Dame Elizabeth was said to weigh less than 98 lbs (44.5 kg) when she died after spending the last two weeks of her life on a respirator in hospital. The actress's four children, 10 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren are expected to share much of her $ 600 million fortune, although she is leaving some to her AIDS charity, a friend said.
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Richard Burton (1964-74 & 75-76) was by far her greatest love. They met during the filming of Cleopatra in 1963 and married the next year. He was her fifth husband. The marriage lasted for 10 years but Burton's drinking & womanising put a strain on the relationship & they split. They got together 16 months later and remarried, only to go their separate ways after just nine months.
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Taylor's career spanned some half a century, and involved more than 60 films and TV shows. With her lush black hair, her striking violet eyes, her heart-shaped face and dark eyelashes she was the unchallenged sex symbol of her generation. Her death marks the end of an era: she was the last of the great screen goddesses.
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Taylor was a screen legend - the first star to receive $ 1 million for a film - with an irresistibly breathy voice and an unforgettable presence, who started out as a child actress and was playing adults while still in her teens.
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She married eight times - twice to the same man, Richard Burton - and was hailed as the most breathtakingly beautiful woman in the world. At the height of her powers, she was frequently involved in scandal, some of it self-inflicted.
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Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died on March 24, aged 79.
