Elizabeth Taylor laid to rest at private service

Elizabeth Taylor

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Elizabeth Taylor was given a small private funeral service in the Los Angeles area yesterday, a day after she died of congestive heart failure, police said.

The Oscar-winning actress, 79, was laid to rest at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, outside Los Angeles — the same place where her close friend, singer Michael Jackson, was buried in 2009.

Glendale police spokesman Tom Lorenz told media