The Most Beautiful Woman in the World (69 page)

42.
Harrell, “Liz’s Love” and “My Nightmare,” pp. 24–25.

43.
Ibid., p. 25.

44.
CNN, “People,” June 8, 1999.

45.
Harrell, “Liz’s Love” and “My Nightmare,” p. 24.

46.
Spoto,
Passion for Life
, p. 335.

47.
Ibid., pp. 335–336.

48.
Theroux, “Ms. Taylor Will See You Now,” p. 171.

49.
Harrell, “Liz’s Love” and “My Nightmare,” p. 24.

50.
Ibid.

51.
Ibid.

52.
Ibid., p. 25.

53.
Collins, “Liz’s AIDS Odyssey,” p. 262.

54.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 429.

55.
Ibid., p. 428.

56.
Vermilye and Ricci,
Films of Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 269.

57.
Claire Spiegel and Virginia Ellis, “3 Doctors Cited in Taylor Drug Case,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 11, 1994.

58.
Ibid., the
L.A. Times
story says Skinner gave E.T. drugs from April 1987 through November 1988, and Roth, from March 1988 through December 1989.

59.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 435.

60.
“E.T.:
Advocate
Interview,” p. 52.

61.
Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu and David La Fontaine,
Poison Pen
(Los Angeles: Dove, 1996, p. 44; Martin Gould, “Un-covered! Michael’s Great Baby Hoax,”
Star
, November 23, 1999, p. 9; Christopher Anderson,
Michael Jackson
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp. 316, 320–321, 350.

62.
Barbara Walters interview, ABC, March 21, 1999.

63.
Collins, “Liz’s AIDS Odyssey,” p. 262.

64.
Spoto,
Passion for Life
, p. 335.

65.
Collins, “Liz’s AIDS Odyssey,” p. 262.

66.
“E.T.:
Advocate
Interview,” p. 52.

67.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 427.

68.
Collins, “Liz’s AIDS Odyssey,” p. 213.

69.
Harrell, “Liz’s Love Secrets” and “My Nightmare with Larry the Violent Doped-Up Boozer,” p. 24.

70.
Theroux, “Ms. Taylor Will See You Now,” p. 170.

71.
Ibid., p. 213.

72.
Harrell, “Liz’s Love” and “My Nightmare,” p. 32.

73.
Ibid.

74.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 439; Harrell, “Liz’s Love” and “My Nightmare,” p. 32.

75.
Collins, “Liz’s AIDS Odyssey,” p. 212.

76.
Gary A. Schreiber, “Liz Fires Chef—For Making Her Fat,”
National Enquirer
, November 10, 1992, p. 47.

77.
Darrach, “If the Knife,” p. 82; “picking fights,”
People,
September 18, 1995, p. 66.

78.
Harrell, “Liz’s Love” and “My Nightmare,” p. 32.

79.
Theroux, “Ms. Taylor Will See You Now,” p. 168.

80.
Maureen O’Brien,
Publisher’s Weekly
, September 19, 1994; Adam Sandler,
Variety
, September 26, 1994;
Los Angeles Times
, June 29, 1994.

81.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 434.

82.
Ibid.

83.
Harrell, “Liz’s Love” and “My Nightmare,” p. 32.

84.
People
, September 18, 1995, p. 66.

85.
TV’s
Entertainment Tonight
, December 2, 1999; $1.5 million reported by Heymann,
Liz
, p. 440, but according to a report in the
New York Times
on April 8, 1997, Elizabeth’s lawyer Arlene Colman-Schwimmer said accounts that Fortensky received $1.5 million were “inaccurate.”

86.
James Spada, “E.T.,”
McCall’s
, July 1997, p. 44.

87.
Darrach, “If the Knife,” p. 82; Heymann,
Liz
, p. 438.

88.
Dunne,
Way We Lived Then
, pp. 185–186.

89.
“What Really Happened at the O.J. Trial?”
Star
, December 2, 1987, pp. 6–7.

