Born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania,[1] Nichopoulos moved to Anniston, Alabama, during his infancy where his father, a Greek immigrant, opened a restaurant called Gus' Sanitary Cafe.
In fact, he was so hard to contact that he only had the time to jump into the departing ambulance, which had not been called immediately after finding Presley's lifeless body.
[2] Saying that he "attempted to save his life" might be exaggerated, as it was obvious to even non-medical staff that Presley had been dead for several hours when his entourage found him in his bathroom.
Cook Nancy Rooks' testimony is that she heard a "loud noise upstairs" around 9:30 - 10:00 a.m., about four hours before Presley's body was finally discovered.
In a 1993 interview with Dutch radio host Jorrit van der Kooi, Nichopoulos claimed it must have been an angry Presley fan.
In 1985, he started a solo practice called We Care, Inc. After he was stripped of his credentials in 1995, Nichopoulos worked for a short time as Jerry Lee Lewis's road manager.
In the first eight months of 1977 alone, Nichopoulos had prescribed over 10,000 doses[7] of amphetamines, barbiturates, narcotics, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, laxatives, and hormones for Presley.
In 1993, Nichopoulos had his license permanently revoked by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners, and was branded a Doctor Feelgood in the press, after it was revealed that he had been overprescribing to numerous patients for years.