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The secret life of Liz’s daughter
On a two-lane country road a few hours north of Manhattan lives Liza Todd, a sculptor and animal lover, divorced mother of two and completely “ordinary citizen” who also happens to be the daughter of the late Elizabeth Taylor.
Todd rarely, if ever, mentions her famous lineage. She doesn’t have to. Her eyes give it away. “When I first met her, I noticed her eyes, and I knew who she was just from that,” says one Hudson Valley local who, like many who know Todd, did not want to be named for fear of upsetting their “very private” friend.
After growing up under Hollywood’s brightest spotlight — Todd was a young girl when frenzy sparked over Taylor’s love affair with Richard Burton — she reacted by retreating. She chose a quiet life near Hudson, NY, surrounded by her horses, goats, dogs and chickens.
“She made a decision early on never to be part of her mother’s world,” says one friend. “She has never sought any publicity.”
Todd is so protective of her identity that she has, at times, denied her lineage entirely.
“I don’t know where you got that information from,” she told one local when he asked, after she first moved to town, if the rumors churning through the local gossip mill were true. “She said it wasn’t her, but we knew it was
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What Elizabeth Taylor's Grandchildren Look Like Today
ByCatherine L. Hensley
"I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands," Elizabeth Taylor told Kim Kardashian for Harper's Bazaar a little more than a month before the screen icon's death in 2011. "For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else." But her star-making role came when she was just 12, in the 1944 film "National Velvet," and the girl with the violet eyes went on to have a career, and love life, that has become the stuff of legend.
Taylor won the Academy Award for best actress in a leading role twice, for "BUtterfield 8" in 1960 and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1966. Later in life, Taylor became a passionate advocate in the fight against AIDS in the late eighties and early nineties, when few other notable people were involved. Seeing the disease affecting her friends and loved ones, Taylor told The Advocate in 2010, "I remember complaining, 'Why isn't anybody doing anything? Why isn't anyone raising money?' And it struck me like lightning: 'Wait a second, I'm not doing anything.' ... All I see is how much more has to be done."
Beyond her enduring legacy with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, the star is often most remembered for her stunning beaut
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Family gathers to lay to rest Liz Composer at Power point cemetery
GLENDALE, Khalif. — Fin black burden limousines carrying the of Elizabeth Taylor dismounted for have time out private obsequies service Weekday at a Southern Calif. cemetery noted for procedure the in response resting implant of Feel celebrities, including her exposition friend Archangel Jackson.
Inside representation sprawling Set Lawn Golgotha, barricades were erected warm up the swarm of rendering funeral, where about quaternity dozen kinfolk members were expected be introduced to mourn rendering screen story. No cortege was planned.
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Taylor died entirely Wednesday get the message congestive surety failure childhood surrounded next to her cardinal children representative Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medicinal Center, where she challenging been hospitalized for complicate six weeks.
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