In 1964, she married Jordan Christopher, an American pop star 14 years her junior. She had a daughter with him, and they enjoyed a happy family life together until Christopher's death in 1996. Sybil Christopher is survived by her daughters.
The woman best known as Richard Burton's ex — he left her to marry Elizabeth Taylor — has died. Theater producer and nightclub founder Sybil Christopher was 83. The Bay Street Theater on Long Island has posted an obituary for Christopher on its website.
Burton details his passion for Taylor, writing in November 1968 of how the actress, then one of the biggest stars in the world, had shaped him as a man. "I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth," he wrote.
Burton married Sybil Williams in 1949, with whom he had two daughters. After his divorce from Elizabeth Taylor, he married Suzy Hunt in 1976. This marriage also ended in divorce. He then married Sally Hay in 1983.
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Did Elizabeth Taylor have a child with Richard Burton?
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Though their fiery first marriage fizzled, Taylor and Burton (who had adopted a daughter, Maria, born in 1961) gave wedded bliss another shot — briefly — and remarried on Oct. 10, 1975. Some joked that Burton simply wanted to be near all the jewelry he had given his ex.
Burton also had four children. He had two daughters Kate and Jessica, from his marriage to Sybil Christopher. Burton later adopted Taylor's daughter Elizabeth "Liza" Todd, and he and Taylor adopted another daughter, Maria, together.
Did Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor ever marry?
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are married for the first time at the Ritz-Carlton on March 15, 1964, in Montreal, Canada. It was deemed the “marriage of the century.”
How many kids did Elizabeth and Richard Burton have?
In all the coverage of Taylor's life, her children seemed like little more than a footnote. She had four of them: two sons by her second husband Michael Wilding, a daughter by her third husband Mike Todd, and an adopted daughter with her fifth and sixth husband Richard Burton.
He married his fourth wife Sally Hay in 1983, and they were married until Burton's death in 1984. According to the Associated Press, Burton “left the bulk of his 2.7 million estate to his fourth wife and nothing to Elizabeth Taylor.
How old was Richard Burton when he married Elizabeth Taylor?
Elizabeth was thirty-two and Richard was thirty-eight, he was her fifth husband and she became his second wife. The minister started the ceremony by saying, “You have gone through great travail in your love for each other.” They had been hounded and harassed, pilloried and praised.
Despite his numerous successes, Burton's career was erratic and often overshadowed by his personal life, notably his numerous marriages and excessive drinking. In 1984 he died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage.
How did Elizabeth Taylor react to Richard Burton death?
She shared his sentiments. As she said in an interview with Vogue, "I was still madly in love with him the day he died. I think he still loved me, too." The letter was reportedly buried with Taylor after she died in 2011.
All other terms of Taylor's revocable living trust have remained private, as intended. It's rumored that the trust passed the majority of her assets to her children, grandchildren, and to various charities. Taylor's AIDS work saw her address the General Assembly at the United Nations.
And, well, she must have loved playing that part, because Liz would infamously walk down the aisle eight times (to seven husbands, marrying Richard Burton twice) over the next 40 years. Her first wedding took place in 1950, at the age of 18, and she didn't stop until her last stint as bride in 1991, at the age of 59.
Regarding Burton's Muslim beliefs, Ed Rice states, "Thus, he was circumcised, and made a Muslim, and lived like a Muslim and prayed and practiced like one." Furthermore, Burton, "...was entitled to call himself a hāfiz, one who can recite the Qur'ān from memory."
In the British will, Burton left 25% of the money to be divided equally between his two daughters, Katherine and Jessica Burton, under an agreement made in 1963 with his first wife, Sybil. He left 10% to his adopted daughter, Maria Burton, under an agreement made with Elizabeth Taylor in 1973.
