Liz Taylor laid to rest near Michael Jackson

As in life and now in death the deep connection of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson cannot be denied.

Fierce and loyal friends for decades, the two now are laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale.

Michael and Elizabeth met following the screen goddess leaving MJ’s concert early after noting being able to see.

“Michael heard that I had left halfway through [his concert],” Elizabeth told Larry King of the origin of the pair’s famous friendship in an interview on “Larry King Live” in May 2006. “He called me the next day, and was like, in tears because he had heard that I’d walked out. I hadn’t walked out. I just couldn’t see anything! And then we talked on the phone for about three hours,” she continued. “And from there on in, we talked more and more on the phone.”

Elizabeth was the first to call Michael the “King of Pop”.

In 1997, Michael sang to Elizabeth during her 65th birthday celebration. In honor of his friend’s birthday, Michael wrote and performed a song called “Elizabeth, I Love You,” which included the lyrics, “My friend Elizabeth learned to outlast them all.”

Their bond was so close that she married her seventh husband, Larry Fortensky, at the Neverland.

Now the two are united again. Although speculation had originally believed Taylor would be laid to rest near her parents, in the end she chose the same location as Michael although in separate wings of the mausoleum.

Five stretched limousines transporting Liz’s family began pulling up to the mausoleum at 2 P.M. for the service that lasted for about one hour. No procession was held.

Elizabeth Taylor was laid to rest Thursday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif., in a small, private funeral attended by friends and family that began 15 minutes after schedule – under instructions she left.

“She even wanted to be late for her own funeral,” a family rep said in a statement.

Taylor’s casket was closed and draped with gardenias, violets, and lily of the valley. She was interred in The Great Mausoleum, the same resting place for her longtime friend Michael Jackson.

The one-hour, multi-denominational service officated by Rabbi Jerry Cutler included a reading by actor Colin Farrell, a friend of Taylor’s, of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo.”

Taylor’s son Michael Wilding, her daughter Liza Burton Tivey and her grandson Tarquin Wilding also read selections, and her grandson Rhys Tivey performed a trumpet solo of “Amazing Grace.”

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