Everything Elizabeth Taylor Said About Her 7 Husbands, Including Stealing Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds Staff AuthorOctober 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM 0 Hulton Archive/Getty; Courtesy Everett Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd She died of congestive heart failure at ag...
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Staff AuthorOctober 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd
She died of congestive heart failure at age 79 in 2011, but Elizabeth Taylor was a force so fierce that even 14 years after her death, the Oscar winner remains a touchstone for a new generation of stars like Kim Kardashian, who recently produced a docuseries, Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar (now streaming on Fox Nation), and Taylor Swift, whose new single "Elizabeth Taylor" references the icon.
The Elizabeth Taylor Estate also authorized and co-produced the August 2024 HBO documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes. The film, directed by Nanette Burstein, utilizes hours of interviews conducted in the mid-1960s, allowing Elizabeth Taylor to voice her own story.
While Elizabeth Taylor is remembered for the mark she left on the entertainment world, her personal life and seven marriages were perhaps an even bigger source of fascination. Here are some of her best quotes on matters of the (occasionally broken) heart.
'Let Them Know I'm Coming!'
In 1950, Taylor wed Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr., heir to the multimillion-dollar hotel empire (and Paris' great-uncle), in what was the first of her marriages. Thousands of onlookers gathered in the streets outside the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills as Taylor—then just 18 and ravishing in yards of white satin encrusted with seed pearls—raced to the ceremony. "Turn on the sirens," she urged her police escort. "Let them know I'm coming!"
Just a year later, she'd separated from Hilton, claiming that he had physically abused her and even kicked her while she was pregnant, causing a miscarriage. But that ill-fated marriage didn't slow her down: She next chose English actor Michael Wilding, older by two decades, whom she married in 1952.
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor wearing beautiful satin wedding gown, a $1,500 gift from MGM studios, and holding hands with her husband, Nicky Hilton Rothschild outside church after their wedding ceremony."He Was a Wonderful Father!"
"It's a leap year, isn't it? Well I leaped!" Taylor said of marrying British actor, Michael Wilding whom Taylor met in England while making Ivanhoe. He was 20 years her senior when they wed on Feb. 21, 1952, and the calm presence she needed after her tumultuous first marriage. Taylor had two children with Wilding: Michael, now a sculptor, and Christopher, now an editor. "He was a wonderful father," Taylor told PEOPLE in 2006. Still, after five years of marriage they called it quits.
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Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding in 1952"Everything Soared Under His Exuberant, Loving Care"
Her third marriage, to movie producer Mike Todd, 23 years her senior, ended in tragedy when he was killed in a plane crash, leaving Taylor a widow at age 26. When she heard of the accident, "I just started screaming," she said. Just 26, she was left with three kids, including their baby daughter Liza. The duo were married from 1957-1958, and Taylor later wrote that he was her first real love.
"He didn't ask me, he told me," Taylor recalled of his marriage proposal in Elizabeth Takes Off. "God, I loved him," she wrote. "My self-esteem, my image, everything soared under his exuberant, loving care."
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Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor, ca. 1957-1958."What Did You Expect Me To Do, Sleep Alone?"
After Todd's death, Taylor sought comfort in the arms of actor Eddie Fisher, who was then still married to Debbie Reynolds. A month later, Eddie Fisher made the decision permanent, leaving his wife, Debbie Reynolds, and their two kids behind. A year later, Fisher and Taylor wed. "What did you expect me to do, sleep alone?" Taylor once said of their affair. As Reynolds and Fisher's son, Todd Fisher, puts it in Rebel Superstar, the uproar in the press over Taylor and Fisher made the fuss over Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt "look like a walk in the park." Eddie Fisher later wrote that he was powerless against Taylor's allure: "Elizabeth lived by her own rule: She wants what she wants when she wants it."
The betrayal wounded Reynolds, but she came to terms with it. "He wanted her, so he left," said Reynolds. "He was the selfish one. Love blinds all." The two women reconciled after Taylor left Fisher for Richard Burton and apologized: "I don't know why I did it, and I certainly was wrong. But look what I have now," she said, referring to Burton. A woman of few regrets, she told Larry King she had only one: "I'm sorry if I ever hurt anyone. That's all."
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5/12/1959-Las Vegas, NV- Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor are shown after their wedding at Temple Beth Shalom.
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Eddie Fisher, wearing a tuxedo, stands with arm around his wife, American actor Debbie Reynolds (R) and smiles while looking at British-born actor Elizabeth Taylor, smoking a cigarette, Las Vegas, Nevada."We Were Like Two Atom Bombs"
After five years, Taylor split up with Fisher after meeting and falling for the dashing actor Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra in 1962. Burton was so hung over when they met, she recalled, "He asked me to hold a coffee cup up to his lips. After that, I was a goner." Their first onscreen kiss lasted so long that director Joseph Mankiewicz finally asked, "Does it interest you that it's time for lunch?"
Over the next 14 years, they married and divorced twice. Burton described her as "an eternal one night stand."
Describing their chemistry, Taylor said, "We were like two atom bombs." Three years after his death in 1984 at age 58, she wrote him a letter: "You so pervade my thoughts and my very inner mood that it's like you are in me. I have you, but holy God I don't!"
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American Actors Liz Taylor and Richard Burton"I Was Told To Wear Tweeds. I Couldn't Wear Purple"
Life with her sixth husband, Sen. John Warner, was tame in comparison to her past relationships. "I was told to wear tweeds," she said. "I couldn't wear purple or Halston pantsuits." The couple met on a blind date to a bicentennial dinner with Queen Elizabeth II at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. The evening went well, and Warner told PEOPLE in 2011 that the actress liked that he owned a horse farm. "I think she fell in love with the farm, and I guess I came along with the horses," he joked at the time. They got engaged in September 1976 and married that December. "We got along wonderfully until he decided to be a politician. And then he married the Senate." They ultimately divorced in 1982. Warner retired from the senate in 2009, and died in 2021.
Actress Elizabeth Taylor with her husband John Warner in 1977."He Stopped Working. You Can't Have Love Without Respect"
Taylor and construction worker Larry Fortensky met while in rehab at the Betty Ford Clinic. "I knew who she was, of course, but I can't tell you that I remember watching any of her films," Fortensky told PEOPLE in 2011 of meeting Taylor for the first time. "She was funny and sweet, and the more I got to know her, the sweeter she became." They were happy on their wedding day on Oct. 6, 1991. The nuptials were a big event attended by famous friends of Taylor's and hosted by Michael Jackson, who walked Taylor down the aisle with her eldest son, Michael Wilding Jr. However, the pair eventually parted ways in 1996, after five years of marriage. "Those cameras everywhere," Fortensky said. "Elizabeth was used to it. I never got used to it."
Taylor later said of the construction worker, "He stopped working. You can't have love without respect."
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