London, Jun 27: The iconic wedding dress, which late Elizabeth Taylor wore when she married her first husband Conrad Hilton Jr., has been sold for nearly 122,000 pounds at an auction.
The final bid was more than four times its estimated 30,000-pound sale price, the Independent reported.
The cream-coloured, seed-pearl encrusted, cinched waist gown by legendary costume designer Helen Rose was worn by the late actress during her first wedding, when she was just 18. (Ani)...
The final bid was more than four times its estimated 30,000-pound sale price, the Independent reported.
The cream-coloured, seed-pearl encrusted, cinched waist gown by legendary costume designer Helen Rose was worn by the late actress during her first wedding, when she was just 18. (Ani)...
- 6/27/2013
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
You know what child stars call Miley Cyrus, engaged to Liam Hemsworth at age 19? A late bloomer. From Shirley Temple, a bride at 17, to now, child stars have specialized in young love and just-as-young marriage. A look at the some of the reasons why: 1. They're Under Orders: Hard to believe this used to happen, but it did. Back when Hollywood movie studios were all-powerful, MGM decided it'd be a fine idea for employee Elizabeth Taylor, 18, to wed hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr., 23. As it turned out, it wasn't a fine idea—Taylor said Hilton was abusive—but the deed was done, and just in time, too, for the release of Taylor's marriage-minded comedy, Father of the Bride. ...
- 6/8/2012
- E! Online
Eddie Fisher, Conrad Hilton, Richard Burton and more: The Elizabeth Taylor ex-husband power rankings
Elizabeth Taylor, who died Mar. 23, was an iconic actress, a great philanthropist, successful perfume pitch-woman and the center of the 20th century pop culture universe.
She also really liked dudes.
In her 79 years of life, she had eight marriages with seven different men. Her mates included hotel heirs, construction workers, politicians and fellow actors. But they weren't created equal.
So instead of revisiting Elizabeth Taylor's many men in chronological order, we've ranked them by awesomeness and how their respective unions have stood the test of time. Let's begin...
7. Michael Todd (1957-1958)
Poor Michael. Having fathered one of Liz's four children should spare him from being in last place, but, alas, he's the only husband of Taylor's who exited the marriage by dying. Little more than a year after their 1957 wedding, his unfortunately-titled plane, "Lucky Liz," crashed in New Mexico, killing him and three other passengers.
6. Michael Wilding (1952-1957)
A...
She also really liked dudes.
In her 79 years of life, she had eight marriages with seven different men. Her mates included hotel heirs, construction workers, politicians and fellow actors. But they weren't created equal.
So instead of revisiting Elizabeth Taylor's many men in chronological order, we've ranked them by awesomeness and how their respective unions have stood the test of time. Let's begin...
7. Michael Todd (1957-1958)
Poor Michael. Having fathered one of Liz's four children should spare him from being in last place, but, alas, he's the only husband of Taylor's who exited the marriage by dying. Little more than a year after their 1957 wedding, his unfortunately-titled plane, "Lucky Liz," crashed in New Mexico, killing him and three other passengers.
6. Michael Wilding (1952-1957)
A...
- 3/24/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Legendary Academy Award winning actress Elizabeth Taylor passed away this morning surrounded by her children, at the age of 79. The past several years she had been suffering from congestive heart failure.
Taylor began her acting career at ten years old, in the movie, There’s One Born Every Minute. The movie that got her attention early on was the 1943 film, Lassie Come Home, co-starring Roddy McDowall. The two were life long friends until his death. However the movie that made Taylor a superstar was the 1944 film, National Velvet, which Taylor starred in when she was only eleven years old. Taylor went on to become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history, starring in some of the most revered movies of all time including Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and A Place In The Sun.
Taylor won many awards over her phenomenal acting career,...
Taylor began her acting career at ten years old, in the movie, There’s One Born Every Minute. The movie that got her attention early on was the 1943 film, Lassie Come Home, co-starring Roddy McDowall. The two were life long friends until his death. However the movie that made Taylor a superstar was the 1944 film, National Velvet, which Taylor starred in when she was only eleven years old. Taylor went on to become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history, starring in some of the most revered movies of all time including Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and A Place In The Sun.
