Icon Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79

Hollywood Queen, Legendary Icon actress Elizabeth Taylor died early Wednesday of congestive heart failure, said her publicist Sally Morrison. She was surrounded by her four children at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks.

Death came to a shock for most of her family and friends, mostly known for Drama, Diamonds and Divorce Taylor was sorta like Hollywood Royalty.

With more then 50 movies, Elizabeth Taylor, screen goddess, was born in 1951's "A Place in the Sun", was the first head-on look at her mature, raven haired,violed-eyed beauty.

It would be captured again, if fleetingly, in the sultry "Butterfield 8," the sweltering "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and the fitting "Cleopatra," surely her historical counterpart.

R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011).

Elizabeth Taylor was married 7 times and had over 20 major operations will be missed by all of her adoring fans.

"I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me," Taylor told Kim Kardashian in a 2011 interview for Harper's Bazaar. "And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern. But sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream."

Survivors include her daughters Maria Burton-Carson and Liza Todd-Tivey, sons Christopher and Michael Wilding, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  A private family funeral is planned later this week.  (Read Full Story Click Now)