伊麗莎白泰勒入土 與傑克遜同一陵園

The crowds finally parted for Elizabeth Taylor as the screen legend was buried yesterday in a small private ceremony on a quiet hill outside Los Angeles.

北京時間3月25日清晨，好萊塢傳奇女星伊莉莎白·泰勒的私人葬禮在洛杉磯郊外舉行，玉婆告別了自己豐富多彩的一生，入土爲安。

A superstar who had been mobbed for most of her life was sent on her way in a short service attended by no more than a few dozen family and close friends.

這位傳奇女星的一生都處於輿論的風口浪尖，不過她簡短的葬禮只允許少數親人及密友參加。

Close in life to Michael Jackson, Taylor is now even closer to the singer in death as she was buried in the same mausoleumbuilding where he was laid to rest in 2009.

泰勒生前和2009年去世的巨星邁克爾·傑克遜友情頗爲深厚，此次她安葬的陵園也正是好友長眠的地方。

As a convoyof five black stretch limos swept the mourners through the main entrance of the Forest Lawns Memorial Park cemetery in Glendale, they were watched at a respectful distance by a phalanxof the world’s media - including circling helicopters - but only a handful of fans.

葬禮由五輛黑色豪華轎車開道，穿過前來哀悼的人羣，由正門駛入格蘭戴爾“森林草坪”公墓。世界各地的媒體在遠處觀望和報道，直升機在空中盤旋，少數影迷也前來送別泰勒。The 79-year-old actress only died of heart failure on Wednesday but a combination of her Jewish faith – which she adopted in 1959 and which demands speedy burial – and her family’s evident desire to avoid a media circus for once in her life ensured her burial took most people by surprise.

伊莉莎白·泰勒週三突發心臟病死亡，享年79歲。葬禮舉行如此之快主要是出於宗教方面的考慮，泰勒1959年皈依了猶太教，按照教義，猶太教徒必須在死後很短的時間內入土爲安。當然，她的家人也希望能夠躲避大批媒體的追訪，這才以迅雷不及掩耳的速度爲她舉行了葬禮。

It was not clear who exactly was inside the blacked out limos but it would have included Taylor’s four children from three of her seven husbands - Michael and Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd and Maria Burton – as well as most if not all of her 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

五輛豪華轎車裏具體有哪些人還不得而知，不過可以肯定的是，泰勒與她三任丈夫的四位兒女一定在其中，當然還有她的10個孫兒及4個曽孫中的大多數成員。