Update at 9:45 a.m. ET: Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died today at the age of 79, her publicist, Sally Morrison, says. The actress died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

"All her children were with her," Morrison said.

Taylor won three Oscars, including a special one for her humanitarian work, but was tortured by ill health, failed romances and personal tragedy.

"I think I'm becoming fatalistic," she said in 1989. "Too much has happened in my life for me not to be fatalistic."

Her eight marriages — including two to actor Richard Burton — and a lifelong battle with substance abuse, physical ailments and overeating made Taylor as popular in supermarket tabloids as in classic film festivals.

Taylor disclosed in November 2004 that she had congestive heart failure, the AP reports.

Read more here on Taylor's life and career.

Update at 9:22 a.m. ET: The publicist for Elizabeth Taylor says the actress died today in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure at the age of 79, the AP reports.

Earlier posting: ABC News, CNN and MSNBC report that actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79.

Taylor entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles two months ago for treatment of symptoms of congestive heart failure.