Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars
After ten years of marriage, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were divorced in June 1974. Their intense passion for each other had dissolved into drunken arguments, fights and tantrums.
Kate Andersen Brower detailed the "Cleopatra" star's final years in an authorized biography published on Dec. 6 titled “Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon.”