Francesca claimed Eva was a lesbian who was involved with actress Marlene Dietrich right and served as a 'beard' for gay TV personality Merv Griffin. Magda married four times and tried to distance herself from family antics. She had a stroke, lost her speech, became a semi-invalid and her most recent husband soon departed. Mama Jolie trolled New York nightclubs for a new husband and found another with a fake title, the Count de Szigethy, making Jolie a fake Countess.
They had to resort to any job they could get which was in cheap TV, dinner theater, summer stock and bottom feeder plays. She was into serial marriages because she couldn't bear to live alone. She was still plagued by bipolar disorder and not fully aware of what she did, often skipping medication because 'they made her fat', Francesca told the author. So she stormed through marriages with romances outnumbering offers of work that didn't materialize because she was a difficult diva prone to silly snobbery.
Magda left married four times and tried to distance herself from family antics. The more bad they tell me they are, the more I am attracted,' Zsa Zsa once said. Marriage number nine to Spanish aristocrat, Felipe, Duke of Alba, was a sham. It was an 'ersatz wedding' performed illegally and there was no duke of Alba, who Zsa Zsa claimed bored her.
He recanted with - Zsa Zsa told me she was When I learned that she is nearly 70, well ' quotes the author. Even Mama Jolie knew he was a fake and warned her daughter that she had 'swallowed a line of bull'. She told her fake prince, 'I don't care what you do, but don't bring it into my house'. The marriage was never consummated, Francesca told Staggs. Zsa Zsa was convinced she was now true royalty.
As her health declined, she never knew that Von Anhalt had cut off her phone line to her daughter and padlocked the gates to the estate when he left. When she suffered heart failure, a stroke, amputation of her right leg, he wanted to preserve her body by plastination and put it on display. He brought in photographers to her bedside to witness her without makeup, wig or beauty.
She had lost the lease on her rented house in Hollywood, became a hoarder living in an old SUV filled with papers, magazines, food. Francesca had rebelled early on against the Gabor lifestyle — a seesaw between fantasy and opulence. Zsa Zsa had learned from her own mother and became a prison matron dispensing mother love. Francesca overdosed on diet pills and was committed to a 'nut house' like her mother.
She died after suffering a stroke in January at age 67, one year before her mother's passing. Zsa Zsa lived eighteen years longer than Magda and Eva and died seven weeks short of in December There was no one left alive to challenge Zsa Zsa's last will and testament.
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Gabor once again talked her way into trouble during her long-standing feud with actress Elke Sommer. This battle reached the courts in the s when Sommer sued Zsa Zsa Gabor and Gabor's husband, Prince Frederick von Anhalt, for defamation of character and libel after the couple made disparaging remarks about the actress to several German publications.
The jury ruled in favor of Sommer. More legal issues surfaced in June when Zsa Zsa and her husband filed suit against Gabor's daughter, Francesca Hilton, accusing her of larceny and fraud. Zsa Zsa began dealing with serious health problems in , when she was badly injured in a car crash. She suffered broken bones, cuts and bruises, and spent several days in a coma.
It took her months to recover from the accident, but the resulting injuries left the actress confined to a wheelchair. In , Gabor faced more medical issues when she suffered a stroke. Her health began to seriously falter further in July , when she broke her hip and underwent replacement surgery. Soon after, she landed in critical condition after a blood transfusion. Then in January , doctors were forced to amputate her right leg when an untreated blood clot led to a gangrenous infection.
On March 23, , Gabor had to be hospitalized for high blood pressure when she learned of the death of actress Elizabeth Taylor. According to her publicist, John Blanchett, Gabor was distraught by Taylor's death, saying "I'm next. In October, she underwent surgery to replace her feeding tube. Gabor's fragile health led her daughter Francesca to file suit against her stepfather, Prince Frederic von Anhalt. The two parties settled their dispute in July , with von Anhalt serving as Gabor's conservator and Hilton regaining visitation rights to her mother.
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