Taylor won many awards over her phenomenal acting career,...
- 3/23/2011
- by foxallaccess
- Fox All Access
The movie queen, one of the world’s most famous and beautiful women, was battling congestive heart failure. She died in La, surrounded by her four children from her eight marriages.
Elizabeth Taylor, the mega-star who had survived so many health problems, died today at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in La. Still, her passing came as a bit of a shock– her heart condition had appeared to stabilize in recent weeks and loved ones hoped she might have been heading back home soon!
Elizabeth, 79, a two-time Oscar-winner who made dozens of major movies, was probably even more famous for her violet-eyed beauty, her voluptuous form and her eight stormy marriages — including two go-rounds with the man who seemed to be the true love of her life, actor Richard Burton.
In her later years, Liz promoted her own jewelry and fragrance lines — including the popular Passion and White Diamonds scent — and became a...
Elizabeth Taylor, the mega-star who had survived so many health problems, died today at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in La. Still, her passing came as a bit of a shock– her heart condition had appeared to stabilize in recent weeks and loved ones hoped she might have been heading back home soon!
Elizabeth, 79, a two-time Oscar-winner who made dozens of major movies, was probably even more famous for her violet-eyed beauty, her voluptuous form and her eight stormy marriages — including two go-rounds with the man who seemed to be the true love of her life, actor Richard Burton.
In her later years, Liz promoted her own jewelry and fragrance lines — including the popular Passion and White Diamonds scent — and became a...
- 3/23/2011
- by JohnMancini
- HollywoodLife
A Hollywood legend has passed away. Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who made her fame with glamour roles in classic movies, charity work and failed romances, died today at the age of 79. She passed away at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of a congestive heart failure. Her publicist Sally Morrison said she was in the hospital for the past six weeks and was surrounded by her four children. “My mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor and love,” said Michael Wilding, her son in a statement. “We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will forever in our hearts.” Taylor was a winner of two Academy Awards, including Best Actress for 1967’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and Best Actress for 1961’s “Butterfield 8.
- 3/23/2011
- LRMonline.com
Elizabeth Taylor in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who went from child star to Hollywood icon and was known for legendary portrayals, multiple marriages and her tireless support for AIDS-related issues, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 79.
Winner of two Oscars for her work in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Butterfield 8” and a three-time nominee for “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Raintree County,” Taylor was the recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993 and the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award the same year, among a host of other accolades.
Born Feb. 27, 1932, in London, England, Taylor made her big-screen debut for Universal Pictures at age 10 in the 1942 film “There’s One Born Every Minute.” Universal dropped her contract after the one film but she was soon scooped up by MGM,...
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who went from child star to Hollywood icon and was known for legendary portrayals, multiple marriages and her tireless support for AIDS-related issues, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 79.
Winner of two Oscars for her work in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Butterfield 8” and a three-time nominee for “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Raintree County,” Taylor was the recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993 and the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award the same year, among a host of other accolades.
Born Feb. 27, 1932, in London, England, Taylor made her big-screen debut for Universal Pictures at age 10 in the 1942 film “There’s One Born Every Minute.” Universal dropped her contract after the one film but she was soon scooped up by MGM,...
- 3/23/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Elizabeth Taylor in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who went from child star to Hollywood icon and was known for legendary portrayals, multiple marriages and her tireless support for AIDS-related issues, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 79.
Winner of two Oscars for her work in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Butterfield 8” and a three-time nominee for “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Raintree County,” Taylor was the recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993 and the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award the same year, among a host of other accolades.
Born Feb. 27, 1932, in London, England, Taylor made her big-screen debut for Universal Pictures at age 10 in the 1942 film “There’s One Born Every Minute.” Universal dropped her contract after the one film but she was soon scooped up by MGM,...
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who went from child star to Hollywood icon and was known for legendary portrayals, multiple marriages and her tireless support for AIDS-related issues, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 79.
Winner of two Oscars for her work in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Butterfield 8” and a three-time nominee for “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Raintree County,” Taylor was the recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993 and the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award the same year, among a host of other accolades.
