Many youngsters might not know who Elizabeth Taylor was but for those who are familiar with Hollywood legends, she won’t be a strange name. She graced the TV screens in classics like Cleopatra (1963), The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and many others. She remains a well-known public figure and was so celebrated that the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend.
Date of Birth: February 27, 1932
Date of Death: March 23, 2011 (aged 79)
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
The National Velvet (1944) star was indeed a woman of abundance, endowed with outsized fame, beauty and even appetite in men. The adventurous actress once stated that her troubles all started because she had a woman’s body with child emotions. Over the years, she became globally famous not just for her acting prowess but for her super interesting love life. Elizabeth was in a number of relationships but what amused her audience the most was that she married a staggering eight times.
Academy Award winning Taylor checked into Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for her congestive heart failure condition but after about six weeks, she died. Her legacy remains till date and we’ll be taking you into details of her personal life starting from her birth family, through her many lovers and to her children and grandchildren. Enjoy!
Francis Lenn Taylor (father)
Date of Birth: December 28, 1897
Date of Death: November 20, 1968 (aged 70)
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
He was an arts dealer but was known majorly as the father to renowned Elizabeth Taylor.
Sara Viola Warmbrodt (Sara Sothern) (mother)
Date of Birth: August 21, 1895
Date of Death: September 11, 1994 (aged 99)
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Sara was also a seasoned actress in her time up until she married Taylor. After becoming a wife, Southern retired from the stage and never acted again; all she did was devote herself to her family and her daughter’s grand career. Sara was also super helpful in raising Elizabeth’s children while the Father of the Bride (1950) actress was away in pursuit of her fast-rising career.
Howard Taylor (elder brother from same parents)
Date of Birth: June 27, 1929
Date of Death: 2017 (aged 88)
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
He was the only sibling to the super famous Elizabeth. Howard was an oceanographer and also an actor best known for Genius (2003).
Nicholas Conrad Hilton Jr. (former husband)
Duration of Marriage: May 6, 1950 – February 1951 (1 year)
Date of Birth: July 6, 1952
Date of Death: February 5, 1969 (aged 42)
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Liz was only 18 when she first walked down the aisle and this time, it was to the heir of the Hilton hotel empire. Conrad was a businessman, a socialite but also a womanizer so his union with the young Taylor was brief though tumultuous. Hilton Jr. was an alcoholic who physically and emotionally abused her so it was such a relief when she left him after barely a year being married.
Michael Wilding Sr. (former spouse)
Duration of Marriage: February 21, 1952 – January 1957 (5 years)
Date of Birth: July 23, 1912
Date of Death: July 8, 1979 (aged 66)
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Taylor lasted five years with her second husband who was also an actor. Wilding was twice her age so he could easily provide stability for the young actress who had just come out of a horrible first marriage. Both lovers met in 1948 in England while filming The Conspirator and their relationship began when she returned to England for another filming. They had two boys together but as she became more and more famous, their marriage started to crack until it was irreparable.
Mike Todd (late spouse)
Duration of Marriage: February 2, 1957 – March 22, 1958; his death (1 year)
Date of Birth: June 22, 1909
Date of Death: March 22, 1958 (aged 48)
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Todd was a theatrical impresario/movie producer who wooed Taylor with lavish gifts and gestures that she was already pregnant with his child before they got married. Mike died sadly in a plane crash and the movie star stated that she was really happy with him.
Eddie Fisher (former spouse)
Duration of Marriage: May 12, 1959 – March 1964 (5 years)
Date of Birth: August 10, 1928
Date of Death: September 22, 2010 (aged 82)
Zodiac Sign: Leo
The equally famous Fisher was one of the world’s most respected singers in the 1950s. He was initially married to Debbie Reynolds but he divorced her scandalously to be with Taylor whom he greatly adored.
Fisher was Todd’s best friend and also a comfort to Elizabeth at her late husband’s funeral. Sadly the star actress did not reciprocate the singer’s love and sweetness and they kept on pretending in public too be a happy couple until the farce could not hold any longer.
