page_title: Zsa Zsa Gabor
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Zsa Zsa Gabor / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Zsa Zsa Gabor, helping out at the Denver Muscular Dystrophy Television Marathon, 1955.
context_page_description: Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 We're Not Married! and played one of her few leading roles in the John Huston-directed film, Moulin Rouge. 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."
context_section_description: Gabor was married nine times. She was divorced seven times, and one marriage was annulled. "All in all — I love being married", she wrote in her autobiography. "I love the companionship, I love cooking for a man (simple things like chicken soup and my special Dracula's 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, 1935 – 1941; divorced)
  Conrad Hilton (April 10, 1942 – 1947; divorced) "Conrad's 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 O'Hara (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)
  Gabor's 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, and where the Beatles visited him in 1965. It was built by Howard Hughes and featured a copper French style roof.
  Gabor's only child, daughter Constance Francesca Hilton, was born on March 10, 1947. According to Gabor's 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 mother's Bel Air house. However, the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Santa Monica, threw out the case due to Gabor's 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. Gabor's husband never told her about her daughter's 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 paid Marie-Auguste to adopt him when he was 36 years old.
  While Gabor's parents were Jewish, she was a practicing Roman Catholic.
caption: Gabor at the Denver Muscular Dystrophy TV Marathon, c. 1955
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