Elizabeth Taylor, aged 79 years, has died

Actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79 years, Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai hospital, in Los Angeles , as her publicist stated. 


Diagnosed with congestive heart failure, she was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai, six weeks ago. Her condition had stabilized, even though she had recently suffered a number of complications. And while friends and family were hoping she will return home, sadly her life ended peacefully on the hospital bed.

Also known as Liz Taylor, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, England on 1932, February 27.

She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, and for her fighting against AIDS charity work, she won a  Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Academy Award in 1992.

She is one of the actresses that won Oscar for best actress, along with Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Glenda Jackson, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Jodie Foster and Hillary Swank.

Elizabeth Taylor had 7 husbands and had been married 8 times:

• Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (6 May 1950 – 29 January 1951) (divorced)
• Michael Wilding (21 February 1952 – 26 January 1957) (divorced)
• Michael Todd (2 February 1957 – 22 March 1958) (widowed)
• Eddie Fisher (12 May 1959 – 6 March 1964) (divorced)
• Richard Burton (15 March 1964 – 26 June 1974) (divorced)
• Richard Burton (10 October 1975 – 29 July 1976) (divorced)
• John Warner (4 December 1976 – 7 November 1982) (divorced)
• Larry Fortensky (6 October 1991 – 31 October 1996) (divorced).

All her four children, Michael Howard Wilding, Christopher Edward Wilding, Elizabeth Frances "Liza" Todd and Maria Burton, along with the ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren have survived her at the time of her death.

^{May she rest in peace!}