19 December 2016•Update: 19 December 2016
NEW YORK
Legendary Hollywood socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor passed away Sunday night after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. She was 99.
Appearing in more than 70 movies in a career spanning six decades, Gabor was more famous for her numerous short-lived marriages, flamboyant persona and glamorous lifestyle lived in the public eye.
Born Sari Gabor in Hungary, the glamor icon of a generation began her career in Europe after competing in a 1936 pageant and singing the soubrette in Richard Tauber’s operetta, The Singing Dream that year.
She enjoyed her breakout performance in Hollywood with the movie “Moulin Rouge” in 1952.
Gabor got married for the first time at the age of 20, to a Turkish politician, Burhan Asaf Belge -- father of academic and literary critic Murat Belge -- and after that, made eight more marriages.
The last and longest one was at the age of 70 to Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, who outlived her.
Her only child -- with hotel mogul Conrad Hilton -- was Constance Francesca Gabor Hilton, who passed last year at the age of 67.
Gabor had been battling poor health for a decade. She suffered a coma after a car crash in 2002, and survived strokes in 2005 and 2007. Her medical condition had deteriorated further since 2010 when she fractured her hip and was separately hospitalized in serious condition. In 2011, her right leg was amputated above the knee due to an infection.
