COURT CLAIMS: LIZ TAYLOR “LOOTED” BY KIDS!

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She was one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars – but screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died practically “broke” after her estate was looted in her final days, The National ENQUIRER has learned!

The shocking details are revealed in bombshell court documents The ENQUIRER obtained from the bitter divorce battle between Elizabeth’s daughter, Maria Burton, and Maria’s hubby, Thomas McKeown.

A frustrated McKeown made the stunning charges in a string of emails sent to Maria, 53, in an attempt to get her to drop the divorce suit she filed last fall.

The couple has been married for 14 years – and now McKeown, 59, has threatened to expose family secrets in a tell-all book about the star, her four children and Liz’s boyfriend/ manager, Jason Winters.

“Don’t f— with me or my lawyer or Penguin [Books] is publishing all the crap about your family and Elizabeth’s final years BROKE,” McKeown wrote in one explosive email.

“I will have lawyers up all your a—s so far they will be seeing daylight, along with 3 publishers that want the rights about my story of the fraud perpetrated on your mother,” he ranted in another missive.

Maria entered the threatening emails as evidence while seeking a temporary restraining order against McKeown. Maria also accused McKeown of suffering from mood swings that would often lead to violent behavior – and terrified their 13-year-old son.

The court papers cite a 2003 incident from when the family lived in New Jersey: “I was asleep, [McKeown] grabbed me by my t-shirt front and punched me in the right eye several times, calling me all kinds of names and blaming me for everything that happened to him.”

In another terrifying attack that same year, McKeown was accused of trying to set his family home on fire. The husband was upset the “Cleopatra” actress had hired a nanny to watch his son, and believed the new employee was really a bodyguard assigned to protect Liz’s daughter and grandson.

Maria soon fled with her child to her mother’s Los Angeles mansion, as McKeown publicly accused Liz of kidnapping his son. Maria filed for a legal separation, but later – to Liz’s horror – reconciled with her hubby.

A spokesman for the Elizabeth Taylor Trust said: “There is absolutely no merit to Mr. McKeown’s false assertions,” but her son-in-law is still after what’s left of the Elizabeth Taylor estate.

Court documents examined by The ENQUIRER reveal that Maria gets $22,000 a month from the “Elizabeth Taylor Trust,” plus a yearly $56,000 salary from working for her mother’s ET Cosmetics company.

As an angry McKeown declared in another email: “I want 50% of everything, including the Trust distribution which you inherited while we were married.”