RIP Elizabeth Taylor

One of the last film divas of Hollywood's dead Dame Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79 years from the effects of heart disease. She appeared in over fifty films. For their achievements on camera she got two Oscars. Taylor received an honorary Oscar for her humanitarian achievements.

Taylor suffered from heart problems since 2004. In 2009 she was operated on for a leaky heart valve. Most recently, she had spent several weeks because of heart problems in the Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, where she "died peacefully" as a spokeswoman said today. They also suffered from severe osteoporosis and other things had to spend the last years of her life in a wheelchair. This fate did not prevent, to the end of their life to stay curious. So they shared their life and their thoughts on Twitter, among other things.

aylor was eight times married and had three biological children and an adopted daughter. She leaves behind another ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. In May 2000 she was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II to the peerage.

Taylor received her first Oscar in 1960 for her role in "Butterfield 8" the second they got in 1967 for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. " In the film classic play Taylor and her then husband Richard Burton a couple who are offended, humiliated and still loves.

n a statement, her son Michael Wilding says, "My mother was an extraordinary woman who has tasted their lives with passion, humor and love." He further stressed: "Their extraordinary work in the film, her continued success as a businesswoman, her courageous and unrelenting dedication to the fight against HIV / AIDS, all makes us incredibly proud of what she has achieved."

Her death is also important for the gay community a great loss. Time and again, Taylor has for the intentions of HIV-infected people and AIDS affected people and used against the discrimination of lesbians and gays.

Reason for this commitment was including her friendship with the actor Rock Hudson, who outed himself just before his death in 1985 as a gay and AIDS. After his death, organized by Taylor's memorial service. This was one of the first in the U.S. who used her celebrity to publicly raise awareness about the illness closely. In the same year she was also chairman of one of the first major AIDS benefit Verstalters and worked on the founding of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) with. In 1991 she founded her own foundation, the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. She has collected more donations for the AIDS work than any other celebrity in the U.S.. Accordingly, her family also asked for donations instead of flowers for amfAR.

She made headlines for their commitment to the gay and lesbian community: She was in a wheelchair in 2008 in a ceremony in part, was celebrated at the opening of marriage in California. In the same year she was also a benefit party at the "Abbey" bar in West Hollywood, one of the best-known gay bars in the U.S.. The proceeds went to the Trevor Fund, an organization that operates a US-wide hotline for suicidal adolescents lesbigay.

"As they drove away, she waved and said she is coming back, "said bar owner David Cooley then. She could no longer redeem their promise. It is to their final resting place at the side of her beloved ex-husband Richard Burton.

Source: GGG.at