Elizabeth Taylor’s friend reveals which of icon’s husbands was ‘best in bed’

Elizabeth Taylor’s shut buddy reveals intimate new particulars concerning the display icon’s love life.

The brand new Fox Nation docuseries, “Elizabeth Taylor: Insurgent Famous person,” govt produced by Kim Kardashian, has reignited curiosity within the legendary actress’s legendary romances.

Now Vicky Tiel, who shared a protracted friendship with Taylor and was the late actress’ stylist, has named which of the star’s seven husbands she known as “one of the best in mattress.”

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Tiel mentioned People magazine that Taylor’s favourite lover was Richard Burton, the acclaimed actor whom the actress married and divorced twice after first falling in love on the set of the 1963 movie “Cleopatra.”

‘Absolute. There isn’t any doubt about that. Her lifelong lover was Richard,’ Tiel mentioned.

Elizabeth Taylor’s shut buddy revealed which of the icon’s seven husbands was the ‘greatest in mattress’. (Archive Pictures / Getty Pictures)

“She was plenty of enjoyable,” Tiel continued. “She took intercourse very flippantly. She taught me so much too; when one thing dangerous occurs, you simply roll your eyes, smile and don’t fret about it. She was all the time smiling and comfortable. She was a really, very comfortable particular person.”

Tiel recalled that though the couple finally didn’t keep collectively, their love for one another endured.

The style designer recalled having a dialog with Burton shortly earlier than he died of a mind haemorrhage in August 1984 on the age of 58. Tiel advised Those who he shared a message that he wished to offer to Taylor her and her then-husband, make-up artist Ron Berkeley.

“Earlier than Richard died, I feel two days earlier than, he known as me,” Tiel remembers. “He mentioned, ‘I do not suppose I will dwell lengthy, and I simply wished you and Ron to inform Elizabeth that I’ll all the time love her greater than something. I like her perpetually and ever. And I miss her and I like her with all my coronary heart.'”

Vicky Tiel mentioned Richard Burton was Taylor’s ‘lover for all times’. (Getty Pictures)

Tiel mentioned she visited Taylor at her Bel-Air dwelling not lengthy after Burton’s dying.

“She’s taking a shower,” Tiel remembered. “She mentioned, ‘Properly, come within the bathtub.’ So I’m going to the lavatory. She has a bath and there’s a border all the way in which round her bathtub. They’re all frames with diamond edges; not likely, however I imply stunning frames, perhaps 20 frames across the bathtub.

“They have been all photos of her and Richard,” she mentioned.

Throughout her lifetime, Taylor was married to resort inheritor Conrad “Nicky” Hilton Jr. from 1950 to 1951, actor Michael Wilding from 1952 to 1957, producer Mike Todd from 1957 till his dying in 1958, singer Eddie Fisher from 1959 to 1964, Burton from 1964 to 1974 and once more from 1975 to 1976, politician John Warner from 1976 to 1982, and development employee Larry Fortensky from 1991 to 1996.

Over three episodes, the docuseries delves into key facets of Taylor’s life, together with every of her marriages, and particularly highlights Taylor and Burton’s whirlwind romance, which grew to become one among Hollywood’s most well-known love matches.

Burton and Taylor did not fall in love at first sight after they first met at a celebration, a decade earlier than they starred collectively in “Cleopatra.” Taylor was conscious of Burton’s popularity as a womanizer and stayed away from the ‘1984’ star.

The Kim Kardashian-produced three-part collection, “Elizabeth Taylor: Insurgent Famous person,” streamed completely on Fox Nation on October 6, 2025. (Silver Display screen Assortment/Getty Pictures; Todd Owyoung/NBC by way of Getty Pictures)

Within the docuseries, Joan Collins, who co-starred with Burton in 1957’s “Sea Spouse,” recalled that the actor was recognized for “sleeping with all his main girls.”

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“All of the actors made the strikes on actresses,” Collins remembers. “They thought-about it their divine proper.”

She continued, “And so when he attacked me and I turned him down, he mentioned, ‘Oh, you may’t do this. You broke my file.'”

Nonetheless, sparks flew between Burton and Taylor whereas the 2 have been filming “Cleopatra,” during which she performed the titular Egyptian queen and he portrayed Mark Antony, the Roman normal and Cleopatra’s lover.

In archival footage from the documentary, Burton recalled assembly Taylor on the movie set.

“There was a wierd sphinx-like creature,” he mentioned. “And I believed she was most likely probably the most unapproachable, unreachable, and noteworthy creature I had ever seen. So I attempted to get her consideration.”

In a voiceover from an archive clip, Taylor recalled the second she fell in love with Burton.

“The primary day on set he was hungover and really fragile, and his fingers have been shaking,” she recollects. “He requested me to carry a espresso cup in entrance of his lips, and I used to be off.”

