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Saturday, 29 March 2008

Taylor to keep a Vincent van Gogh painting

The Supreme Court allowed Taylor to keep a Vincent van Gogh painting, rejecting an appeal by descendants of a Jewish woman who said she was forced to sell it before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939. (October 29, 2007)
Denies rumors that she plans to marry her companion Jason Winters, who is 28 years her junior. (October 1, 2007)
Can keep a Van Gogh painting that may have been illegally seized by Nazis, after a federal appeals court ruled the family who once owned it waited too long to ask for it back. (May 21, 2007)
Has picked the Christie's auction house to handle all future sales of her jewelry, artwork, clothing, furniture and memorabilia. (September 21, 2006)
According to author J Randy Taraborrelli, who launched a book entitled ‘Elizabeth,’ Taylor had a nose job in her 20s. (August 10, 2006)
Says she won't starve herself to be like Hollywood's size-zero starlets, insisting she enjoys food too much. In the end, I'm too hedonistic. I enjoy pleasures. (July 11, 2006)
Was reportedly treated for Alzheimer's. (2006)
Opens the new UCLA Clinical AIDS Research and Education Center. (November 7, 2005)
Liz, one of Andy Warhol's 13 portraits of Taylor, fetched $12.6 million at Sotheby's auction of modern art. (May 12, 2005)
Accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993 in honor of all the men, women and children with AIDS, Taylor said, Tonight I am asking for your help. I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being to prove that we are a human race. To prove that our love outweighs our need to hate. That our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame. That our sensitivity to those in need is stronger than our greed. . . . Thank you and God bless.
Has teamed-up with Jack and Monty Abramov of Mirabelle Luxury Concepts in Los Angeles, California, to launch House of Taylor Jewelry. (February 19, 2005)
Suffered congestive heart failure. (2004)
Was sued by the family of a victim of Nazi persecution in Germany over ownership of a Van Gogh painting. Taylor bought Gogh's View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy, at London auction house Sotheby's in 1963. But the heirs of Jewish Margarete Mauthner were seeking to recover the masterpiece and said Taylor should be aware it was stolen from their late relative by Nazis in 1939. (2004)
Has sued the family of a victim of Nazi rule in Germany as part of a legal battle to hold on to a precious Van Gogh painting that she claims is rightfully hers. (May 27, 2004)
Taylor has asked a judge to strike inflammatory, irrelevant and false allegations about the actress from a lawsuit that her former gardener filed -- Willem Van Muyden claimed he suffered improper sexual advances from her butler in his Superior Court lawsuit filed in July, which seeks unspecified damages from Taylor. (September 24, 2003)

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