Shining Through Scandal: The Incredible Life Of Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor Gets Political

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It seems that Elizabeth Taylor didn’t spend too much time grieving the second divorce from Burton because the same year, she met Republican politician John Warner. Five months after their first date in 1976, they were married at his farm in Virginia and Taylor subsequently tried to settle into her new life as the wife of a politician. Many people speculated that Warner may have been using her to boost his political pursuits (he was a Senatorial candidate that ended up serving five terms), or if her reputation would bring down his career. A bigger thing to question at the time was if this seventh marriage to her sixth husband would be the one that would last.