Nine-times married Hollywood star who attained cult figure status starring in 1950s B-movies has passed away at her home.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hungarian-American actress and socialite, Zsa Zsa Gabor has died aged 99.
The Hollywood star, arguably more famous for her larger than life
personality and string of marriages than for her films, passed away at
her home in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Her husband, Frederic von Anhalt, said she died of a heart attack. “We tried everything, but her heart just stopped and that was it,” he said. “Even the ambulance tried very hard to get her back, but there was no way.”
Gabor suffered a series of illnesses in recent years and had to
have her leg partially amputated in January due to poor circulation. She
suffered a stroke in 2005, three years after a car accident had left
her partially paralysed.
In 2010 she reportedly asked a priest to administer the last rites
after surgery to remove two blood clots; the following year she had a
leg amputated. The last stage of her life was reported to have been
spent suffering from dementia.
This spell of ill-health was said to have begun after she was sent
to hospital suffering from grief and anxiety over the death of Elizabeth
Taylor in March 2011.
Her then publicist John Blanchette (who died in 2014) revealed that
Gabor suffered dangerously high blood pressure watching TV coverage of
the news of Taylor’s death, saying: “Oh, Jane Russell and Liz Taylor – I’m next.”
She appeared in dozens of films, but these achievements were
arguably overshadowed later on by public interest in her extravagant
style and fondness for wealthy husbands. She married nine times and her
spouses included Conrad Hilton, the founder of the Hilton hotel chain,
and Barbie doll creator Jack Ryan.
Her last marriage was also her longest lasting: she tied the knot with Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt in 1986.
He has also battled ill-health in recent years, hospitalised twice
in 2010, once after swallowing a bee and another time following his
gluing his eye shut. He was also involved in a motor accident in 2011 .
Gabor’s only child, Francesca Hilton, died aged 67 in February 2015.
Source: The Guardian
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