Democracy Dies in Darkness

The senator and the star: The brief marriage of John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor

May 26, 2021 at 2:39 p.m. EDT
Elizabeth Taylor and John Warner at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards in 1977. (AP)

Actress Elizabeth Taylor had been married six times — twice to actor Richard Burton — when she wed future senator John Warner in 1976.

“After Richard,” Taylor would say later, “the men in my life were just there to hold the coat, to open the door. All the men after Richard were really just company.”