ELIZABETH Taylor, has done what most people predicted. She formally ended her 52 month marriage to her seventh husband, Larry Fortensky, when she filed for divorce in Los Angeles on Monday.
Her lawyer declined to say whether the winner of two Academy Awards and the twice divorced building labourer had a prenuptial agreement.
Ms Taylor, who will be 64 on February 27th, met Mr Fortensky at the Betty Ford clinic, where they were both undergoing treatment - Ms Taylor reportedly for dependency on painkillers.
Mr Fortensky, then 39, married Ms Taylor on October 5th 1991. It was Ms Taylor's eighth marriage, although her husbands numbered only seven - she was married twice to Richard Burton.
She has been widowed once and divorced six times, and has been in and out of hospitals battling serious illness, injury and alcohol and drug dependency.
When 18, she married 21 year old Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, son of the hotel magnate. The marriage lasted 205 days. At 19, she married Michael Wilding, a man twice her age. That lasted 4 1/2 years and produced two children.
In 1957, just after a spinal operation, the 24 year old Ms Taylor married Mike Todd who had a son older than his new wife.
She gave birth to a daughter, Liza, later that year. The marriage is said to have had a profound influence on her both as a woman and an actress, but it ended in March 1958 when Mr Todd died in an air crash.
Ten months later, Ms Taylor married singer Eddie Fisher, Mr Todd's best friend, who divorced his wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, on the same day.
There followed a torrid affair while filming Cleopatra with her celluloid Antony - Richard Burton. She divorced Mr Fisher in 1964 and married Burton.
In July 1973, the marriage broke up and in June 1974 they divorced. They remarried in 1975 and their second marriage lasted eight months.
Ms Taylor did not stay single long. On December 4th 1976, she married Mr John Warner, a former US navy secretary. They divorced in 1982.