-catching dress featured an oversized black bow and was covered in metallic sequins as she posed for photos at the ball.
Earlier in the day, Priscilla was in high spirits while leading a marching band and signing autographs in Vienna.
Kim claimed she fled the event because she reportedly felt offended following a racial slur from a guest.
After the dance, Lugner claimed he called the star “annoying” because she wouldn’t dance with him despite being paid a staggering $500,000.
But Kim claimed that a white man who was working the event approached her in blackface and started imitating her fiancé Kanye West, which is why she ran away.
Despite calling the Vienna Ball “super glamorous,” Kim admitted she had already been suffering from anxiety largely because the event was “super claustrophobic.”
Reality TV cameras then captured their surprise at seeing the guest in blackface yelling “Kim, I’m here,” clearly pretending to be Kanye.
Priscilla’s exit before the ball comes after she paid a touching tribute to her late daughter Lisa Marie on what would have been her 56th birthday on February 1.
Lisa Marie died at age 54 on January 12, 2023, and Priscilla shared a touching snap of Lisa’s teenage couple as she celebrated her birthday.
She wrote: ‘I miss you ‘Yisa’. Today you would be 56 years old. Still young at heart and yet old in soul. Mother.’
Elvis Presley’s daughter was rushed to the hospital on January 12, 2023 after suffering cardiac arrest; A Los Angeles County coroner’s report revealed that the star died from the after-effects (a condition that results from a previous illness or injury) of a small intestine obstruction.