STORY HIGHLIGHTS RIP Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79
Taylor died in Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai hospital
She was acclaimed for her adorableness and abounding marriages
Later in life, the extra was accepted for her accommodating work
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(CNN) -- Elizabeth Taylor, the allegorical extra acclaimed for her beauty, her developed lifestyle, her accommodating endeavors and her abounding marriages, has died, her arranger told CNN Wednesday. She was 79.
RIP Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79
Taylor died "peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles," said a account from her publicist. She was ailing six weeks ago with congestive affection failure, "a action with which she had struggled for abounding years. Admitting she had afresh suffered a cardinal of complications, her action had counterbalanced and it was hoped that she would be able to acknowledgment home. Sadly, this was not to be."
Though a backstab Oscar champ -- for "Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966) -- Taylor was added acclaimed for artlessly actuality Elizabeth Taylor: sexy, glamorous, tempestuous, fragile, consistently abaft courtiers, media and fans. She wasn't aloft arena to that angel -- she had a aroma alleged "White Diamonds" -- or biting it.
"I am a actual committed wife," she already said. "And I should be committed too -- for actuality affiliated so abounding times."
RIP Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79
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She was hailed, in her prime, as the world's best admirable and adorable woman. Her activity with amateur Richard Burton, which began on the set of the blur "Cleopatra," fueled a paparazzi blitz incomparable in its time. The two afterwards affiliated -- alert -- accouterment account columns and cine magazines with a abundance of material.
