Collector Releases Alleged Nude Portrait Of Liz Taylor (UPDATED)

by Julia Rubin | 5:45 pm, April 3rd, 2011

We’ve seen Elizabeth Taylor on plenty of magazine covers and in stunning portraits, but we’ve never seen her quite like this.

According to The Daily Mail, Taylor posed in the nude as an engagement gift for her third husband Michael Todd in 1956. Taylor was 24 at the time, and the photo was taken by her friend Roddy McDowall. After Todd died in a plane crash a little more than a year after their wedding, Taylor gave the photo to her assistant and makeup artist Penny Taylor for safe keeping. It was subsequently sold to a private collector named Jim Shaudis in 1980.

Following Taylor’s death last month, Shaudis decided to release the photo. It previously hung in his bedroom.

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UPDATE: Commenter Yourmama points out that the same image is credited on PeterGowland.com as being of Lee Evans, not Elizabeth Taylor. Both the UK’s Daily Mail and New York Daily News still cite the image as being of Taylor. A commenter on Jezebel pasted an article which says the image is a fake. We are looking into this and will update accordingly. Another Jezebel commenter links to Page 39 of Classic Nude Photography: Techniques and Images on Google Books, in which a photographer explains the set-up behind the image and cites the model as Evans, a dancer at the time.

[Daily Mail]

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Editorjeff

This isn’t remotely funny. What a bad taste April Fool’s joke … You can see the poorly Photoshopped face. Pretty lame that you would post this story, which was a complete fake when it came out on Friday … April 1st. Duh?!
vorianxavier

The story you link to says it hung in his bedroom, not his bathroom.
Julia Rubin

You’re right! Thanks for the heads up – we’ve fixed the error.
http://twitter.com/artclubcaucasus Hans Heiner Buhr

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BEAST
jjazznola

The photo is real.
Anonymous

Nice figure ,thanks for sharing
Dave

If you go to the Peter Gowland website, you will see that it is a photograph he took of Lee Evans.
Joemama

What a farce. it is a picture of Lee Evans. This site is a joke.
Yourmama

http://www.petergowland.com/Studio1.html
Jayson

Your headline says Updated. Why is it not truthfully updated then? The photo is of Lee Evans not Elizabeth Taylor. Did you not do any research beforehand? Its a shame how some people get thier jollies by exploiting a person that has died and cannot speak for themselves.
Mg32944

One look at the boobs should tell you this is not Liz

Collector Releases Alleged Nude Portrait Of Liz Taylor (UPDATED)

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