Elizabeth Taylor died on March 23 in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure, The New York Times reports. She was 79. Starting at age 9, her career as a screen star spanned more than 70 years and more than 50 films. She won two Academy Awards for best actress for her roles in Butterfield 8 in 1960 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966. In 1985, Taylor joined Mathilde Krim, PhD, and a small group of physicians and scientists to form the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). She became amfAR’s founding international chairman. In 1991, she founded The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation to support the provision of direct AIDS services and complement the work of amfAR. Subsequently, amfAR became The Foundation for AIDS Research. Taylor helped to raise more than $100 million to fight HIV/AIDS. She was on the cover of POZ in 1997.

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To read her amfAR biography, click here.

To read her 1997 POZ cover story, click here.