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# Eddie Fisher, former husband of Elizabeth Taylor, dies
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## Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a 1950s pop singer was overshadowed by
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his marriages to actresses Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died aged
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82.
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![Eddie Fisher, former husband of Elizabeth Taylor, dies][1]
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The Fisher-Taylor marriage lasted only five years. She fell in love with co-
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star Richard Burton during the Rome filming of 'Cleopatra' Photo: AP
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6:44AM BST 24 Sep 2010
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[Comments][2]
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Fisher died on Wednesday night at his home in Berkeley of complications from
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hip surgery.
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"Late last evening the world lost a true America icon," Fisher's family said
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in a statement.
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"One of the greatest voices of the century passed away. He was an
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extraordinary talent and a true mensch."
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Fisher's clear dramatic singing voice brought him a devoted following of
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teenage girls in the early 1950s.
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He sold millions of records with 32 hit songs including "Thinking of You,"
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"Any Time," "Oh, My Pa-pa," "I'm Yours," "Wish You Were Here," "Lady of Spain"
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and "Count Your Blessings."
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## Related Articles
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* [Eddie Fisher in pictures][3]
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24 Sep 2010
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His fame was enhanced by his 1955 marriage to movie darling Debbie Reynolds --
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they were touted as "America's favourite couple" -- and the birth of two
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children.
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Their daughter Carrie Fisher became a film star herself in the first three
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"Star Wars" films as Princess Leia, and later as a best-selling author of
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"Postcards From the Edge" and other books.
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When Eddie Fisher's best friend, producer Mike Todd, was killed in a 1958
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plane crash, Fisher comforted the widow, Elizabeth Taylor. Amid sensationalist
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headlines, Fisher divorced Reynolds and married Taylor in 1959.
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The Fisher-Taylor marriage lasted only five years. She fell in love with co-
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star Richard Burton during the Rome filming of "Cleopatra," divorced Fisher
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and married Burton in one of the great entertainment world scandals of the
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20th century.
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After being discarded by Taylor, Fisher became the butt of comedians' jokes.
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He began relying on drugs to get through performances, and his bookings
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dwindled. He later said he had made and spent $20 million during his heyday,
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and much of it went to gambling and drugs.
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Fisher's career never recovered from the notoriety. He married actress Connie
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Stevens, and they had two daughters. Another divorce followed. He married
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twice more.
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He had added to his notoriety with an autobiography, "Eddie: My Life, My
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Loves."
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Of his first three marriages, he wrote he had been bullied into marriage with
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Reynolds, whom he didn't know well; became nursemaid as well as husband to
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Taylor, and was reluctant to marry Connie Stevens but she was pregnant and he
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"did the proper thing".
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Another autobiography, "Been There, Done That," published in 1999, was even
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more searing.
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He called Reynolds "self-centered, totally driven, insecure, untruthful,
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phoney." He claimed he abandoned his career during the Taylor marriage because
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he was too busy taking her to emergency rooms and cleaning up after her pets,
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children and servants.
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Both ex-wives were furious, and Carrie Fisher threatened to change her name to
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Reynolds.
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At 47, Fisher married a 21-year-old beauty queen, Terry Richard. The marriage
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ended after 10 months. His fifth marriage, to Betty Lin, a Chinese-born
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businesswoman, lasted longer than any of the others. Fisher had two children
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with Reynolds: Carrie and Todd; and two girls with Stevens: Joely and Tricia.
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He was born on August 10, 1928, in Philadelphia, one of seven children of a
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Jewish grocer.
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