Elizabeth Taylor will bring her legendary passion for jewelry to the public via an exclusive partnership with Jack and Monty Abramov of Mirabelle Luxury Concepts in Los Angeles, California. Under the terms of the agreement, Mirabelle and its subsidiary, Techline, will become a new entity, House of Taylor Jewelry.

"Elizabeth Taylor is synonymous with beauty, humanity, talent and exquisite jewelry. The House of Taylor's incredible success in the arenas of fragrance, cosmetics, gaming and publishing, create special opportunities for our alliance. Her New York Times best selling book, 'My Love Affair with Jewelry', continues to be the definitive study of collecting and understanding the beauty and mystery of gems. It is an unbelievable honor to partner with the most iconic woman of our time and to build our entire company around her exquisite taste", said Jack Abramov who will serve as President of House of Taylor Jewelry. "Elizabeth Taylor is an enormous source of inspiration to the world and to me personally. Her extraordinary personal style has always been a guiding force in the world of all things beautiful - especially jewelry. To collaborate with her and design for her is one of the greatest dreams of any designer. With this partnership, the dream, reality and honor happens to be mine," said Monty Abramov who will serve as Vice President and Design Director for House of Taylor Jewelry.

Ms. Taylor said, "I knew that I wanted to share my passion for jewelry with others so that they could truly enjoy the thrills and pure happiness that jewelry has brought to my life. Something wonderful is about to happen."

The House of Taylor Jewelry collection will premiere to the trade at JCK Las Vegas and exhibit in New York at the JA show. The Elizabeth Taylor collections will include a traditional fine jewelry assortment as well as one of a kind couture pieces with price points of over one million dollars. The partnership is unique in that effective immediately, Ms Taylor will consult on all brands distributed by House of Taylor Jewelry in addition to developing her signature collections for the firm. The Abramov brothers will acquire additional licenses to support the House of Taylor Jewelry endeavor.

Dame Elizabeth Taylor is the star of more than fifty-five films, among them National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Cleopatra. For nearly two decades, she has been a leader in AIDS activism, including her founding role in the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmfAR), and establishment of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF). She has also been an extraordinarily successful businesswoman with her bestselling line of fragrances. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in the year 2000. In 1987, France bestowed upon her its most prestigious award, the Légion d'Honneur, and in 2001 President Clinton
recognized her with the Presidential Citizen's Medal.

Elizabeth Taylor has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, and in 1993 she received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for her work on behalf of AIDS. She also received the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Elizabeth Taylor lives in Bel-Air, California. She has four children, ten grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren ... so far.

One of her greatest passions is jewelry, and over the years she has amassed one of the world's foremost collections. By the time she was in her thirties, Elizabeth Taylor had already owned an outstanding set of Burmese rubies and diamonds from Cartier, a fantastic emerald and diamond suite from Bulgari and the 33.19-carat Krupp diamond, a gift from Richard Burton. That ring was later eclipsed by a subsequent gift from Burton, when he bought a staggering 69.42-carat pear shaped diamond. Newly named the Taylor-Burton Diamond, it catapulted Elizabeth Taylor into that rarefied pantheon of great jewelry collectors. The Taylor-Burton Diamond, purchased from Cartier in 1969 for $1,100,000, was originally fashioned from a 240.80-carat rough diamond cut by Harry Winston.

For her 40th birthday, Richard Burton presented Elizabeth Taylor with the Taj Mahal Diamond that has a history dating back to 1627. In 1969 Burton purchased the La Peregrina Pearl, which was originally discovered in the Gulf of Panama in the early 1500s, an heirloom passed through Spanish and English royal families.

Elizabeth Taylor is more associated with diamonds and jewelry than any other woman in the world. Her outstanding collection of jewelry was immortalized in her New York Times best selling book, "My Love Affair with Jewelry". This book is a fabulous display of unbelievable glamour, assembled over a lifetime, by one of the most extraordinary women in the world. 

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