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(#7) Elizabeth Taylor
- Dec. at 79 (1932-2011)
Elizabeth Taylor captivated Hollywood for decades, with both her screen performances and love life. She was married eight times during her life, and two of those marriages were to the same man - Richard Burton. They married in 1964, then divorced in 1974, repeating the cycle in 1975 and 1976. Taylor went on to marry politician John Warner.
Burton always had a place in his heart for Taylor, though. He wrote her one last love letter three days before his passing in 1984, and she kept it by her bedside until the end. Taylor never told biographers specifically what was in the message and was buried with it when she passed in 2011.
She did, however, share the gist of the letter. According to Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger:
In it, he told her what he wanted. Home was where Elizabeth was, and he wanted to come home.
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(#8) Andy Warhol
- Dec. at 59 (1928-1987)
Andy Warhol was a man of many accomplishments - and odd collecting habits. For years, he kept partially used bottles of perfume and hygiene products as a smell time capsule: he believed the scents could take him momentarily back in time to the period he wore them.
Although Warhol wasn't buried with any of the perfumes from his collection, a friend tossed a bottle of Estée Lauder Beautiful into his grave during his burial. The same friend also threw in several copies of Interview magazine, which Warhol founded.
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(#13) Elvis Presley
- Dec. at 42 (1935-1977)
Elvis Presley wore some cherished bling when he was entombed at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, TN, in 1977 (he was reburied at his Graceland home two months later). Buried in a 900-pound coffin lined with copper, he wore a white suit and blue shirt, a metal bracelet, and a ring etched with his TCB logo.
"TCB" refers to "Taking Care of Business," which was Elvis's mantra and the name of his band. The logo included a lightning bolt along with the letters.
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(#2) Tony Curtis
- Died at 85 (1925-2010)
Tony Curtis's casket was crowded when he passed in 2010. According to his wife, Jill Vandenberg Curtis, an extensive collection of possessions followed him on his journey: his driving gloves, his Navy medals, his grandson's baby shoes, a model of his Trans-Am, a DVD of clips from his favorite film, a single Percocet tablet, his iPhone, seven packets of Splenda, his dog's ashes, paintbrushes and paints, sunglasses, and a yarmulke from a Budapest synagogue he helped renovate.
Wearing an Armani scarf, he held a Stetson hat under his arm.
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(#12) Bob Marley
- Dec. at 36 (1945-1981)
Jamaican singer Bob Marley wasn't just an international icon in the music world. He was also a spiritual figure known for promoting peace.
Marley became the face of reggae music worldwide, so it makes sense he was buried with a few of the items that helped define his life: a Bible, his Gibson Les Paul guitar, and cannabis.
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(#14) Alexander McQueen
- Dec. at 41 (1969-2010)
When British fashion designer Alexander McQueen died by suicide in 2010 at age 40, some speculated it stemmed from depression over his mother's passing a year earlier, or his loss of magazine fashion director Isabella Blow three years prior - she was credited with discovering McQueen.
A day before Blow's funeral in 2007, McQueen asked famed milliner Philip Treacy, who was friends with and made hats for Blow, if he could have a lock of her hair, and Treacy obliged. McQueen gave the hair to his friend Shaun Leane, a jewelry maker, who made a ring for McQueen with some of the hair encased in glass. At McQueen's London funeral in 2010, Leane placed the rest of the hair in his coffin along with a letter. Leane told The New York Times:
See, everyone wants to blame other things. They want it to be so rock ’n’ roll and to say it was because of this or that. But he was such a sensitive boy.
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