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In 2009, Taylor [13] reportedly gave him $50,000 to pay the $5,800 monthly mortgage payment and keep the house out of foreclosure. [13] Fortensky's last phone call with Taylor was a day before she entered the hospital in February 2011. [14] She died in March 2011 and left Fortensky $825,000 in her will. [15]
Van Johnson and Taylor in the romantic drama The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) Taylor's last film made under her old contract with MGM was The Girl Who Had Everything (1953), a remake of the pre-code drama A Free Soul (1931). [1]: 145 Despite her grievances with the studio, Taylor signed a new seven-year contract with MGM in the summer of 1952.
Elizabeth Taylor became known for many things: those violet-colored eyes, a successful transition from child star to movie icon, multiple Academy Awards, her devotion to AIDS-related causes.
The death of his father in 1931 was a turning point for Todd; he decided to change his name to Mike Todd on the day of his father's death. [5] Bertha died of a pneumothorax (collapsed lung) on August 12, 1946, in Santa Monica, California, while undergoing surgery at St. John's Hospital for a damaged tendon in her finger.
Her father was Michael Todd, Taylor’s third husband, who died in a plane crash when Liza was an infant. After his death, Taylor married fellow actor Richard Burton, who formally adopted Liza ...
Then there were Taylor’s off-screen relationships, the good (her union of equals with producer Mike Todd), the bad (her abusive marriage to Conrad Hilton) and the complicated (her co-dependent ...
The couple divorced in 1959 when it was revealed shortly after Taylor's third husband, Mike Todd, died in a plane crash, that she and Fisher had been having an affair. News of the affair was a great public scandal which led to the cancellation of Eddie Fisher's television show. [2] Fisher and Taylor married that same year.
Elizabeth Taylor was notorious for receiving extravagant gifts from her seven husbands, but the Hollywood icon didn’t hesitate to spoil her pals. The screen legend and AIDS activist, one of the ...