Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made 11 classic films together, including The Taming of the Shrew and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But more than that, they created a sensation everywhere they went. The couple's obsessive affair, dubbed "le scandale" by Burton, soon consumed their respective marriages, the Roman set of Cleopatra, and the world.

Their conflicts and ongoing drinking became so great that the two divorced in 1974.Though they both moved on to other spouses (in 1976, Burton wed Susan Hunt, while Taylor tied the knot with Virginia politician John Warner), their connection continued. They often spoke on the phone and were together for her 50th birthday celebration in 1982. "Elizabeth and I will never remarry," Burton told reporters after taking her home that night. "She may marry someone else, and so may I, but we will always be drawn back to each other."

Find their tumultuous love life in this book that shook the world.