Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has passed away at 99: https://t.co/f9Cn4Wl666 pic.twitter.com/CvdOypfzCQ
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Self-parodying glamourpuss Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose luxurious dahlings and larger-than-life jewelry and marriages made her a household name even without many memorable acting roles, has died at 99 — just shy of 100.
Zsa Zsa had been on life support for years in the Bel-Air home she shared with her husband o 30 years, the flamboyant Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, who came upon his royal title by paying to be adopted. He would later engage in a vicious battle with Zsa Zsa's daughter Francesca Hilton for conservatorship of Zsa Zsa's estate, which ended when the younger Hilton died unexpectedly of a stroke in 2015.
Zsa Zsa's greatest film roles were inarguably in Moulin Rouge (1952) and Touch of Evil (1958), but her most memorable contribution may have been in the painfully funny Queen of Outer Space (1958).
Moulin Rouge (Image via United Artists)
You could hardly watch TV from the '50s through the '90s without references to or appearances by the socialite, who was a one-woman punch line. Speaking of which, she even hit a cop in 1989, extending her 15 minutes into yet another decade.
Somehow, Zsa Zsa long outlived her sisters, the less known Magda (d. 1997 at 81) and the glorious Eva of Green Acres fame (d. 1995 at 76), but the title for the longest-lived Gabor belongs to their mother. Matriach Jolie died in 1997, right before Magda, at 100.
I really miss her sis, Eva.
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