Liz Taylor laid to rest

Elizabeth Taylor was buried in a small ceremony at a Los Angeles cemetery on Thursday.

Taylor died early Wednesday of congestive heart failure while surrounded by her four children at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks.

Family mourned the screen legend in the brief private funeral service at the Forest Lawn Cemetery, a memorial park in Los Angeles, where several other Hollywood celebrities have been buried, including her good friend Michael Jackson.     

The English-born star moved to the United States as a child to escape from the Second World War in Europe, and soon appeared in the 1942 movie There’s One Born Every Minute.

Taylor went on to star in films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? and Butterfield 8, for which she won Academy Awards, and Cleopatra, for which she was paid a staggering $1 million in 1963.

Taylor, who was infamously married eight times to seven husbands, converted to Judaism before her 1959 wedding to Eddie Fisher.

Jewish customs call for a burial within 48 hours of death.  

She insisted on being late to her own funeral, a request which was upheld by the mourners.

Her body rests in the Great Mausoleum, where public access to her tomb is very restricted.