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Nude portrait of Elizabeth Taylor seen for the 1st time

This particular photo was a gift to producer Michael Todd who was her 3rd husband.

The pic was taken by one of her very dear friends Roddy McDowall who was also a renowned photographer & actor. It was given to Todd as a present after he proposed her in 1956. However, this marriage didn’t last that long. He was killed in a plane crash.

Elizabeth Taylor was 24 when this was taken & a private collector Jim Shaudis has released this pic immediately after her death. However, it was bought by him in 1980 & this was the only nude picture of Elizabeth Taylor that Jim wanted to share with his fans. Anyway, lots of other pics have been released but none is so revealing.

Yeah the question is: how did Jim get hold of the photo? Elizabeth Taylor was devastated after the death of Todd & she gave away this nude photo to her assistant & make up artist Penny Taylor.

Ever since her death, there have been claims & allegations from nearly every corner. This picture was believed to be lost but now it’s all over the net.

One of her last Twitter messages read simply: ‘I’ll let you know when it is all over. Love you, Elizabeth.’

I find it very strange how some people are taking advantage of everything after her death. Even that collector had to release the pic immediately after her death & it was low on the part of Penny Taylor to sell a nude photo. A journalist recently shared that story of James Dean molestation & that he revealed that secret to Elizabeth Taylor. Everyone seems to be quite opportunists. They can’t help cashing in.

Colin Farrell & Elizabeth Taylor were Best Friends

Here goes the story of Colin Farrell & Elizabeth Taylor:

They became friends in the last one & a half year of Taylor’s life who died lately of congestive heart failure. How they became friends is unclear but Taylor had publicly praised Colin Farrell.

“How did we become friends? You know, the old story of boy meets girl, the boy pesters girl with too many phone calls at inappropriate hours of the night,” Farrell, 34, tells Access Hollywood.

“I was just lucky enough to become her friend in the last year and a half,” the actor added. “I adore her…still.”

He was one of the few non-family members at Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral. It was a private funeral where this Irish actor recited a poem.

Elizabeth Taylor spoke of her fondness for Farrell in the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

“I love Johnny Depp, and I love Colin Farrell,” she told Kim Kardashian, who took the interview.(Yeah Kim doesn't just have a big ass; she also conducts interviews)“They’re both brilliant, nuanced actors with great range.”

Colin Farrell admits he’s having a hard time coping with the loss of his friend. “I just miss her,” he said.

I think we should become friends with people while they are alive. Once they are gone, you can't make anything right. But Colin Farrell had been lucky enough to be a pal of Elizabeth Taylor. Since he was at the funeral, it means he must have been a close buddy. Which reminds me that even James Dean was a friend whose story had been in the limelight after this sad demise.

5 things you didn’t know about Elizabeth Taylor

She had double rows of eyelashes, which was a mutation.

She broke her back a couple of times. She was thrown off a horse while shooting in 1943 & had back problems ever since.

She hated being called Liz, cause it sounded “like such a hiss.”

She was a religious convert. She converted to Judaism in 1959 after getting married to Eddie Fisher who was also Jewish.

Last but not least, she was a knight. She had dual citizenship. She went by Dame Elizabeth whenever she was in England.

Elizabeth Taylor: ‘James Dean was molested by a minister.’

James Dean confided in Elizabeth Taylor that he was molested as a child. She revealed this to journalist Kevin Sessums in 1997 but asked him to not to publish it till she died. And Kevin as you can see didn’t waste much time in revealing the dark secret of James Dean.

Elizabeth Taylor worked with James Dean in the classic film Giant. Dean died in a car accident at the age of 24 just one year before Giant was released.

Anyway it has been reported in the Daily Beast:

“I loved Jimmy. I’m going to tell you something, but it’s off the record until I die. OK? When Jimmy was 11 and his mother passed away, he began to be molested by his minister. I think that haunted him the rest of his life. In fact, I know it did. We talked about it a lot. During Giant we’d stay up nights and talk and talk, and that was one of the things he confessed to me.”

What can we say? The only person to gain something out of it is this journalist. All the people involved are dead. James Dean is dead. The clergyman is dead & now Elizabeth Taylor is also dead. Who knows maybe the journalist is just making up this story. And if James Dean did tell such a thing to Elizabeth Taylor, then it was very wrong on her part. I think it was one bitchy move.

Moreover it has also been said that this is not a secret. Those who have read his biography claim that he was being molested as a kid. He was also bisexual & had serious issues due to child abuse. He was sexually abused by a minister 2 years after his mother’s death. Dean’s 1st biographer also had intimate sexual relationship with him. He was both into men & women. He once said: "No, I am not a homosexual. But, I'm also not going to go through life with one hand tied behind my back."

However, Journalist Joe Hyams suggests that Dean had homosexual activities strictly for trade. But many others claim that he was a confirmed bisexual & religiously believed in experiments.

Since Dean's death, a "legend" has arisen that his Porsche 550 Spyder was "cursed" and supposedly injured or killed several others in the years following his death.

Elizabeth Taylor Wanted To Be Late For Her Own Funeral.

The very beautiful legendary Hollywood actress - Elizabeth Taylor left her last instructions that she wanted to be late for her funeral as her publicist announced. It was her parting wish that her funeral should start late and that is exactly how it all happened.

She died of a congestive heart failure on Wednesday and her four children were there with her at the time of her death. She was hospitalized at Los Angeles' Cedars Medical Center for about six weeks.

Elizabeth Taylor was buried at a family funeral in a California cemetery, which is the final resting place of many Hollywood celebrities including Elizabeth's good friend Michael Jackson.

Her funeral was attended by 50 family members. The funeral service began 15 minutes after the announced starting time and went on for one hour. Colin Farrell started the service by reading poetry and her grandson Morrison gave a trumpet performance.

Elizabeth Taylor got married eight times to seven husbands. She converted to Judaism before her wedding to Eddie Fisher in 1959. She had won three Academy Awards, one of them for her humanitarian work. She openly supported AIDS research when HIV was a very new thing in the world.

She went through 20 surgeries and operations in her life. In 1983, she admitted she had an addiction for sleeping pills and pain killers. She underwent treatment for her alcohol and drug abuse. In 1994-1995 she had to replace both her hip joints. In 1997, she got a surgery for her brain tumor.

The world lost a good person, a rare beauty and a great humanitarian worker with the death of Elizabeth Taylor. She always mentioned about her sad childhood - in fact she openly said she never really had a childhood because she was forced to work and earn money. This was one of the reasons why she was such a good friend of Michael Jackson, who suffered from an unhealthy childhood himself. Her last instructions were followed and she arrived late at her funeral just as she wished.

Elizabeth Taylor – the Goddess of Hollywood!

I have never seen such a beautiful woman in my life. She was nothing short of a goddess. In fact I would say she was better than one & I don’t think it’s an exaggeration. She even made the character of Cleopatra more charismatic, because I don’t find Cleopatra all that fascinating in books. It was Elizabeth Taylor who made the character much, much better.

Her death has been a terrible loss but she will always be remembered for her charity work, acting & love for animals.