Elizabeth Taylo and Kim Kardashian is set to produce and feature in an upcoming three-part BBC documentary about Elizabeth Taylor2024

Kim Kardashian is gearing up to produce and feature in BBC’s upcoming three-part documentary, covering the life of Elizabeth Taylor.

The billionaire-businesswoman, 43, was the last person to interview the late movie star before her death in March 2011, aged 79.

And now over a decade later, Kim, who has long idolised Elizabeth, will delve deep into her life for the new docuseries.

The documentary Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar is executive produced by Kim, Kari Lia and Hamish Fergusson.

It will dive into her early fame, acting career, many marriages and how she went on to be a billionaire-businesswoman, activist and advocate.

Kim said: ‘Elizabeth Taylor was unapologetically herself, a fighter. She is proof that you can keep evolving and changing and have different chapters in your life – and she paved the way for all of us who came after her with that blueprint.’

Elizabeth’s close friend Dame Joan Collins, school friend Margaret O’Brien and close friend Carole Bayer Sager will also appear on the documentary.

Alistair Pegg, Commissioning Editor at the BBC added: ‘This exciting series promises a new understanding of Elizabeth Taylor – both her technique and power as an actor, and her capacity for reinventing herself.’

Elizabeth Taylor, one of the great Hollywood beauties, led an infamously scandalous life with many men and a mindboggling eight marriages.

But as the wife of a US senator living in the stodgy nation’s capital, the glitzy star became a ‘drunk and a junkie,’ according to Kate Andersen Brower’s Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon biography.

When Elizabeth was married to her seventh husband, Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia in the late 70s, she once summoned one of her adult sons from a previous marriage to her bedroom where she was clad only in revealing underwear.

‘She was pretty f***ed up on something. She was seated on the edge of the bed in her underwear and had a syringe of Demerol, [an addictive opioid] in her right hand,’ recalled Christopher Wilding, son of Elizabeth’s second husband, the British actor Michael Wilding.

‘She pointed to a spot on her thigh,’ and asked him to inject the needle. When he couldn’t, the Oscar-winning star ‘steadied her hand and plunged the needle into her flesh.’

During the Warner marriage, the gorgeous Elizabeth known for her seductive violet eyes and once spectacular figure – unhappy with her life as a senator’s wife in the ritzy and conservative Georgetown enclave – ate and drank so much that she ballooned 40 pounds to more than 170 pounds, igniting Warner to call her his ‘little heifer,’ writes Brower.

The marriage lasted six years – a relatively long time for eight-times married Elizabeth, who was in and out of marriages like a revolving door.

Her other turbulent marriages included a brief union with Paris Hilton’s great uncle, Conrad Nicky Hilton, film producer Mike Todd, crooner Eddie Fisher, and Richard Burton.

At 18-years-old, Elizabeth married her first husband Conrad Hilton and got her first four-carat diamond ring.

They honeymooned in Europe but the thrill was gone within just two weeks, when Hilton virtually abandoned her and went on a drink and gambling binge.

He soon became abusive and kicked her in the stomach causing a miscarriage.

In 1952, Taylor married the British actor Michael Wilding, who was 20 years her senior.

Because of the age difference the couple had little in common, so little that, according to the author, Taylor had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and got pregnant.

In 1957, the same year her marriage with Wilding ended, Elizabeth moved on quickly, marrying film producer Mike Todd and honeymooning in Acapulco, Mexico.

But 13 months after their March 1958 marriage, Todd was killed in a plane crash.

In 1959, the popular young crooner Eddie Fisher infamously ended his marriage with Debbie Reynolds and married Elizabeth.

Elizabeth had become famous at age 12 after playing the lead in the film, National Velvet in 1944, but she felt abused with the MGM studio system that addicted their young stars to pills – amphetamines and sedatives.

In all, Elizabeth made over 60 films, most for the silver screen and some for television.

Several times she came back from the dead from illnesses and suicide attempts and overdoses, heart attacks, three hip replacements, and more.

‘I’ve been through it all, baby. I’m Mother Courage. I’ll be dragging a sable coast behind me into old age,’ she said, according to the author.

In March 2011, Elizabeth Taylor suffered congestive heart failure, and died six weeks later.