Hungarian-American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor poses at her London hotel, 10th May 1965. (Photo : Getty Images/Express/Hulton Archive)
"Moulin Rouge" star Zsa Zsa Gabor died on Dec. 18, Sunday, in Los Angeles. The Hungarian actress who was best known for self-parodying glamor and back-to-back marriages to millionaires was 99 years old.
The veteran actress died after suffering a heart attack, TMZ reported. She was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Apart from her acting career, Gabor was known for her ultra-glamorous furs-and-diamond lifestyle and her nine marriages, including those with hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and actor George Sanders. She is survived by her ninth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, whom she wed in 1986.
Born in Budapest as the second of three daughters of Vilmos Gabor and Jolie Gabor, the late star grew up in relative prosperity. The Gabor sisters attended private schools and were chauffeured to acting, dancing, music and fencing classes.
On the eve of World War 2, the late actress, along with her mother and sisters, migrated to the Unites States, according to New York Times. While her older sisters Magda Gabor, who had married five times, largely stayed out of the limelight, her younger sister Eva Gabor was an actress who starred in the 1965 CBS sitcom "Green Acres."
Zsa Zsa entered into show business when she was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. Her early acting credits include "Lovely To Look At," "We're Not Married," and "Lili." She also appeared as a nightclub manager in Orson Welles's 1958 classic "Touch Of Evil" and as a sexy alien in "Queen of Outer Space."
From the 1950s to 1990s, the late actress was a regular on talk shows, game shows, comedy specials, westerns, episodic dramas. She also published four books, including "Zsa Zsa Gabor: My Story" and "How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man."
Apart from the late actress's most notable marriage with Hilton with whom she had one daughter Francesca, she also married businessman Herbert Hutner, oilman Joshua Cosden, inventor Jack Ryan, attorney Michael O'Hara and Mexican businessman Felipe de Alba. An accident in 2002 left her partially paralysed, after which she eventually moved away from the limelight.
Watch Zsa Zsa's appearance on "Late Night" show in 1983:
