"stage roles and in several television films and series, and became the first celebrity to launch a perfume brand. Taylor was also one of the first celebrities to take part in HIV/AIDS activism. She co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991. From the early 1990s until her death, she dedicated her time to philanthropy. She received several accolades for it, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. Throughout her career, Taylor's personal life was the subject of constant media attention. She was married eight times to seven men, endured serious illnesses, and"
"was 20 years his junior, had two sons, Michael Howard Wilding (born 1953) and Christopher Edward Wilding (born 1955). In 1957 he had a short-lived romance with actress Marie McDonald, who was nicknamed The Body. In the 1960s he was forced to cut back on his film appearances because of illness related to his lifelong epilepsy. Wilding died in Chichester, West Sussex, as a result of head injuries suffered from a fall down a flight of stairs during an epileptic seizure. His body was cremated and the ashes were scattered. |- !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor Michael Wilding (actor)"
"she used her connections in fashion magazines and photography and had her designs featured in ""Harper's Bazaar"" magazine, leading to a significant increase in orders. She soon opened a shop in Stowe, Vermont, and the New York City stores Bergdorf Goodman and Lord & Taylor carried her line. Taylor closed the business after a few years when she moved to Texas at her second husband's request. Taylor was married twice: firstly in 1928, aged 18, to James Cooke, with whom she had two children; and secondly in 1947 to Vernon Taylor, with whom she had four children. In 2008, Taylor's"
"March 2011 death, she left Fortensky $800,000 in her will. From April 2011 he lived with his sister Donna in Menifee, California. He was unable to work following his accident, for which he took medication. He was estranged from his sister Linda, who sold information to the ""National Enquirer"", and from his daughter Julie. Fortensky died from skin cancer surgery complications on July 7, 2016. !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor Larry Fortensky Larry Fortensky (January 17, 1952 – July 7, 2016) was a construction worker best known as the seventh and last husband (but eighth marriage) of actress Elizabeth"
"later on September 22, 2010 at his home in Berkeley, California, from complications from hip surgery. He was 82 years old. |- !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor Eddie Fisher (singer) Edwin John ""Eddie"" Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was the most successful pop singles artist during the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher divorced his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds' best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, after Taylor's husband, film producer Mike Todd, was killed in a"
"were once more identified through dental records and were reburied in a secret location. !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Producer of Academy Award for Best Picture Mike Todd Michael ""Mike"" Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, June 22, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American theater and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of ""Around the World in 80 Days"", which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is known as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's seven husbands, and is the only one whom she did not divorce (he died in a private plane"
"It was not a success. In 1997, Reynolds was forced to declare bankruptcy. In June 2010, she replaced Ivana Trump answering reader queries for the weekly paper ""Globe"". Reynolds was married three times. Her first marriage was to singer Eddie Fisher in 1955. They became the parents of Carrie (1956–2016) and Todd Fisher (1958). The couple divorced in 1959 when it was revealed shortly after the death of Elizabeth Taylor's husband Mike Todd that Fisher had been having an affair with her; Taylor and Reynolds were good friends at the time. The Eddie FisherElizabeth Taylor affair was a great public"
"Larry Fortensky Larry Fortensky (January 17, 1952 – July 7, 2016) was a construction worker best known as the seventh and last husband (but eighth marriage) of actress Elizabeth Taylor. Fortensky and Taylor were married on October 6, 1991 at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch and divorced on October 31, 1996. Fortensky, the eldest of seven children, was raised in working-class Stanton, California, and dropped out of Garden Grove, California's Pacifica High School in the 10th grade. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1972 and discharged three months later. He married Priscilla Joan Torres in 1972, divorcing in 1974"
