A Love Affair

伊丽莎白·泰勒被誉为是世界影坛上不可多得的瑰宝。她被看做是美国电影史上最具有好莱坞色彩的人物，纵横好莱坞60年，惯有“好莱坞传奇影星”“好莱坞常青树”“好莱坞不败花”“世界头号美人”“玉婆”之称，尤其以一双漂亮的蓝紫色眼睛闻名于世。她是史上第一个片酬百万美元的演员，两获奥斯卡金像奖，无数人获得奥斯卡荣誉后，声名鹊起，又归于孤寂，而泰勒的魅力却长久不衰。1999年，被美国电影协会选为百年来最伟大的女演员第7名。泰勒在2000年被英国女王封为爵士。2004年被诊断出有郁血性心脏衰竭，2011年3月23日去世，享年79岁。

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Elizabeth Taylor loved jewelry!  By the time she died, she had amassed $150 million with of jewels.  Rumor has it that the auction house, Christie’s, will be in charge of auctioning her collection.  She received many of her jewels from men and some from the greatest loves of her life.   A couple of the highlights are the Krupp diamond weighing in at 33.19 carats and the Taylor-Burton diamond, a 69 carat, pear shaped stone, D color and internally flawless, seen below.

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Her third husband, Mike Todd, gave her a diamond tiara and a Cartier diamond and ruby suite consisting of a beautiful necklace, chandelier earrings and a matching bracelet.  She also owned the Peregrina pearl, the world’s largest natural pear shaped pearl, once owned by Queen Mary Tudor of England.

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Throughout her life, she was known for many things, an actress, a great beauty and not least of all, a philanthropist.  She not only collected jewelry, but she gave much of it away.  She sold the Taylor-Burton stone and used the proceeds to help build a hospital in Botswana.  It was said that when Taylor thought about her collection, she remarked, ”I was their protector and nobody could have enjoyed them or had more fun with them.”  I beg to differ!