Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

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When the Shakespearean thespian met the violet-eyed movie goddess on the set of Cleopatra (1963), they embarked on an affair so flagrantly lusty and frequently photographed, that the Vatican condemned it as “erotic vagrancy.” Damn. Fatally besotted, the soulmates obvs dumped their spouses and embarked on the most epically intense relationship in Hollywood history. They boozed, brawled, married, divorced, re-married, made bad films, got fat, spent millions and, by 1975, burnt out on passion. “Elizabeth is my eternal one night stand,” said Burton. “My private and personal bought mistress. We’re bound together.”