Even in death, Liz Taylor remained fashionably late.

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"She even wanted to be late for her own funeral," Taylor's publicist Sally Morrison said of her late client's request to start the service 15 minutes tardy, following the Tinseltown icon’s funeral at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles Thursday.

"Today, I lost a friend and you lost a hero named Elizabeth Taylor," John said. "She was not just a movie star, although she was a huge movie star and there will never be anyone like her again.

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"She stood up when no one was prepared to stand up and be counted against AIDS. She supported everybody in that, with 1,000 percent of her body and her fiber.”