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Zsa Zsa Gabor (born February 6, 1917) is a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, who, like her two sisters, is best known for her beauty and wealthy lifestyle.

Zsa Zsa is known for her affection for jewels, her quick wit, as well as referring to everyone she speaks with as "darling", but acquired a reputation for matrimony. Zsa Zsa is also the only Gabor sister to bear a child.

Birth

She was born Sári Gábor in Budapest, Hungary, the second of three daughters born to Vilmos Gábor (a soldier) and Jolie Gabor (née Jancsi Tilleman). The name Zsa Zsa is the Hungarian version of the name Susan.

Siblings

The birth years of the Gabor sisters may be fabrications to make them appear younger. Her sisters are Magda and Eva. Zsa Zsa often claimed to have won the "Miss Hungary" beauty contest in 1936, but Jolie sometimes claimed she had won it. Gabor's maternal family was Jewish and her maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust.

Husbands

She has had nine husbands:

Burhan Belge, press director for the foreign ministry of Turkey, later known as a writer and diplomat (1937-1941).
Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotel magnate (1942-1946)
George Sanders
, actor (1949-1954)
Herbert Hutner, financial consultant (1964-1966)
Joshua S. Cosden, Jr., oil heir and businessman, (1966-1967)
Jack Ryan
, inventor associated with the Barbie
and Chatty Cathy dolls, (1975-1976)
Michael O'Hara (1977-1982)
Felipe de Alba was an invalid marriage; it was bigamous, Zsa Zsa was still married to Michael O'Hara, and it was performed by a ship's captain at sea, but not in international waters. An annullment was received. (1982)
Frederick Prinz von Anhalt, (since 1986)

Child

She and Conrad Hilton had one daughter, Francesca Hilton. Zsa Zsa is the only Gabor sister to bear a child. George Sanders later married Zsa Zsa's sister, Magda, and committed suicide in 1972. In 2005 Zsa Zsa accused her daughter, Francesca Hilton, of larceny and fraud, and was forced to file suit against her in a California court. .

Porfirio Rubirosa

Zsa Zsa also had a relationship with Porfirio Rubirosa, a noted Dominican international playboy and sometime diplomat. She refused to leave George Sanders to marry him, whereupon Rubirosa thereupon married Barbara Hutton (for seventy-three days) and then renewed his relationship with Zsa Zsa.

Hollywood

Among the movies Zsa Zsa appeared in were her starring role as dancer Jane Avril in Moulin Rouge (1952), Lili
(1953), Queen of Outer Space
(1958), and Touch of Evil
(1958). She also had a cameo appearance as herself in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
. Never really considered an actress, Zsa Zsa thrived as a media personality, and from the 1950s to 1970s was a staple of television talk shows hosted by Jack Paar, Mike Douglas, Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin, where she could be counted on to be amusing and combative.

Though her movies continued, their quality did not, and her later career was as a celebrity rather than a serious actress. The Gabor sisters (competing with each other for the limited number of roles they might play with Hungarian accents) often engaged in always well-publicized "feuds," but it was Zsa Zsa who seemed to thrive on adverse publicity.

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