BuzzFeed revisits 16 scandals: Eddie Fisher left Debbie Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor; Ingrid Bergman had an affair with Roberto Rossellini; Eric Clapton pursued Pattie Boyd, then married to George Harrison. Stories draw on memoirs and include allegations.
During Cleopatra, Taylor was still married to Fisher and Burton to Sybil Burton; their affair drew intense press attention. The production took more than two years, and its budget rose above $40 million, 22 times its original amount. Taylor and Burton later married, divorced, remarried and divorced again. Katharine Hepburn's affair with married Spencer Tracy lasted 27 years; she wrote about it in her 1991 memoir.
The article says Loretta Young's posthumous memoir confirmed the long-rumored claim that married Clark Gable fathered her daughter, Judy Lewis. Young's daughter-in-law later said Young described the encounter as date rape; Gable was no longer alive to confirm or deny that account.
