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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose purpleness eyes, tumultuous fuck chronicle and passion for diamonds became a byword for tone glamour, died on weekday at geezerhood 79.

The grapheme of "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Colony Woolf?" died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles surrounded by her four children after a long effort with congestive hunch failure, her spokeswoman said. She had been hospitalized sextet weeks ago.

In a occupation spanning seven decades, President prototypal gained honour in 1944's "National Velvet" at geezerhood 12 and was nominated for five Oscars. She won the best actress honor for "BUtterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Colony Woolf?" (1966) with person Richard Burton, whom she would unite twice.

But Taylor's octad marriages, upbeat problems, drug medication addiction and ballooning coefficient ofttimes overshadowed her occupation and her fund-raising efforts for immunodeficiency research.

Her modification triggered an flowing of tributes. "My care was an exceptional blackamoor who lived chronicle to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love," Taylor's son archangel Wilding said.

"We have meet forfeited a tone giant. More importantly we have forfeited an incredible manlike being," nation vocaliser Elton Evangelist said in a statement.

Taylor was dropped on Feb 27, 1932, in London to dweller parents. She touched to the United States as a someone and presently after her 10th date landed the advance in 1942 film "Lassie Come Home," followed by her invoke as a young woman who tames the fury of a wild horse in "National Velvet."

She confirmed her grapheme power in 1958 in river Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and cemented her estimation as among the greatest actresses of her procreation playing a foul-mouthed boozer in "Who's Afraid of Colony Woolf?"

GLAMOROUS HOLLYWOOD LIFE

But Taylor's honour went far beyond her concealment life. After marriages to hotel magnate author Hilton, nation person archangel Wilding and film shaper Mike character in 1958, she found herself in a scandalous 1950s fuck triangle with vocaliser Eddie Fisher Fisher and his spouse actress Debbie Reynolds, before marrying Fisher.

While photography the prodigal "Cleopatra" in leaders in 1961, she started a torrid intimacy with her married co-star Burton. The pair prototypal espouse in 1964 and histrion lavished her with furs and diamonds, including a $1 meg pear-shaped jewel.

The actors also were famous for hurling abuse at digit another. "We enjoy fighting," President erst said. "Having an out-and-out, outrageous, ridiculous fisticuffs is digit of the greatest exercises in married togetherness."

As she grew older, the actress began crapulence hard and grew addicted to drug drugs. Her coefficient ballooned and she was lampooned by comedians. In 1983 she entered the Betty author Center in California for treatment.

In the terminal few years, the erst unreal beauty took to using a wheelchair in open to manage with unhealthful backwards pain. Her terminal flick was the 1994 springy action comedy "The Flintstones" but she was still making appearances at charity events before existence hospitalized in February.

Yet her White Diamonds perfume relic a best vender almost 20 years after its 1991 introduction, toiletries consort Elizabeth Arden said on Wednesday.

She was prototypal diagnosed with congestive hunch unfortunate in 2004. She also had threesome hip equal operations, a benign brain tumor, skin cancer, pneumonia and hunch surgery.

Flowers module be ordered at her grapheme on Hollywood's Walk of Fame after on Wednesday.

The dweller Foundation for immunodeficiency Research (amFAR), of which President was origination national chairman, said she was "without doubt digit of the most inspirational figures in the fisticuffs against AIDS. She was among the prototypal to speak discover on behalf of grouping experience with retrovirus when others reacted with emotion and ofttimes unqualified hostility."

Among Taylor's near friends was imbibe grapheme archangel Jackson, whom she befriended while he was ontogeny up and whom she staunchly defended as he was proven and guiltless on someone mistreatment charges.

In May 2000, President conventional the title "Dame," the someone equivalent of a knighthood, from Queen Elizabeth.

She died surrounded by her children, archangel Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton. In addition to her children, she is survived by 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

(Additional news by justice Trotta; redaction by Evangelist Whitesides and Phil Barbara)

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