Born Feb. 27, 1932, in London, England, Taylor made her big-screen debut for Universal Pictures at age 10 in the 1942 film “There’s One Born Every Minute.” Universal dropped her contract after the one film but she was soon scooped up by MGM,...
- 3/23/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Elizabeth Taylor, one of the last great screen legends and winner of two Academy Awards, died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles of complications from congestive heart failure; she was 79. The actress had been hospitalized for the past few weeks, celebrating her birthday on February 27th (the same day as this year's Academy Awards) while at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with friends and family. Her four children, two sons and two daughters, were by her side as she passed.
A striking brunette beauty with violet eyes who embodied both innocence and seductiveness, and was known for her flamboyant private life and numerous marriages as well as her acting career, Taylor was the epitome of Hollywood glamour, and was one of the last legendary stars who could still command headlines and standing ovations in her later years. Born to American parents in England in 1932, Taylor's family decamped to Los Angeles as World War II escalated in the late 1930s. Even as a child, her amazing good looks -- her eyes were amplified by a double set of eyelashes, a mutation she was born with -- garnered the attention of family friends in Hollywood, and she undertook a screen test at 10 years old with Universal Studios. She appeared in only one film for the studio (There's One Born Every Minute) before they dropped her; Taylor was quickly picked up by MGM, the studio that would make her a young star.
Her second film was Lassie Come Home (1943), co-starring Roddy McDowall, who would become a lifelong friend. She assayed a few other roles (including a noteworthy cameo in 1943's Jane Eyre) but campaigned for the part that would make her a bona fide child star: the young Velvet Brown, who trained a champion racehorse to win the Grand National, in National Velvet. The box office smash launched Taylor's career, and MGM immediately put her to work in a number of juvenile roles, most notably in Life With Father (1947) and as Amy in 1949's Little Women. As she blossomed into a young woman, she began to outgrow the roles she was assigned, often playing women far older than her actual age. She scored another hit alongside Spencer Tracy as the young daughter preparing for marriage in Father of the Bride (1950), but her career officially entered adulthood with George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951), as a seductive rich girl who bedazzles Montgomery Clift to the degree that he kills his pregnant girlfriend (Shelley Winters). The film was hailed as an instant classic, and Taylor's performance, still considered one of her best, launched the next part of her career.
Frustrated by MGM's insistence at putting her in period pieces (some were hits notwithstanding, including 1952's Ivanhoe), Taylor looked to expand her career, and took on the lead role in Elephant Walk (1954) when Vivian Leigh dropped out after suffering a nervous breakdown. As her career climbed in the 1950s, so did Taylor's celebrity: she married hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr. in 1950, and divorced him within a year. She then married British actor Michael Wilding in 1952, with whom she had two sons, though that marriage ended in divorce in 1957, after she embarked on an affair with the man who would be her next husband, producer Michael Todd (who won an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days). As her personal life made headlines, she appeared alongside James Dean and Rock Hudson in Giant (1956), and received her first Academy Award nomination for Raintree County in 1957. Roles in two Tennessee Williams adaptations followed -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly Last Summer (1959), both considered two of her best performances -- earning her two more Oscar nominations, just as tragedy and notoriety would strike her life.
Todd, whom she married in 1957 and had a daughter with, died in a plane crash in 1958 in New Mexico, leaving a bereft Taylor alone at the height of her stardom. Adored by millions, she went from lovely widow to heartless home-wrecker in the tabloids after starting an affair with Eddie Fisher, Todd's best friend and at the time husband of screen darling Debbie Reynolds. The relationship was splashed across newspapers as Fisher left Reynolds and their two children (including a young Carrie Fisher) for Taylor. The two appeared together in 1960's Butterfield 8, where Taylor played prostitute Gloria Wandrous in a performance that was considered good but nowhere near her previous films, and earned her another Oscar nomination. As the Academy Awards ceremony approached, Taylor was thrust into the headlines again when a life-threatening case of pneumonia required an emergency tracheotomy, leaving her with a legendary scar on her neck. Popular opinion swung yet again as newspapers and fans feared for her life, and the illness was credited with helping her win her first Oscar for Butterfield 8.
