Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Zsa Zsa Gabor (born February 6, 1917) is a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, who, like her two sisters, is best known for her beauty and wealthy lifestyle.

Zsa Zsa is known for her affection for jewels, her quick wit, as well as referring to everyone she speaks with as "darling", but acquired a reputation for matrimony. Zsa Zsa is also the only Gabor sister to bear a child.

1 Birth
2 Siblings
3 Husbands
4 Child
5 Porfirio Rubirosa
6 Hollywood
7 Arrest
8 Recent health
9 Apocrypha
10 Quips
11 Filmography
12 External links

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Birth

She was born Sári Gábor in Budapest, Hungary, the second of three daughters born to Vilmos Gábor (a soldier) and Jolie Gabor (née Jancsi Tilleman). The name Zsa Zsa is a nickname for the Hungarian version of the name Susan.

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Siblings

The birth years of the Gabor sisters may be fabrications to make them appear younger. Her sisters are Magda and Eva. Zsa Zsa often claimed to have won the "Miss Hungary" beauty contest in 1936, but Jolie sometimes claimed she had won it. Gabor's maternal family was Jewish and her maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust.

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Husbands

She has had nine husbands:

Burhan Belge, press director for the foreign ministry of Turkey, later known as a writer and diplomat (1937-1941).
Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotel magnate (1942-1946)
George Sanders, actor (1949-1954)
Herbert Hutner, financial consultant (1964-1966)
Joshua S. Cosden, Jr., oil heir and businessman, (1966-1967)
Jack Ryan, inventor associated with the Barbie and Chatty Cathy dolls, (1975-1976)
Michael O'Hara (1977-1982)
Felipe de Alba was an invalid marriage; it was bigamous, Zsa Zsa was still married to Michael O'Hara, and it was performed by a ship's captain at sea, but not in international waters. An annullment was received. (1982)
Frederick Prinz von Anhalt, (since 1986)

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Child

She and Conrad Hilton had one daughter, Francesca Hilton. Zsa Zsa is the only Gabor sister to bear a child. George Sanders later married Zsa Zsa's sister, Magda, and committed suicide in 1972. In 2005 Zsa Zsa accused her daughter, Francesca Hilton, of larceny and fraud, and was forced to file suit against her in a California court. [1].

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Porfirio Rubirosa

Zsa Zsa also had a relationship with Porfirio Rubirosa, a noted Dominican international playboy and sometime diplomat. She refused to leave George Sanders to marry him, whereupon Rubirosa thereupon married Barbara Hutton (for seventy-three days) and then renewed his relationship with Zsa Zsa.

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Hollywood

Among the movies Zsa Zsa appeared in were her starring role as dancer Jane Avril in Moulin Rouge (1952), Lili (1953), Queen of Outer Space (1958), and Touch of Evil (1958). She also had a cameo appearance as herself in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Never really considered an actress, Zsa Zsa thrived as a media personality, and from the 1950s to 1970s was a staple of television talk shows hosted by Jack Paar, Mike Douglas, Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin, where she could be counted on to be amusing and combative.

Though her movies continued, their quality did not, and her later career was as a celebrity rather than a serious actress. The Gabor sisters (competing with each other for the limited number of roles they might play with Hungarian accents) often engaged in always well-publicized "feuds," but it was Zsa Zsa who seemed to thrive on adverse publicity. Image:ZsaZsaGabor1970book.JPG

Because of herB-Movie stardom and her corresponding private life she was called Hollywood's "most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour" (Ephraim Katz's "The Film Encyclopedia).

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Arrest

Image:Zsa Zsa Gabor Mugshot.jpg On June 14, 1989, Zsa Zsa was accused of slapping the face of a Beverly Hills police officer when he stopped her for a traffic violation [2]. She was found guilty of the assault in a well-publicized trial and sentenced to three days in jail (and required to pay $13,000 in court costs).

Gabor poked fun of her role in the incident by way of cameo appearances in movies such as The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (wherein she slapped a police car's light that was following her and remarked "This happens every fucking time that I go shopping"), the 1993 film version of The Beverly Hillbillies (in which she claimed that the officer had slapped her in what was described as a "drive-by slapping"), and A Very Brady Sequel (wherein she gloated upon the publicity she earned from the incident).

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Recent health

Zsa Zsa was a passenger in an automobile accident that occurred November 27, 2002, that was initially reported as having sent her into a coma, but the report was in error. She was conscious by the time medical assistance arrived. She left the hospital in early January 2003, facing continued physical therapy.

On July 7, 2005, Zsa Zsa suffered a massive stroke leaving her in critical condition at a local hospital. She underwent surgery to remove a blockage in her carotid artery. She returned home on July 15 and is said to be making quite an excellent recovery, given her age, and her husband appears to be taking very good care of her.

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Apocrypha

In her biography she claims her love life began at an early age during her years in Istanbul, reportedly with a May-December affair with the fifty one year old Kemal Atatürk, to whom she lost her virginity at the age of fifteen.
As her big fortune, mainly real estate and jewelry, resulted out of her short time marriages with millionaires and because of her own clear comments referring to this, once in a while she was called Hollywood's most expensive whore.
She once said: "I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house."
Biographers speculate that her paternal family was originally Jewish as well as her mother's, but converted to Roman Catholicism in order to assimilate, although this has not been confirmed.
An Internet rumor had her being a cousin of Hungarian-born California Congressman Tom Lantos; however it turned out that in reality she is a cousin of his wife.

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Quips

"To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness."
"A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished."
"As a woman, you have to choose between your fanny or your face. I chose my face."
"I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."
When asked how many husbands she'd had, Zsa Zsa replied: "You mean, other than my own?"
"To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer."
"Macho does not prove mucho."
"Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended."
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."
"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."
"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles."
"A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it."

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