Elizabeth Taylor loved diamonds so much that she named a perfume after them. She loved husbands so much that she had seven of them. Eddie Fisher was the fourth, and his and Taylor’s tumultuous marriage was the stuff of Hollywood legends. Taylor’s many health struggles were well-documented. The Telegraph reports that her troubles started when she was a baby. She was born with scoliosis, a curvature of the spine, which caused her excruciating back pain. However, her relationship with Eddie wasn’t just agonizing; it nearly led to her untimely demise.
Per Best of Life, Taylor was mourning the tragic death of her third husband when she struck up an affair with Eddie. Meanwhile, he was married to Taylor’s friend Debbie Reynolds, with whom he shared two children, Carrie and Todd Fisher, named after Taylor’s dead husband. Mike Todd and Eddie had been so close that he’d been his best man when he wed Taylor in 1957. Oh boy. “Mike Todd, unfortunately, had a terrible plane crash,” Reynolds told NPR. “And then, when Mike died, [Taylor] left with Eddie. So my husband did console her — very well, I’m sure.”
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Eddie and Taylor married in a traditional Jewish ceremony in Las Vegas. Unsurprisingly, their marriage was doomed from the start. “There was outrage. My dad had like contracts canceled for morality clauses,” Todd told Yahoo. “It literally ruined his career. I mean, it just wiped him out. Liz kind of came out a little better, sort of unscathed.”
