Trying to hold back her tears, her husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, told the AFP news agency that Gabor died at his Los Angeles, California, home, surrounded by family and friends.
“They were all there, she did not die alone,” he said.
Born in Hungary on February 6, 1917, Sari Gabor (whom her family nicknamed her Zsa Zsa very early) emigrated to the United States during World War II and made her Hollywood debut in 1952.
Although she participated in more than 70 films, it was her multiple marriages (9) and her lifestyle that defined her.
In fact, as the BBC World correspondent in Los Angeles, Beatriz Díez points out, many media speak of her as the original “Kim Kardashian,” in the sense that she was famous for being famous, rather than for her cinematic interpretations.
The main role of Zsa Zsa Gabor was to interpret herself
Second daughter of a soldier and an heiress of a jewelry store, Gabor initially wanted to be a veterinarian but her convincing mother and her own beauty impelled her in a different direction.
His mother was Jewish but the three daughters were practicing Catholics, a wise choice in a country whose leader Miklos Horthy had enthusiastically allied himself with Adolf Hitler’s Germany.
On a trip to Vienna, Austria, in 1934, Austrian singer Richard Tauber noticed her and gave her a role in an operetta, in what would be her first performance on stage.
In 1936, she was crowned Miss Hungary, but was subsequently disqualified for having lied about her age by signing up for the contest.
In 1937 he married a Turkish intellectual, Burhan Asaf Belge, and marriage, the first of nine, ended in 1941.
Her parents had divorced so she and her mother emigrated to the United States to meet their sister, Eva. Once there he got several roles in plays.
The film debut came in 1952, in the musical Lovely To Look At (“Love was born in Paris”) although being a secondary role did not have to say any phrase in English.
By then, Zsa Zsa Gabor was already married to her third husband, actor George Sanders, after having divorced hotel tycoon Conrad Hilton (Paris Hilton’s grandfather).
Later that same year he achieved his great success, the protagonist role in the film of John Houston Moulin Rouge. The director spoke of her as a “respectable actress.”
Gabor was not shy about commenting on her love life and one of her most celebrated phrases, much remembered and shared in social networks after her death was known, was:
“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.”
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