Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Elizabeth Taylor: Bel Air Buyers Club

[Kathy] Ireland carries the torch passed on to her by her mentor, the late actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Before her death in 2011 at the age of 79, Taylor founded the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation to fund prevention and education and to direct care and services to people living with AIDS. Ireland revealed to ET that Taylor's activism work didn't stop there. According to Ireland, Taylor developed a secret underground network to get experimental HIV drugs to patients similar to the true story in the movie, Dallas Buyers Club.

"Talk about fearless in her home in Bel-Air," Ireland said. "It was a safe house. A lot of the work that she did, it was illegal, but she was saving lives. It was in a time when it was not something to do. Business associates pleaded with her, 'Leave this thing alone.' She received death threats. Friends hung up on her when she asked for help, but something that I love about Elizabeth is her courage."...


Entertainment Tonight.

Fantastic if true, but until some of Liz's other friends comment it's impossible to verify.

1 comment:

  1. "Before her death in 2011 at the age of 79, Taylor founded the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation..."

    She did it *before* her death? Now that really is news.

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