Elizabeth Taylor’s love letters to go under the hammer
April 3rd, 2011 - 1:59 pm ICT by ANILondon, Apr 2 (ANI): Sixty passionate love letters written by Elizabeth Taylor to her first love William Pawley are to be auctioned following the Hollywood legend’s death last month.
The letters, penned in purple ink on pale pink notepaper, were written when she was just 17 and already a fast-rising film star, to Pawley, the 22-year-old son of a former US ambassador to Brazil.
Their little-known romance, during which they were briefly engaged in 1949, ended in heartbreak, reports the Daily Express.
But Elizabeth’s letters, written at the height of their affair, give an insight into the starlet’s transition to the eight-times married Oscar-winner and screen icon she eventually became.
Bobby Livingston, a spokesman for RR Auctions of Amherst, New Hampshire, revealed the letters were bought from William who is retired and living in Florida, before Elizabeth’s death from congestive heart failure aged 79 on March 23.
He said: “Before her sad passing, we would have expected to fetch somewhere between 25,000 dollars and 35,000 dollars.
“I now expect they will go for at least two to three times that because this is such a little documented period of her life,” he added.
The online auction will take place between May 19 and 26. (ANI)
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