In Memoriam
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.
Legendary Hungarian actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Garbor has passed away. She was 99.
Death details
Garbor died after suffering a heart attack. Paramedics rushed her to the hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead, according to TMZ.
Her husband, Frederic Prinz Von Anhalt, hosted birthday parties for Gabor in recent years, but her illness was so severe that he barred visitors from entering 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).