Elizabeth Taylor Buried Near Beloved Michael Jackson

Elizabeth Taylor was laid to rest in the same celebrity cemetery as her long-time friend Michael Jackson. Taylor, who died Wednesday aged 79, was sent off with an hour-long private ceremony at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park on Thursday, where generations of Hollywood stars are buried. But her last wishes were respected, and announced after the service had finished. Forest Lawn is where Jackson was buried following his death in June 2009 aged 50, from an overdose of the powerful sedative propofol. Taylor attended that private ceremony. During their lives, Jackson and Taylor were at times inseparable, with homes near each other in the plush Bel Air and Beverly Hills neighborhoods west of Hollywood.

Elizabeth Taylor Dies at Age 79

Elizabeth Taylor died at Cedars-Sinai hospital in L.A. Wednesday. She was 79. She died with all of her beloved children at her side. She has been in the hospital for some weeks, being treated for congestive heart failure. Over the past ten years, she has suffered from a back injury, numerous severe pneumonia bouts, skin cancer, the pain of 2 hip replacements, removal of a benign brain tumor, and from a fall out of her bed.