90.
Sessums, “Elizabeth Taylor Tells the Truth,” p. 52.

91.
Theroux, “Ms. Taylor Will See You Now,” p. 168.

92.
The Donny and Marie Osmond Show
, March 19, 1999.

93.
Bloom,
Leaving a Doll’s House
, pp. 109–111.

94.
Ibid., p. 125.

95.
Ibid., p. 123.

96.
Ibid., p. 128; “opportunistic”: Ibid., p. 123.

97.
Holden,
Behind the Oscar
, p. 266; Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,”
Variety
, December 23, 1997.

98.
Time
, February 24, 1997; Harrell, “Liz’s Love Secrets” and “My Nightmare with Larry the Violent Doped-Up Boozer,” p. 32; Ken Harrell, Chris Doherty, and Jack Carter, “Liz Sobs as Larry Murder Charges Fly,”
Globe
, February 16, 1999, pp. 24–25.

C
HAPTER
14

1.
Theroux, “Ms. Taylor Will See You Now,” p. 167.

2.
Darrach, “If the Knife,”
Life
, p. 82.

3.
Barbara Walters TV interview, ABC, March 21, 1999;
People
, October 27, 1997.

4.
Liz Smith,
Los Angeles Times
, April 4, 1997;
Hollywood Reporter
, February 27, 1997.

5.
People
, September 22, 1997;
New York Times
, September

9, 1997.

6.
The Donny and Marie Osmond Show
, March 19, 1999; “100 Dirtiest Celebrity Divorces: Rod & Paula Steiger,”
Star
, April 13, 1999, p. 50; “I’ll kill myself”: Diane Albright and Joe Mullins, “Drug Relapse Caused Liz’s Bloody Collapse,”
Globe
, March 17, 1998, p. 5.

7.
Hollywood Reporter
, April 8, 1998; Patricia Towle, “Liz Battles to Stay Out of Wheelchair,”
National Enquirer
, March 17, 1998, p. 8.

8.
People
, August 23, 1998.

9.
“Yikes! It’s Liz the Great Grandma,”
Star
, May 5, 1988, p. 22.

10.
People
, March 3, 1998; “Liz Credits Steiger for Survival,”
USA Today
, March 16, 1999, p. 2D; Neal Hitchens, “Liz: I’m on My Feet Again,”
National Enquirer
, June 16, 1998, p. 3.

11.
Delta Burke,
Delta Style
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1998), quoted in Laurie Campbell, “How Liz Saved My Life,”
National Examiner
, March 31, 1998, pp. 6–7.

12.
Hitchens, “Liz: I’m on My Feet Again,” p. 3.

13.
Michael Glynn, “Sad, Lonely and Pain-Racked Liz Lets Steiger Go,”
National Enquirer
, April 21, 1998, p. 24.

14.
Laurie Campbell, “Ailing Liz Joins Forbidden Cult,”
National Examiner
, May 26, 1998, p. 35.

15.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 436; Andersen,
Michael Jackson
, p. 353.

16.
Liz Smith,
Los Angeles Times
, May 28, 1998; Hitchens, “Liz: I’m on My Feet Again,” p. 3.

17.
Janet Charlton, “Star People,”
Star
, May 12, 1998, p. 12; “Larry Begs Liz: Take Me Back,”
Globe
, July 14, 1998, p. 12.

18.
Los Angeles Times
, November 12, 1998; “Larry Begs Liz: Take Me Back,”
Globe
, July 14, 1998, p. 12.

19.
John Harlow, “Taylor Plans Comeback as Wilde Woman,”
Sunday Times
(London).

20.
Jasper Gerrard,
Times
(London), November 16, 1998.

21.
“Liz & Rod to Marry,”
National Examiner
, February 16, 1999, p. 13.

22.
John South, Robert Blackmon, Mandy Ridder, Marc Cetner, Alan Smith, and Suzanne Ely, “Liz Agony—Drunken Fall Leaves Larry Brain-Damaged,”
National Enquirer
, February 16, 1999, p. 37; Sybil Burton’s $50,000 alimony: “He Gave a Lot of Pleasure,”
Luxury Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
, April 1998, p. 12.