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Naked Elizabeth Taylor picture: Was that actually her?
Said to be the only known picture of Liz Taylor posing nude, it made headlines around the world when it was released days after she died.
But last night there were claims that the sensational photograph may not be of the actress after all, but instead shows a little-known U.S. model and dancer.
It was included in a 2001 book by Peter Gowland, an early exponent of pin-up photography, called Classic Nude Photography, Techniques And Images with the model captioned as Lee Evans.
Doubts: The picture was circulated across the world and it was claimed that the woman in it was screen legend Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth died in March, aged 79, and when the photo emerged last week it was said to be of her at 24.
But according to Gowland’s book it was taken in 1940 when she would have been eight.
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Gowland, who died last year aged 93, also noted in 2001 that the negative had been missing ‘for years’.
His widow Alice, of Santa Monica, California, told a Sunday newspaper: ‘It’s an absolute falsehood that it is Elizabeth Taylor.’
Elizabeth Taylor in a more iconic pose. She would have been aged eigh (right) when the picture of Lee Evans was taken by photograher Peter Gowland
The photo was said to have been an engagement gift from Miss Taylor in 1956 to her third husband Michael Todd, and taken by her friend the actor and photographer Roddy McDowall.
When Mr Todd died in a plane crash 13 months after their wedding, a devastated Miss Taylor was said to have given the photograph to her make-up artist Penny Taylor, before it was bought by private collector Jim Shaudis in 1980.
He died in 2006, but his widow Karyn said she still believed the photograph showed Miss Taylor.
The U.S. photographic agency which released the picture has suspended its distribution while there is a ‘possible challenge to the veracity’.
Some of the actresses jewellery and other memorabilia will be sold off at auction in the coming months
ELIZABETH TAYLOR MEMORABILIA TO BE SOLD OFF AT AUCTION
The renowned collection of jewellery, works of art, clothing and other memorabilia will be sold at a series of auctions.
Miss Taylor's possessions will be sold in a series of sales by Christie's auction house and details and timings of the sale will be announced at a later date.
Stephen Lash, chairman emeritus of Christie's Americas, and Marc Porter, chairman of Christie's Americas have both worked with Taylor and her family over the past two decades.
The auction house said it was honoured to selling the collection of 'this world renowned film legend, humanitarian and taste maker'.
Miss Taylor, known for her beauty, love of diamonds, eight marriages and work as an AIDS activist, died of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles on March 23 and was buried the following day.
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