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histar.comElizabeth Taylor has allegedly been struck by two incurable brain disorders- and is becoming increasingly confused. Taylor, 72, who is suffering from Parkinson's disease and senile dementia, is spending hours at her Los Angeles home watching old movies starring former husband Richard Burton. The Source says, " "It is sadder than sad to see how Liz is wasting away like this. She is only a glimpse of her former self. "Sometimes, she'll go rambling on then stop in mid-sentence because she's forgotten what she was saying. "She talks about Richard all the time as if he is still alive." The Source adds that Taylor says, "Richard is waiting for me somewhere over the rainbow."

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filth2go.comElizabeth is not in a nursing home. She is still living in Bel Air, but her health has certainly declined. Over the last few years, her behavior has been increasingly erratic, leading some to speculate that she is abusing drugs or alcohol again. But to me it?s clear that she has a degree of brain atrophy and the onset of dementia that is a result of years of substance abuse. I have some knowledge of this disease, and the symptoms are unmistakable ? the unsteadiness on her feet, the shuffling when she walks, the slurring of words, inappropriate and erratic cackling, disorientation, etc. People close to Taylor whisper that she also has the beginnings of Parkinson?s, a disease that often accompanies dementia. Elizabeth has chosen not to issue any public statement regarding her health and still occasionally makes limited public appearances, but even those have been greatly diminished.

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EOnline.com ART SPAT: Elizabeth Taylor sued over the ownership of a Van Gogh that she paid $257,600 for in 1963, but which the heirs of a woman who fled the Nazis in the 1930s claim is rightfully theirs. The lawsuit comes in response to court papers filed by Taylor in May, seeking a declaration that the work was rightfully hers.

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Liz Taylor Battling Congestive Heart Failure

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Movie veteran Elizabeth Taylor has revealed she's suffering from congestive heart failure - but feeling fine. The actress, who has been ailing for the past decade, was recently hospitalized as her conditioned worsened, but she informs fans in the upcoming issue of America's W magazine that she's feeling OK. The 72-year-old Oscar winner reveals her heart is failing to pump enough blood through her body, resulting in a number of breathing problems and fatigue. Taylor, who also suffers from spine disorder scoliosis, says, "My body's a real mess. If you look at it in the mirror, it's just completely convex and concave." But, despite her health problems, Taylor's publicist Sally Morrison is laughing off claims the actress is near death - even though the aging actress tells W she isn't afraid of death. Taylor adds, "Really I'm not, because I've been there."

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Liz Taylor and Her "Bloody Body"EONline.comby Joal RyanNov 30, 2004, 3:15 PM PTElizabeth Taylor is afflicted with congestive heart failure, scoliosis, a recently broken back and a body that, generally speaking, is "a real mess." But, hey, at least she's not afraid of death."Really, I'm not," the 72-year-old screen legend tells the December issue of W magazine.In the interview, largely conducted at Taylor's Bel-Air mansion last summer, the malady-prone actress details her maladies, and refutes some rumored ones.Per Taylor, the congestive heart failure is new, if "a bore." The spinal-twisting condition known as scoliosis is congenital, although now aggravated. ("It has finally caught up with me," she tells the magazine. "I've become one of those poor little old women who's bent sideways.") The seven broken bones in her back have been repaired through surgery. (She feels okay--"all things considered.")As for the body? Well, Taylor alternately refers to the collective bag of bones as "my bloody body," and the aforementioned "real mess.""I feel so stupid and feeble, that I can't do the work I was meant to do," Taylor says in W, bemoaning her lack of recent activity on behalf of AIDS research.On the upside, Taylor scoffs at recent stories that have her suffering from dementia and watching Richard Burton movies around the clock."I don't read that [expletive]," a spunky Taylor tells the magazine. "Excuse my language. It gives me a good excuse to laugh. If I couldn't laugh at it I'd be in serious trouble."The latter quote was offered to W via telephone following the back surgery in October. In the wake of the procedure, Taylor's own camp described the actress as "bedridden," but in "good spirits." (On Tuesday, her press rep, Sally Morrison, said the star was up and about again, and, blurbable quotes from W aside, obsessing over life, not death. "She's not planning on anything happened to her anytime soon," Morrison said.)But even prior to the back surgery, W describes Taylor as walking slowly and needing to catch her breath after a trip up the stairs of her home.So as to not dwell entirely on health issues, the magazine notes Taylor's devotion to her 12-year-old Maltese ("I've never loved a dog like this in my life."), her love of Pepperidge Farm Orange Milano cookies ("Oh my God, I could eat a whole bag at one go."), and her favorite TV show (Law & Order ). In related reminisces, Taylor tells the magazine that Burton and producer Mike Todd were her two favorite husbands. (She's had seven--eight, if you count Burton, whom she wed and divorced and wed and divorced, twice. She is currently unattached--if you don't count Sugar, the Maltese.)Taylor, whose classic credits include A Place in the Sun and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, announced her retirement from Hollywood last year, nearly a decade after her final big-screen appearance in 1994's The Flintstones. The two-time Oscar winner said she intended to devote her time to AIDS causes, but tells W poor health has prevented her from doing any such work for a year.Since being thrown from a horse at age 12 while filming National Velvet, Taylor has endured assorted back troubles, a near-deadly bout of pneumonia, a brain tumor and skin cancer--this, a merely quick, not exhaustive, list."People must think, 'My God, she's still alive?," Taylor jokes in W. "But there's some resilience in me that makes me keep fighting. It's the damndest thing--I just keep coming back."

