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NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING! Perhaps the world’s greatest actress of the mid 20th century, Elizabeth Taylor


ELIZABETH TAYLOR VINTAGE


was all woman, seductive yet never overtly sexy. Her life was one continuing love story and she inspired some of the century’s greatest jewels and most amazing couturier clothes to be presented to her. In November her most intimate jewels


and clothes are up for auction... Good feng shui? Definitely for anyone wanting to tap into the very special energy of this great and legendary beauty, FSW brings you notice of the upcoming auction.


and 8 husbands! Her death has now prompted her family to put her celebrated collection of couture gowns and diamonds up for auction and this takes place at Christie’s of New York from 13 to 16 December. Perfect timing for the Christmas and festive season... and nothing better than to wear something from her to greet in the Year of the Dragon! Elizabeth Taylor and Hollywood


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are cast from the same mould, yet she was actually British! And so was her greatest love, the dashing rogue Richard Burton who was Welsh, whom she married twice and never quite got over. Elizabeth Taylor was a woman of


great substance and in her lifetime, achieved incredible worldwide recognition. She endured great tragedy but also experienced amazing happiness. For anyone wearing her beautiful gems and gowns, perhaps a little bit of her incredible life, talent, passions, her heart and her mind may well pass on... Elizabeth Taylor was knighted


by the Queen and became a Dame in 2000. A year later she received America’s Presidential Citizen’s Medal for raising US$200 million for AIDS


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lizabeth Taylor’s fame as an actress and great beauty endured all through her life. With fame came wealth, fortune


research. She was the first superstar to take up this cause when AIDS was a fearful subject of the 80s. AIDS research continued to benefit from her patronage for many more years. Her string of awards include the


French Legion of Honour received in 1987, Life Achievement Award in 1997 by the Screen Actors Guild, an induction into California Hall of Fame in 2007 and of course two Best Actress Oscars... Academy Awards for ‘Butterfield 8’ (1960) and ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ (1966). Her most famous the one


movie,


that lifted her to legendary status was ‘Cleopatra’ at that time the most expensive movie ever made and where she met and started a love affair with Richard Burton. The affair titillated and shocked the world as both were married. But the Taylor and Burton affair lifted them to heights of notoriety that catapulted both into superstar status. In all, they starred in eleven films together , not all equally successful, but both became world famous and very rich. Elizabeth attended many of the world’s most


A Cartier


necklace with the La Peregrina 60-carat natural pearl pendant. The necklace is expected to bring $3 million at auction.


glamorous events and she wore her diamonds and her couture clothes to all of them. Tey were all flawless and exquisitely made and were a perfect match for her great beauty. But every piece she wore held sentiments known only to her, for many were gems given to her by first, Mike Todd her first husband, and then by Richard Burton... At her death, her jewellery was estimated to be worth nearly RM 500 million from an estate valued at around RM 3 billion. Te most famous of her gems is the Krupp diamond which she wore daily – a 33.19 carat flawless stone from Richard Burton. Burton had acquired it for RM 900,000 in 1968. It is the star lot in the auction and it has a


presale estimate of RM 11 million. It is referred to now as the Elizabeth Taylor


Diamond. Tere is however an even bigger stone, also from Burton. Tis is the 69.42 carat Taylor-Burton Diamond, but it is not part of the auction as this is being sold


by private treaty later. Burton also gave her the 50 carat


La Peregrina Pearl, once belonging to Queen Mary 1 of England and


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