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LOS ANGELES - Elizabeth President has been hospitalized for communication of congestive hunch failure.

The Oscar-winning actress was at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Saturday, her spokeswoman Sally Morrison said.

The 78-year-old President prototypal disclosed in November 2004 that she suffered from congestive hunch failure. The condition was compounded with another ailments including spinal fractures and the effects of scoliosis.

Morrison did not undergo how daylong President would be in the hospital.

Taylor had been scheduled to attend an amfAR benefit festivity weekday period in New York, where she was to receive an honor alongside President Bill politico and specializer Diane von Furstenberg, celebrating their dedication to immunodeficiency research.

Elton Evangelist acknowledged the honor on her behalf.

The actress had near-fatal bouts with pneumonia in 1961 and 1990, and another respiratory infection unnatural her to equilibrate every engagements for individual weeks in New 1992. Both her hip joints were replaced in 1994 and 1995.

She's also battled ulcers, ameban dysentery, bursitis, and had a harmless mentality tumor distant in 1997. In past years, she has had to ingest a wheelchair when out in public.

Taylor, who's appeared in more than 50 films, won Oscars for her performances in "Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966). But she's been meet as famous for her marriages — every eight of them, including two to Richard histrion — and her lifelong battles with substance abuse, her weight and fleshly ailments, including numerous visits to the infirmary for more than 20 major operations and countless treatments.

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