Taylor was now the biggest female star in the world, in terms of film and popularity, and her notoriety was only about to increase. Twentieth Century Fox, making a small biopic about the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, tried to offer Taylor the part; she laughed them off, saying she would do it for $1 million, a then-unheard of sum for an actress. The studio took her seriously, and soon she was signed to a million-dollar contract (the first for an actress) and a movie that would soon balloon out of control as filming started. Initially set to film in England with Peter Finch and Rex Harrison as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, the movie encountered numerous problems and after a first shutdown was moved to Italy, with director Joseph L. Manckiewicz at the helm. Finch left and was replaced by acclaimed stage actor and rising movie star Richard Burton.
The rest was cinematic and tabloid history, as Taylor and Burton, whose electric chemistry was apparent to all on set, embarked on quite possibly the most famous Hollywood affair ever, while the filming of the epic movie took on gargantuan proportions and its budget increased exponentially. After the dust settled, Fox was saddled with a three-hour-plus film that, despite starring the two actors whose every move was hounded by photographers and reporters, was considered a bomb. The 1963 film almost sunk the studio (which only rebounded thanks to the megahit The Sound of Music two years later), while Burton and Taylor emerged from the wreckage relatively unscathed and ultimately married in 1964.
However, despite carte blanche to do whatever they wanted, the newly married couple made two marginally successful films, The V.I.P.s (1963) and The Sandpiper (1965), both glossy soap operas that made money but hardly challenged their talents. That opportunity would come with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the adaptation of the Edward Albee play directed by first-time filmmaker Mike Nichols. As the beleaguered professor George and his shrewish wife Martha, whose mind games played havoc one fateful night with a younger faculty couple (George Segal and Sandy Dennis), the two gave perhaps their best screen performances ever, tearing into the roles -- and each other -- with a gusto never seen in their previous pairings. They both received Oscar nominations, but only Taylor won, her second and final Academy Award.
A successful adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew (1967) followed, but the couple's next films were a string of notorious bombs, including Doctor Faustus, The Comedians, and the so-bad-it's-good Boom. Though still one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Taylor's cinematic output in the 1970s became somewhat dismal, as her fraying marriage with Burton took center stage in the press, as did her weight gain after Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The couple divorced in June 1974, only to remarry briefly in October 1975; by then, Taylor was more celebrity than movie star, still appearing occasionally onscreen and in television, but to less acclaim.
Taylor married U.S. Senator John Warner at the end of 1976, and during the late 1970s and 1980s played the politician's wife, and her unsatisfying life led her to depression, drinking, overeating and ultimately a visit to the Betty Ford Center. After TV and stage appearances during the 1980s (including a reunion in 1983 with Burton for a production of Private Lives), Taylor found another, surprising role, that of social activist as longtime friend Rock Hudson died of complications from AIDS in 1985. She threw herself into fund-raising work, raising by some accounts $50 million to fight the disease, helping found the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR).
Though later generations only saw Taylor on television in films like Malice in Wonderland, and the mini-series North and South, and in her final screen appearance as the mother of Wilma in the live-action movie adaptation of The Flintstones, she remained a tabloid fixture through her marriage to construction worker Larry Fortensky (her eighth and final husband), her friendship with singer Michael Jackson, and her continual charity work, which was only sidelined by hospital visits after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She is survived by four children -- two sons with Michael Wilding, a daughter with Michael Todd, and another daughter adopted with Richard Burton -- and nine grandchildren.
--Mark Englehart...
A striking brunette beauty with violet eyes who embodied both innocence and seductiveness, and was known for her flamboyant private life and numerous marriages as well as her acting career, Taylor was the epitome of Hollywood glamour, and was one of the last legendary stars who could still command headlines and standing ovations in her later years. Born to American parents in England in 1932, Taylor's family decamped to Los Angeles as World War II escalated in the late 1930s. Even as a child, her amazing good looks -- her eyes were amplified by a double set of eyelashes, a mutation she was born with -- garnered the attention of family friends in Hollywood, and she undertook a screen test at 10 years old with Universal Studios. She appeared in only one film for the studio (There's One Born Every Minute) before they dropped her; Taylor was quickly picked up by MGM, the studio that would make her a young star.
