It’s a recent autumn day in Park City, Utah, and everything seems golden — the perfect excuse for another trip to the park forElizabeth Smart, 30, and her two children, Chloe, 2, and 8-month-oldJames. Smart, who moved to the ski-resort town aftershe got married five and a half years ago, lives near the park and adjacent soccer field and visits so frequently that “it’s like a second home,” she says....
Photo: Getty; Find Jayme Closs/Facebook Elizabeth Smartwas “thrilled” to hear that missing teenJayme Closshas beenfound. “What a miracle!!!” Smart, 31, whoendured nine months in captivityafter being abducted from her Salt Lake City home in 2002, wrote on Instagram. “What has been such a heart-wrenching tragedy finally has some happiness in the story,” Smart continued. “I’m praying for Jayme and all her family that they can have a joyous reunion and as the rest of the country celebrates alongside this happy occasion we are all mindful to give the family their space and privacy on their road to finding a new sense of normal and moving forward....
Photo: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images Elizabeth Smartis speaking out about the “evil and twisted” woman whohelped her husband kidnapher 16 years ago and is expected to bereleased from prisonWednesday. Wanda Barzeepleaded guilty in 2009to kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines to engage in sexual activity in the 2002 kidnapping of Smart, then 14. She agreed to testify against her husbandBrian David Mitchell,who was convicted in December 2010 on those same charges and isserving two life sentences....
Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped and repeatedly raped in 2002 when she was 14, revealed in a recent interview that a man sexually assaulted her on a plane last summer. Speaking withGayle KingonCBS This Morning, Smart said she was asleep on a Delta flight to Salt Lake City when the man seated next to her began touching her. “I felt someone’s hand rubbing in between my legs, on my inner thigh,” she said....
Elizabeth Smart and her three children.Photo: Elizabeth Smart/Instagram Elizabeth Smarthas slowly started to open up to her children about her terrifying abduction as a teen. In an interview withE! News, the 33-year-old author, activist and mother of three said she doesn’t plan to hide anything about her past ordeal from her kids. Smart, who just recentlyappearedas the Moth on Fox’s reality competition seriesThe Masked Dancer, said her five-year-old daughter Chloe has “begun to sort of ask questions....
Still in disbelief after hearingher kidnapper Wanda Barzee will walk free,Elizabeth Smartthis week urged authorities to reconsider their decision. At a news conference on Thursday, Smart recounted the nine monthsshe was held captive. “Wanda Barzee saw me as her slave. She called me her ‘handmaiden’ and she never hesitated to let her displeasure with me be known,” Smart said. “I do believe she is a threat. She is a woman who had six children and yet could co-conspire to kidnap a 14-year-old girl, and not only sit next to her while [I was] being raped, but encouraged her husband to continue raping me....
Elizabeth Smartand husbandMatthew Gilmourhave welcomed their third child, a daughter, Smart announced on Instagram Monday, sharing a photo of the couple in the hospital with their newborn. Elizabeth Smart/Instagram The new addition joins big brotherJames, 19 months, and big sisterChloe, 3½. The victims’ rights advocate and kidnapping survivor announced she wasexpecting her third childon Instagram in June with an ultrasound photo. She and Gilmourwed in 2012in a private ceremony in Hawaii....
Photo: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images The woman who helped kidnapElizabeth Smartfrom her bedroom 16 years ago, when Smart was a teenager,is set to be released from prisonnext week, PEOPLE confirms. The news — which Smart called “incomprehensible” — has put the 30-year-old’s life as an abduction survivor turned author, philanthropist, motivational speaker and victims’ rights advocate is back in the headlines. Smart was just 14 years old when she wastaken from her Salt Lake City bedroomin 2002 and held for nine months, beforebeing rescued....
Photo: David Buchan/Variety/REX/Shutterstock; Douglas C. Pizac-Pool/Getty Just hours after walking out of a Utah jail,Wanda Barzee, one of two people responsible forabductingElizabeth Smartin 2002, was pictured for the first time since herrelease. The 72-year-old was spotted in Timpanogos, Utah carrying a salad and a banana on Wednesday, wearing a pink sweatshirt and grey sweats. Barzee has spent the last 15 years behind bars after her and her husbandBrian David Mitchellkidnapped Smart, now 30, from her bedroom....
Photo: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images Wanda Barzee, one of two people responsible for abductingElizabeth Smartin 2002, has been released from a Utah prison,according to multiple reports. Since last week, when the department unexpectedly announced Barzee’s impending release, Smartheld a press conferenceandsat down with national mediato decry Barzee’s release after her“evil and twisted”role in her abduction along with her husband, Brian David Mitchell. She has called Barzee’s release “incomprehensible.”...
01of 08 Forever Elizabeth “Everyone will have their favourites and there is no accounting for taste; and, as beautiful as she was, let’s face it she had some tacky moments too. But even those fashion fails captivate our eyes because it wasn’t just her physical beauty that we loved, it was her vulnerability,” writes Risko, who also wrote the text for the book. “She was a cat. Her eyes could express all seven deadly sins in a split second and although she could be perceived as a victim, she always landed on her feet and came back more powerful....
Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.Photo: Mondadori/Getty Even at 17, dazzling MGM starElizabeth Taylorwas fully aware of her effect on men. “Up until that point, whoever she set her eyes on, she could get,“says Charles Casillo,author ofElizabeth and Monty: The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship,excerpted in this week’s issue of PEOPLE. “Of course, we all want what we can’t have,” says Casillo. What Taylor couldn’t have — or rather who — was Montgomery Clift, her devastatingly handsome co-star in the 1951 drama,A Place in the Sun....
Photo:Getty Images Getty Images From her first movie at the age of 9, violet-eyedElizabeth Taylorcaught the attention of those in Hollywood and beyond.Over the years, the three-time Oscar winner’s off-screen endeavors became more of a focus to the public. Whileher unwavering AIDS activismand fragrance and jewelry lines were major accomplishments in addition to an already prolific film career, it was Taylor’s eight marriages — several to other popular actors, includingRichard Burton— that would make bigger headlines....
