* YOU BEEN SNAP * How Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Marlon Brando drove for their lives after 9/11 "

 

*BY FLORA LYIMO DESIGNER* 
It is a somewhat bizarre tale of how three panicking superstars went on an impromptu drive together following the cataclysmic events of 9/11.
Unlikely as it may seem, details have emerged how Michael Jackson and friend Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando fled New York on the day of the disaster, fearing that they too, would become a target for terrorists.
According to this month's Vanity Fair magazine, the bizarre road trip also allegedly included regular stops at KFC and Burger King for a hungry Brando.

Crazy drive: Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson joined friend Marlon Brando for a drive out of New York  following the events of 9/11

The magazine reveals how Brando and Taylor were in the Big Apple to watch Jackson perform in concert in Madison Square Garden on September 10.
On hearing that the Twin Towers had collapsed the following day, Jackson 'hollered down the hallway of his hotel'  for everyone in his entourage, including Brando, to leave immediately.
However,  Jackson and Brando apparently had trouble leaving the hotel garage 'because fans kept banging on the car windows, following them down the street, screaming.'
Taylor, meanwhile, was said to be staying a few blocks away at another hotel, St Regis.

Motoring on: Marlon Brando is said to have requested regular fast food stops on the road

Another version of the story reports that Jackson attempted to get Taylor out of New York, but she was unable to fly out.
Actor Corey Feldman, a friend of Jackson, who also was at the Madison Square Garden show  tells the magazine: 'I remember Michael was trying to get Elizabeth out. He was at first looking for a private yet.

'He wanted permission to fly out but everything was surreal. I didn't go with him.'
A former employee of Jackson reveals that he 'led his entourage to a temporary safe haven' in New Jersey before the three superstars took to the open road.
'They actually got as far as Ohio - all three of them in a car they drove themselves!' he recalls.
Brando allegedly annoyed his travelling companions by insisting on stopping at nearly every KFC and Burger King they passed along the highway.

Ailing: New details have emerged about Taylor, pictured last year

However, one of Taylor's close friends and assistants disputes the story.
'Elizabeth stayed behind,' he insists. 'Where she went to church to pray, and she went to an armoury where people were who couldn't get home or who'd stayed behind to look for the missing. 
'She also went down to Ground Zero, where she met with first responders. Eventually the airports opened and she flew home.
But the magazine then comments that:  'She may well have done all of those things, although no reports surfaced in the media of sightings of Elizabeth Taylor ministering to the frightened  and wounded or showing up at Ground Zero.'
The star died aged 79 in Los Angeles back in March.