# Zsa Zsa Gabor, dead at 99 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [December 18, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093 "2016-12-18T22:54:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/21 "2016-12-19T10:44:17Z")
Jonathon Brandmeier, radio dj in Chicago, used to play tapes of silly songs that his listeners came up with. One of the recurring ones concerned Zsa Zsa Gabor, and how the specific reason for her fame was unknown. “Zsa Zsa, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nobody knows what she’s famous for.” RIP ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/22 "2016-12-19T10:58:09Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > A solid one point for somebody! This made me laugh.😃 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/23 "2016-12-19T11:51:40Z")
Zsa Zsa: “I’ve never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/24 "2016-12-19T15:40:54Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Zsa Zsa: “I’ve never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.” She sure comes off as a golddigger ! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/25 "2016-12-19T15:47:55Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Um…THAT was her sister, Eva. …and Green Acres isn’t the place to be either, but… what other choice did she have? RIP, Zsa Zsa… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/26 "2016-12-19T16:00:41Z")
She was the **Queen of Outer Space** (well, actually, her sister, if I recall correctly; the Queen was played by Laurie Mitchell) in what was supposed to be a satiric screenplay originally by veteran scripter Ben Hecht, then worked over by later Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont (his first screenplay). That it was touched up by as Three Stooges scripter and directed by a Three Stooges director, Edward Bernds, didn’t help. That sounds ridiculous, but aside from _Moulin Rouge_ and _Touch of Evil_, it’s the only non-cameo movie role I saw her in. Zsa Zsa was more tabloid fodder than actress, like the oft-compared Kardashians. They have their own entry in Jan and Michael Stern’s _Encyclopedia of Bad Taste_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/27 "2016-12-19T16:15:15Z")
I wish that she’d gone a lot earlier, when she was still Zsa Zsa, but I’m glad that such as it was she went peacefully. I just hope that due to her advanced age and round the clock medical care for years that when her estate is settled there’s nothing left for her sleazoid pseudo-aristocrat husband. The Gabor sisters were their own category: a link between the courtesans like Ninon de Lenclos and Madame Pompadour and today’s incomparably less elegant celebutantes. It’s impossible to compare Zsa Zsa to her step-great-granddaughter (of course as many times as she was married there’s a chance she has step-great-grandchildren reading this thread) Paris Hilton- there’s no mystery or wit or style to Paris. If there were nude photos of any Gabor sisters you can be sure they were artful and in a discreet album in their boudoir. I suppose the biggest difference between them and today’s celebutantes is that to the Gabors a “spread” in a magazine wasn’t a verb. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/28 "2016-12-19T17:31:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > She was the **Queen of Outer Space** (well, actually, her sister, if I recall correctly; the Queen was played by Laurie Mitchell)… Funny, I have _Queen Of Outer Space_ in a DVD collection. I couple of weeks ago I thought about watching it. (I’d seen it before, and it’s really bad.) ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/29 "2016-12-19T17:49:56Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I wish that she’d gone a lot earlier, when she was still Zsa Zsa, but I’m glad that such as it was she went peacefully. I just hope that due to her advanced age and round the clock medical care for years that when her estate is settled there’s nothing left for her sleazoid pseudo-aristocrat husband. > > The Gabor sisters were their own category: a link between the courtesans like Ninon de Lenclos and Madame Pompadour and today’s incomparably less elegant celebutantes. It’s impossible to compare Zsa Zsa to her step-great-granddaughter (of course as many times as she was married there’s a chance she has step-great-grandchildren reading this thread) Paris Hilton- there’s no mystery or wit or style to Paris. If there were nude photos of any Gabor sisters you can be sure they were artful and in a discreet album in their boudoir. I suppose the biggest difference between them and today’s celebutantes is that to the Gabors a “spread” in a magazine wasn’t a verb. I’ll give this to her, she was a lot more self-aware than the “famous for being famous” we have today. After her “cop-slapping” incident she had a cameo in the opening credits for _The Naked Gun 2-1/2._ The segment ended with the “police car” pulling over her Rolls-Royce, her getting out, walking up to the “police car,” and slapping the roof light. As she went back to her car she muttered “Ugh! Zis happens every fucking time when I go shopping!” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/30 "2016-12-20T05:27:41Z")
Dr. Demento played a song about her, performed by Jeff Weinstein and sung to the tune of “Girl from Ipanema”: \*Short and fat and pale and sixty That pudgy loud Hungarian pixie Is giving me nausea, her name is Zsa Zsa, Who cares? What makes her above the law? She slapped a cop right on the jaw! There’s people in breadlines But she gets the headlines Who cares? Oh, she thinks she’s a big shot; Oh, but she’s just a big snot; Oh, with a brain like a kumquat; And can’t anyone keep her mouth shut, It’s almost as big as her butt! There’s no ifs or even a maybe, On trial is America’s biggest crybaby; Give her the chair or deport her somewhere, I don’t care! I really don’t care! Ask me if I care!\* ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/31 "2016-12-23T19:25:24Z")
Olivia de Havilland has her now beat. She already turned 100 this past July. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/32 "2016-12-29T16:36:17Z")
[Zsa Zsa Gabor’s adopted son has died](http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/12/28/zsa-zsa-gabor-son_n_13872052.html). Forty-five-year-old Oliver Prinz Von Anhalt was involved in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles on 18 December, and fell into a coma. He died Christmas Day. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/33 "2016-12-29T16:44:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Zsa Zsa Gabor’s adopted son has died](http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/12/28/zsa-zsa-gabor-son_n_13872052.html). Forty-five-year-old Oliver Prinz Von Anhalt was involved in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles on 18 December, and fell into a coma. He died Christmas Day. Damn. That means she adopted him at 64 years old! ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/34 "2016-12-29T17:30:55Z")
> [@grrr!](#): > > damn. That means she adopted him at 64 years old! 45+64=109. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/35 "2016-12-29T17:48:31Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Damn. That means she adopted him at 64 years old! > [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 45+64=109. He was adopted as an adult. Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt and Gabor were paid to adopt at least ten adult males, including Oliver Prinz von Anhalt. > **[Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Prinz_von_Anhalt#Adult_adoptees_and_.22knights.22)** > > Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (né Hans Robert Lichtenberg, 18 June 1943) is a German-American businessman best known as the last husband and widower of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Following his adoption as an adult by Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt in 1980, he changed his name. > Hans Robert Lichtenberg was born in Wallhausen near Bad Kreuznach in the Rhineland, Germany one of five children. His father was a police officer in Germany. He was trained as a baker and worked in the central market halls, later on h... ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/36 "2016-12-29T18:05:54Z")
Yep, that’s also how her husband got his “title” in the first place. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/37 "2016-12-29T18:12:25Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 45+64=109. :smack: Math is hard. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/38 "2017-01-01T06:08:23Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > I heard that she was on life support for 5 years , so she been 'dead ’ for 5 years . Nah. She said in April of 2016 that she wanted to move back to Hungary in 2017. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/39 "2017-01-01T07:50:28Z")
One of my favorite Zsa Zsa clips is of her and David Letterman driving around in a Pontiac convertible eating at a bunch of fast food restaurants. She was a class act all the way. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093/40 "2017-01-01T16:18:11Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Nah. She said in April of 2016 that she wanted to move back to Hungary in 2017. Did she speak Hungarian? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead-at-99/775093.md?page=3)