Screen fable Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed celluloid goddess whose hot screen sprightliness was ofttimes upstaged by her surging individual history, died Wed at age 79.
She died of congestive bosom insolvency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Central, where she had been hospitalized for virtually six weeks, communicator Venture Author said.
"All her children were with her," Morrison said.
President had frightful propriety, honour and riches, and won leash Oscars, including a primary one for her improver play. But she was tortured by ill wellbeing, failed romances and personalized tragedy.
Her viii marriages - including two to director Richard Burton - and a lifelong endeavor with inwardness use, physiologic ailments and overeating prefab Taylor as popular in supermarket tabloids as in creation medium festivals.
Taylor disclosed in November 2004 that she had congestive pump loser. But she plant periodically fired reports that she was at death's entryway, language she old a wheelchair exclusive because of habitual back problems that began at age 12 when she seam from a sawbuck.
When she inverted 75 the shadowing gathering, she was asked around the undercover to her oldness and quipped: "Hangin' in."
The London-born actress was a mark at age 12, a bride and a woman at 18, a screen goddess at 19 and a widow at 26.
In afterwards age, she was a spokeswoman for individual causes, most notably AIDS explore. Her work gained her a special Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1993.
As she recognised it, she told a worldwide television interview: "I telephone upon you to kill from the depths of your beingness - to evidence that we are a frail displace, to demonstrate that our screaw outweighs our pauperism to hatred, that our mercy is writer compelling than our necessity to goddamn."