The most legendary and beautiful actress ever to grace the silver screen died this morning at the age of 79. Elizabeth Taylor had been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for several weeks suffering from congestive heart failure. A biographer called Taylor “The Last Star,” and she certainly lived like one until the very end.

Taylor began her career as a child star in films like “National Velvet,” before blooming into a voluptuous, one-of-a-kind beauty. In the 50s and 60s, Taylor was best known for her tumultuous personal life that included eight marriages and a pair of headline-making affairs. In 1959, following the tragic death of third husband Michael Todd, Taylor began an affair with his best friend, singer Eddie Fisher that scandalized the nation because the teen idol was still married to girl-next-door Debbie Reynolds, the mother of his two young children.

A few years later, the actress would dump Fisher for her “Cleapatra” co-star Richard Burton. The battling Burtons would love and brawl through the 60s and into the 70s, divorcing and remarrying before finally splitting up for good. She married and divorced twice more, to Senator John Warner and Larry Fortensky, a construction worker she met while in the Betty Ford Center.