A look back at all the men in the life of Elizabeth Taylor [PHOTOS]

The story of Elizabeth Taylor’s love life has received more media attention and public notice than any prominent personality and celebrity in the history. The Associated Press asserted that The Dame has even outshined prominent individuals and personage including Cleopatra and Casanova.

Admitting she could not have just a romance and that it had to be a marriage, the legendary actress has walked the aisle eight times and has had seven husbands to take with her.

Sometimes referred to during light moments as "Mrs. Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky", The Dame was married to a hotel chain heir, an English actor, a producer, a pop crooner, a Welsh actor (married twice); a U.S. public official as Senator and a construction worker.

Get to know the men in the life of Hollywood’s legendary actress and an icon, Elizabeth Taylor.

Elizabeth Taylor’s was married eight times and has had seven husbands, a representation of her Undying Faith in Love

Conrad Nicholas "Nicky" Hilton, hotel heir
( From 6 May 1950 to 1 February 1951)

Elizabeth Taylor was first married to Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton, an hotel heir and the great-grandfather of socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton. They got married on May 6, 1950.

Their nuptial at the Bel-Air Country Club had made headlines in the 1950s and was considered as "Hollywood social event of the year".

"Dazzled by his charm and apparent sophistication, driven by feelings that could not be indulged outside of marriage, desperate to live a life independent of my parents and the studio, I closed my eyes to the problems and walked radiantly down the aisle. Before our honeymoon was over, my eyes were opened," Taylor was quoted as describing her relationship with Hilton.

She added, "The honeymoon in Europe lasted two weeks," Taylor wrote in a 1965 memoir. "I should say the marriage lasted for two weeks. Then came, yours sincerely, disillusionment — rude and brutal."

They got divorced on February 1, 1951.

Michael Wilding, actor
( From 21 February 1952 to 30 January 1957)

Elizabeth Taylor's second husband is Michael Wilding, an actor. They got married on February 21, 1952.

"We had a lovely, easy life, very simple, very quiet. Two babies were born. We had friends. We didn't do much," Taylor wrote in her 1957 memoir according to AP.

The legendary actress described her life with Wilding as simple and quiet until the storm that came after and their differences could not longer weather the storm and they filed for divorce after five years. They got divorced on January 30, 1957.

"Michael Wilding was a wonderful man and I loved him dearly. Our friendship continued until his death several years ago, but in the `50s the strains on our marriage were too much for it to survive. We were so very different," Taylor described Wilding, said AP.


The celebrity couple had two babies before they got divorced on January 30, 1957.

Michael Todd, producer
(Married 2 February 1957, His death 22 March 1958)

Michael Todd is Elizabeth Taylor's third husband. But the actress claimed that of the two great loves in her life, Todd was her first. The two married on February 2, 1957 and Taylor described as 'eternally young' despite their age differences.

He was a dynamic producer of Broadway girlie shows and Todd was promoting the big-screen Cinerama and an all-star film of "Around the World in 80 Days" when they met in 1957.

"He was 25 years my senior and eternally young. I could hardly keep up with him. He was the most energetic man I've ever known and he made our short 18 months together one of the most intensely glorious times of my life. ... I have had two great loves in my life. Mike Todd was the first," Taylor said of Todd, according to AP.

Todd died in 1958.

Eddie Fisher, singer
(Married 12 May 1959, Divorced 6 March 1964)

Eddie Fisher is Elizabeth's fourth husband, a singer. Fisher was a friend of Todd's and he, along with wife, Debbie Fisher were among the first to comfort Taylor following Todd's sudden death. They got married on May 12, 1959.

"He and Mike had been good friends and it seemed natural we should try to comfort each other for our loss. ... In hindsight, I know I wasn't thinking straight. At the time I thought he needed me and I needed him," Taylor described how she fell in love with Fisher, said AP.

The legendary actress was painted a 'homewrecker' when Eddie left Debbie for her. And the actress was quick to defend herself and said: "The press made much of Eddie's leaving his wife, Debbie Reynolds, but Eddie and Debbie's marriage was in trouble long before I hit the scene."

Eddie and Elizabeth had two children before they got divorced on March 6, 1964.

Richard Burton, actor
(Married 15 March 1964, Divorced 26 June 1974
Married 10 October 1975, Divorced 1 August 1976)

Richard Burton is an actor from Wales and Elizabeth's fifth husband for her fifth and sixth marriage. The two met at the set of "Cleopatra" in 1964 and tied the knot after divorces from spouses on March 15, 1964.

"Has anybody ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?" said the hard-living actor from Wales. Her reaction: "Here's the great lover, the great wit, the great intellectual of Wales, and he comes out with a line like that!"

The world said AP watched Taylor's every move with Burton and they were under close media scrutiny while they were processiing both their divorces before they got married.

The "Cleopatra" co-stars were together for ten years before they first divorced on June 26, 1974. They remarried six months after, on October 10, 1975 until they finalized their second divorce on August 1, 1976.

"Since I was a little girl, I believed I was a child of destiny, and if that is true Richard Burton was surely my fate. Certainly for a very long time he was my life. Despite what the press wrote at the beginning of our affair, I never regretted a moment of it," Taylor said professing her love for Burton, said AP.

John Warner, politician, U.S. Senator
(Married 4 December 1976, Divorced 7 November 1982)

Elizabeth Taylor got married for the seventh time with her sixth husband, John Warner barely four months after her divorce with actor, Richard Burton.

Taylor tied the knot with Warner, a U.S. Senator on December 4, 1976. The legendary actress was once quoted telling a reporter that being a politician's wife is no picnic.

She said, "Being a senator's wife is not easy. It's very lonely. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."

But the Dame said AP played a major role in Warner's election to office as she helped him campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1978. They stayed together until their divorce in 1982.

"Our first year of marriage had been spent on the intimate, challenging high of campaigning together for one goal — his winning the Senate seat. I cannot tell you how happy and proud I was of him ... yes, and of myself."

Larry Fortensky, construction worker
(Married 6 October 1991, Divorced 31 October 1996)

Larry Fortensky is best known as Elizabeth's seventh husband of eight marriages, having married Richard Burton twice in mid-1970s. Taylor married Fortensky in 1991 in a ceremony held at Michael Jackson's ranch, hailed at one of the most expensive wedding of all time, estimated at $2 million.

Fortensky, a construction worker is 20 years younger than Taylor, whom she met while underoing treatment at the Betty Ford Center.

"Marriage does give a sense of oneness that just being together can't," she said.

Though it took Taylor some time to rest from wedding nuptials but she said, she knew she was not 'through with men' as of yet.

"Life is good and sweet and we love each other and each day as it comes, and we want to share our happiness with family and friends. I always said I would get married one more time and with God's blessings, this is it, forever."

They announced trial separation in August 1995 and filed for divorce in February 1996.