Her grandmother was a HUGE Hollywood actress who worked with Paul Newman, was wed to a Hilton and befriended Michael Jackson. Who is she?
Her grandmother was one of the biggest stars of all time.
The brunette beauty started working as a child alongside major actors in black and white films.
She then became a teen sensation when she co-starred with A-list actors like Montgomery Clift and had a high-profile marriage to a Hilton.
As an adult, she only got prettier when she became a pin-up sex symbol for her collaborations with Rock Hudson and Paul Newman.
She became one of the highest-paid actresses playing an Egyptian icon and then made headlines when she married her co-star – not once, but twice.
The granddaughter looks like the pin-up who was friends with Michael Jackson and Magic Johnson.
Guess which woman showed up with her siblings at a gala in Beverly Hills on Thursday.
Who is she?
Guess who? Her grandmother was one of the biggest stars of all time, making films with Rock Hudson and Paul Newman. Who is she?
She is 47 year old Naomi Wilding.
Her grandmother is the late Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor, who starred in dozens of films and was married eight times.
Naomi’s father is Michael Wilding Jr., whose parents were Elizabeth and Torch Song actor Michael Wilding.
On Thursday, Naomi attended the Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Also present were family members Tarquin Wilding, Naomi Wilding and Anthony Cran.
Elizabeth is one of the top stars in the world.
Her biggest films were A Place In The Sun (with Montgomery Clift), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (with Paul Newman) and Cleopatra (with Richard Burton, whom she married twice).
She was also a fashion pioneer, a perfume mogul and a vibrant personality, as she was known for dazzling photo ops and dazzling sound bites.
Reveal: She is 47-year-old Naomi Wilding. Seen at the Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Thursday in Beverly Hills
Her grandmother is Elizabeth Taylor. Her father is Michael Wilding Jr., whose parents were Elizabeth Taylor and Torch Song actor Michael Wilding.
A movie goddess: Taylor and Michael Caine on the set of Zee and Co
In the 80s: far right on the set of 1980’s The Mirror Cracked with far left Kim Novak, center, Rock Hudson
Taylor died in LA on March 23, 2011 at the age of 79.
She was an entrepreneur and developed numerous fragrances, such as the bestseller White Diamonds.
She was also known for her marriages (eight in total to seven men).
Elisabeth had four children.
And she has ten grandchildren – in addition to Naomi, there are Quinn Tivey, Tarquin Wilding, Caleb Wilding, Laela Wilding, Andrew Wilding, Lowell Wilding, Rhys Tivey, Elizabeth Carson and Richard McKeown.
There are also four great-grandchildren.
A number of them fulfill an ambassadorial role for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
(L-R) Kasimira Wilding, Tarquin Wilding, Naomi Wilding and Anthony Cran attend the Elizabeth Taylor Ball
Although her career was stunning, Elizabeth was also known for her love life.
She married her first husband, Hilton hotel chain scion Conrad Hilton.
In May 1959, Elizabeth received her first diamond, a four-carat ring from Hilton.
The couple had simple tastes, such as sharing their love of hamburgers smothered in onions.
They honeymooned in Europe, but the tension was gone in just two weeks, when Hilton all but abandoned her and took up drinking and gambling.
He was soon assaulted and kicked her in the stomach, causing a miscarriage.
At the age of 18, Elizabeth married her first husband, Conrad Nicholas Hilton, Jr., Paris Hilton’s great-uncle, at the Bel Air country club in 1950.
Taylor married second husband, British actor Michael Wilding, who was twenty years her senior, in 1952. The biography reveals that she had an affair with Frank Sinatra that resulted in a pregnancy that she later terminated
Hollywood beauty and icon Elizabeth Taylor was known for her alluring violet eyes and once spectacular figure during the era of classic Hollywood cinema
She discovered she was pregnant when “I saw the baby in the toilet.” The union lasted only eight months.
In 1952, Taylor married British actor Michael Wilding, who was twenty years her senior.
Because of the age difference, the couple had little in common, so little that, according to the author of a book about the star, Taylor had an affair with Frank Sinatra and became pregnant.
She wanted to marry her old blue eyes, but his manager abandoned the idea and took her to Mexico for an abortion.
She couldn’t turn down the 29.4-carat emerald-cut diamond she called her “skating ring,” which film producer Mike Todd offered when she asked for her hand in marriage. They often had a fight followed by wild sex.
In addition to the big ring, the producer of the Academy Award-winning film Around the World in 80 Days gave her more jewelry, including an antique diamond tiara that she wore in their pool.
According to the author, she kept many of his jewelry in a brown paper bag.
But thirteen months after their wedding in March 1958, Todd was killed in a plane crash.
Devastated, Taylor began taking sleeping pills, a habit that would continue throughout her life.
In 1959, popular young crooner Eddie Fisher infamously ended his marriage to Debbie Reynolds and married Elizabeth.
Fisher had been Todd’s close friend and provided Elizabeth with comfort – sexual and otherwise – after Todd’s death.
The union was a bad move on Elizabeth’s part because the audience loved Reynolds, the bright-eyed girl next door.
In 1957, the same year her marriage to Wilding ended, Elizabeth moved on quickly, marrying film producer Mike Todd and honeymooning in Acapulco, Mexico (pictured)
Todd (far left) was killed in a plane crash 13 months later and she began a relationship with popular young crooner Eddie Fisher (right), who infamously ended his marriage to Debbie Reynolds and married Elizabeth.
Like the other woman, Elizabeth became “socially radioactive,” Brower wrote.
In addition, Fisher had large gambling debts and Elizabeth had to sell her large diamond to pay their bills.
At some point in the marriage, Liz developed a severe case of acute pneumonia and required a tracheotomy to breathe.
“I was never afraid of death again,” she said, according to the author. After five years of a turbulent relationship, she called it quits with Fisher.
Elizabeth had risen to fame at the age of twelve after starring in the 1944 film National Velvet, but she felt abused by the MGM studio system that addicted their young stars to pills – amphetamines and tranquilizers.
Elizabeth promised she wouldn’t end up like Judy Garland, an obsessive pill popper, but in fact she would.
In total, Taylor made more than 60 films, most for the silver screen and some for television.
During the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, she was a founding member of amFAR, the foundation for AIDS research, and devoted countless hours and money to the cause.
“Beneath the psychic junk of her own mythology was a bawdy woman who was quick to laugh and self-deprecating,” Brower writes.
Elizabeth married construction worker Larry Fortensky for the last time in 1991. The two separated five years later. She remained divorced and unmarried until her death in 2011
“Her life was a soap opera that ended in a very meaningful way: as the first major star to use her fame to change the course of history through her international HIV and AIDS activism.”
She came back from the dead several times after illnesses, suicide attempts and overdoses, heart attacks, three hip replacements and more.
“I’ve been through it all, honey. I am Mother Courage. I will drag a sable coast behind me into old age,” she said, according to the author.
In March 2011, Elizabeth Taylor (née Hilton, Wilding, Todd, Fisher, Burton, Warner and Larry Fortensky, a construction worker) suffered congestive heart failure and died six weeks later.
She left behind the most prized private jewelry collection in the world.