Elvis' Coffin Photo Scandal

After Elvis Presley's death in 1977, his cousin quietly accepted $18,000 from the National Enquirer to take a secret photograph of the singer's body in its open casket. The tabloid splashed the image across its cover, and the issue sold a record 6.7 million copies. The controversial scoop remains the magazine's all-time best-seller.

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