‘I lusted for that young girl,’ Orson Welles admitted

claimed Welles was among a string of famous men who had their way with the teenage Taylor.

The book claimed Taylor was 15 when she lost her virginity to the aristocratic British actor Peter lawford, the future brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy and a man on whom she had a huge crush.

It reportedly happened as lawford and Taylor shared a large limo on the way to the grand California home of the media mogul William Randolph hearst. The age of consent in the state was — and remains — 18, meaning lawford would have been technically guilty of rape.

It is claimed Taylor met Ronald Reagan when she was trying to get a starring role (which eventually went to Shirley Temple) in a 1947 film called That hagen Girl.

The actor and future U.S. president, then 36 and estranged from wife Jane Wyman, reportedly seduced her on his sofa after inviting her over for a candlelit dinner he had cooked at his hollywood home.

Reagan was hardly one of hollywood’s notorious skirt-chasers, s o can t his possibly be t r ue? Taylor apparently didn’t tell friends the story until the Eighties, prompti ng s ceptics t o conclude s he invented it in anger over Reagan’s failure as president to do more to f i ght t he Aids e pi demic, her cherished cause.

But Reagan was between marriages at the time. And the actress Piper laurie claimed in her memoirs that Ronnie seduced her as a teenager — she was 18 and still a virgin — while they were making the 1950 film louisa together.

As f or orson Welles, Taylor reportedly told friends that he forced himself on her in his dressing room after luring her there with the promise of a film role.

Errol Flynn, hollywood’s consummate philanderer, was also an early notch in Taylor bedpost, the book claims. Taylor joined the director Michael Curtiz at a film screening at Flynn’s hollywood home, only to find — when the lights went on at the end — Curtiz had disappeared and she was alone with the actor.

She was still 15 and they allegedly ended up in bed after he got her tipsy on pink champagne, which would