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Elizabeth Taylor won two Academy Awards for Best Actress. Her first was for BUtterfield 8 in 1960, a role she reportedly disliked, and her second was for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966, which critics widely regarded as the finest performance of her career.
Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times to seven men. Her marriages included two separate unions with Welsh actor Richard Burton, whom she first married in 1964 and divorced in 1974, then remarried in Kasane, Botswana, in October 1975 before divorcing again in 1976.
Taylor co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985 alongside Michael Gottlieb, after her friend and co-star Rock Hudson announced he was dying of the disease. She also founded the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991 and helped raise more than $270 million for the cause over her lifetime. She testified before Congress for the Ryan White Care Act in 1986, 1990, and 1992, and in 1987 persuaded President Ronald Reagan to publicly acknowledge AIDS for the first time in a speech.
Taylor was paid $1 million to star in Cleopatra in 1963, making her the first movie star to receive that fee for a single role. Fox also gave her 10% of the film's gross profits and the right to shoot in the Todd-AO widescreen format, whose rights she had inherited from her third husband, Mike Todd.
After Taylor's death in 2011, her jewelry and fashion collections were auctioned by Christie's to benefit her AIDS foundation, ETAF. The jewelry sold for a record-breaking $156.8 million, and her clothes and accessories fetched a further $5.5 million.
Elizabeth Taylor died on the 23rd of March 2011 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, aged 79, from congestive heart failure, six weeks after being hospitalized. Her funeral took place the following day at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, in a private Jewish ceremony. At her request, the service began fifteen minutes behind schedule.