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- All About Elizabeth Taylor's 7 Husbands—Two Were the 'Great Loves' Of Her Life</p>
<p>Bailey BujnosekSeptember 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM</p>
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<p>Richard Burton and his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, at a friend's wedding in August 1969.The Gist -</p>
<p>Elizabeth Taylor received 10 proposals and married eight times to seven different husbands.</p>
<p>Her most famous relationship was with fellow actor and two-time husband Richard Burton.</p>
<p>The iconic actress called producer Mike Todd, who tragically died one year after their wedding, one of "two great loves" in her life.</p>
<p>Few would have guessed the magnitude of Elizabeth Taylor's career following her breakthrough performance in 1944's National Velvet. The legendary late actress became one of Hollywood's brightest stars, branching out with successful fragrance lines and becoming an outspoken activist in the fight against AIDs. Yet her eight marriages to seven husbands often eclipse her career and humanitarian work in the public imagination.</p>
<p>The classic beauty with violet-colored eyes found herself the recipient of 10 marriage proposals over the course of her lifetime. Easily the most well-known of her loves is two-time husband Richard Burton, a fellow actor whom she met on the set of Cleopatra. Their 14-year romance was the longest one of her life. Burton died in 1984, eight years after the couple's second divorce.</p>
<p>"Perhaps it sounds silly, [but] I think we would've been married again," Taylor told journalist Barbara Walters about her late ex-husband in a 1997 interview. "I think we were so passionately in love with each other that the highs were too high. It was almost like everything was too much…But it was great."</p>
<p>From her first marriage to a hotel heir to her final nuptials with a construction worker, the actress had a life full of love, loss, heartbreak, and happiness. Parts of her story are shared in her own words in the 2024 documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, which draws from over 40 hours of archival interviews between Taylor and Life magazine journalist Richard Meryman.</p>
<p>An unprecedented icon with a multi-faceted legacy in cinema and in life, Taylor continues to captivate the world today. Here's what to know about her seven husbands from eight marriages.</p>
<p>Conrad 'Nicky' Hilton Jr.</p>
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<p>Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton Jr. on their wedding day in May 1950.</p>
<p>At just 18 years old, the actress became a first-time bride, marrying hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr. (Paris Hilton's great-uncle). MGM Studios funded the Hollywood nuptials, which took place in 1950 at a Beverly Hills church. Helen Rose, the MGM costume designer who designed Grace Kelly's wedding dress, also created Taylor's satin gown.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the union was a tumultuous one and ended after only eight months. "[Hilton Jr.] became sullen, angry and abusive, physically and mentally," Taylor wrote in her 1988 memoir, Elizabeth Takes Off. The couple finalized their divorce in January 1951, per The Los Angeles Times.</p>
<p>Michael Wilding</p>
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<p>Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding at a London Airport in 1952.</p>
<p>English-American Taylor found her second husband, Michael Wilding, across the pond. According to Alexander Walker's 2001 biography Elizabeth, they first met when she filmed The Conspirator in England in 1948. The pair reconnected after her divorce from Hilton Jr., when she returned to the country to film Ivanhoe. Wilding was a fellow actor 20 years her senior.</p>
<p>At their London civil ceremony in February 1952, Taylor wore a tea-length A-line suit dress—per Vogue, the nontraditional bridal look was once again designed by Rose. The future three-time Oscar winner accessorized with a simple string of pearls and wove florals through her hair.</p>
<p>During their five years of marriage, Taylor and Wilding welcomed two sons: Michael Jr. in 1953, and Christopher in 1955.</p>
<p>Mike Todd</p>
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<p>Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Mike Todd, in March 1957.</p>
<p>In her 2002 book Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry, the starlet described third husband Mike Todd as one of "two great loves in my life"—the other being future husband Burton. He was 25 years her senior. Taylor and the producer tied the knot in Acapulco, Mexico in February 1957. Before they exchanged vows, Todd gifted Taylor the largest of her engagement rings, featuring a stunning 29-carat diamond.</p>
<p>Their marriage was tragically cut short when Todd was killed in a plane crash on March 22, 1958. He and Taylor had welcomed their first and only child together, daughter Elizabeth "Liza" Frances Todd, in August 1957.</p>
<p>Eddie Fisher</p>
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<p>Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor in 1959.</p>
<p>After seeking solace with her late husband's close friend, Eddie Fisher, Taylor tied the knot for a fourth time. Fisher was married to Debbie Reynolds when their love affair began, and left the Singin' in the Rain star for Taylor in 1959.</p>
<p>"I was keeping Mike [Todd] alive by talking about him because Eddie, he was a great friend of Mike's. That was the only thing we had in common, was Mike," Taylor said in an archival interview shown in the 2024 documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, per People. "I never loved Eddie. I liked him. I felt sorry for him. And I liked talking [to him]. But he was not Mike."</p>
<p>The couple were together for just under five years, divorcing in early 1964.</p>
<p>Richard Burton</p>
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<p>Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on their first wedding day in March 1964.</p>
<p>While filming Cleopatra in 1961, Taylor found what many consider the great love of her life. Their relationship began as an affair. Despite the scandal (the Vatican even publicly condemned them, per The New York Times) the couple didn't hide their romance.</p>
<p>After Taylor finalized her divorce from Fisher and Burton divorced actress Sybil Williams, the former co-stars wed in Montreal in 1964. The glamorous starlet's yellow wedding dress was designed by Cleopatra costume designer Irene Sharaff.</p>
<p>A few years later, Burton gifted Taylor the massive 69.42-carat diamond now known as the Taylor-Burton Diamond. It was insured for $1 million, per WWD. But despite the glittering jewels that marked their fairytale relationship, the couple divorced in 1974 after 10 years of marriage.</p>
<p>Taylor's sixth marriage was also to Burton, as the two reconciled and remarried in October 1975. This second marriage lasted less than a year.</p>
<p>John Warner</p>
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<p>Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Senator John Warner, in May 1981.</p>
<p>In 1976, a 44-year-old Taylor walked down the aisle again, marrying sixth husband John Warner. The future couple met when Warner escorted the actress to a dinner with Queen Elizabeth II at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., as he recalled to People in 2011.</p>
<p>A few days after the dinner, she visited his horse farm. She came back for another visit with "a suitcase," which clued Warner, then 49, into the potential for a long-term relationship between them. "I think she fell in love with the farm, and I guess I came along with the horses," he joked in the same People interview.</p>
<p>Engaged in September 1976 and married in December at his farm, they enjoyed a 6-year union. While their wedding was among Taylor's most private, photos from the day show she chose the unconventional route for her bridal ensemble: a cashmere coat and turban.</p>
<p>The pressures of being a politician's wife (Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1979) contributed to the end of their relationship. "We got along wonderfully until he decided to be a politician," Taylor told The New York Times in 2002. "And then he married the Senate."</p>
<p>Larry Fortensky</p>
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<p>Elizabeth Taylor and husband Larry Fortensky at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in May 1992.</p>
<p>The last of Taylor's marriages came about when she met construction worker Larry Fortensky at the Betty Ford Clinic. He was 20 years her junior, making him the first and only spouse to be younger than her. They tied the knot in October 1991, with a lavish ceremony at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. Taylor wore a stunning ruffled Valentino gown, a gift from the designer according to People.</p>
<p>After their 1996 divorce, Taylor famously vowed never to marry again. She died on March 23, 2011 after being hospitalized for congestive heart failure. The actress was 79.</p>
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