Confessions of a HOLLYWOOD BUTLER

A CHANCE MEETING HELPED A FORMER BRITISH BANK ROBBER BECOME A CONFIDANTE TO THE STARS

- Louise A. Barile, Lindsay Hoffman

Elizabeth Taylor invited Terry Moogan to have a drink with her as she waited for Richard Burton. The famed couple were sailing together on the Queen Elizabeth II, but Richard often left her behind to gamble at the casino. “She was dressed in purple lingerie,” Terry, who served her a vodka and tonic, tells Closer. “She said, ‘Come and sit down. You're beautiful.”

In his life, Terry has worn many hats. He’s been a juvenile delinquent, a boxer, a bank robber, and, most remarkably, a chef and butler to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Clint Eastwood, Joan Rivers and Farrah Fawcett. “Nobody knew about my past,” says Terry, who tells his story in the recent memoir Liverpool Bank Robber To Hollywood Butler.

He was straddling the line between his criminal past and a brighter future when he began working on the