"stepmother, Zsa Zsa Gabor, in 1944, according to claims made by Gabor after his death. He was Elizabeth Taylor's first husband, (May 6, 1950 – January 29, 1951) but his ""gambling, drinking, and abusive behavior"" horrified her and her parents. The marriage ended in divorce after eight months. In the late 1950s, Hilton also had an eight-month affair with Mexican actress Silvia Pinal, whom he met at the opening of a hotel in Acapulco. In 1958, Hilton married oil heiress from Oklahoma, Patricia ""Trish"" McClintock. They had two sons, Conrad Nicholson Hilton III and Michael Otis Hilton. McClintock filed a"
"summer of 1956, and were divorced in 1957. Taylor married her third husband, theater and film producer Mike Todd, in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on February 2, 1957. They had one daughter, Elizabeth ""Liza"" Frances (b. 1957). Todd, known for publicity stunts, encouraged the media attention to their marriage; for example, in June 1957, he threw a birthday party at Madison Square Garden, which was attended by 18,000 guests and broadcast on CBS. His death in a plane crash on March 22, 1958, left Taylor devastated. She was comforted by Todd's and her friend, singer Eddie Fisher, with whom she soon"
"years experience on stage in Britain and America before her appearances in Hollywood films. Two of her three children by her first marriage in the first quarter of 1904 to Ernest J. Taylor, Ralph and Dorothy Brenda, known as Brenda, were also actors. The middle child of the three, Phyllis Mary Taylor, was not in the acting business. Her second husband was British actor Charles Quartermaine, who married in 1925; the union ended in divorce. She married her third husband, Wesley Wall, an American businessman, in 1935; the couple remained married until her death in 1974. She became a naturalized"
"Men in Her Life (painting) Men in Her Life is a 1962 painting by Andy Warhol. It is a black and white painting inspired by the life of Elizabeth Taylor, a seven foot tall creation of the artist. It is a series of photos picturing the most important men in the life of Elizabeth Taylor, including her third husband Mike Todd and her future husband Eddie Fisher. The painting was sold for $63.4 million in 2010 by Phillips de Pury & Co. The final sum was a surprise even for the organizers, which evaluated the painting at 40 million dollars"
"bandmates on the 14th Duran Duran album with producers Mark Ronson, Ben Hudson & Nile Rodgers; ""Paper Gods"" was released in 2015. In January 2016, Peace Tracks, a charitable organization that aims to bridge different cultures and countries through music, released a number of songs that featured Taylor in collaboration with members of ABBA, Phillip Glass, Angelique Kidjo, and Anoushka Shankar. Taylor has three children – James, Ellea and Elliot – with his first wife Giovana, whom he later divorced. In 2004, Taylor was named Britain's fifth most eligible bachelor in the UK high society magazine Tatler, alongside Prince William"
"for Ralph L. Ropp, Taylor's predecessor as president, who served from 1949 to 1962. On April 18, 1946, Taylor wed the former Evelyn Marie Bast (born March 8, 1923), then of Milford, Michigan, and later from Cincinnati, Ohio. The couple had one son, Terry Jay Taylor (born September 26, 1947). At some point prior to 1982, the Taylors were divorced. By 1988, Taylor had wed the former Linda Lou Kavanaugh (born July 19, 1942). Evelyn later married Earl Cedric Johnston (born November 24, 1927) of Show Low in Navajo County, Arizona. Terry Taylor is a veteran of the United States"
"and was married to eight wives: Leonora Cannon, Elizabeth Kaighin, Jane Ballantyne, Mary Ann Oakley, Sophia Whitaker, Harriet Whitaker, and Margaret Young. He was the father of 34 children. Taylor's son, John W. Taylor, continued to serve in the church and in politics and helped to shepherd Utah to statehood in 1896. John W. Taylor was ultimately excommunicated from the LDS Church for his opposition to the church's abandonment of plural marriage. His son, Samuel W. Taylor, became a writer, and the biographer of his father and grandfather. Another son, William W. Taylor, served as one of the first presidents"
"Elizabeth Thornton Mary Forrest George, née Baxter (24 January 1940 – 12 July 2010), well known as Elizabeth Thornton (her mother's name) is a British-Canadian writer of 31 historical romance novels from 1986 to 2010. Born Mary Forrest Baxter on 24 January 1940 Aberdeen, Scotland, the younger of two children of Elizabeth Thornton and Andrew Baxter. In 1959, she married Forbes George, and they had three sons: Stephen, Peter and Thomas. She was an elementary school teacher before establishing the St. Swithin Street Nursery School in 1967. In 1969, she and her husband and their three sons moved to Winnipeg,"