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Liz Taylor's Van Gogh Is Forever

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by Sarah Hall

Feb 8, 2005, 10:30 AM PT

 

Thanks to a court ruling, Elizabeth Taylor is still the girl who has everything, including her Van Gogh.

 

The ownership of said Van Gogh, a 1889 work titled View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy, became the subject of dispute when Taylor was sued last October by several individuals who claimed the Nazis took it from their ascendant, Margarete Mauthner, after she fled Germany for South Africa in 1939.

 

Taylor filed court documents of her own last May, seeking a declaration that she was the work's rightful owner. She claimed she came into possession of the painting in 1963, after her father bought it for her at a Sotheby's auction in London for the bargain price of $257,600.

 

According to Taylor's court filing, the catalogue at the 1963 auction did indeed list Mauthner in the painting's pedigree, but stated that it passed to two reputable art galleries before it was sold to Alfred Wolf, a German Jew who fled the Nazis for Buenos Aires in 1933.

 

When Taylor eventually purchased the painting, it was part of Wolf's collection, her suit stated. She denied seeing any evidence that it had ever fallen into Nazi hands.

 

The Van Gogh currently hangs in her Bel-Air mansion.

 

However, in the collective opinion of Mauthner's descendants: Andrew Orkin, F. Mark Orkin, Sarah-Rose Josepha Adler and A. Heinrich Zille, the painting, now valued at around $15 million, should rightfully belong to them.

 

The heirs based their belief on a federal law that entitles Holocaust victims to reclaim property taken from them by the Nazis and Soviets before and after World War II.

 

"We are asserting that Ms. Taylor was negligent and careless when she bought the painting," Andrew Orkin, Mauthner's great-grandson, said in a statement in October. Had she or her father read the catalogue carefully, they "could not have missed the painting's Nazi taint."

 

But a federal judge sided with Taylor, ruling that Mauthner's descendents failed to state a valid claim under federal law. According to U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner, the California state law that applies in the case allows individuals to sue for only three years after their property was taken.

 

A newer California state law that puts the statute of limitations on hold until plaintiffs can determine the property's whereabouts did not apply in this case, Klausner determined.

 

According to Taylor, she's had the famous painting in her possession long enough that just about anyone should have been able to determine its location with ease.

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LAUNCHED: Health woes may have kept Elizabeth Taylor, 72, out of the public's eye recently, but she will bring her legendary love of jewelry to the public via an exclusive partnership with Jack and Monty Abramov of the L.A.-based Mirabelle Luxury Concepts, the company has announced. The House of Taylor Jewelry will offer pieces ranging in price from $3,000 to more than $1 million. Says Taylor in a statement: "I knew that I wanted to share my passion for jewelry with others so that they could truly enjoy the thrills and pure happiness that jewelry has brought to my life. Something wonderful is about to happen."

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At the BAFTA Awards, Cruise and Holmes get chummy with the evening's top honoree, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who made a rare public appearance to accept the Britannia award for artistic excellence in international entertainment.

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TV GUide.comElizabeth Taylor will mark her 74th birthday on Monday by donating a mobile medical unit worth several hundred thousand dollars to the New Orleans AIDS Task Force....