Taylor and Burton fell in love on the set of ‘Cleopatra.’ (Getty Pictures)

The couple started a torrid and extremely publicized extramarital affair. On the time, Taylor was married to Fisher and Burton to actress Sybil Burton, with whom he shared two daughters, Kate and Jessica.

Taylor’s son Christopher Wilding, who gave his first-ever on-camera interview within the docuseries, recalled considering that his mom was sad in her marriage to Fisher on the time.

“It wasn’t a traditional scenario, and at that second her perspective was, ‘F… it. I will do it my manner, and if you happen to do not prefer it, too dangerous.'” he mentioned.

“The Richard factor simply occurred,” mentioned Jorjanne Strumme, Taylor’s assistant and buddy.

“And it occurred in such a passionate manner,” she added. “It was galvanic and explosive and unmistakable.”

Collins famous that Fisher, who had beforehand had an affair with Taylor whereas married to Debbie Reynolds, was conscious of his spouse’s infidelity with Burton.

Taylor sits on Eddie Fisher’s lap on the set of “Cleopatra” as Burton appears on. Taylor would quickly depart Fisher for Burton. (Getty Pictures)

“There was clearly one thing happening with Richard and Elizabeth, and Eddie knew about it,” she mentioned.

“I bear in mind it was a giant dinner. Burton was there and it was all extraordinarily awkward. Eddie was making an attempt to make up for this Cartier bracelet, and she or he form of tossed it apart. I mentioned, ‘I will take it,'” she recalled with fun.

“Everybody was shocked as a result of it was so apparent,” Collins added. “Eddie Fisher, he simply seemed very down and crushed – a crushed man.”

Taylor and Burton’s affair obtained widespread media consideration, and the scandal caught the eye of the Vatican, which condemned the co-stars and publicly denounced their “erotic vagrancy.”

Within the docuseries, Christopher recalled how media protection of his mom’s scandalous romance affected him. Taylor shared Christopher and son Michael along with her second husband, Michael Wilding.

“It was an enormous grind,” he mentioned. “After I went to boarding college, I discovered issues about what they have been as much as by studying about it within the newspaper. All the opposite youngsters know these tales. I heard, , disagreeable taunts. ‘Properly, your mom simply likes to sleep with plenty of boys’ or one thing like that.”

“It was… awkward,” he continued. “After I was older, she expressed her remorse. She felt like she hadn’t been an important mom. I feel she was mom. It wasn’t simple to do.”

The couple is pictured on their wedding ceremony day in 1964. (Getty Pictures)

In her interview, Kardashian mentioned how mother and father’ fame can affect their youngsters.

“You do not plan this life to your youngsters,” she mentioned. “You are an grownup, you may deal with it. You do not know which of your infants can actually deal with it, so I feel it is actually exhausting for a household. I feel when individuals divulge heart’s contents to that exploration, it is actually exhausting in your soul.”

In 1964, each Taylor and Burton divorced their spouses and married one another. The 2 grew to become one among Tinseltown’s most profitable energy {couples}, showing collectively in eleven movies, together with “The VIPs,” “The Sandpiper,” “Anne of the Thousand Days,” “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Throughout their first marriage, the 2, dubbed “Liz and Dick” by the media, adopted daughter Maria. Along with Maria, Christopher and Michael, Taylor was additionally mom to daughter Liza, whom she shared along with her third husband, Mike Todd.

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The 2 married and divorced twice. (Getty Pictures)

Taylor and Burton’s marriage was recognized for being passionate and stuffed with drama. The 2 first divorced in June 1974, however they quickly reconciled. In October 1975, they married once more in a secret ceremony in Botswana.

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“We exchanged rings, exchanged appears and acquired married once more, again the place we belonged. We all the time belonged,” Taylor wrote in a diary, in response to Kate Andersen Brower, who wrote the 2022 biography “Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamor of an Icon.”

Three weeks earlier than his dying, Burton mentioned he and Taylor “by no means actually broke up” and “by no means will.” (API/Gammi/Gamma-Rapho by way of Getty Pictures)

But the couple divorced once more lower than ten months later in July 1976. ‘I like Richard with each fiber of my soul, however we won’t be collectively. We’re too mutually harmful,” Taylor mentioned.

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Three weeks earlier than his dying, Burton advised his brother Graham: ‘Elizabeth and I by no means actually parted methods. And that can by no means occur.’

Burton wrote Taylor one final letter days earlier than he died. He described how he was happiest along with her. Burton additionally questioned if they could have had one other likelihood collectively. Taylor saved the notice in a bedside desk till her dying at age 79 in March 2011.

“Elizabeth Taylor: Insurgent Famous person” is now streaming on Fox Nation.