Elizabeth Taylor is hospitalized but doing well, a spokesman for the Oscar-winning screen fable said, contradicting tabloid newspapers reports that she was in poor health.
"Ms. Taylor is fine. The rumors which began in England about her health ar dramatic, overstated and out of true. Her infirmary visit was precautionary. She will be returning base shortly," her Los Angeles-based spokesman Dick Guttman aforementioned in a statement.
"At present, she is surrounded by family, friends and fabulous jewels," the statement concluded.
A report on the Web site for the National Enquirer aforementioned Taylor, 76, was put on a life-support machine after hurt congestive centre failure. The report cited "a champion" and was picked up by Britain's Daily Mail, among others.
Guttman said he did non know where Taylor was being treated. No further details were available.
Taylor began her Hollywood career as a stripling in films such as "Lassie Come Home" and "National Velvet." She won Oscars for best actress in 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and 1960's "Butterfield 8."
She was nominated for Oscars trey other times and in 1992 was given a humanitarian award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out the Oscars.
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