Elizabeth Taylor: Auction of a Lifetime, Channel 4

18.05.12

(pictured right) , and Eddie was left on the cutting room floor without a backwards glance (aggrieved, he sent her a bill for the earrings). The world was gripped by the tempestuous heavings of the Taylor-Burton psychodrama, and it was permanent Christmas for Gianni Bulgari as the couple kept popping in for an emerald and diamond necklace or perhaps some emerald earrings. "Elizabeth Taylor was the Elizabeth Taylor show," Bulgari smirked greasily, noting that everybody else became merely her supporting cast.

Nonetheless, there were some droll walk-ons from the little people. Ward Landrigan, from Sotheby's in New York, had some excellent tales about how he would be summoned to deliver Taylor's latest acquisition instantly by hand to wherever in the world she happened to be. He had to take the La Peregrina Pearl to Las Vegas , where Burton plied him with "salty dogs" (clam juice with vodka) while Taylor offered breathtaking views of her frontage. "Her belle poitrine

Source: The Arts Desk