Richard Burton (former spouse)
Duration of Marriage: March 15, 1964 – June 26, 1974; October 10, 1975 – July 29, 1976 (11 years)
Date of Birth: November 10, 1925
Date of Death: August 5, 1984 (aged 58)
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Of all her many marriages, the media star was twice wed to Welsh lothario Richard Burton. Till date, they remain one of the most famous and turbulent duos in the movie industry. Richard was a callous alcoholic but Liz only saw this as further evidence of his irresistible manliness. Both ex-lovers met on the set of Cleopatra in 1962 and were married at the time but this could not stop a passionate affair from budding.
While they were together, both stars did not have a biological child but Burton re-adopted Maria who had been adopted when Taylor was with Eddie Fisher. 16 months after their first divorce, they got together again to re-marry in Botswana. “Liz and Dick” co-starred in a number of movies with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) as the most notable.
John Warner (former spouse)
Duration of Marriage: December 4, 1976 – November 7, 1982 (6 years)
Date of Birth: February 18, 1927
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Warner and Taylor met while he was serving as Nixon’s secretary of the Navy. They got close and the actress stood by him in the campaign for his first successful bid as senator for Virginia. Their marriage however did not last as long as his office did.
Larry Fortensky (former spouse)
Duration of Marriage: October 6, 1991 – October 31, 1996 (5 years)
Date of Birth: January 17, 1952
Date of Death: July 7, 2016 (aged 64)
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Her last five years as a married woman was with a construction worker who was also two decades her junior. Both ex-spouses remained friendly even after their divorce and it was reported that Taylor left Fortensky $800,000 in her will. In 2016, Larry died from skin cancer.
Michael Howard Wilding Jr. (son with Michael Wilding Sr.)
Date of Birth: January 6, 1953
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
He is the first child to the famous Taylor and like his parents; he is also an actor by profession. Howard has been married to Brooke Palance since 1982 and fathers Tarquin (born 1990) with her but he has two older children; Laela (born 1971), Naomi (born 1976) whom he had from a past relationship.
Christopher Edward Wilding (son with Michael Wilding Sr.)
Date of Birth: February 27, 1955
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Christopher is also in Hollywood but works as a photographer and film editor.
His first marriage was to oil heiress Ailleen Getty for seven years and he had two kids, Caleb (born 1983) and Andrew (born 1985) kids with her. Now, Christopher is married to Margaret Carlton and is a father to another son, Lowell (born 1991).
Elizabeth with Michael Sr. and their 2 sons
Liza Todd Burton (daughter with Mike Todd)
Date of Birth: August 6, 1957
Zodiac Sign: Leo
She turned out to be an actress like her mother. Liza has been married to Hap Tivey and they are both parents to Quinn Tivey (born 1986) and Rhys Tivey (born 1991).
Liza and her son Rhys Tivey
Maria Burton (adopted daughter with Richard Burton)
Date of Birth: August 1, 1961
Zodiac Sign: Leo
When Maria was three, she became one of Taylor’s kids when she adopted her in 1964 with her famous husband, Richard Burton. She has 2 kids, daughter Eliza Carson (born 1982) and son Richard McKeown (born 2001).
Elizabeth Taylor’s grandchildren
From Michael Wilding Jr.; Laela Wilding, Naomi Wilding and Tarquin Wilding
(L-R) Laela Wilding, Naomi Wilding and Tarquin Wilding
From Chris Wilding; Caleb Wilding, Andrew Wilding and Lowell Wilding
(L-R) Caleb Wilding, Andrew Wilding and Lowell Wilding
From Liza Todd Burton; Quinn Tivey and Rhys Tivey
(L-R) Quinn Tivey and Rhys Tivey
From Maria Burton; Eliza Carson, Richard McKeown
(L-R) Eliza Carson, Richard McKeown
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