Elvis’ entourage believed Elvis saw these other performers as a threat. They took attention away from him. “Unless he is the center of attention, he just isn’t interested,” Sonny said.

When Elvis got to Sonny West and Bill, he “arrested” the latter and put him in the back of the car. Bill seemed worried they were going to dump his body in the desert.

Sonny West (left) worked for Elvis Presley for 16 years. With the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death approaching, his friend and aide Sonny West recalls life with The King. In the summer of ...

Sonny West once rode Elvis Presley's coattails to fame as his best friend and bodyguard, but decades later, the glitz and glamor has faded away. Speaking from his hospital bed, 78-year-old West ...

As Elvis' friend, driver and bodyguard, West was among Presley's closest associates during the singer's meteoric rise, Army tour of duty, Hollywood stardom, late 1960s so-called comeback and 1970s ...

The former bodyguard of Elvis Presley has agreed to give a tell-all account of his life with the iconic singer for a forthcoming biopic. Presley's ex-security guard Sonny West will reveal his ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Actor and songwriter Robert Gene “Red” West, a longtime confidant of Elvis Presley, has died in Memphis. Danita Allen of Memorial Park Funeral Home said West died Tuesday ...

MEMPHIS — Red West, the longtime and sometimes critical confidante and bodyguard of Elvis Presley who became a successful film and television actor after the singer's death, died Tuesday night after ...