This article explores the life and legacy of Zsa Zsa Gabor, a Hungarian-American actress and socialite known for her glamorous lifestyle and iconic status in Hollywood.
Zsa Zsa Gabor ’s life could be summed up in one of her most iconic quotes: “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and dogs are a man’s best friend — now you know which sex has more sense.” The actress and socialite, who died at 99 years old on Dec. 18, 2016, lived a sparkling life of excess, even until she met her final resting place — in a gold cremation box, couriered in its own first class airline seat to a cemetery in her native Hungary.
Though she starred in 1952’s “Moulin Rouge” and other 1950s romantic comedies, Gabor was best known as a pop culture figure whose foray into showbiz circles was through glamorous appearances at parties alongside her sisters Eva and Magda, and mother, Jolie, (think Kardashians of Old Hollywood).Hungarian actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor with her family at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, October 1958. Standing from left, Zsa Zsa’s sister, Magda, mother Jolie, and actress sister Eva. Seated, from left, Zsa Zsa Gabor, her father, Vilmos and her daughter Constance Francesca Hilton. “All these years later, it’s hard to describe the phenomenon of the three glamorous Gabor girls and their ubiquitous mother,” Merv Griffith described the Gabors in his 2003 memoir “Merv: Making the Good Life Last.” “They burst onto the society pages and into the gossip columns so suddenly, and with such force, it was as if they’d been dropped out of the sky.” With an affection for jewelry, exotic skins and luxury labels, Zsa Zsa was the perfect muse — and punchline — for generations of Hollywood observers
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