Elizabeth Taylor's Marriage with Conrad Hilton Jr. Was Even CRUELER Than You Think

On the morning of January 29, 1951, an eighteen-year-old film star walked into a Los Angeles courtroom to dissolve a marriage barely seven months old. Elizabeth Taylor came to divorce a man carrying one of the most famous surnames in America: Hilton. Reporters crowding the corridor already knew the story they intended to write, a tale of two wealthy, restless young people who rushed into a wedding and tired of one another just as quickly. For over half a century, that version held. Yet does the collapse of this marriage really come down to mutual immaturity, or did the press of 1951 bury something far darker? And why did the full account only surface in a set of audio tapes released more than seventy years after the wedding day?