By Lee Pfeiffer
Elizabeth Taylor had been married so often, as the old joke goes, she had rice marks on her face. She'd been wed eight times to seven men (Richard Burton walked the aisle twice with her). It was Taylor's last husband, blue collar worker Larry Fortensky that raised eyebrows, however. The odd couple met in a rehab center. Fortensky, who was a construction worker, was a beefy, good looking guy twenty years years younger than La Liz. While May/December romances are all the norm when the man is older, the public still frowned on women taking up with younger men - at least in the "pre-cougar" era. The couple married in 1991 and the union lasted five years before the seemingly inevitable divorce. Fortensky, who has faced health and financial problems in the ensuing years, has kept mum about his relationship with Liz, but is now talking. He says he's speaking out to defend himself against rumors that he was always a gold-digger. He is adamant that he and Liz were in love and that, despite their divorce, they continued to have great affection for one another. Click here for more