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Famously, the turbulent relationship between Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor and the Welsh actor Richard Burton began in Rome while they were making the film epic Cleopatra.
After ten years of marriage, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were divorced in June 1974. Their intense passion for each other had dissolved into drunken arguments, fights and tantrums.
On May 16, 1968, Richard Burton purchased the 33-carat Krupp diamond - named after a wicked industrialist who'd used forced labour during the war - for £127,000 (around £3 million today).
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