Who was Elizabeth Taylors first husband?
Conrad “Nicky” Hilton on May 6, 1950. Their marriage lasted for nine months and they divorced on January 29, 1951. Elizabeth Taylor has exposed her first husband, Conrad Hilton Jr, as a “cruel” drunk in a new magazine interview. The actress was a teenager when she exchanged vows with the hotel heir in 1950 and was so smitten with the handsome socialite she studied Catholicism to be his wife. But she admits she never took the union seriously enough and divorced Hilton, who is the uncle of Paris and Nicky Hilton’s father, nine months later – after discovering he had a drinking problem. Elizabeth told the magazine interviewer, “When I got a divorce… I never told the court why, but he was cruel. When he drank it all came out, and I hadn’t seen that before because he was on the wagon the eight months we were engaged. I didn’t have a clue. But I thought, ‘This isn’t why God put me on earth.” She adds, “When I had to swear in front of the archbishop to be a good wife and all that stuff, I h
