Conrad Hilton
Who was the spouse of Zsa Zsa Gabor from Apr 1942 to 1947?
Zsa Zsa Gabor Zsa Zsa Gabor ( , ; born Sári Gábor ; February 6 , 1917 – December 18 , 2016 ) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite . Her sisters were actresses Eva and Magda Gabor . Gabor began her stage career in Vienna and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936 . She emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1941 . Becoming a sought-after actress with European flair and style , she was considered to have a personality that exuded charm and grace . Her first film role was a supporting role in Lovely to Look At . She later acted in Were Not Married ! and played one of her few leading roles in the John Huston-directed film , Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ) . Huston would later describe her as a creditable actress . Outside her acting career , Gabor was known for her extravagant Hollywood lifestyle , her glamorous personality , and her many marriages . In total , Gabor had nine husbands , including hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and actor George Sanders . She once stated , Men have always liked me and I have always liked men . But I like a mannish man , a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman—not just a man with muscles . Early life and ancestry . Zsa Zsa Gabor was born Sári Gábor on February 6 , 1917 , in Budapest , Hungary , then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . The middle of three daughters , her parents were Vilmos , a soldier , and Jolie Gabor ( née Janka Tilleman ) . Her parents were both of Jewish ancestry . While her mother escaped Hungary during the same period of the Nazi occupation of Budapest , Gabor left the country in 1941 , three years prior to the takeover . Gabors elder sister , Magda , eventually became an American socialite and her younger sister , Eva , became an American actress and businesswoman . The Gabor sisters were first cousins of Annette Lantos , wife of California Congressman Tom Lantos ( D-CA ) . Career . According to Gabor , she was discovered by operatic tenor Richard Tauber on a trip to Vienna in 1934 , following her time as a student at a Swiss boarding school . Tauber invited Gabor to sing the soubrette role in his new operetta , Der singende Traum ( The Singing Dream ) , at the Theater an der Wien . This would mark her first stage appearance . In 1936 , she was crowned Miss Hungary . In 1944 , she co-wrote a novel with writer Victoria Wolf entitled Every Man For Himself . According to Gabor , the fictional story was derived , in a small part , from Gabors life experiences . The book was subsequently bought by an American magazine . In 1949 , Gabor declined an offer to play the leading role in a film version of the classic book Lady Chatterleys Lover . According to an article written for the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1949 , she turned down the role of Lady Chatterley due to the storys controversial theme . Her more serious film acting credits include Moulin Rouge , Lovely to Look At , and Were Not Married! , all from 1952 , and 1953s Lili . In 1958 , she ran the gamut of moviemaking , from Touch of Evil to the camp oddity Queen of Outer Space . Later , she appeared in such films as Won Ton Ton , the Dog Who Saved Hollywood ( 1976 ) and Frankensteins Great Aunt Tillie ( 1984 ) . She did cameos for ( 1987 ) , The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1993 ) , and A Very Brady Sequel ( 1996 ) , as well as voicing a character in the animated Happily Ever After ( 1990 ) . She was also a regular guest on television shows , appearing with Milton Berle , Jack Paar , Johnny Carson , Howard Stern , David Frost , Arsenio Hall , Phil Donahue , and Joan Rivers . She was a guest on the Bob Hope specials , the Dean Martin Roasts , Hollywood Squares , Rowan & Martins Laugh-In , and Its Garry Shandlings Show . In 1968 , she appeared in the role of Minerva on an episode of Batman , becoming the shows final special guest villain when it was cancelled soon after . She appeared on the Late Night show where she told host David Letterman about her blind date with Henry Kissinger , which was arranged by Richard Nixon . Author Gerold Frank , who helped Gabor write her autobiography in 1960 , described his impressions of her : Zsa Zsa is unique . Shes a woman from the court of Louis XV who has somehow managed to live in the 20th century , undamaged by the PTA .. . She says she wants to be all the Pompadours and Du Barrys of history rolled into one , but she also says , I always goof . I pay all my own bills . .. . I want to choose the man . I do not permit men to choose me . In his autobiography , television host Merv Griffin , who was known to spend time with Gabors younger sister Eva socially , wrote of the Gabor sisters initial presence in New York and Hollywood : All these years later , its hard to describe the phenomenon of the three glamorous Gabor girls and their ubiquitous mother . They burst onto the society pages and into the gossip columns so suddenly , and with such force , it was as if theyd been dropped out of the sky . In 1973 , she was the guest roastee on the Dean Martin Roast show, ; and , in 1998 , film historian Neal Gabler called her kind of celebrity The Zsa Zsa Factor . Personal life . Gabor was married nine times . She was divorced seven times , and one marriage was annulled . She wrote in her autobiography , All in all — I love being married … I love the companionship , I love cooking for a man ( simple things like chicken soup and my special Draculas goulash from Hungary ) , and spending all my time with a man . Of course I love being in love — but it is marriage that really fulfills me . But not in every case . Her husbands , in chronological order , were : - Burhan Asaf Belge ( May 17 , 19351941 ; divorced ) - Conrad Hilton ( April 10 , 1942 – 1947 ; divorced ) Conrads decision to change my name from Zsa Zsa to Georgia symbolized everything my marriage to him would eventually become . My Hungarian roots were to be ripped out and my background