Her second film was Lassie Come Home (1943), co-starring Roddy McDowall, who would become a lifelong friend. She assayed a few other roles (including a noteworthy cameo in 1943's Jane Eyre) but campaigned for the part that would make her a bona fide child star: the young Velvet Brown, who trained a champion racehorse to win the Grand National, in National Velvet. The box office smash launched Taylor's career, and MGM immediately put her to work in a number of juvenile roles, most notably in Life With Father (1947) and as Amy in 1949's Little Women. As she blossomed into a young woman, she began to outgrow the roles she was assigned, often playing women far older than her actual age. She scored another hit alongside Spencer Tracy as the young daughter preparing for marriage in Father of the Bride (1950), but her career officially entered adulthood with George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951), as a seductive rich girl who bedazzles Montgomery Clift to the degree that he kills his pregnant girlfriend (Shelley Winters). The film was hailed as an instant classic, and Taylor's performance, still considered one of her best, launched the next part of her career.
Frustrated by MGM's insistence at putting her in period pieces (some were hits notwithstanding, including 1952's Ivanhoe), Taylor looked to expand her career, and took on the lead role in Elephant Walk (1954) when Vivian Leigh dropped out after suffering a nervous breakdown. As her career climbed in the 1950s, so did Taylor's celebrity: she married hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr. in 1950, and divorced him within a year. She then married British actor Michael Wilding in 1952, with whom she had two sons, though that marriage ended in divorce in 1957, after she embarked on an affair with the man who would be her next husband, producer Michael Todd (who won an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days). As her personal life made headlines, she appeared alongside James Dean and Rock Hudson in Giant (1956), and received her first Academy Award nomination for Raintree County in 1957. Roles in two Tennessee Williams adaptations followed -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly Last Summer (1959), both considered two of her best performances -- earning her two more Oscar nominations, just as tragedy and notoriety would strike her life.
Todd, whom she married in 1957 and had a daughter with, died in a plane crash in 1958 in New Mexico, leaving a bereft Taylor alone at the height of her stardom. Adored by millions, she went from lovely widow to heartless home-wrecker in the tabloids after starting an affair with Eddie Fisher, Todd's best friend and at the time husband of screen darling Debbie Reynolds. The relationship was splashed across newspapers as Fisher left Reynolds and their two children (including a young Carrie Fisher) for Taylor. The two appeared together in 1960's Butterfield 8, where Taylor played prostitute Gloria Wandrous in a performance that was considered good but nowhere near her previous films, and earned her another Oscar nomination. As the Academy Awards ceremony approached, Taylor was thrust into the headlines again when a life-threatening case of pneumonia required an emergency tracheotomy, leaving her with a legendary scar on her neck. Popular opinion swung yet again as newspapers and fans feared for her life, and the illness was credited with helping her win her first Oscar for Butterfield 8.
Taylor was now the biggest female star in the world, in terms of film and popularity, and her notoriety was only about to increase. Twentieth Century Fox, making a small biopic about the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, tried to offer Taylor the part; she laughed them off, saying she would do it for $1 million, a then-unheard of sum for an actress. The studio took her seriously, and soon she was signed to a million-dollar contract (the first for an actress) and a movie that would soon balloon out of control as filming started. Initially set to film in England with Peter Finch and Rex Harrison as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, the movie encountered numerous problems and after a first shutdown was moved to Italy, with director Joseph L. Manckiewicz at the helm. Finch left and was replaced by acclaimed stage actor and rising movie star Richard Burton.
The rest was cinematic and tabloid history, as Taylor and Burton, whose electric chemistry was apparent to all on set, embarked on quite possibly the most famous Hollywood affair ever, while the filming of the epic movie took on gargantuan proportions and its budget increased exponentially. After the dust settled, Fox was saddled with a three-hour-plus film that, despite starring the two actors whose every move was hounded by photographers and reporters, was considered a bomb. The 1963 film almost sunk the studio (which only rebounded thanks to the megahit The Sound of Music two years later), while Burton and Taylor emerged from the wreckage relatively unscathed and ultimately married in 1964.