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She's a classy broad. On their 74th B-days J-lo & the like will probably be buying themselves diamonds the size of a mobile medical unit.

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NY Daily News … Liz Taylor's people are denying a story in the National Enquirer that her heart is failing. The supermarket tabloid claims she spent Easter bedridden. …

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From Liz Smith's Column 5/1:EVERY SIX months the supermarket tabloids dust off the same "Liz Taylor Dying" stories. As the star does not appear more than once a year in public, this is the only thing the media can concoct to write about Elizabeth. Truth is - her reps say she's as fine as she can be. She had a big Easter party at her Bel Air manse, designed her own extravagant bonnet, mixed with her guests. One of her grandsons played trumpet with a jazz band ET brought in. This great movie queen and greater AIDS activist is wheelchair-bound and may never be mobile as she once was. But she is not at death's door.

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From Liz Smith, May 2, 2006A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.

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From Liz Smith, May 2, 2006A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.

God I hope she ain't the one who's driving it!!!! :blink:

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From Liz Smith, May 2, 2006A LITTLE P.S. to our "Liz Taylor is not dead" story. The star is so alive she just bought herself a present to celebrate the 15th spectacular year of her evergreen White Diamonds fragrance. A deluxe Mercedes Maybach with two rear seats that recline into a bed.

Oh yuck!! I just had visions of Liz getting a little backseat action!!!Where's the vomit smilie when you need it!!

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Liz Taylor Refutes Alzheimer's Reports

Wednesday May 31, 2006 8:00am EST

By Stephen M. Silverman

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Elizabeth Taylor at the set of Larry King Live

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In her first TV interview in three years, Elizabeth Taylor – no stranger to tabloid gossip about her health – has denied recent reports that she has Alzheimer's and is at death's door.

 

Speaking to Larry King on CNN Tuesday night, the 74-year-old screen legend – who at one point jokingly offered King her hand so he could put a wedding ring on it – said, "Oh come on, do I look like I'm dying? Do I look like or sound like I have Alzheimer's?"

 

Attempting to explain the stories, Taylor said they're written "because they have nothing else dirty to write about anybody else. Some audience out there ... they like scandal. They like filth. And if they want to hear that I'm dead, sorry folks. I'm not. And I don't plan on it."

 

Still, Taylor, on the show to promote her upcoming precious-jewelry line, was in a wheelchair. When King asked why, she blamed "my back, which has been chronically bad since I was a teenager." She added that she was born with scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, and has osteoporosis.

 

Is she in constant pain? King asked. She is, she said. Will she ever marry again? (Taylor has famously been married eight times.) "Are you asking?" she replied with a laugh.

 

Taylor, a longtime AIDS activist, also told King that she doesn't think a cure will be found, but there will be major advancements in treatment.

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From what I've seen in tv biography-type shows, she's always had health problems. I read somewhere that she's been in the hospital over 100 times! :blink:

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Liz Taylor 'Too Hedonistic' to DietTUESDAY JULY 11, 2006 10:20AM ESTpeople.comBy Stephen M. SilvermanElizabeth Taylor acknowledges that thin is in, but it's just not for her anymore. "I wish I could be that size, but I can't be," Taylor tells Bazaar in its August issue, the Associated Press reports. "I enjoy food too much. In the end, I'm too hedonistic. I enjoy pleasures." Asked by designer Michael Kors, who interviews the 74-year-old screen icon, on whether she dresses for men, women or herself, Taylor says, "Men first. Myself. Then other women. 'Cause you can't please women. They are horribly critical of each other. And more so if you're famous. Meow." Saying she's a romantic – "I'm afraid so," she admits – the eight-times-married Taylor recalls that, when she was wed to Sen. John Warner (R.-Va.) she was instructed not to dress ostentatiously during his 1978 campaign. "I ended up in a tweed suit," she says. "Me. Little tweed suits. What I won't do for love."

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From imdb.com today...

