S30E29: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton to Larry Fortensky | Featuring Erica Kelley from Southern Fried True Crime

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this part two of our 2019 Elizabeth Taylor story, we pick up with her tumultuous two marriages to Richard Burton, her attempt to find something like a normal life with Virginia Senator John Warner, and her last marriage and divorce from Larry Fortensky, whom she remained close to for the rest of her life. It's hard to imagine a more iconic figure, or a more perfect subject for this podcast. Use code trashy at the following link to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: incogni.com/trashy Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Trashy Divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:07.0	My name is Stacey.
0:08.1	And I'm Alicia.
0:09.0	Thank you for joining us today for this very, very special episode of Marital Misadventure with Erica Kelly from Southern Fried True Crime.
0:17.4	We started this journey here Wednesday, making it through four of Elizabeth's marriages. Today,
0:23.3	it is the other half, beginning of course, with that dashing Scotsman. So dashing. Richard Burton.
0:30.6	We're picking right back where we left off from part one. It is the rest of the divorces from our
0:36.1	patron saint around here, the queen, Elizabeth Taylor.
0:40.7	Let's go, go, go.
0:41.8	Oh, husband number five and six, Richard Burton. This is the longest love of life.
1:01.5	Married two times. The first time, round one, it's about 11 years, round two, another two.
1:09.1	They were married a total of 14 years.
1:11.7	In a Barbara Walter's interview later in life, Elizabeth says they would have been married
1:15.8	again by the time it was all over.
1:19.0	Their highs were too high.
1:20.8	Everything was too much.
1:22.0	We loved each other too much.
1:23.4	It was so intense, almost abnormal, but great.
1:27.2	Like she even talked about, he'd charmed dogs, cats, men, women, her too.
1:33.5	And she sees something in Richard that reminds her of Mike Todd.
1:38.1	She says they were both geniuses.
1:39.9	And he was magnetic.
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