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Liz Taylor Making Last-Ditch Efforts to Keep Nazi Painting
Elizabeth Taylor says she'll trade away ex-husband Richard Burton's ashes, and offer total access to Michael Jackson and U.S. Senator John Warner, if she's allowed to keep a Van Gogh painting that once may have been stolen by Nazis.
The has-been actress also offered to sweeten the deal by adding her two Oscars, an old autographed KFC chicken bucket and framed copies of all her divorce papers.
Taylor, now most famous just for being famous, vehemently denies that the painting - which is worth at least $10 million and hangs in her Los Angeles home - had come through Nazi hands.
But she figures that maybe her offers will short-circuit litigation seeking to take the painting from her.
"I so loved Richard and John, two of my many ex-husbands. Michael, too, for that matter," said Taylor, as her once-adored violet eyes welled with tears. "But I love this Van Gogh more than all of them, even more than all my countless ex-husbands combined."
Taylor said a deal could make both sides happy.
"Richard was an incredible actor and drinker and lover," Taylor said. "It's not every day that you can have the ashes of an internationally famous actor on your mantle. Just think what a conversation piece it would be at your next cocktail party.
"And imagine what you could do with full access to a U.S. Senator - never have to pay for food and drink again, all sorts of junkets, lots of time off," Taylor added. "And okay, Michael is a little strange. But he has this child-like demeanor, in a creepy sort of way.
"I'm just trying to live out my life in peace," Taylor said. "Those days when everyone swooned over me in National Velvet or Blue Velvet or Crushed Velvet or whatever it was are long gone.
"Please don't take away an old lady's pride and joy. How about a case of really cheap perfume, too? Will that work?"
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