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ELIZABETH Taylor, the legendary Hollywood actress and violet-eyed beauty who captured hearts in “National Velvet” to launch a film career that spanned five decades, has died. She was aged 79.
According to a report by Agence France Presse {AFP} quoting a family statement, Taylor had been in Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Hospital for six weeks with congestive heart failure, a condition with which she had struggled for some years and had recently suffered complications.
She was surrounded by her four children when she died of congestive heart failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, said publicist Sally Morrison.
“My mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humour, and love,” her son, Michael Wilding, said in a statement.
“We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts.”
She was the most loyal of friends and a defender of gays in Hollywood when AIDS was still a stigma in the industry and beyond. But she was afflicted by ill health, failed romances (eight marriages, seven husbands) and personal tragedy.
“I think I’m becoming fatalistic,” she said in 1989. “Too much has happened in my life for me not to be fatalistic.”
Her more than 50 movies included unforgettable portraits of innocence and of decadence, from the children’s classic “National Velvet” and the sentimental family comedy “Father of the Bride” to Oscar-winning transgressions in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Butterfield 8.”
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