Hollywood Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at the Age of 99
Hollywood actress and longtime socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor, who married nine times, has died at the age of 99.
The Hungarian, who emigrated to the US during World War Two, suffered a heart attack and died surrounded by her loved ones and friends at her home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles on Sunday.
Gabor appeared in more than 70 films but was arguably better-known for her string of marriages to wealthy men, her irrepressible personality and glamorous socialite lifestyle.
Her tearful husband, Frederic von Anhalt said last night: 'Everybody was there. She didn't die alone.'
The first 'famous for being famous' American star, who kept her Hungarian accent and would address people as 'dahlink', had dealt with a number of health troubles after being involved in a car accident in 2002 which resulted in her becoming partially paralysed.
US chat show host Larry King and British actress Joan Collins were among a host of stars who paid tribute to the actress last night
The Hungarian beauty, who hadn't been seen in public for years, was previously hospitalised after developing a severe throat infection in 2012.
A year earlier in 2011, her right leg was amputated above the knee after doctors found an infection and antibiotics failed to cure it.
The most famous of the Gabor sisters, born Sari Gabor in Budapest in 1917, she pursued the spotlight as relentlessly as she did the men in her life.
By her teenage years she was turning heads in her native country and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936 in Vienna – only to be disqualified for lying about her age so she could enter.
She decided to follow her sister Eva to California to pursue a career in Hollywood.
After a string of television work and odd parts in movies, her big break came with a starring role in Moulin Rouge in 1952 opposite Jose Ferrer.
The actress starred in films such as The Girl in the Kremlin and Queen of Outer Space.
She became a Hollywood sex symbol – fueled largely by her candid comments on her colorful love life.
'Men have always liked me and I have always like men,' she told Life magazine in 1951.
'I am a marvelous housekeeper,' she once said. 'Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.'
And when asked 'How many husbands have you had?' she was quoted as saying, 'You mean other than my own?'
Her lavish lifestyle and persona outshone her film and television career.
Gabor was true gossip fodder and every aspect of her life was fair game, including her nine marriages.
The outspoken Gabor first married Turkish diplomat Burhan Asaf Belge in 1937 and they divorced in 1941.
In 1942, she went on to marry Conrad Hilton, the hotel businessman and the great-grandfather of another 'famous for being famous' socialite Paris Hilton.
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