The legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79.
The Hollywood icon is being remembered for her kindness, her charity work and those amazing violet eyes.
Those who knew and loved her say she lived life to the fullest.
Casey Wian reports from Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles Wednesday, the star of Elizabeth Taylor on Hollywood's Walk of Fame,
cleaned and surrounded by flowers, following news of the legendary actress's death.
Taylor, called one of the most beautiful women in the world, died Wednesday morning at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 79.
In a statement, her publicist said she had been hospitalized weeks ago with congestive heart failure,
but she died peacefully surrounded by her children. Reaction to her death poured in.
I always adored and admired Elizabeth Taylor.
She was a dear friend.
Close friend and former CNN talk show host Larry King.
She was Elizabeth Taylor. We'll never have a star as big again.
Taylor's life was truly memorable.
She was married eight times to seven different men, starred in a number of movies, from National Velvet to Clepoatra.
Twice she won the Best Actress Oscar,
for her role as a call girl in Butterfield 8 in 1960 and an abusive wife in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966.
Off the screen, the British-born Taylor was passionate about AIDS research, her fans and friends, like controversial singer Michael Jackson.
When the AIDS crisis hit, she was the first one really of celebrity status to stand up for it, pleading with the president to get involved,
standing up for Michael Jackson, getting friends to be involved in any cause she was attached to.
Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a statement saying,
"America has lost one of its greatest talents and fiercest advocates for HIV/AIDS research."
It's estimated she raised more than $100 million for that cause during Elizabeth Taylor's remarkable lifetime.