Elizabeth Taylor had been hospitalized for six weeks due to heart failure.
The actress was a Hollywood myth and she won two Oscars in 1960 and 1966
The actress Elizabeth Taylor, one of the legends of Hollywood, died at the age of 79 at the Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles (California) where she had been admitted for six weeks due to heart problems, according to her advertising agent.
The English actress, born in London in 1932, turned 79 on February 27 at the hospital, where that night she saw the Oscar ceremony accompanied by her children, of which she had three, one of them honorary for her actions humanitarian.
Which quotes Taylor's publicist, the actress was accompanied by her children Michael and Christopher Wilding, Lizza Todd, and Maria Burton at the time of her death.
"Legendary actress, businesswoman, and courageous activist Elizabeth Taylor passed away peacefully today," the statement from her agent said. Taylor died shortly before 1:30 a.m. local time (09:30 a.m. Spanish peninsular time).
The winner of two Oscars in 1960 and 1966 (for A Marked Woman and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) had been hospitalized six weeks earlier with heart failure and, although she had suffered several complications, her condition had stabilized and it was thought that she was going to be discharged to return home.
Her funeral is scheduled to take place this week and her remains will rest in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, where her family has a niche and where Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, and Truman Capote are buried.
"My mother, a woman who lived with passion and love"
Her son Michael Wilding has said in a statement: "My mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with passion, humor, and love."
"Despite the despair that her disappearance arouses in us, she was so close to us and so loved, that we will always feel inspired by her ongoing contribution to a better world," added her eldest son.
"Her remarkable filmography of her, her continued success as an entrepreneur, and her tireless and courageous fight against AIDS all make us very proud of all she has done," he continued.
"We just know that the world has become a better place because of Mom. Her legacy will live on, her spirit will always be with us, and we will always carry her love in our hearts," he said. concluded he.
Constant health problems of Elizabeth Taylor
The English actress, who leaves behind ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren and is also famous for her eight marriages, had suffered various health problems in recent years, especially heart conditions. In fact, in October 2009, and through her Twitter, she explained that she was going to undergo heart surgery to correct a leak in a heart valve, an intervention that in the words of the actress went "perfectly well".
In her entire life, according to her biographers, the actress had undergone between 30 and 40 surgeries, in addition to heart, lung, hip, and even the removal of a benign brain tumor in 1997; She, in addition to having fought against pneumonia, skin cancer, suffered a tracheotomy, undergoing detoxification treatments using alcohol and pills, and suffered a fall from a horse during one of her first filmings.
Temperamental, charismatic, and rebellious, this actress who debuted in the golden age of Hollywood was married eight times, two of them with the actor Richard Burton, her great love along with her third husband, the producer Michael Todd, as the artist admitted, of whom he had four children.
The actress, also famous for her love of jewelry, has participated in around 70 films throughout her career, which began at just 10 years old with There's One Born Every Minute (1942) and among which are such well-known titles as Little Women. (1949), The cat on the zinc roof (1958), and Cleopatra (1963).
In her last years, she greatly reduced her appearances in public, always in her wheelchair due to osteoporosis, but she maintained her activity as a leader in campaigns against AIDS, since the death of her friend Rock Hudson.
She also became an active user of Twitter, where she was known as Dame Elizabeth. It was not for nothing that she was named Lady of the British Empire by the Queen of England in 2000. Taylor confessed that this platform allowed her to be in contact with her fans in a "very modern" way, although she had misgivings about it.
Elizabeth Taylor's last interview
"Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols, and that spoils the dream," said the actress in one of her last interviews with Bazaar magazine, conducted by the popular Kim Kardashian.
Precisely Taylor's last tweet was to announce the publication of that conversation that now sounds like a farewell, a message dated February 9, two days before his final hospitalization.
"I never felt more alive than when I saw my children delighted with something, never more alive than when I saw a great artist perform it, and never richer than when I wrote a big check to fight AIDS," the actress declared.
The British jewelry aficionado who shared the footage with Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Paul Newman assured that she would have loved to work with Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell if she could have, and left a recommendation for future generations.
