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In Memoriam: Legendary actress Zsa Zsa Gabor dead at 99

Legendary Hungarian actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Garbor has passed away after suffering a heart attack. She was 99.

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8 years ago

December 18, 2016

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Legendary Hungarian actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Garbor has passed away. She was 99.

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Garbor died after suffering a heart attack. She was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead, according to TMZ.

Her husband Frederic Prinz Von Anhalt held birthday parties for Gabor the last few years, but she was so sick visitors were not allowed in her bedroom.

About Zsa Zsa Garbor

Born in Hungary in 1917, the former beauty queen emigrated to the United States with her glamorous sister Eva in the early 1940s. Shortly after, she met hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, Paris Hilton’s grandfather. The couple married in April 1942 and had one child together, daughter Francesca, who died after suffering a massive stroke in January 2015 at age 67. Gabor and Hilton divorced in 1947.

Zsa Zsa Garbor made her big screen debut with a supporting role in the 1952 film Lovely to Look At. She later starred in John Huston’s adaptation of Moulin Rouge (1952), The Story of Three Loves (1953), The Girl in the Kremlin (1957) and Orson Welles’ classic Touch of Evil (1958).

— US Weekly

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