"man of good character who had devoted a lot of time to helping others. The judge imposed a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment, relating to £11,277 in falsely claimed expenses; he also said that the expenses scandal had ""left an indelible stain on Parliament"". About 15 members of the House of Lords refused to give evidence to support Taylor's defence. Taylor married in 1981 and had three children with his wife. They divorced in 2005. ""The Daily Telegraph"" reported that Taylor is an evangelical Christian, and in 2009 he married an evangelical Christian from the US. That marriage lasted 24"
"married three times. He married his first wife, Margaret Adams, in 1931 (divorced in 1951) and with her he had four children. For a time in the 1930s, he and his wife shared a house with the writer Malcolm Muggeridge and his wife Kitty. It was suggested that he had had an affair with Kitty Muggeridge. Taylor lived for a while in Disley, Cheshire, where Dylan Thomas (who was his first wife's lover) was his guest; he later provided Thomas with a cottage in Oxford so that he could recover from a breakdown. His second wife was Eve Crosland, whom"
"Elizabeth Taylor (novelist) Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 – 19 November 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as ""one of the best English novelists born in this century"". Antonia Fraser called her ""one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century"", while Hilary Mantel said she was ""deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated"". Born in Reading, Berkshire, the daughter of Oliver Coles, an insurance inspector, and his wife Elsie May Fewtrell, Elizabeth was educated at The Abbey School, Reading and then worked as a governess, tutor and librarian. She married John Taylor,"
"with Taylor as the presenter. In 2014, he was awarded a Royal Television Society lifetime achievement award and a BAFTA special award for his career's contribution to factual and current affairs television. Awarding Taylor his BAFTA, Sir Jeremy Isaacs described him as ""Mr Valiant for the Truth"", referencing John Bunyan's ""Pilgrim's Progress"". In 2015, Taylor secured the first British television interview with former CIA analyst Edward Snowden, living in exile in Moscow, for BBC Panorama. He was married to fellow journalist Susan McConachy from 1974 until her death on 16 November 2006. They had two children, Ben and Sam. He"
"would have two criteria. They would be interesting. They would be helpful."" Their first title was ""The Hiding Place"". Elizabeth has authored more than 30 books - many co-written with her husband. Some of these books have been translated into more than 40 languages. Elizabeth Sherrill has three children: John Scott Sherrill, Donn Sherrill, and Elizabeth Flint. She resides in Hingham, Massachusetts. John Sherrill died on December 2, 2017, aged 94. John and Elizabeth Sherrill John Lewis Sherrill (August 2, 1923, Covington, Tennessee - December 2, 2017) and Elizabeth ""Tib"" Sherrill (born February 14, 1928, Hollywood, California) are Christian writers."
"under the mentorship of S. S. Chern and then transferred to the University of Warwick and received a second M.Sc. in mathematics there. She completed a doctorate in 1972 from Princeton University under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. Taylor joined the Rutgers faculty in 1973, and retired in 2002. She was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1999 to 2001. She has been married three times, to mathematician John Guckenheimer (her fellow student at Berkeley), to her advisor Fred Almgren (with whom she had a daughter and two step-children), and to financier and science advocate"
"at the time, in which Burton was ""relatively unknown"" while Taylor was an ""iconic star and America's sweetheart"". Michael Thornton of ""The Daily Telegraph"" described the relationship, that saw the couple marry and divorce twice, as the ""tempestuous saga of Liz and Dick"". Their love was described as an addiction; shortly prior to her death, Taylor stated: ""The truth is I now don't give a damn about most of those men. Richard is the only one I truly loved and still care about. I shall miss him until the day I die"", referring to her various marriages. Taylor and Burton"
"five times, with four marriages ending in divorce. She entered a brief marriage to Gary Smith in 1964 when she was 23 years old. Her second marriage was to George Bloomfield from 1965 to 1971. Her third marriage was to poet, broadcaster and author George Jonas from 1974 to 1979. A fourth marriage was to cable businessman David Graham in 1984, but they were divorced by 1988. In July 1992, she married Conrad Black (who was granted, in 2001, a life peerage as Lord Black of Crossharbour), a Canadian mining and media baron. Black renounced his Canadian citizenship to accept"
