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Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79  

 
LOS ANGELES - Screen legend _Elizabeth  Taylor_ 
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violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen life was often  upstaged by her 
stormy personal life, died Wednesday at age 79. 
She died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where  
she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, publicist Sally Morrison  
said. 
"All her children were with her," Morrison said. 
Taylor had extraordinary grace, fame and wealth, and won three Oscars,  
including a special one for her humanitarian work. But she was tortured by ill  
health, failed romances and personal tragedy. 
"I think I'm becoming fatalistic," she said in 1989. "Too much has happened 
 in my life for me not to be fatalistic." 
Her eight marriages — including two to actor _Richard  Burton_ 
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0943)  — and a lifelong battle with substance abuse, physical ailments and  
overeating made Taylor as popular in supermarket tabloids as in classic 
film  festivals. 
Taylor disclosed in November 2004 that she had congestive heart failure. 
But  she still periodically dismissed reports that she was at death's door, 
saying  she used a wheelchair only because of chronic back problems that began 
at age 12  when she fell from a horse. 
"Oh, come on, do I look like I'm dying?" she said in May 2006 in a rare  
television interview on CNN's "Larry King Live." "Do I look like or sound like 
I  have Alzheimer's?" Tabloids report such things "because they have 
nothing else  dirty to write about anybody else," she said. 
When she turned 75 the following year, she was asked about the secret to 
her  longevity and quipped: "Hangin' in." 
The London-born actress was a star at age 12, a bride and a divorcee at 18, 
a  screen goddess at 19 and a widow at 26. 
She appeared in more than 50 films, and won Oscars for her performances in  
"Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), in 
which  she starred opposite Burton. 
In later years, she was a spokeswoman for several causes, most notably AIDS 
 research. Her work gained her a special Oscar, the Jean Hersholt 
Humanitarian  Award, in 1993. 
As she accepted it, she told a worldwide television audience: "I call upon  
you to draw from the depths of your being — to prove that we are a human 
race,  to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion 
is more  compelling than our need to blame." 
She accepted her many health problems with a stoic attitude. 
"My body's a real mess," Taylor told W magazine in 2004. "If you look at it 
 in the mirror, it's just completely convex and  concave."