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Elizabeth Taylor Assures Fans She's Fine
Originally posted 10/09/2009 08:15AM
In the ongoing Elizabethan drama that is Elizabeth Taylor's life, the movie star has survived another hospital visit – this time to repair a leaky heart valve – and is assuring her public all is well.
On her Dame Elizabeth Twitter page, the AIDS activist, perfume mogul and Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Best Actress Oscar winner, 77, tells fans, "Dear Friends, My heart procedure went off perfectly. It's like having a brand new ticker. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes … I know they all helped. Love you, Elizabeth."
Taylor underwent a laparoscopic operation, which is considered experimental. "It's called MitraClip," Dr. Edward Verrier, professor of cardiovascular surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, told ABC News. "It's an unproven but new technology that's being introduced as a potential [and less-invasive] alternative to open-heart surgery."
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Elizabeth Taylor to Undergo Heart Operation
Originally posted 10/06/2009 03:20PM
Elizabeth Taylor is letting friends and fans know that she is about to go to the hospital for heart surgery.
"Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I'll let you know when it's all over. Love you, Elizabeth," the 77-year-old star wrote on her Twitter page Tuesday afternoon.
That message was preceded by two others:
• "Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart."
• "It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better."
Kelly Osbourne sent well wishes to Taylor over Twitter, writing, "Good luck. My mother I and praying and thinking of you!"
Comedian Sandra Bernhard also tweeted to Taylor saying, "You have weathered harsher storms dear lady, we send every variety of prayer from many lands may they carry you through!"
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Elizabeth Taylor: Jackson Wouldn't Have Wanted Me at Memorial
Originally posted 07/06/2009 06:30PM
Pouring out her grief on her Twitter page, Elizabeth Taylor says she's going to skip Michael Jackson's memorial – and she feels the pop star would have approved of her decision.
"I just don't believe that Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others. How I feel is between us. Not a public event," she writes.
Taylor, 77, one of Jackson's closest friends, says she was asked to speak at the Tuesday event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. "I cannot be part of the public whoopla," she writes. "And I cannot guarantee that I would be coherent to say a word."
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Elizabeth Taylor: 'Oh, God! I'm Going to Miss Him'
Originally posted 06/26/2009 04:45PM
Elizabeth Taylor had a long, enduring friendship with Michael Jackson, and now the movie legend says she can't believe he has died.
"My heart … my mind are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him," Taylor, 77, said in a statement Friday. "We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together."
Like many people, Taylor says she was looking forward to Jackson's highly anticipated return to the stage in the U.K. next month. "I was packing up my clothes to go to London for his opening when I heard the news. I still can't believe it," she says. "I don't want to believe it. It can't be so."
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Elizabeth Taylor Goes Out to Her Favorite Gay Bar
Originally posted 09/12/2008 09:30AM
Elizabeth Taylor made a low-key return to public life Thursday night with a trip to her favorite watering hole.
In the film legend's first known appearance since she was hospitalized last month, Taylor headed to The Abbey, a popular West Hollywood gay bar.
"She was lively. She was laughing and she was smiling," said one onlooker. "Even if she was not as strong as the last time she was here, she was once again the life of her small party."
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Elizabeth Taylor Is Home and 'Busier than Ever'
Originally posted 08/19/2008 01:00PM
Following last month's hospitalization, friends of Elizabeth Taylor report that the legendary actress is back home and doing well.
"Ms. Taylor is at home and happy – and busier than ever," said one friend. "She's living her life. She's been having dinner with friends. She's working."
Health concerns about the 76-year-actress reached a fever pitch last month, when tabloids reported she was on life support. But her publicist insisted, "Ms. Taylor is fine. The rumors ... about her health are dramatic, overstated and untrue."
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Rep: Elizabeth Taylor 'Is Fine'
Originally posted 07/31/2008 04:00PM
Amid reports of Elizabeth Taylor's being on life support, a publicist for the Hollywood legend tells PEOPLE, "Ms. Taylor is fine."
Representative Dick Guttman adds, "The rumors which began in England about her health are dramatic, overstated and untrue."
Contrary to tabloid reports that the star struggled to maintain consciousness after a bout with pneumonia following congestive heart failure, Guttman assures PEOPLE, "Her hospital visit was precautionary."
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Life of a West Hollywood Party
Originally posted 04/04/2008 12:30PM
She's played the Queen of Egypt and Maggie the Cat, but Thursday night Dame Elizabeth Taylor played to one of her most appreciative audiences yet – as the happily imbibing guest for a benefit at the Abbey, West Hollywood's premiere gay bar.
"This just doesn’t happen every day," Abbey owner David Cooley tells PEOPLE. "It was not only Elizabeth Taylor, but she was the life of the party."
Though wheelchair-bound, the 76-year-old superstar's appearance saw her blinged to the max ("There were massive stones on every finger," says one partygoer. "It was amazing") and ready to have a good time – all for a good cause: the Trevor Fund, which runs a national suicide prevention hotline for gay youths.
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Liz Taylor Refutes Alzheimer's Reports
Originally posted 05/31/2006 08:00AM
In her first TV interview in three years, Elizabeth Taylor – no stranger to tabloid gossip about her health – has denied recent reports that she has Alzheimer's and is at death's door.
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Three Players Ousted in Survivor Premiere
Originally posted 02/18/2005 09:00AM
CLASHED: The 20 contestants on CBS's Survivor: Palau were quickly whittled down to just 17 on Thursday night's premiere episode. The castaways had just become acquainted with their new surroundings when host Jeff Probst said the initial immunity challenge won by Jolanda Jones and Ian Rosenberger (who were the first of the 20 to swim ashore) would last only 10 minutes, until they finished picking their two tribes. The last woman and man chosen, Wanda Shirk and Jonathan Libby, were eliminated from the show. The game's first challenge then pitted the Koror and Ulong teams against each other for team immunity, leaving Ulong to vote off a player. That ended up being Jolanda, in a 6-3 decision. Her parting words: "I am the oldest and I think differently than my tribe. It's an experience I think everyone should try."
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