ignored . .. . I soon discovered that my marriage to Conrad meant the end of my freedom . My own needs were completely ignored : I belonged to Conrad . - George Sanders ( April 2 , 1949 – April 2 , 1954 ; divorced ) - Herbert Hutner ( November 5 , 1962 – March 3 , 1966 ; divorced ) Herbert took away my will to work . With his kindness and generosity , he almost annihilated my drive . I have always been the kind of woman who could never be satisfied by money — only excitement and achievement . - Joshua S . Cosden Jr . ( March 9 , 1966 – October 18 , 1967 ; divorced ) - Jack Ryan ( January 21 , 1975 – August 24 , 1976 ; divorced ) - Michael OHara ( August 27 , 1976 – 1983 ; divorced ) - Felipe de Alba ( April 13–14 , 1983 ; annulled ) - Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt ( August 14 , 1986 – December 18 , 2016 ; her death ) Gabors divorces inspired her to make numerous quotable puns and innuendos about her marital ( and extramarital ) history . She commented : I am a marvelous housekeeper : Every time I leave a man I keep his house . Gabor later claimed to have had a sexual encounter with her stepson , Nicky . In 1970 , Gabor purchased a nearly 9,000-square-foot Hollywood Regency-style home in Bel Air , which once belonged to Elvis Presley . It was built by Howard Hughes and featured a copper French style roof . Gabors only child , daughter Constance Francesca Hilton , was born on March 10 , 1947 . According to Gabors 1991 autobiography , One Lifetime Is Not Enough , her pregnancy resulted from rape by then-husband Conrad Hilton . She was the only Gabor sister who had a child . In 2005 , a lawsuit was filed accusing her daughter of larceny and fraud , alleging that she had forged her signature to get a US$2 million loan on her mothers Bel Air house . However , the Los Angeles County Superior Court , Santa Monica , threw out the case due to Gabors failure to appear in court , or to sign an affidavit that she indeed was a co-plaintiff on the original lawsuit filed by her husband , Frédéric von Anhalt . Francesca Hilton died in 2015 at the age of 67 from a stroke . Gabors husband never told her about her daughters death , out of concern for her physical and emotional state . Gabor and her last husband , Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt , adopted at least ten adult males who paid them a fee of up to $2,000,000 to become descendants by adoption of Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt . Prinz von Anhalt had himself paid Marie-Auguste to adopt him when he was 36 years old . While Gabors parents were Jewish , she was a practicing Catholic . Legal and financial difficulties . On June 14 , 1989 , in Beverly Hills , California , Gabor was accused of slapping the face of Beverly Hills police officer Paul Kramer when he stopped her for a traffic violation at 8551 Olympic Boulevard . At trial three months later , a jury convicted her of slapping Kramer . They also found her guilty of driving without a license and possessing an open container of alcohol—a flask of Jack Daniels—in her $215,000 Rolls-Royce , but acquitted her of the charge of disobeying Kramer when she drove away from the traffic stop . On October 25 , 1989 , Beverly Hills Municipal Judge Charles G . Rubin sentenced Gabor to serve three days in jail , to pay fines and restitution totaling $12,937 , to perform 120 hours of community service , and to undergo a psychiatric evaluation . On June 14 , 1990 , Gabor dropped her conviction appeal and agreed to serve her sentence . However , she refused to take part in community service and served three days in jail from July 27 to July 30 , 1990 . Gabor had a long-running feud with German-born actress Elke Sommer , that began in 1984 when both appeared on Circus of the Stars , and escalated into a multimillion-dollar libel suit by 1993 . The suit resulted in an order for Gabor and her husband to pay Sommer $3.3 million in general and punitive damages . On January 25 , 2009 , the Associated Press reported that her attorney stated that forensic accountants determined that Gabor may have lost as much as $10 million invested in Bernie Madoffs company , possibly through a third-party money manager . Later life and health . On November 27 , 2002 , Gabor was a front seat passenger in an automobile crash on Sunset Boulevard , Los Angeles , from which she remained partially paralyzed and reliant on a wheelchair for mobility . She survived strokes in 2005 and 2007 and underwent surgeries . In 2010 , she fractured her hip and underwent a successful hip replacement . In August 2010 , Gabor was admitted to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in serious condition and received last rites from a Catholic priest . In 2011 , her right leg was amputated above the knee to save her life from an infection . She was hospitalized again in 2011 for a number of emergencies . On February 8 , 2016 , two days after her 99th birthday , Gabor was rushed to hospital after suffering from breathing difficulties . She was diagnosed with a feeding tube-related lung infection and was scheduled to undergo surgery to have her feeding tube removed . In April 2016 , Gabor expressed her wish to move back to Hungary in 2017 and live out the rest of her life there . Her husband stated that he was determined to make her wish come true and he intended to arrange for a big party in the summer to celebrate the actress 100th birthday , after which she would return to Budapest . Death . Gabor died at the age of 99 of cardiac arrest while in a coma at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on December 18 , 2016 , fifty days shy of becoming a centenarian . The causes of death were given as Cardiopulmonary arrest , Coronary Artery Disease , and Cerebral Vascular Disease . She had been on life support for the previous five years . Her funeral was held on December 30 in a Catholic ceremony at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills , where around 100 mourners attended . Her ashes , placed in a gold rectangular box , were interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery .