Taylor's love letters fetch $47K at auction

Taylor's love letters fetch $47K at auction

Apparently, you can put a price on love. At least on the love of Elizabeth Taylor, who died in March.

A trove of more than 60 of the screen legend's unpublished love letters were sold at a Vintage Hollywood auction hosted by RR Auction for $47, 652 this week.

The letters in the batch were written in 1949 when Taylor was just 17 years old and engaged to William Pawley Jr., the son of a wealthy businessman.

Bobby Livingston, RR Auction's VP of sales and marketing, says the success of the sale was to be expected since it involved a lesser known portion of the film icon's life.

"International media coverage was phenomenal," Livingston said in a statement. "The world recognized and embraced Taylor and her legacy through this beautiful, untold story."

Taylor and Pawley were engaged for less than a year and never married.

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