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Elizabeth Taylor, a Hollywood icon known for her captivating beauty and remarkable talent, also led a famously eventful personal life, particularly regarding her eight marriages to seven different men. Her final trip down the aisle in the fall of 1991 was with Larry Fortensky. This union, which lasted until their divorce in February 1996, was notably unique because Fortensky was a construction worker whom Taylor met while both were receiving treatment at the Betty Ford Center for substance addiction. Their lavish wedding, a significant media event, was even hosted by Michael Jackson at his Neverland Ranch.
Her first marriage, however, occurred much earlier in her life, when she was just 18 years old. In 1950, Taylor wed Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr., heir to the prominent Hilton hotel fortune. This highly anticipated marriage unfortunately proved to be short-lived, ending in divorce in less than a year.
Long before her storied romantic life began, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on February 27, 1932, in the bustling metropolis of London, England. Although born in the UK, both of her parents, Sara Sothern and Francis Lenn Taylor, were American citizens who were residing in London at the time, where her father managed an art gallery. The family later moved back to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, just prior to the outbreak of World War II, which ultimately led to Taylor's entry into the film industry as a child actress.
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