Gorgeous Gabor

Hollywood icon Zsa Zsa Gabor died a few days ago. I have to admit that I haven’t seen any of her movies, although I read about her in the news periodically over the last few decades. Long time ago she caught this “young” man’s attention because of her unusual name and the fact that she was Miss Hungary before she moved to the US. And she was pretty.

Gabor made many movies, the most notable being Moulin Rouge in 1952. She also made headlines in 1989 whenGabor she slapped a police officer when he stopped her for a traffic violation. She admitted doing it as if  she had fun hitting a man who packed a gun. All in all, she was a socialite for a lot of years in the entertainment circles. She loved the limelight all her life — most of us already knew that. Did you know she also enjoyed getting married? As a matter of fact, she was married 9 times. She was quite good laughing at her financial success too. When asked about her life style, she once said: “I am a marvelous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”

She lived a long life; she was 99 when she died. That kin
d of longevity wouldn’t make the Guinness Book of Records, but it was still amazing that someone lived that many years, most of which in relative good health. Her surviving husband for 30 years, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, was 27 years her junior. This time, he may be the “housekeeper” and get the 9,000 square foot house in Beverly Hills. I understand now what people mean when calling their wives “my old lady.”

von Anhalt, as I found out, has some newsworthy background himself. He was born Georg Robert Lichtenberg in 1943, in what is now Germany. When he was 36 years old, he changed his name after paying Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt to adopt him. I could not find out how much he paid for the adoption. He was never recognized as part of the royal family, but he legally could have the word “Prinz” (German for “Prince”) in his new name.

It was reported that von Anhalt and Gabor adopted at least 10 adult males who paid them a fee of up to $2,000,000 so that they could claim to be descendants of a real princess. What’s in a name, you ask? Millions, apparently.

 

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