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Elizabeth Taylor Dead at 79

Wow. Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor died this morning in Los Angeles, more than a month after her hospitalization for congestive heart failure. She was 79.

The two-time Oscar winner and seven-time wife had battled health problems for several years, semi-recently taking to Twitter to share new developments and her recoveries with her fans. Taylor made her film debut in 1942 at the age of 10 and would go on to star in some of the next half-century's most celebrated films, including A Place in the Sun, Giant, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. What a loss. Developing... [ABC]