Apart from his relationships with women, Presley had many male friends. He reportedly spent day and night with friends and employees whom the news media affectionately dubbed the Memphis Mafia. Among them were Joe Esposito, Sonny West, Red West, Billy Smith, Marty Lacker and Lamar Fike. Elvis "couldn't go anywhere else without a phalanx of boyhood friends. Even the women he dated deplored them, saying, "Whenever you were with Elvis for the most part you were with his entourage. Those guys were always around. The Shocking Story about the Man behind the Legend