However, despite carte blanche to do whatever they wanted, the newly married couple made two marginally successful films, The V.I.P.s (1963) and The Sandpiper (1965), both glossy soap operas that made money but hardly challenged their talents. That opportunity would come with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the adaptation of the Edward Albee play directed by first-time filmmaker Mike Nichols. As the beleaguered professor George and his shrewish wife Martha, whose mind games played havoc one fateful night with a younger faculty couple (George Segal and Sandy Dennis), the two gave perhaps their best screen performances ever, tearing into the roles -- and each other -- with a gusto never seen in their previous pairings. They both received Oscar nominations, but only Taylor won, her second and final Academy Award.
A successful adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew (1967) followed, but the couple's next films were a string of notorious bombs, including Doctor Faustus, The Comedians, and the so-bad-it's-good Boom. Though still one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Taylor's cinematic output in the 1970s became somewhat dismal, as her fraying marriage with Burton took center stage in the press, as did her weight gain after Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The couple divorced in June 1974, only to remarry briefly in October 1975; by then, Taylor was more celebrity than movie star, still appearing occasionally onscreen and in television, but to less acclaim.
Taylor married U.S. Senator John Warner at the end of 1976, and during the late 1970s and 1980s played the politician's wife, and her unsatisfying life led her to depression, drinking, overeating and ultimately a visit to the Betty Ford Center. After TV and stage appearances during the 1980s (including a reunion in 1983 with Burton for a production of Private Lives), Taylor found another, surprising role, that of social activist as longtime friend Rock Hudson died of complications from AIDS in 1985. She threw herself into fund-raising work, raising by some accounts $50 million to fight the disease, helping found the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR).
Though later generations only saw Taylor on television in films like Malice in Wonderland, and the mini-series North and South, and in her final screen appearance as the mother of Wilma in the live-action movie adaptation of The Flintstones, she remained a tabloid fixture through her marriage to construction worker Larry Fortensky (her eighth and final husband), her friendship with singer Michael Jackson, and her continual charity work, which was only sidelined by hospital visits after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She is survived by four children -- two sons with Michael Wilding, a daughter with Michael Todd, and another daughter adopted with Richard Burton -- and nine grandchildren.
--Mark Englehart...
- 3/23/2011
- IMDb News
Dame Elizabeth Taylor has dismissed reports she is engaged to wed for a ninth time - insisting the rumors "simply aren't true". Reports over the weekend suggested the 78-year-old movie icon and her longtime companion Jason Winters, 49, recently became engaged, but, in a message on her Twitter page posted on Monday, April 12, the Hollywood legend denies claims she's set to wed again.
She writes: "The rumors regarding my engagement simply aren't true. Jason is my manager and dearest friend. I love him with all my heart."
Taylor has been married eight times to seven different men, including Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, John Warner, Larry Fortensky and Richard Burton, whom she married twice. Her most recent union with Fortensky ended in divorce in 1996.
She writes: "The rumors regarding my engagement simply aren't true. Jason is my manager and dearest friend. I love him with all my heart."
Taylor has been married eight times to seven different men, including Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, John Warner, Larry Fortensky and Richard Burton, whom she married twice. Her most recent union with Fortensky ended in divorce in 1996.
- 4/13/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Dame Elizabeth Taylor has dismissed reports she is engaged to wed for a ninth time - insisting the rumours "simply aren't true".
Reports over the weekend suggested the 78-year-old movie icon and her longtime companion Jason Winters, 49, recently became engaged, but, in a message on her Twitter.com page - posted on Monday, the Hollywood legend denies claims she's set to wed again.
She writes: "The rumors regarding my engagement simply aren't true. Jason is my manager and dearest friend. I love him with all my heart."
Taylor has been married eight times to seven different men, including: Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, John Warner, Larry Fortensky and Richard Burton - whom she married twice. Her most recent union with Fortensky ended in divorce in 1996.
Reports over the weekend suggested the 78-year-old movie icon and her longtime companion Jason Winters, 49, recently became engaged, but, in a message on her Twitter.com page - posted on Monday, the Hollywood legend denies claims she's set to wed again.
She writes: "The rumors regarding my engagement simply aren't true. Jason is my manager and dearest friend. I love him with all my heart."
