One of the myths of classic Hollywood, Zsa Zsa Gabor, dies

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Actress Gabor Zsa Zsa, He died this Sunday in Los Angeles (USA) at the age of 99, due to cardiac arrest. Gabor has already gone down in the history of the great Hollywood celebrities, for his films, but also for his scandals. She had 9 husbands.

La diva I had been fighting for many years against their diseases. Remember that en 2011 he suffered a hip fracture that was linked to a car accident in 2002 and a stroke in 2005.

Zsa Zsa Gabor's health condition had deteriorated a lot in recent days. Her husband had already invited family and friends to celebrate her centennial with her in advance, because she was not going to be a hundred years old. And it has not arrived.

The actress did not die alone. Her husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt told the media: “They were all there. Did not die alone«.

Although would participate in more than 70 films, the scandals that surrounded her personal sphere, her lifestyle, and her nine marriages, have made her an unforgettable character. It was said of her that "she was famous for being famous" rather than for her participation in many films.

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Was also known in her close circle for continually using the nickname 'dahling', a personal version of 'darling'), to address everyone around her. Asked about it, she once stated: »I don't remember anyone's name, how do you think that dahling? '.

A life of cinema. The beginnings

He was born in Hungary on February 6, 1917. Her name was Sari Gabor, and her family nicknamed her Zsa Zsa very early. He immigrated to the United States during World War II and would not arrive in Hollywood until 1952.

Was the second daughter of a military man and also heir to a family jewelry store. However, what Gabor wanted from the beginning is to be a veterinarian. Her beauty and her mother were showing her a very different path.

From a Jewish mother, but a practicing Catholic like her sisters, had his first role in a little operetta, when Austrian-born singer Richard Tauber noticed in her. It was the beginning of a movie life.

Gabor Zsa Zsa she would win the Miss Hungary pageant in 1936 although she was later disqualified. The reason? Lying about his age. What the young actress and model liked the most was playing herself.

The first of his loves arrives

In 1937 she married a Turkish intellectual, Burhan Asaf Belge, and this first marriage would last four years. Her second husband would be the hotel magnate Conrad Hilton (grandfather of Paris Hilton).

George Sanders, third husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, offered her warm words of praise and admiration in his memoirs.

Gabor he had no qualms about commenting on his love life and one of his most famous phrases, much remembered and shared on social networks after knowing his death, was:«I am a wonderful housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house » ("I am a wonderful housewife. Every time I leave a man I keep his house").

The first role in the cinema

His debut on the big screen comes in 1952, in the musical "Lovely To Look At". It was a secondary role where he did not have to say any phrases in English.

It would not take long for one of his greatest successes to arrive, the leading role in John Houston's film «Moulin Rouge«. The famous director spoke of her as a "respectable actress."

Throughout the 50s, Gabor would participate in another 14 films, some of them very important. One role she is always remembered for is the one she played in  Queen of outer space, ("The queen of outer space"), where she put the face of a very scantily clad inhabitant of the planet Venus.

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However, she did not have a good memory of that movie. He said of her that it was "a horrible movie that kept appearing."

Scandals and marriages

The most remembered role in the life of Zsa Zsa Gabor has been that of cHollywood professional elegance and the wife of household names.

She became well known with a "hustler and man-eater" role that made its way through his many relationships.

His fourth marriage was with  Herbert Hutner, a financial investor who was 9 years older than her. The union lasted four years.

It was a matter of looking for a fifth husband, and she married Joshua S. Cosden Jr. in 1966, but this time the marriage only lasted seven months. Before the sixth wedding, nine years would pass. Was cwith Barbie doll designer, Jack Ryan.

A year and a half later, this marriage also failed and Gabor immediately married Michael O'Hara. This marriage lasted seven years. Her eighth marriage, with the Mexican lawyer Felipe de Alba, was celebrated at sea. Shortly after it was canceled because Gabor claimed that the ship was not far enough offshore to make it legal.

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The last marriage she contracted with the man who has accompanied her to her deathbed, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt. She married him in 1986, and he was a German-American.

In addition to these husbands, she has been associated with such well-known names as Sean Connery, Frank Sinatra, and Richard Burton.

Scandals and diseases

In 1989 he slapped a policeman who had stopped him for speeding on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The actress, who was driving with an expired license and carrying an open bottle of whiskey in her glove compartment, was sentenced to three days in prison and 120 hours of community service.

In a picture that turned the mainstream in 1999, Zsa Zsa Gabor is seen with a bag that belonged to actress Marilyn Monroe.

During the last stage of her life, Zsa Zsa Gabor has gone from court to court. In March 2005, he reached a two million dollar settlement against the driver of a car involved in a crash that left her in a wheelchair.

Only three months after that Together with her last husband she sued her only daughter, Francesca Hilton, for an alleged fraud of two million dollars, to buy a new house.

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He was now in his 80s and his health was beginning to suffer. He was admitted several times after developing leg swelling and blood clots all over her body that required her to be operated on. Due to the 2002 traffic accident, he spent the last days of his life in a wheelchair. In 2005 he had a stroke.

In 2010 he broke his hip and the following year his right leg had to be amputated. from a life-threatening infection.

A phrase from his memoirs

He was very scathing and made funny comments about every marriage. One of them, which appeared in his memoirs, was: I've never hated a man enough to give him back his jewelry.


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