Zsa Zsa Gabor

[edit] Early life

Zsa Zsa GÐ"ÐŽbor was born SÐ"ÐŽri GÐ"ÐŽbor in Budapest, Hungary on February 6, 1917, the daughter of Vilmos Gabor, then a soldier, and Jolie GÐ"ÐŽbor (nÐ"©e Tilleman), a manager.[1] She had two sisters, Magda and Ð"‰va, both well-known actresses and socialites. Gabor's mother was of Jewish ancestry and was related to Annette Tillemann, the wife of politician Tom Lantos.[2] Gabor was named after the then top Hungarian actress SÐ"ÐŽri FedÐ"ÐŽk, also called Zsa Zsa because her daughter was unable to pronounce the name SÐ"ÐŽri, which is the Hungarian equivalent of Sarah. Following studies at a Swiss boarding-school GÐ"ÐŽbor won the Miss Hungary beauty contest in 1936, but was disqualified for being underage. On a trip to Vienna in the same year she was discovered by the famous tenor Richard Tauber and was invited to sing the soubrette rÐ"Ò'le in his new operetta Der singende Traum ("The Singing Dream") at the Theater an der Wien, her first stage appearance. She had a romance with a composer named Willi Schmidt-Kentner, according to the 1960 "bio-autobiography" Zsa Zsa GÐ"ÐŽbor, by Gerold Frank.

[edit] Personal life

Gabor has been married nine times. She was divorced seven times, and one marriage was annulled. Her husbands, in chronological order, are:

Burhan Belge (1937 вЂ" 1941) (divorced)

Conrad Hilton (April 10, 1942 вЂ" 1947) (divorced)

George Sanders (April 2, 1949 вЂ" April 2, 1954) (divorced)

Herbert Hutner (November 5, 1962 вЂ" March 3, 1966) (divorced)

Joshua S. Cosden, Jr. (March 9, 1966 вЂ" October 18, 1967) (divorced)

Jack Ryan (January 21, 1975 вЂ" 1976) (divorced)

Michael O'Hara (August 27, 1976 вЂ" 1982) (divorced)

Felipe de Alba (April 13, 1983 вЂ" April 14, 1983) (annulled)

FrÐ"©dÐ"©ric Prinz von Anhalt (August 14, 1986 to present)

In 1974, Gabor purchased from Elvis Presley a two-story Bel Air home with an eccentric-looking French roof, built by Howard Hughes. There is a magnificent view of Los Angeles from the pool area. She was not married at the time of the purchase making it possible, according to Zsa Zsa, to add a three-tiered closet thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and fourteen feet high. The closet contained over 5,000 garments that were sorted through and given to charities, with the exception of her classically designed gowns, every one to two yearsвЂ"about 30,000 dollars worth of designer clothing every year.[citations needed]

Zsa Zsa is the only GÐ"ÐŽbor sister to bear a child. According to GÐ"ÐŽbor's book One Lifetime Is Not Enough her pregnancy resulted from her being raped by Conrad Hilton.[citation needed] Hilton and Gabor's only child, born after their divorce, is Francesca Hilton (Gabor) born March 10, 1947. In 2005, Zsa Zsa accused her daughter, Francesca, of larceny and fraud, and filed a lawsuit against her in a California court.[3]

In the late 1950s, Zsa Zsa had dinner with Frank Sinatra at LaRue's on the Sunset Strip and spent only one romantic evening with him. Gabor also had a relationship with Porfirio Rubirosa, a noted Dominican international playboy and sometime diplomat. She refused to leave George Sanders to marry Rubirosa, whereupon Rubirosa married Barbara Hutton (for seventy-three days) and then renewed his relationship with Zsa Zsa. Zsa Zsa claims that Rubirosa proposed to her every time he could, and would change the subject when she refused. She just wouldn't budge. They had a four-year relationship and were at one time engaged. Technically, Zsa Zsa broke the engagement when "Rubi" claimed he would break the engagement if she took a part in the movie Death of a Scoundrel which starred her