Richard Burton's Heartfelt Letter to Elizabeth Taylor

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The couple’s obsessive affair, dubbed “le scandale” by Burton, soon consumed their respective marriages, the Roman set of Cleopatra, and the world. At one point Taylor’s fourth husband, the singer Eddie Fisher, called his home only for Burton to answer the phone. “What are you doing in my house?” he asked. “What do you think I’m doing?” Burton answered. “I’m fucking your wife.”
Fisher eventually overdosed, and there were rumors that Burton’s wife Sybil attempted suicide. Taylor also made two suicide attempts during Cleopatra’s filming, one in Burton’s presence. Another night she awoke to find Fisher standing over her bed with a gun. “Don’t worry, Elizabeth,” he said, per Furious Love, “I’m not going to kill you. You’re too beautiful.” (He later recovered sufficiently to perform with a dancer who sang the line, “I’m Cleo, the Nympho of the Nile.”)