News about Michael Wilding

One might assume that being a member of one of the richest families in the world guarantees you a lavish and carefree life. But in the case of the billionaire Getty family, nothing could be further from the truth. For while money certainly can buy mansions, jewels, and entry into the highest echelons of society, the heirs to the Getty fortune have proven the age old adage that money - no matter how much - cannot buy happiness. That message was made clear yet again this week when heiress Ivy Getty, whose family has an estimated net worth of $4.5 billion, announced that she was divorcing her husband Tobias 'Toby' Engel after just four years of marriage, the latest in a line of heartbreaks to befall the wealthy family.

Liz Taylor wore the iconic gown when she won the 33rd Academy Awards for her role in Butterfield 8 in a glittering moment, was stashed in a suitcase at the home of a friend of the actor for decades. Although French fashion house Dior said for years that Taylor's Oscar dress was on display in its Paris archive, an email from a London auction house last year revealed the shocking truth about its whereabouts. The Mail is now telling the tale of how Taylor's gown came out stashed in the wardrobe of a window cleaner's daughter from London, who's likely to sell up to £100,000.

Elizabeth Taylor clutched a syringe of Demerol, a potent drug that can be used in her right hand, slumped on the edge of her bed in the middle of the afternoon, wearing only her underwear. Christopher Wilding, her adult son by her second marriage (to British actor Michael Wilding), was staying with her mother in the imposing mansion in Washington, DC, she shared with her sixth husband, John Warner, a senator from Virginia. Christopher recently recalled what happened the house's intercom had buzzed that day in the 1970s and wondered what had happened. In a new biography of his late mother, she asks if I'd please come upstairs to her bedroom to help her.'

Elizabeth Taylor, one of Hollywood's most popular women, lived a slew of men and a tumultuous eight marriages. However, the glitzy star became a 'drunk and a junkie,' according to a shocking new biography that was unexpectedly supported by La Liz's own family. When Elizabeth married to her seventh husband, Republican Senator John Warner (left) of Virginia in the late 1970s, she brought one of her adult sons from her previous marriage to Michael Wilding (right) to her bedroom, where she was only concerned with revealing underwear. She was f***ed up on something.' She was seated on the edge of the bed in her underwear and clutched a syringe of Demerol [an addictive drug] in her right hand,' recalled her son Christopher Wilding (top inset). It's one of Taylor's many shocking scenes from her book, Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon, that will be published by Harper on January 6, 2023.