Mirror image? Differences and similarities in the stars’ careers

Kim Kardashian

Born Oct 21 1980 in Los Angeles

First starring role A sex tape with her then-boyfriend Ray J

Acting awards Razzie for worst supporting actress in Temptations: Confessions of a Marriage Counsellor (2014); MTV Award for best unscripted fight in Keeping Up With the Kardashians (2021)

Business career Estimated net worth of $1.7 billion (£1.3 million) – she sold her beauty company to Coty for $200 million and has her own underwear brand, Skims

Activism Campaigning for prison reform, personally lobbying Donald Trump to cut jail sentences

Husbands Three, including a tempestuous relationship with Kanye West, whom she divorced in 2022

Jewellery mishaps She was robbed of a reported $10 million of jewellery in her Paris apartment; a TV scene in which she wailed about losing a $75,000 diamond earring in Bora Bora was People described as “an iconic moment in pop culture history”

Elizabeth Taylor

Born Feb 27 1932 in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

First starring role National Velvet (1944)

Acting awards Two best actress Academy Awards for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1967) and Butterfield 8 (1961); Lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute

Business career Her White Diamonds perfume was for years the best-selling celebrity fragrance in the world, with total sales of more than $1.5 billion

Activism The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation has raised hundreds of millions

Husbands Seven, including a tempestuous relationship with Richard Burton, whom she married twice

Jewellery mishaps In addition to the Krupp diamond (33.19 carat) and the Taylor-burton diamond (69.42 carat), Taylor owned the fabled La Peregrina pearl. In 1969, her puppy tried to eat it but she was able to rescue it from the dog’s mouth