We are sad to report today, that iconic actress and Hollywood legend Zsa Zsa Gabor Dead at 99. Zsa Zsa Gabor died Sunday in her Bel Air mansion!!!
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CelebNHealth247.com has learned that Zsa Zsa Gabor’s publicist Ed Lozzi confirmed on Sunday that the iconic actress died after suffering a heart attack.
Zsa Zsa Gabor died Sunday in her Bel Air mansion. She had been on life support for the last five years, and according to TMZ
Gabor career spans decades, but her greatest performance was playing herself. She was famous for her accented English (calling everyone “darling,” which came out “dah-link”), eccentric name, offscreen antics, one-liners about her jewels, nine marriages and ex-husbands.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, born Sari Gabor, was the first media maven and social icon. She was the Kim Kardashian of yester year, except Zsa Zsa Gabor was talented.
Despite her glamorous image, her life, especially in later years, was marred by battles between her much-younger husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt and her daughter.
Zsa Zsa Gabor in recent years:
The Budapest born actress was frequently in the news in recent years as her health deteriorated. She broke her hip in July 2010 in a fall in her Bel-Air home after a 2002 car accident had left her wheelchair-bound and a massive stroke further hobbled her in 2005. Her leg was later amputated above the knee. Yet Gabor stubbornly clung to life.
Both of Gabor’s sisters passed away years earlier – Eva Gabor in 1995, Magda in 1997.
Gabor appeared in films including “Moulin Rouge,” 1953’s “Lili,” Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil” and the 1958 camp classic “Queen of Outer Space.” She was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936 and followed her sister Eva to Hollywood. Gabor got her foot in the showbiz door with MGM’s 1952 “Lovely to Look At.” Her big break came when she was cast in “Moulin Rouge,” directed by John Huston.
Zsa Zsa’s TV career included, an appearance on “The Red Skelton Hour,” “Playhouse 90” and “Matinee Theater.” She was featured in a 1960 TV adaptation of “Ninotchka” and guested on series including “Bonanza,” “Batman” (as the villainess Minerva) and “The Facts of Life.” She even appeared on the soap “As the World Turns” in 1981.
Her theater credits include “Forty Carats” on Broadway and a touring production of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit.” Hollywood didn’t take her too seriously as an actress, maybe because she didn’t take herself too seriously.
The Men Zsa Zsa Gabor Married:
Variety reports:
She had a daughter, Francesca, during her 1942-46 marriage to hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, though Hilton reportedly believed Francesca was not his biological daughter, and the millionaire left her just $100,000 in his will. After spending much of her life contesting Hilton’s will, Francesca Hilton died destitute on Jan. 6, 2015. Gabor, meanwhile, was the great-great aunt of Paris Hilton.
Other husbands included actor George Sanders (1949-54) and Jack Ryan (1975-76), who is credited with designing the Barbie doll for Mattel. Her marriage to actor and attorney Felipe de Alba was annulled in 1983 after a single day because her marriage to Michael O’Hara, her divorce lawyer in her breakup with Ryan, had not been properly dissolved.
In 1986, at age 69, she married Prinz von Anhalt, some 30 years her junior. He was accused by her daughter of keeping her away from her mother, and it is doubtful Gabor knew of her daughter’s death.
Her 1989 run-in with a Beverly Hills police officer, whom she famously slapped during a traffic stop, was explored in 1991 documentary “The People vs. Zsa Zsa Gabor,” and mocked, frequently by a willing Gabor herself, in movies from “Naked Gun 2½” to “A Very Brady Sequel” and series including “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
Gabor was also said to have indirectly lost millions to swindler Bernie Madoff.
Zsa Zsa Gabor…Farewell beautiful…we will miss you! RIP