"politics. Taylor would remain with the series until his death in 1969. After three years of dating, Taylor married Barbara Stanwyck on May 14, 1939 in San Diego, California. Zeppo Marx's wife, Marion, was Stanwyck's matron of honor and her godfather, actor Buck Mack, was Taylor's best man. Stanwyck divorced Taylor (reportedly at his request) in February 1951. The couple had no children. Taylor met German actress Ursula Thiess in 1952. They married in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on May 23, 1954. They had two children together, son Terrance (born 1955) and daughter Tessa (born 1959). Taylor was also stepfather to"
"their wedding, Taylor realized that she had made a mistake; not only did she and Hilton have few interests in common, but he was also abusive and a heavy drinker. She was granted a divorce in January 1951, eight months after their wedding. Taylor married her second husband, British actor Michael Wilding – a man 20 years her senior – in a low-key ceremony at Caxton Hall in London on February 21, 1952. She had first met him in 1948 while filming ""The Conspirator"" in England, and their relationship began when she returned to film ""Ivanhoe"" in 1951. Taylor found"
"had seven children, three of which died before reaching adulthood. In 1877, Taylor agreed to her husband marrying Louise (Louie) Foote; later in 1885, George took a third wife, Ella Susannah Colebrook. The following year, George was imprisoned for practicing polygamy. Taylor continued to support and defend plural marriage. At a meeting of the LDS Church's organization for adolescent girls held June 19, 1880, in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Taylor was appointed the first general president of the Young Ladies' National Mutual Improvement Association, the original name of the church's Young Women organization. Taylor was the general president"
"drew a large amount of media attention and public disapproval. According to biographer Alexander Walker, ""Whether she liked it or not ... marriage is the matrix of the myth that began surrounding Elizabeth Taylor from [when she was sixteen]"". MGM organized her to date football champion Glenn Davis in 1948, and the following year, she was briefly engaged to William Pawley, Jr., son of U.S. ambassador William D. Pawley. Film tycoon Howard Hughes also wanted to marry her, and offered to pay her parents a six-figure sum of money if she were to become his wife. Taylor declined the offer,"
"Mike Todd Michael ""Mike"" Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, June 22, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American theater and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of ""Around the World in 80 Days"", which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is known as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's seven husbands, and is the only one whom she did not divorce (he died in a private plane accident a year after their marriage). He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format. Todd was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Chaim"
"(also written as Leybourne and Leyburn) family were recusants, and James Leyburn, Elizabeth's great-nephew, was executed as ""a catholic traitor"" in 1583. She married her first husband, Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland in 1555. The marriage produced five children: There was disagreement between Elizabeth and the Dacres as to her husband's will, which settled his lands on his son and brothers, limiting their inheritance to heirs male. Elizabeth allegedly felt aggrieved on behalf of her daughters, but according to her brother-in-law Leonard Dacre, Elizabeth herself received more ‘than ever anye the wyves of the auncestors of the said"
"more personal the story, the better."" They divorced for the first time in June 1974, but reconciled, and remarried in Kasane, Botswana, on October 10, 1975. The second marriage lasted less than a year, ending in divorce in July 1976. Taylor and Burton's relationship was often referred to as the ""marriage of the century"" by the media, and she later stated, ""After Richard, the men in my life were just there to hold the coat, to open the door. All the men after Richard were really just company."" Soon after her final divorce from Burton, Taylor met her sixth husband,"
"her charity work, former President Bill Clinton said at her death, ""Elizabeth's legacy will live on in many people around the world whose lives will be longer and better because of her work and the ongoing efforts of those she inspired."" Elizabeth Taylor Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well-known"
"sister's household during her brief reign, although she would serve two of Henry VIII's later wives, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard. Jane died 24 October 1537, twelve days after giving birth to a healthy son, Edward VI. Elizabeth lived under four Tudor monarchs and was married three times. In 1531, she married Sir Anthony Ughtred, Governor of Jersey, who died in 1534. She then married Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, the son of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII in 1537, who died in 1551. She married her third and last husband, John Paulet, Lord St John, the"