Zsa Zsa Gabor death: Eight facts to know

Sometime Hollywood actress and frequent bride died at the age of 99

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Here are eight facts about Zsa Zsa Gabor, sometime actress and frequent bride, who died on Sunday at age 99.

* Gabor was born on February 6, 1917, in Budapest and had two sisters, Eva and Magda, who also moved to Hollywood to work in show business.

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* She appeared in more than 30 movies but eventually ended up in low-budget films with such titles as Queen of Outer Space and Picture Mommy Dead.

* In the final episode of the 1960s television series Batman, Gabor played a villainess who used hair dryers to steal information from men’s brains.

* She said she began calling everyone “dah-ling” because she had trouble remembering names.

* Gabor’s nine husbands were Turkish diplomat Burhan Belge; hotel magnate Conrad Hilton; actor George Sanders, who later married her sister Magda; New York businessman Herbert Hutner; oilman Joshua Cosden; Barbie doll designer Jack Ryan; her divorce lawyer Michael O’Hara; Count Felipe de Alba of Mexico; and Frederic Prinz von Anhalt.

* The marriage to de Alba was annulled because her divorce from O’Hara was not final at the time of the wedding.

* She was the author of the books How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Complete Guide to Men and One Lifetime Is Not Enough.

* Gabor once summed up her attitude toward marriage by saying: “Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”

FILE - In a May 1, 1990 file photo, Zsa Zsa Gabor gestures as she while answering questions as she leaves the Beverly Hills courtroom where judge Charles Rubin ruled that she violated her probation. Gabor was ordered to complete her community service at a Venice homeless shelter, with an additional 60 hours. At right is her husband Frederick von Anhalt. Gabor died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, of a heart attack at her Bel-Air home, her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said. She was 99.(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
(FILES) This file photo taken on April 10, 1996 shows actress Zsa Zsa Gabor holding a beaded purse removed from a 30-year-old trunk containing possessions of actress Marilyn Monroe at Planet Hollywood in Beverly Hills, California. Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian-born Hollywood siren perhaps better known for her prodigious love life than her movie credits, died Sunday, December 18, 2016 after suffering a heart attack, her husband said. An emotional Frederic von Anhalt told AFP that Gabor had passed away at home surrounded by friends and family.
Gabor arrives at London Airport from Paris.

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