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The legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79.  

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The Hollywood icon is being remembered for her kindness, her charity work and those amazing violet eyes. 

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Those who knew and loved her say she lived life to the fullest. 

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Casey Wian reports from Los Angeles. 

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In Los Angeles Wednesday, the star of Elizabeth Taylor on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, 

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cleaned and surrounded by flowers, following news of the legendary actress's death. 

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Taylor, called one of the most beautiful women in the world, died Wednesday morning at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 79. 

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In a statement, her publicist said she had been hospitalized weeks ago with congestive heart failure, 

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but she died peacefully surrounded by her children. Reaction to her death poured in.

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I always adored and admired Elizabeth Taylor.

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She was a dear friend.

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Close friend and former CNN talk show host Larry King.

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She was Elizabeth Taylor. We'll never have a star as big again. 

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Taylor's life was truly memorable. 

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She was married eight times to seven different men, starred in a number of movies, from National Velvet to Clepoatra. 

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Twice she won the Best Actress Oscar, 

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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. 

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Off the screen, the British-born Taylor was passionate about AIDS research, her fans and friends, like controversial singer Michael Jackson. 

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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, 

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standing up for Michael Jackson, getting friends to be involved in any cause she was attached to. 

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Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a statement saying, 

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"America has lost one of its greatest talents and fiercest advocates for HIV/AIDS research." 

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It's estimated she raised more than $100 million for that cause during Elizabeth Taylor's remarkable lifetime.