The wife chose the emerald, and the diamond went on to be acquired by Elizabeth Taylor and subsequently known as Taylor-Burton Diamond.

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She also somehow got her husbands to buy her some of the rarest and most expensive jewelry in the world, including the 33 karat Krupp Diamond, the 69 karat Taylor-Burton Diamond, and the La Peregrina Pearl, once owned by Queen Mary I.

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The Elizabeth Taylor Diamond (also known as the Burton-Taylor Diamond).

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On the outskirts of the city, the villa was a popular getaway in the 1960s--attracting guests like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor--and was restored in 2002.

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The press likened their reunion to the ill-fated remarriage of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Taylor's romance with her Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton generated huge interest in the media, not only because their romance had transitioned from on-screen to off, but because they were both married to other people at the time.

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While America remains captivated by the sleaze and glamour of Hollywood, honouring an age-old tradition since the days of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, there will always remain an industry of people who can provide the goods.

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Dominic West will play Burton, while Helena Bonham-Carter is to portray Taylor, who died in 2011.

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Taylor was angling for yet another reconciliation with Burton when he ran off with his make-up artist, Sally, and married her instead.

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