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Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Zsa Zsa Gabor Biography Summary: Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917 – Present) is famous for her contribution to the entertainment industry. From a wealthy family she attended school in Switzerland where she was discovered and by 1941 had moved to the United States where she became very popular and highly sought after.

She married Conrad Hilton but when the marriage failed she turned to Hollywood where she began to star in movies and engaged in various romances and dalliances with several of the great Hollywood actors of the time.

She notoriously married nine times and would comment “I am a marvellous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house.” She bought a house in 1970 that was originally built by Howard Hughes and once lived in by Elvis Presley.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact Sheet: Who was Zsa Zsa Gabor? The following short biography and fact sheet provides interesting facts about the life, times and history of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact File Biography: Lifespan: (1917 – Present) *** Full Name: Sari Gabor *** Nickname: Zsa Zsa *** Date of Birth: Zsa Zsa Gabor was born on February 6th 1917 *** Place of Birth: Zsa Zsa Gabor was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary *** Occupation: Hungarian born American Socialite and Actress *** Date of Death: Zsa Zsa Gabor is still alive *** Place of Death: Zsa Zsa Gabor is still alive ***

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 1: Zsa Zsa Gabor was born on February 6th 1917 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary and would become an actress and socialite.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 2: Family: She came from a family that was extremely wealthy. The names of her parents were Vilmos Gabor and Jolie Tilleman. Siblings: She grew up with an older sister, Magda and a younger sister Eva.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 3: Education: She was educated at a Swiss boarding school with Madam Subilia.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 4: Career: She began his career in an operetta when she was discovered by Richard Tauber, an operatic tenor who was visiting Vienna in 1934. The role was singing the soubrette in a production of The Singing Dream.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 5: After three months training at the Vienna Acting Academy she made her first public appearance in the production.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 6: At twenty years of age she married her first husband Burhan Asaf Belge, a thirty five year old Turkish government official. Zsa Zsa Gabor actually proposed to him and amongst other lavish gifts received from her parents they also gave her a ten karat diamond.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 7: However by 1941 their marriage was disintegrating and the couple agreed to divorce.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 8: In the same year, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s mother and father were also divorcing and together with her mother, Zsa Zsa Gabor travelled to America to join her sister Eva and her husband.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 9: Shortly after she arrived in America she became acquainted with Conrad Hilton, the owner of Hilton Hotels and recently single himself. They married four months after meeting in April of 1942 and together had a daughter, Francesca. They were divorced by 1946.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 10: Zsa Zsa Gabor was a very vivacious and flirtatious person and between her stunning appearances and an abundance of charm, she made her Hollywood debut in 1952 in Lovely to Look At, in her big screen debut.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 11: Her next few roles were in a film with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, We’re Not Married! and with Jose Ferrer in Moulin Rouge in a starring role.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 12: In Death of a Scoundrel in 1956 she acted opposite George Sanders and in 1958 she landed a small part in Touch of Evil written by Orson Welles.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 13: As well as movie roles she also worked in television and often made guest appearances in other television shows such as Gilligan’s Island, Batman and Burke’s Law. She was also always a popular guest on celebrity game shows.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 14: She would habitually call people Darling and was always flirtatious.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 15: She could also make the headlines for all the wrong reasons. On one occasion she was pulled over by a traffic policeman for a violation and slapping him she was arrested for assault where during the trial she made disparaging remarks about the policeman for which he sued her.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 16: She would again find herself in court over defamation of character and libel against Elke Sommer, an actress with whom Gabor had a long standing feud with and between Gabor and her husband at that time, Prince Frederick von Anhault lost their case against Sommer.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 17: In 2002 she was involved in a serious car accident that resulting in broken bones as well as cuts and bruises and for she spent several days in a coma. Many months were spent in recuperation but she would find herself confined to a wheelchair.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 18: In 2005 her health further suffered as a result of a stroke.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 19: Zsa Zsa Gabor’s health is still a major issue as she went on to have a hip replacement in 2010 and after a blood transfusion suffered a blood clot that would result in a gangrenous infection which lead to her right leg being amputated.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 20: After learning of the death of Elizabeth Taylor in 2011 she was rushed to hospital for high blood pressure and also suffered an infection in her stomach which required the replacement of a feeding tube.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Fact 21: Zsa Zsa Gabor was once referred to as “the most successful courtesan of the 20th century.” and was rumoured to have had numerous affairs with such famous men as Richard Burton, Frank Sinatra, Sean Connery and Henry Kissinger. She married a total of nine times and her third husband, simply to spite her, married her older sister Magda.

Influence & Legacy: Gerold Frank an author who assisted Gabor in writing her autobiography said of her “Zsa Zsa is unique. She's a woman from the court of Louis XV who has somehow managed to live in the 20th century, undamaged by the PTA ... She says she wants to be all the Pompadours and Du Barrys of history rolled into one, but she also says, "I always goof. I pay all my own bills. ... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me."

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