Taylor has been married eight times to seven different men, including: Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, John Warner, Larry Fortensky and Richard Burton - whom she married twice. Her most recent union with Fortensky ended in divorce in 1996.
- 4/12/2010
- WENN
Eight marriages are enough right now for Elizabeth Taylor. "The rumors regarding my engagement simply aren't true," the legendary Hollywood actress Tweeted in response to online reports she planned to tie the knot for ninth time with Jason Winters. "Jason is my manager and dearest friend. I love him with all my heart." Taylor, 78, has been married eight times to seven different men: Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton (twice), John Warner and Larry Fortensky. She has been single since her divorce from Fortensky in 1996. Related: Elizabeth Taylor Assures Fans She's FineWinters, 49, is a principal in Sterling Winters Management.
- 4/12/2010
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
The lovely Liz Taylor has been a blushing bride only eight times in her life but now, at the age of 78, she may be looking to increase that number. Yep, Liz is rumored to be engaged and will make Jason Winters, 49, her ninth husband. It's never too late to say yes to love! Liz's last marriage was to Larry Fortensky, a construction worker whom she divorced in 1996 after five years of marriage. Liz's previous husbands include Paris Hilton's grand-uncle, Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Eddie Fisher and Richard Burton. Winters is a Hollywood manager and is currently the manager of...
- 4/9/2010
- by Celebuzz
- Celebuzz.com
An 82-year-old photographer who covered Elizabeth Taylor's 1950 wedding to Conrad Hilton Jr. has offered his services to the late hotel heir's great nieces Paris and Nicky.
Famed celebrity snapper Murray Garrett has long been associated with the Hiltons, who own many of his iconic shots.
And the snaps taken at Conrad Hilton's wedding are among several Garrett originals which have helped many visualise the golden age of Hollywood society.
The Hilton girls and their mother Kathy will attend the launch of Garrett's latest exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery in Los Angeles on Friday night - and the famed snapper admits he would love to capture the sisters' big wedding days.
He says, "I would be honoured to accept such an invitation and I look forward to meeting them."
The girls' mother Kathy adds, "I don't think my daughters will marry in the near future but when they do I'm sure that they would be honoured if Murray Garrett could be there."
Paris Hilton is one of Garrett's number one fans - she owns a famous Marilyn Monroe snap the photographer took at the beginning of the late actress' career.
Famed celebrity snapper Murray Garrett has long been associated with the Hiltons, who own many of his iconic shots.
And the snaps taken at Conrad Hilton's wedding are among several Garrett originals which have helped many visualise the golden age of Hollywood society.
The Hilton girls and their mother Kathy will attend the launch of Garrett's latest exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery in Los Angeles on Friday night - and the famed snapper admits he would love to capture the sisters' big wedding days.
He says, "I would be honoured to accept such an invitation and I look forward to meeting them."
The girls' mother Kathy adds, "I don't think my daughters will marry in the near future but when they do I'm sure that they would be honoured if Murray Garrett could be there."
Paris Hilton is one of Garrett's number one fans - she owns a famous Marilyn Monroe snap the photographer took at the beginning of the late actress' career.
- 6/26/2008
- WENN
Movie icon Elizabeth Taylor has exposed her first husband, Conrad Hilton Jr., as a "cruel" drunk in a new magazine interview. The actress was a teenager when she exchanged vows with the hotel heir in 1950 and was so smitten with the handsome socialite she studied Catholicism to be his wife. But she admits she never took the union seriously enough and divorced Hilton, who is the uncle of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton's father, nine months later - after discovering he had a drinking problem. Revealing all in a candid new expose with Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, the actress recalls, "When I got a divorce... I never told the court why, but he was cruel. When he drank it all came out, and I hadn't seen that before because he was on the wagon the eight months we were engaged. I didn't have a clue. But I thought, 'This isn't why God put me on earth.'" Taylor, who wed another seven times, had an inkling her first marriage wouldn't work out as she stood before the archbishop on her big day. She adds, "When I had to swear in front of the archbishop to be a good wife and all that stuff, I had my fingers crossed behind my back because I didn't know if I could be a good wife."...
- 1/31/2007
- WENN
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