Theirs was a married relationship on a grand scale. She gave him a Vehicle Gogh, he lavished her with expensive treasures, including the behemoth Krupp diamond and a 25 carat, heart formed pendant of diamonds, rubies and emeralds originally generated for the bride of the man who built the Taj Mahal. Burton also outbid shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis for a $1. 1 million, 69 carat band from fake rolex in New york that became known as the Taylor Burton diamond. America's most famous couple not only spent extravagantly, but also struggled with and consumed to excess. When their union finally unraveled, Burton told the London Daily Mail: You can't keep clapping a couple of branches of dynamite together without expecting them to explode. These were divorced by a Switzerland court on August 26, 1974.