Larry Fortensky

Construction Worker + Actress

Male

Born Jan 17, 1952

Age 61

Hometown Stanton, California

Larry Fortensky is a construction worker best known as the eighth and last husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor. Fortensky and Taylor were married on October 6, 1991, at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch and divorced on October 31, 1996.

Romance

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Caryn Wahlsprom

Dated 1999
Elizabeth Taylor
Married 1991 - 1996
Priscilla Joan Torres

Married 1972
Karin McNeal

Married
Tina Turner
Dated

News + Updates

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Pr Pioneer Daniel Edelman Dies In Chicago At 92
Huffington Post - Jan 15, 2013

NEW YORK -- Daniel J. Edelman, who built one of the world's top public relations companies and pioneered celebrity endorsements and media tours, has died at age 92. Edelman is credited with developing many of the methods now standard in the field, after transforming the firm he started more than 60 years ago with two people into a global marketing force with more than 4,500 employees in 66 offices worldwide. His son Richard Edelman said he died of heart failure on Tuesd...
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Lindsay Lohan And Vikram Chatwal: Life Is A Dream
Faded Tribune - May 11, 2012

It was date night for Lindsay Lohan and rumoured beau Vikram Chatwal in New York City on Thursday night (May 10). Posing arm in arm, the hit up the Dream Downtown hotel in the Meatpacking District to check out the Domingo Zapata “Life Is A Dream” Art Exhibition. This is the second time Lindsay has been romantically linked to wealthy hotelier Vikram. (He owns the Dream Downtown hotel.) Last fall, the two were rumored to be dating, with Lindsay getting into a heated argument with Vikram...
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Liz Smith: Chelsea Handler Is That Vodka Talking Trash About Angelina Jolie?
Huffington Post - Apr 23, 2012

"HE was the beau ideal of the public intellectual!" said Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter at the memorial for writer Christopher Hitchens last Friday afternoon. Hitchens was the world's best-known and voluble atheist. And a group where many loved, disapproved of and envied gathered to say goodbye. The historic Cooper Union hasn't rung with the presence of such a group of haut intellectuals in the many years since Abraham Lincoln spoke there in 1860. And it was the voice of Chri...
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Thanks, Liz. You’ll Always Be A Hero To Me
LGBT Weekly- San Diego - Mar 22, 2012

Front (L-R): Sandy Gallin, Hollywood talent agent, Elizabeth Taylor, Larry Fortensky, Elizabeth Taylor’s eighth husband. Back: Barry Perkins, Anton Cruz and Trent St. Louis It has already been more than a year since the passing of Elizabeth Taylor (March 23, 2011). Although she was of my mother’s age and generation, she managed to stay in the limelight her entire life. There are many things that were extraordinar...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1952 Birth Born on January 17, 1952.

TWENTIES

1972 20 Years Old 1 More Event

He was drafted into the U. S. Army in 1972 and discharged three months later.

THIRTIES

1984 32 Years Old He subsequently married Karin McNeal and divorced in 1984.

1987 35 Years Old In 1987 he was convicted for driving while intoxicated. … Read More

1988 36 Years Old Using Teamster medical insurance from his construction job, he checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic in 1988, where he met Elizabeth Taylor. … Read More

1991 39 Years Old 1 More Event

… Fortensky and Taylor were married on October 6, 1991, at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch and divorced on October 31, 1996. … Read More

FORTIES

1996 44 Years Old 1 More Event

The couple split after five years in 1996 with Fortensky hiring New York divorce attorney Raoul Felder. … Read More

1999 47 Years Old Fortensky fell down a flight of stairs at his home in San Juan Capistrano, California on January 29, 1999 and was hospitalized for two months, during which he was in a coma for six weeks. … Read More

FIFTIES

2002 50 Years Old He bought a three-bedroom house in Temecula, California in 2002 with money from the divorce settlement.

2009 57 Years Old In 2009 Taylor, with whom he remained friends, and spoke on the phone twice a month, reportedly gave him $50,000 to pay the $5,800/month mortgage and keep the house out of foreclosure. … Read More

2011 59 Years Old 2 More Events

Fortensky's last phone call with Taylor was a day before she entered the hospital in February 2011.

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