Elizabeth Taylor, whose called Gstaad, Switzerland a second home, died in Los Angeles Wednesday, age 79, of congestive heart failure. She soared to fame in 1944 as the violet-eyed beauty in the film National Velvet at age 12, but she starred in numerous other films, including the critically acclaimed Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
She was equally famous for her eight marriages, glamorous lifestyle and her jewelry collection, but in later years she gained a reputation as one of the earliest and most forceful allies of the fight against Aids.
Links to other sites: Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post
