Miami Beach home of Liz Taylor's first fiancé, up for sale
By Paul Owers
For $50,000 a month, you can rent a breathtakingly beautiful Miami Beach home that Elizabeth Taylor frequented in the 1940s.
And for $13.9 million, you can own it.
The house on Lake Avenue once belonged to the family of William Pawley, Taylor’s first fiancé, listing agent Jill Eber said. The young lovers spent time there more than 60 years ago. Taylor died last month at 79.
As you can see in the photo above from Coldwell Banker, the 9,100-square-foot home is pretty impressive. It has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and 150 feet of water frontage. It also has a detached guest house. To see more photos, click here.
The swimming pool is on the south side of the property, so it’s always getting sun, said Eber, one half of “The Jills" real estate team. She and business partner Jill Hertzberg are known for their high-end listings and celebrity clients, including one-time Miami Heat star Shaquille O'Neal.
The former Pawley estate, built in 1941 and renovated in 2009, currently is listed as a rental. It'll go on the market for sale soon, Eber said.
“People love stories with history, especially with someone as famous as Elizabeth Taylor,” she said. “You could sit around the pool, where she was hanging out.”
The iconic movie star, famously fickle when it came to husbands, never married Pawley. They broke up months before the first of her eight trips down the aisle.
Two years ago, Pawley sold more than 60 love letters that Taylor wrote to him, and a New Hampshire company will auction them next month, according to the Associated Press.
Obviously, the letters don’t come with the home.
“But you never know where something could be buried,” Eber said with a smile.
