The death of the amazing Elizabeth Taylor is still mourned by film fans all around the world.

She died of heart failure in hospital, surrounded by her four children.

The Oscar winner spent the last six weeks of her life at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was hospitalised after her weight dropped to fewer than 98 pounds and her heart failure, which she had been diagnosed with in 2004, threatened to overpower her.

‘She still felt she had so much to live for,’ a friend said, describing her as ‘tiny and fighting for every breath.’

‘But she was happy with her life at the end. She was happy with her family. She was at peace.’

In both life and death, there was something about her that captivated the cultural imagination. Taylor’s public image was molded by her famed violet eyes, her passion for expensive jewels, her eight marriages, and the occasionally turbulent and scandalous nature of her relationships, all of which combined to make her very visible but also rendering her unknowable. Taylor’s fame revolutionized what it meant to be a celebrity in the eyes of the public, paving the way for our current understandings of the term: paparazzi, publicly scrutinized and admired romances, issues with addiction, and the use of her platform for advocacy.

During a period when large Hollywood studios famously micromanaged actresses’ every move, Taylor’s ability to comprehend her own power and, to a degree, craft her own story was perhaps one of her most impressive legacies.

Elizabeth was also notorious for falling in love in the blink of an eye, and she was married eight times throughout her life to seven different men.

Here is everything you need to know about the men in Elizabeth Taylor’s life.

At the age of 17, Taylor met Conrad “Nicky” Hilton Jr., the son of Hilton hotel billionaire Conrad Hilton and future great-uncle of Paris Hilton, in a nightclub in Los Angeles; they married less than a year later. The wedding was paid for by MGM, who wanted to use the occasion to promote her upcoming picture “Father of the Bride.” Taylor divorced Hilton a few months later, claiming his drinking, gambling, and aggressive conduct as reasons for their split.

In 1950, aged 18, she married Nicky Hilton

Following her divorce from Hilton, Elizabeth found love with British actor Michael Wilding, a man 20 years her senior. The five-year marriage produced two kids, Michael and Christopher, but it was more of a brother-sister connection than a love match, as Taylor herself revealed.

She ditched Wilding in 1957 for American producer Mike Todd, a stocky, swashbuckling figure who was ready to release his epic cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around The World In 80 Days.

Liza, their daughter, was also delivered through C-section. Todd died in an aircraft tragedy in 1958, only a year after their wedding, while flying his private jet, “The Lucky Liz.” Taylor turned to Judaism after Todd’s death as a means of commemorating her late spouse, who was Jewish. Todd was one of Taylor’s “three true loves of her life,” along with her future husband, Richard Burton, and her jewels, she later remarked.

Todd took off on a business trip in March 1958, on the private plane he had called ‘The Lucky Liz’ in honor of his wife.

He couldn’t stop kissing her goodbye before he went. He informed her, ‘I’m afraid something’s going to happen,’ he told her. ‘I’m too happy.’

The Lucky Liz crashed in flames on way to Kansas City that night, killing Todd and everyone on board.

Taylor married Eddie Fisher, Todd’s closest friend and best man at their wedding two years prior, after finishing production for “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (for which she earned an Oscar nomination), which had been halted by Mike Todd’s death and Taylor’s withdrawal for several months.

It’s been said that the pair started dating during the turbulent period following Todd’s untimely death. Fisher was then married to actress Debbie Reynolds, and Taylor was dubbed a ‘home wrecker’ by the press. Taylor later stated in interviews that she married Fisher solely out of sadness over Todd’s death. Taylor and Reynolds had been friends since they were teenagers, and Reynolds served as the maid of honor during Taylor’s wedding to Todd.

The affair became one of Hollywood’s most talked-about scandals since Eddie was married to actress Debbie Reynolds, who was one of Elizabeth’s closest friends at the time.

Nonetheless, Elizabeth and Eddie married in a Las Vegas ceremony in 1959, making their relationship official. They divorced five years later, in 1964, with Elizabeth subsequently claiming that she only married him because she was in pain.

The actress met the “love of her life,” Richard Burton, while still married to Eddie. While filming the blockbuster picture Cleopatra on location in Italy in 1963, the duo had an affair.

Elizabeth Taylor with Richard Burton in Cleoptra

Their romance sparked worldwide outrage and eventually led to both of them divorcing their prior spouses in order to marry one other in 1964. Despite the fact that they were both married at the time of filming. Their romance sparked worldwide outrage and eventually led to both of them divorcing their prior partners.

The paparazzi dubbed the pair ‘Liz and Dick’ after they were captured on a yacht near Ischia, and the Vatican chastised them for sensual vagrancy. After divorcing Fisher, Taylor married Burton nine days later. Burton gave Taylor a $1 million diamond necklace after they co-starred in many films together. They attempted a second time to make their marriage work, but it failed owing to Taylor’s drinking and Burton’s adultery.

Burton died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1984.

The seventh marriage was to John Warner, a pretty uninteresting American politician who was running for Senate at the time. Taylor poured herself into the role of Washington wife, even selling the diamond Richard Burton had given her to help Warner’s election campaign.

They married five months after their first date after a whirlwind romance. Taylor aided Warner’s election campaign, but the couple quickly became dissatisfied with their lives in Washington, DC. Taylor’s drunkenness and drug addiction reportedly spiraled out of control as a result of boredom. In 1982, they divorced.

Taylor met her seventh and final husband, Larry Fortensky, a construction worker who was also seeking treatment at the institution, when she was at the drug and alcohol recovery program. They married in 1991 at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, where Taylor had developed a strong bond.

Larry Fortensky

Former presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford were among the guests, with Jackson footing the $1 million bill. Taylor sent the singer an elephant called Gipsy as a gift.

The connection between the former goddess and her ‘bit of rough’ lasted an unexpected eight years, albeit Fortensky appeared to be more like Taylor’s bodyguard than her spouse for the most of that time.

Taylor and Fortensky eventually separated, citing the pressures of being in the spotlight as a reason. Taylor had essentially retired from performing by the early 1990s.

Taylor attends the annual a benefit in Santa Monica in 2009

Despite this, they remained close friends for the rest of Elizabeth’s illness-plagued life. In the latter two decades of her life, she suffered pneumonia twice, had hip replacement surgery, had a benign brain tumor removed, and was treated for skin cancer.

Congestive heart failure was discovered in her in 2004. She died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on March 23, 2011, at the age of 79, following a protracted fight with the illness.