 

Taylor Reveals First Husband Hilton Was a "Cruel" Drunk

 

Movie icon Elizabeth Taylor has exposed her first husband, Conrad Hilton Jr., as a "cruel" drunk in a new magazine interview. The actress was a teenager when she exchanged vows with the hotel heir in 1950 and was so smitten with the handsome socialite she studied Catholicism to be his wife. But she admits she never took the union seriously enough and divorced Hilton, who is the uncle of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton's father, nine months later - after discovering he had a drinking problem. Revealing all in a candid new expose with Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, the actress recalls, "When I got a divorce... I never told the court why, but he was cruel. When he drank it all came out, and I hadn't seen that before because he was on the wagon the eight months we were engaged. I didn't have a clue. But I thought, 'This isn't why God put me on earth.'" Taylor, who wed another seven times, had an inkling her first marriage wouldn't work out as she stood before the archbishop on her big day. She adds, "When I had to swear in front of the archbishop to be a good wife and all that stuff, I had my fingers crossed behind my back because I didn't know if I could be a good wife."

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Liz Taylor Celebrates Her 75th Birthday

 

By KEN RITTER

Associated Press Writer

 

 

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- Elizabeth Taylor, decked out in diamonds and fur, arrived fashionably late to her 75th birthday party.

 

The Hollywood icon was in a wheelchair when she came down the red carpet Tuesday at a Las Vegas-area resort. She was escorted by her 52-year-old son, Christopher Wilding, who shares the same birthday.

 

Some guests had been at her party more than two hours when Taylor arrived, smiling and batting her trademark violet eyes as photographers sang "Happy Birthday." Aides said her plane was delayed arriving from the Los Angeles area.

 

When asked about the secret to her longevity, she quipped: "Hangin' in."

 

Some 75 people were expected for a Mardi Gras-themed dinner of jambalaya, prime rib, collard greens, sweet potatoes and cake.

 

Guests including Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher; magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn; and model Kathy Ireland turned out for the private party at the Medici Cafe and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas.

 

Among Taylor's closest friends are pop star Michael Jackson, whose spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday in a news release that he is now living in Las Vegas.

 

Taylor said she spoke with Jackson earlier in the day but didn't expect him to attend her party. Besides Christopher, her children Michael Wilding, 54; Elizabeth "Liza" Todd, 49; and Maria Burton, 45 were at the fete.

 

The Academy Award-winning actress, who uses a wheelchair because of back problems, has dismissed tabloid reports that she was being treated for early Alzheimer's disease or was gravely ill.

 

Taylor has won two Oscars for best actress and starred in more than 55 films, including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Butterfield 8," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Cleopatra."

 

She has been named by the American Film Institute as among the greatest female movie stars of all time.

 

© 2007 The Associated Press.

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"Guests including Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher; magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn; and model Kathy Ireland turned out for the private party at the Medici Cafe and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas."

 

Wow - Liz and Debbie Reynolds are friends?! Do you think Aniston will turn up at Angelina's 75th birthday party all smiles?

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"Guests including Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher; magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn; and model Kathy Ireland turned out for the private party at the Medici Cafe and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas."

 

Wow - Liz and Debbie Reynolds are friends?! Do you think Aniston will turn up at Angelina's 75th birthday party all smiles?

HAHA!

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:D Go LIZ!!

 

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Husband number 9? Elizabeth Taylor declares her love for new man

 

Eight-times married Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor could be heading for yet another trip down the aisle as she declared her love for a wealthy businessman she met last year in Hawaii.

 

The veteran actress, 75, has ended months of speculation about her relationship with African-American businessman Jason Winters, who she described as "one of the most wonderful men I've ever known".

 

Some kind of wonderful: Eight-times wed Dame Elizabeth Taylor declared her love for wealthy businessman beau Jason Winters. The couple attended an AIDs fundraiser together last night

 

Winters, who met Taylor while promoting her jewellery line, accompanied the actress to the Macy's Passport 2007 AIDS event in Los Angeles last night.

 

She told showbiz bible Variety: "Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known and that's why I love him.

 

"He bought us the most beautiful house in Hawaii and we visit it as often as possible."

 

 

Falling in love again: Dame Elizabeth declared Winters 'one of the most wonderful men' she has ever met

 

Despite years of crippling ill-health - she has been confined to a wheelchair for the past decade - Taylor was pictured swimming with sharks off Hawaii last year.

 

She plans to return to her new Hawaiian adopted home next week with Winters.

 

 

 

Dame Elizabeth, has been married eight times to seven men - twice to actor Richard Burton. Her last marriage, to construction worker Larry Fortensky ended in 1996 after five years.

 

Earlier this year, she celebrated her 75th birthday in Las Vegas in March with a star-studded party.

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