[5] After his discharge from the service, he began his career as a model, appearing in TV commercials and magazine layouts.
Edwards is pictured and interviewed in the book Male Model: The World Behind the Camera, published in 1979.
Edwards' most prominent acting role was as Joan Crawford's lover Ted Gelber in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest with Faye Dunaway and Mara Hobel.
After they broke up, he wrote a book titled Priscilla, Elvis, and Me (1988), in which he admitted being attracted to Presley's teenage daughter Lisa Marie.
[9][10] Lisa Marie reported in a 2003 interview with Playboy that Edwards would make drunken attempts to enter her room and be "inappropriate" with her.