Zsa Zsa Gabor Returns to Rest in Budapest

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The late, great, Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian bombshell who became a Hollywood icon, has finally returned to Budapest, after her ashes were flown from the Untied States. Gabor (Gábor, in Hungarian), was known for her larger-than-life persona, seductive Hungarian accent, nine marriages, and sassy one-liners. Now buried at the Kerepesi Cemetery, in the section reserved for famous actors and actresses, Gabor, despite living much of her life in Los Angeles, insisted upon Budapest as her final resting place. “She was first class, she had her own seat and she had her passport, everything there. It was her last trip, she always used to go first class, she had her champagne, caviar….,” her final husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, told Reuters, of her journey. “And then we arrived in Budapest. That’s what she wanted and that’s what she had in her last will. She definitely wanted to be in Budapest because her father is buried here too.”

Born Sari Gabor in Budapest in 1917, she initially lived the life of a socialite, and was named Miss Hungary in 1936, eventually marrying a Turkish diplomat. As WWII approached, though, she abandoned him before she and her Jewish-born sisters Eva and Magda fled Hungary for the United States.

According the the Guardian: “Zsa Zsa Gabor appeared in more than 30 movies, including Moulin Rouge in 1952 and Lili in 1953. By the 1970s she began to reject smaller roles, saying: ‘I may be a character but I do not want to be a character actress.’ “ She was sought after for her good looks both on and off the screen. Magnate and Paris Hilton’s dad, Conrad Hilton was one of her more famous husbands. 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."

Zsa Zsa’s sister, Eva, was equally famous, starring in the long running US sitcom Green Acres. Their lesser known sister, Magda, was also an actress. Zsa Zsa survived both sisters (and most of her husbands) by many years, living to near 100.

Gabor led an extraordinary life. Her biographer Gerald Frank summed her up best: “Zsa Zsa is unique. She's a woman from the court of Louis XV who has somehow managed to live in the 20th century, undamaged by the PTA ... She says she wants to be all the Pompadours and Du Barrys of history rolled into one, but she also says, ‘I always goof. I pay all my own bills. ... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.’ “

Rest in peace, Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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