Showing posts with label elizabeth taylor died. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elizabeth taylor died. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Michael Jackson and Liz Taylor together in death

Liz Taylor will be laid to rest not far from Michael's grave, at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California.

A memorial will take place at 2 p.m.

A contingent of officers will enforce security in the area, as confirmed by the Glendale police. Officers' main task will be shielding possibly picketers from the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Chuch, who have vowed to protest the ceremony due to Taylor's commitment to gay causes and AIDS research.

Only family and friends will be allowed through the front gates of the private cemetery, as specified by the typical procedure.

Elizabeth Taylor died March 23, 2011. The official cause of death is was cardiopulmonary arrest, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as specified in the death certificate:


May she rest in peace!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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!