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Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 99. The cause was heart failure, her longtime publicist Edward Lozzi said. Married at least eight times, calling everyone “Dahlink,” flaunting a diamonds-and-furs lifestyle and abetted by gossip columnists and tabloid headline writers, Ms. Gabor played the coifed platinum femme fatale in plunging necklines in dozens of film and television roles, many of them cameos as herself. Her career, which...

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the curvy blonde actress known for her intriguing personal life, including nine marriages, her breathy accent and her habit of calling everyone "darling," died Sunday after reportedly suffering a heart attack. She was 99.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, a Hollywood icon who personified the joy of glorious, unapologetic celebrity, reportedly died Sunday from a heart attack. She was 99. The Hungarian actress and socialite was pronounced dead after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital, TMZ reports. She survived a series of health problems over the last decade, including an auto accident, a hip replacement and a stroke, and had been on life support the past five years. …

Zsa Zsa Gabor has slipped into a coma after being rushed to an L.A. hospital yesterday for emergency stomach surgery ... this according to her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt. The Prince tells us the 94-year-old star has been unresponsive since 2AM this morning.

It's been the scene of opulent parties and revelry. But Zsa Zsa Gabor's starry life at her Bel Air mansion has now finally come to an end. As the 93-year-old actress' health worsens, her husband has been forced to sell the couple's palatial mansion in order to pay for her medical fees. Zsa Zsa's ninth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt told the media that he made the decision on Saturday, when his wife returned home from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after having about three-fourths of her leg amputated. It was the 67-year-old socialite that gave the go-ahead...

Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized Sunday to undergo surgery to have part of her right leg amputated because gangrene was setting in, a representative said. Doctors examined a lesion on Gabor's leg that had gone from just over an inch to about a foot and was growing gangrenous, publicist John Blanchette said. "They're going to have to amputate part of her leg," Blanchette said. "They said if they didn't, she could lose her life." He said the amputation would likely be below the knee, [Snip] The 93-year-old former actress broke her hip and had replacement surgery in July, and has...

Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Frederick Prinz von Anhalt has told a German newspaper that he wants to plastinate his wife's body when she dies and then put her on show. The 93-year-old actress has been in and out of hospital for the past few weeks and is said to be in very ill health. Frederic says he wants to preserve his wife's body so her beauty will last forever. My wife has always dreamt that her beauty would be immortal. 'I would like to show the plastinated body of Zsa Zsa Gabor in the context of a scene in...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Zsa Zsa Gabor, the 93-year-old Hollywood star who had been hospitalized due to complications from a broken hip, refused a new operation and was released from hospital and allowed to go home, her publicist has said. John Blanchette said doctors were ready to perform a liver operation, but gave up on the idea after the actress insisted she wanted to return to her Bel Air home...

Gabor husband may be Smith's baby's dad LOS ANGELES - The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father. The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father. "If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A multimillion-dollar family feud over who controls the ailing socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor's will has spilled into the courtroom. Gabor and her ninth husband are suing her only daughter, accusing Francesca Hilton of stealing $2 million by forging her mother's signature to take out a loan on Gabor's $14 million Bel Air home. Gabor's husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt said Friday that Hilton took the money in March because she's worried she won't get enough when her mother dies. Hilton said he actually manipulated the 88-year-old Gabor to get into her will, and she refinanced the...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized Thursday after her vehicle struck a light pole, officials said. Her husband's spokesman said she was in a coma.The accident happened early Wednesday afternoon, said Sgt. Bruce Thomas of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department. Gabor, 85, was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for treatment and remained hospitalized Thursday, Thomas said."Apparently a light pole was knocked down and her injuries were sufficient that she was transported ... and remains hospitalized," Thomas said.The hospital had no patient listing for Gabor, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Porras said.Gerd Birkmann, a spokesman for Gabor's husband,...